Graham Bennett CV: Professional and Personal Coach and Mentor
Summary:
Professionally-qualified coach (The Coaching Academy) with experience of successfully coaching range of clients across not-for-profit, educational, public and private sectors; empathetic and open personality provides safe and confidential space for frankness and testing new ideas; women and men clients from multicultural backgrounds (strong career involvement in women’s empowerment and gender equality issues); disabled clients; group and leadership coaching, including in Asia and Africa; use of range of tools to aid discussion and solution-finding; on-call service for urgent coaching and support needs; distance coaching using skype or email in UK or overseas
Top 10 career and personal achievements
Qualified as Professional & Personal Coach, with 70+ clients (90% female) in UK and overseas, as well as coaching senior leaderships teams (2011 onwards)
Led One World Action, as CEO, to Strategic Partnership with UK Government’s DFID worth £5 million, established OWA as pro-poor policy/women’s equality champion
Change Manager for successful restructuring of Amnesty International Secretariat, with 400 staff and strong trade union context
Amassed 30 years’ experience working with UK and international non-government agencies/charities including overseas in Asia and Africa, visiting 50 countries in five continents, working directly in 22 countries and living in four
Led Walthamstow School for Girls, as Chair, to Outstanding OFSTED status, working with multicultural Board in ethnically diverse girls school (80% non-white)
Managed global Amnesty human rights campaigns, including on Afghanistan, Former Yugoslavia and Turkey
Worked/lived successfully in Philippines, two years with squatter family in Manila during People’s Power Revolution (VSO post, with Filipino labour organisation)
Drove across the Sahara desert with two friends, from the UK via Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso and Ghana, delivering land rover to development NGO
Travelled on the Trans-Siberia Express from Beijing to London via USSR (as was), Poland and Germany, studying GCSE Mandarin on my return
Overcame cancer to carry out consultancy/evaluation work as Tiger Consulting with major INGOs (Plan, Sightsavers, Action Aid, Womankind, Sense International, etc.)
Employment:
Coach and International Development Consultant (2011 onwards), NGO/public/private sector clients consultancy clients (see below for client list) and 70+ coaching clients
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), One World Action (2001-2010), budget £4 million, 20 staff
Director of Asia-Pacific, Amnesty International (1998-2000), budget £1.5 million, 35 staff managed including five at distance in Hong Kong
Information Manager & Researcher, Asian Research Center for Migration, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (1998), on HIV issues on Myanmar border (sabbatical from Amnesty)
Evaluator, IDEAL, Sarawak, Malaysia (1997), land rights and other issues of long-house dwellers (sabbatical from Amnesty)
Director of Information, Amnesty International (1991-1997) (sabbatical 1997-98)
Interim Country Director, VSO Sierra Leone (1990), emergency cover
Resource Centre Information Officer, VSO (1989-90)
Information/Research Officer, CARLS, Manila, Philippines (1985-88), VSO
Deputy Site Librarian, University of Wales, Cardiff (1983-85)
Consultancy:
MEL support and advice, Penal Reform International (2018-19), based in UK
Financial inclusion of disabled people in Philippines, Liliane Foundation (2018), including field visit to Philippines
Organisational evaluation, African Biodiversity Network (2017-18), including field visits to Kenya and Benin
Easy-to-Use How-To MEL Manual and grantee MEL capacity assessment, African Women’s Development Fund (2017), with manual for use by African women’s NGOs
Structured monitoring and MEL support to Tanzanian Women’s Legal Aid Centre, Womankind (2017), including field work in Tanzania
Evaluation of partnership response to Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines, CAFOD (2016-17), including three weeks in Philippines and staff workshop in UK
Baseline development and leadership coaching for violence against women project/organisation, Womankind (2016), based in Tanzania
Strategic Planning and leadership, Re-cycle UK (2016), including facilitation of all-staff workshop and coaching of CEO
Organisation development and leadership coaching, Practical Action Bangladesh (2016), including delivering workshop for 100 staff in Bangladesh
M&E Political Debate, ActionAid International (2015-16), with Kenya fieldwork
Being a good NGO partner: methodology manual, NIDOS (2015), practical approaches for NIDOS membership
Team-building, leadership and resource mobilisation in East Africa region, Practical Action (2015), including workshop in Nairobi
Leadership Coaching, Southern Africa region, Practical Action (2015), including skype/face-to-face sessions
Global synthesis of CBCPMs in Latin America, Asia and Africa, Plan International (2014-15), including report
Mapping and analysis of Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms, Plan International (2014), including fieldwork in Ethiopia and Malawi
Evaluation of publication approval and authorisation, Action Aid (2014)
Change Management and team-building, Practical Action (2014), including fieldwork, coaching and workshop facilitation in Zimbabwe
M&E framework and baseline for VSO/Restless Development (2013)
Development of participative and inclusive impact/qualitative indicators and tools, Sense International (2013)
Evaluation of Sightsavers Innovation Fund (2013), part of PPA, including fieldwork in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Evaluation of Womankind’s PPA/IPR (2012), including fieldwork in Zimbabwe
Research and report writing on protracted Burmese refugee issue (2011), Burmese refugees in Thailand, Chulalongkorn University/ARCM/UNDP
Evaluation/reorganisation of Statistics Division (1998), for UNESCAP, Bangkok
Evaluation of support for indigenous people in Sarawak (1997), for Hivos/IDEAL in Sarawak/Malaysia
Education/training/qualifications
Diploma in Professional & Personal Coaching, TCA (2011)
MA in Information Management, Sheffield University, UK (1982)
BSc (Hon.) Geography, Upper Second (Exeter University, UK (1980)
Coverdale and BIM training in managing teams, projects, people (1991-1997)
Diploma in CELTA/TEFL, SOAS, University of London, UK (1997)
Institute of Directors, member (2007 onwards); British Sign Language (2010)
Non-executive/Board/other
Board member, ChildHope UK (2011, current);
Board member, Walthamstow Citizens Advice Bureau (2011-15);
Chair of Governing Body, Walthamstow School for Girls (2007-10)
Board member & Chair of membership, BOND (2004-8);
Board member/Chair of Harbour Housing Project (1993-98) London/UK;
Board member/Treasurer, Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers (1996-2001);
Board member, Trax Program Support Ghana (1993-97);
Institute of Directors, member (2007, current);
Progressive Development, founder member/author of Charter (2013, present);
Personal Coach, Paul’s Cancer Support Centre (2012-present);
VSO Selector (2003-10)
Contact details for GRAHAM BENNETT
e-mail: graham@tigercoaching.co.uk
Skype: tigercoaching1
Tel : +44 (0) 7890 360 806
Website : www.tigercoaching.co.uk
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/graham-bennett
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tiger-Coaching
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