About Amanda
Amanda Harrington is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, who specialises in coaching and feedback.
As a coach, she works with whole teams, and individual managers or staff, including machine crews within manufacturing. She helps her clients gain greater benefit from their natural strengths, and to develop and harness their capability, as they identify and commit to their own meaningful directions and goals. Coaching can be used as a purely 1-2-1 intervention, however Amanda usually builds coaching programmes around the intersection between individual and corporate needs.
As a feedback facilitator, Amanda delivers individual 360-degree feedback reports, as well as working with teams as they decipher results from attitude surveys. Her interest in coaching and feedback is reflected in her PhD research which looks at how people process the data in 360-degree feedback reports. She also trains managers in coaching and feedback, usually within the context of performance management systems that she designs with her clients. In addition, Amanda has designed and run Assessment Centres, and facilitated a number of team development programmes.
Amanda has worked as a consultant since 1996 within both the private sector (manufacturing, telecoms and banking) and the pubic sector (central government, NHS, higher education and locally based publicly funded organisations). Prior to this, she was the Training and Development Manager at SCA Packaging and before that an internal training consultant at the London Borough of Bromley. Throughout her career Amanda has continued to be interested in the psychology of communication and learning, and how to improve organisational systems and individual development in these areas.
Amanda is an active member of several professional networks, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a member of the International Coach Federation. She holds Levels A and B Intermediate Plus for psychometric testing; she is also licensed to use Myers Briggs Type Indicator, 16PF, OPQ and the Team Management Profile from TMSDI. Amanda is an accredited coach (with the ICF) and holds a certificate in coaching from Coaching Development. She is also a member of the British Psychological Society Special Group of Coaching Psychologists.
Passionately interested in learning, Amanda has continued both formal and informal learning. She has a first degree in Linguistics from the University of York, and two Masters degrees from London University, one in Management Science (Imperial College) and the other in Occupational Psychology (Birkbeck). She also has a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (ACCA) and is currently researching 360-degree feedback for her PhD at Loughborough Business School. Her earlier research interest lay in e-learning: her article “The advantages and disadvantages of using email to support distant mentoring” can be found on several websites. Informally, Amanda continues to build in opportunities to learn with colleagues, fellow coaches and through experimentation.
Amanda plays the piano and loves the relaxation and challenge of regular practise.