Professonal Experience

Hetty Einzig is a senior consultant and executive coach working in the areas of executive and transpersonal coaching, team development, transformational leadership, organisational synthesis, emotional literacy. Until May 2001 she was a senior consultant with SyCon - The Sporting Bodymind Group.

Hetty has a number of individual coaching clients at executive, senior management and board level in the private and public sector and designs and delivers programmes in leadership development, emotional intelligence and coaching skills. She also facilitates strategic meetings, development away days and conflict resolution sessions. Her approach is holistic, spanning work, life and strategic development issues. Clients have included American Express, BP, Environment Agency, Friends Provident, Pfizer, KBR Halliburton, National Health Service (NHS), Walsall Council, Shoosmiths, Britannia, Lloyds TSB, Simons Construction Group, National Grid Transco (now National Grid), Gazeley Properties (a wholly owned subsidiary of WalMart), Royal National Theatre.

Hetty is a fully trained and experienced psychotherapist and has worked with long, medium and short term counselling and coaching for over 15 years. She trained at the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, where she was later involved in training student therapists. She also served on the Training Management Committee of the Trust during periods of major re-structuring and was a trustee for 2 years. Until June 2004 Hetty was Research & Development Director of the Parenting Education & Support Forum, a voluntary sector national umbrella body promoting and developing parenting education. She was instrumental in founding the organisation and was its first Director developing the organisation over the first five years. As such she undertook all leadership, managerial, financial, fund raising and strategic responsibilities and played an important role in the development of local and national policies, collaborating with a range of organisations and government departments. She has organised many national conferences, was invited to speak widely, and has published a number of articles and books. In her role as R&D Director she initiated and managed research, evaluation and strategic development projects.

Prior to this period Hetty was for 12 years Research and Development Director of the Artemis Trust, a grant making foundation, developing projects in emotional literacy nationally: the British Association for Counselling, Counselling in Primary Care Trust, National Association of Staff Support in the Health Services etc.

Hetty's career has spanned the arts, health and organisational development. She co-established a successful London contemporary art gallery. Following this she worked as a freelance journalist for 8 years, writing about the arts, health and women's issues for national magazines and newspapers. She held editorial positions at the Sunday Times Magazine and Time Out. She has written, co-written and co-edited a number of books since the 1980's.

Hetty has also chaired numerous conferences and seminars nationally and has extensive radio and television experience in her capacity as a best-selling author and as Director of the Parenting Forum. She was the presenter of the first series of a successful live television counselling programme (A Problem Aired, Thames Television, 1987).

Hetty has a BA in modern languages from Cambridge and a Masters in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute, London University. She is UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) registered. She lives in London and is married with two children. Fluent in French and Italian.

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