Coaching Qualifications Info Session

Erik de Haan is the Director of the Hult Ashridge Center for Executive Coaching with over twenty-five years of experience in organizational and personal development. He aims to support individuals in their search for what is right and just for themselves and for others in their organizations. His expertise covers process consulting for organizational change, facilitating management teams, working conferences, executive and team coaching.

Erik has an MSc in Theoretical Physics and gained his PhD in Physics with his research into learning and decision-making processes in perception. He is a British Psychoanalytic Council registered psychodynamic psychotherapist with an MA in psychotherapy from the Tavistock Clinic; has (co-)authored more than 200 articles and 15 books; and sits on the editorial board of three journals including the Consulting Psychology Journal.

Erik has worked with universities, hospitals and multinational companies. He is currently Professor of Organization Development at the VU University Amsterdam. Erik is an Ashridge accredited coach and supervisor and is qualified to deliver a range of psychometric instruments. He is fluent in Dutch, English, Italian, German and Spanish.

Dorothee is an experienced OD Consultant and Executive and Team Coach with many years of experience of supporting individuals, teams and organisations through major change.

Originally trained as a systemic psychotherapist, she has always taken a keen interest in how organisations function as systems and her interventions focus on the relational aspects of human interaction and change. Dorothee brings her systemic thinking and natural curiosity into all of her practice. She observes and works with the patterns that individuals and teams create with each other and explores narratives that exist about current organisational challenges and problems.

Following jobs in the UK National Health Service and with several London local authorities, she worked as a senior change management consultant for Logica, before joining Ashridge Business School as member of Faculty and OD consultant and executive and team coach. Since 2013 she has been developing and delivering leadership development programmes and culture change interventions and working with Senior Leaders and Teams. She teaches on the Master in Executive Coaching and on the Team Coaching Programme.

Dorothee has worked as a coach and consultant with a cross-section of organisations from a wide variety of sectors including the NHS, public sector, retail, automotive, finance sector and manufacturing and large infrastructure projects. She holds a Master in Organisational Change from Ashridge Business School and is qualified in a number of psychometric instruments.

Originally from Germany Dorothee has lived, studied and worked over the last 22 years in the UK. She is fluent in English and German and lives with her family in South London where in her free time she enjoys open water swimming at any time of the year.