Liz's Bio

Liz Dunphy Coaching

EMCC Senior Practitioner Coach


Liz is passionate about supporting leaders to bring their best selves to their role. She encourages her clients to slow down and notice themselves and the patterns they bring to their professional relationships and how they operate in the organisational culture they work in. This awareness brings the possibility of new choices in how leaders relate to and influence others, and how they maintain their own boundaries and focus amidst a complex working environment. Liz has worked in Leadership and Organisational Development for the past 25 years. Beginning her journey in the Staff & OD Team and the University of Bradford . Here she trained as a coach and facilitator working with leaders as they made the shift from technical specialists to authentic leaders of people.

In her later role as Executive Coach, Coach Supervisor and Programme Director for their PG Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching, she trained and coached many senior leaders in organisations facing tight financial restraints.

She now runs Liz Dunphy Coaching as a Leadership and Team Coach and Facilitator.
As a facilitator Liz brings a warm and friendly approach, never lecturing, always eliciting the group’s own ideas and feelings as a lab in which to learn from peers and experiment with new ways of being as leaders.

Workshop participants often report:

  • Recognising and communicating boundaries more clearly ·      

  • Finding new ways of leading which empower others to find their own solutions ·      

  • Understanding how to build psychological safety in the organisation ·      

  • A deeper understanding of the impact of organisational culture and finding courage to positively influence it ·      

  • Connecting with a new set of like-minded peers who continue to support and challenge each other after workshops. ·      

  • Determination to continue taking time out of the daily operational details for reflection and new perspectives in their leadership. ·      

  • Increased confidence around working with complexity.


Liz’ Qualifications and Professional Affiliations

  • Systemic Team Coaching Certificate: Association of Executive Coaching

  • Clifton-Strengths tool-finder: Passmore Consulting

  • Embodied Transformation (for Leaders): Coaches Rising

  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming Training: Practitioner Level

  • Post-Grad Cert Business & Executive Coaching: Leeds Beckett University

  • M.Ed Training & Development: University of Bradford

  • B.Sc Psychology: University of Leeds

  • Senior Practitioner: European Mentoring & Coaching Council Coach Accreditation

Current & Past Clients

  • Logistex Software Development

  • NG Bailey, Fenner Engineering

  • University of Leeds

  • Leeds Beckett University

  • Sheffield NHS Trust

  • Leeds NHS Trust

  • PB Coaching

Testimonial


"Liz has helped me to improve my confidence around ‘living in the unknown’ by providing a structured reflective space, with the right questions at the right time. Liz provides a safe listening environment, knowing when to use her questions to guide you to your own solutions and ‘hone in’ on the real issues. Working with Liz has helped me to find a place where I’m ready to move on to that next level of my leadership career with confidence."

Finance Director