"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be"
Rosalynn Carter
Our story
Blend Associates Ltd was established 10 years ago and has grown rapidly over the last 4 years. We now have 30+ executive coaches and a supporting office team of 7. We provide executive coaching and leadership development support across the corporate sector, NHS, education, local government and charity. We offer a range of supporting tools and Psychometrics to embed our offers.
Blend expanded its offers in March 2020 to support leaders in healthcare, education and not for profit who were facing the unprecedented challenge of responding to the pandemic. As I worked with the senior leadership teams of the UK and New York City, I became aware of a huge leadership challenge emerging and limited support for those leaders who would rush towards the pandemic.
The faculty was mobilised to offer high quality executive coaching online as leaders and their teams reorganised their services and support to clients overnight. Schools went to remote learning, payroll went to kitchen tables, hospitals set up multiple ITUs and a British charity in Manhattan rushed food parcels to elders who were alone and subject to a stay in a place order.
All of our coaches bring with them a wealth of experience and depth of knowledge in Executive Coaching, hold executive coaching certifications, completed hundreds of hours of executive coaching with individuals and teams and offer a breadth of experience. And because of our different coach skills, we offer excellent leadership and development support programmes too.
Our Values
Kindness ● Being the Difference ● Optimism ● Enabling
Kindness
Our underpinning value is that we are kind. This is the beginning of compassion and caring. Covid-19 has taught us all to be kinder to ourselves and to our colleagues and environment. We also know that staff want to be led by kind leaders. We see this embedded in your value of respectfully and in particular, valuing everyone and taking time to care.
Being the difference
Being the difference is about being accountable for the work we do, making a positive impact and supporting our clients by delivering great programmes of support. We also use it as a vehicle to encourage you to do the same. We see this in how we will work with you so you can better achieve your goals.
Optimism
We believe in being optimistic, seeing failure as a growth opportunity and working pragmatically with clients to make your tomorrow better than today. We see this aligned to your value of Positivity.
Enabling
We enable you by supporting you as individuals and teams to find your power to make change happen in your organisational and the way each of you work. We see this in your value of together.
Our Social Values
Blend Associates Limited seeks to live its values as it works with its clients and in how we run our business.
We want to BE the DIFFERENCE by making regular donations to the charities who are on the front line of helping those on need. This is how we show our KINDNESS by seeking to raise others up as we rise ourselves.
As part of living our values, we select charities which align with our values
Meet our team
Why Blend
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A consistent and systematic onboarding and management process for all our coaches
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A diverse faculty offering a range of coaches to clients based on gender, age & ethnicity
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Annual review against Equality and Diversity parameters to ensure our coaches look like you
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1000s of hours of experience coaching across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors
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We take the recruitment of suitably qualified and experienced coaches very seriously for our clients
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We turn down 4 out of 5 coaches who approach us via a review of readiness to coach
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All our coaches hold recognised qualification in executive coaching (ILM 7 or equivalent)
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly
Accreditations
We are a member of EMCC and our organisation subscribes to EMCC’s Code of Ethics (see www.emccouncil.org)
I am currently working with Blend to provide coaching refresher and supervision sessions for coaches from a range of organisations across health and care. The coaches and supervisors provided by Blend have been excellent and the sessions have been well received by participants. The organisation is a pleasure to work with, and has been great in discussing different options to meet our needs. Thank you!
Integrated Care Academy Suffolk
Clients we work with
