The EMCC UK Podcast

Mia O’Gorman and Runa Begum chat to host Sandra Wilson about their journeys to becoming accredited coach supervisors. Their experiences shed light on the motivations, challenges, and insights that come with this rewarding path.
This series explores the transformative power of supervision in coaching and mentoring. Through relaxed, conversational episodes, we’ll uncover how supervision enhances professional growth, deepens reflective practice, and supports ethical, confident coaching. Along the way, we’ll hear from practitioners as they bring the EMCC Supervision Competence Framework to life – sharing their insights, challenges, and inspirations. Whether you’re curious about integrating supervision into your own practice or considering becoming a supervisor yourself, these conversations offer a thoughtful, engaging space to learn, reflect, and grow together.
Mia O’Gorman has 10 years of experience as a supervisor and 20 as an executive coach; she specialises in supervising coaches working in organisations to navigate confidentiality, stakeholder interests, multiple relationships and more! Mia’s mission is enabling sustainable success, helping clients to thrive personally, grow professionally and bring value to people and organisations.
From her career in HR and leadership consultancy, Mia’s expertise includes development, psychology and the coaching profession. Holding EMCC ESIA and EIA Senior Practitioner accreditations, she works with care and candour to generate insights and confidence to act.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mia-ogorman/
Runa Begum integrates coaching, mindfulness and psycho-dynamic approaches that draw from a diverse professional background spanning across corporate, government, social justice and wellbeing sectors. Her blend of skills equip her with a wealth of systemic awareness that is well-rounded from the ground-up as well as top-down.
With a career history in leadership development and a trained therapist, senior coach, and coach supervisor she uses developmental tools that are not only solution focussed and performance enhancing, but also deeply insightful; supporting to build presence to inner workings, harness resourcefulness, and empowering to hold strong transformational spaces for both coaches and their clients.
http://www.infinityleadership.co.uk
Sandra Wilson is a semi-retired professional who leads her own company, dedicating her time to meaningful work. An EMCC senior practitioner accredited Coach, Supervisor, Team Coach and Deputy Director of EMCC Supervision, she offers deep expertise to individuals and organisations. Sandra is especially passionate about supporting others through significant transitions.
Her career includes impactful roles in local, regional, and central government, as well as the Police Service, where she served as Programme Manager and Head of Coaching and Mentoring. This diverse background underpins the depth and effectiveness of her current practice.

Jo Birch chats to host Sandra Wilson about the critical importance of wellbeing for coaches and supervisors, highlighting that they are the most valuable tools in their practice. They discuss the necessity of self-care and the role of supervision in maintaining personal and professional effectiveness. Jo also shares more about how open conversations about wellbeing with supervisors can help to address any challenges that may arise in coaching relationships.
This series explores the transformative power of supervision in coaching and mentoring. Through relaxed, conversational episodes, we’ll uncover how supervision enhances professional growth, deepens reflective practice, and supports ethical, confident coaching. Along the way, we’ll hear from practitioners as they bring the EMCC Supervision Competence Framework to life – sharing their insights, challenges, and inspirations. Whether you’re curious about integrating supervision into your own practice or considering becoming a supervisor yourself, these conversations offer a thoughtful, engaging space to learn, reflect, and grow together.
Jo Birch is an EMCC Master Practitioner and EMCC Global Supervision Award Holder. For over a decade, Jo has trained coaches worldwide to become coaching supervisors – playing a key role in redefining supervision to best serve the coaching profession while supporting practitioners to develop distinctive approaches.
Jo is widely recognised as a collaborative editor / author, bringing people together through her publications Coaching Supervision Groups (2022), EMCC Mastery Series book Coaching Supervision (2019), and as editor of Thinking Global in BACP Coaching Today.
Jo is immensely proud of her EMCC Supervision Award and Master Practitioner recognition, which both honour her long-standing contribution to the profession.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-birch/
Sandra Wilson is a semi-retired professional who leads her own company, dedicating her time to meaningful work. An EMCC senior practitioner accredited Coach, Supervisor, Team Coach and Deputy Director of EMCC Supervision, she offers deep expertise to individuals and organisations. Sandra is especially passionate about supporting others through significant transitions.
Her career includes impactful roles in local, regional, and central government, as well as the Police Service, where she served as Programme Manager and Head of Coaching and Mentoring. This diverse background underpins the depth and effectiveness of her current practice.

Helen Jane Campbell chats to host Beth Clare McManus about natural rhythms, finding permission through engaging with the work of others, and bringing in a wide variety of experiences to resource and restore ourselves in service of our work. They explore Helen’s work as a coach for creative people and as a writer, including how she brings a wealth of creativity, community, magic, and sensory experiences into her practice

Conversations with Members is a series of personal, community-driven conversations, celebrating the expertise, values and lived experience of the EMCC UK coaching, mentoring, and supervision community.

The series aims to inspire, inform, and connect our members by sharing insights into real-world practice and the evolving nature of the field. Each conversation balances storytelling with practical reflections, offering a unique window into the diverse perspectives of our membership.

We’re not here to say there’s just one ‘right’ way of working. Think of this as food for thought. Take into account your own level of experience, chat with a supervisor if you’re working through more experimental ideas, and always keep your practice in line with the Global Code of Ethics.

Helen Jane Campbell is a coach for creative people and the author of Founders, Freelancers & Rebels. She lives and works on the Sussex coast. An EMCC accredited coach, she previously led a successful career in PR, and loves supporting founders and freelancers as well as larger organisations. Helen's proudly part of the LGBTQ+ community and co-founded and co-ran the first Pride in Hay-on-Wye. She volunteers as a Proud Wellness Advisory Panel member. She's passionate about authenticity – nobody's faking it to make it on her watch.

https://forcreativepeople.com/

Beth Clare McManus is a psychologist, artist, and researcher living in Manchester, UK. She is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and works as a coaching supervisor, with specialisms in coach wellbeing and the creative self. Her best work happens at the intersection of psychology, coaching and creativity.

Resources mentioned:
Tara Brach's podcast and resources

Nancy Kline's Time to Think

Kae Tempest

Proud Wellness - where Helen sits on the advisory panel

At EMCC UK, we are passionate about sharing resources on relevant topics for our members. This includes sharing views from different perspectives. Please note that any views expressed in our content are based on individual contributor experience and not necessarily endorsed by EMCC UK. The content offered is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.

Produced and edited by ⁠⁠Stephen Brown⁠⁠.
Original music by Stephen Brown.

Kate Elliott talks to Beth Clare McManus about the role of internal coaches in creating calm spaces for reflection amidst busy organisational contexts. They explore how we might bring ourselves into the coaching space in service of our clients, and how growth and learning is both a desired outcome and a way of working as a coach.

Conversations with Members is a series of personal, community-driven conversations, celebrating the expertise, values and lived experience of the EMCC UK coaching, mentoring, and supervision community.
The series aims to inspire, inform, and connect our members by sharing insights into real-world practice and the evolving nature of the field. Each conversation balances storytelling with practical reflections, offering a unique window into the diverse perspectives of our membership.

Kate has over 20 years' experience working in change management, people and organisational development roles, has been coaching for 7 years, is an EMCC Senior Practitioner and is working towards a Chartered Coaching Psychologist accreditation. She currently works at the University of Bath (EMCC UK's organisational members) where she leads the staff coaching service including a network of nearly 30 coaches. She takes a psychologically informed approach, using evidence-based tools and techniques to partner with individuals, groups, teams and organisations to develop greater understanding, overcome obstacles, strengthen relationships, learn new skills and behaviours, connect with purpose and ultimately to grow and thrive.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-elliott-39102623/

Beth Clare McManus is a psychologist, artist, and researcher living in Manchester, UK. She is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and works as a coaching supervisor, with specialisms in coach wellbeing and the creative self. Her best work happens at the intersection of psychology, coaching and creativity.

Resources mentioned:
Professor Paul Gilbert and the Compassionate Mind Foundation

Dr. Kristin Neff and her work on Self-Compassion

At EMCC UK, we are passionate about sharing resources on relevant topics for our members. This includes sharing views from different perspectives. Please note that any views expressed in our content are based on individual contributor experience and not necessarily endorsed by EMCC UK. The content offered is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.

Produced and edited by ⁠Stephen Brown⁠.
Original music by Stephen Brown.

Alicja Nocon talks to host Beth Clare McManus about how she blends coaching and mentoring in her practice, underpinned by her key principles of experiential learning, paying attention to the relationship, and considering the role of the environment on our work. They explore how Alicja is learning to take up more space, with consideration of how everyone is different and how wonderful and rich the 'garden' of our practice really is.

Conversations with Members is a series of personal, community-driven conversations, celebrating the expertise, values and lived experience of the EMCC UK coaching, mentoring, and supervision community.

The series aims to inspire, inform, and connect our members by sharing insights into real-world practice and the evolving nature of the field. Each conversation balances storytelling with practical reflections, offering a unique window into the diverse perspectives of our membership.

Alicja Nocon is an autistic coach and mentor. She helps late-discovered autistic and AuDHD adults make sense of who they are and work and live more authentically. As a woman and first-generation economic immigrant with coal-mining heritage, Alicja is conscious of intersectionality and the impact of multiple marginalisation on wellbeing, confidence and belonging.

Alicja regularly participates at Autscape, the autistic conference, and writes on her blog. Her latest co-authored publication in the peer-reviewed Autism in Adulthood journal explores the role of character strengths in forming a positive identity following a late-life autism diagnosis.

http://www.expandthecircle.co.uk

Beth Clare McManus is a psychologist, artist, and researcher living in Manchester, UK. She is an EMCC accredited coach at senior practitioner level and works as a coaching supervisor, with specialisms in coach wellbeing and the creative self. Her best work happens at the intersection of psychology, coaching and creativity.

Resources mentioned:
In Love with Supervision by Robin Shohet and Joan Shohet

Michelle Lucas's reflective practice (see Creating the Reflective Habit)

Brené Brown's Braving the Wilderness

Goblin Tools

At EMCC UK, we are passionate about sharing resources on relevant topics for our members. This includes sharing views from different perspectives. Please note that any views expressed in our content are based on individual contributor experience and not necessarily endorsed by EMCC UK. The content offered is for general information only and does not constitute legal, financial, or professional advice.

Produced and edited by Stephen Brown.
Original music by Stephen Brown.