Author
Geoffrey Ahern
Ahern is a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, Exeter University. Most of his publications have been based on research into cultures and organisations. He is an organisational consultant and has led the executive coaching delivery for a major London provider. The first edition of Sun at Midnight was based on his PhD in the sociology of religion at the London School of Economics.
Geoffrey Ahern
Geoffrey currently runs a consulting practice, 'Geoffrey Ahern Consulting.'
Sun at Midnight
Geoffrey originally published Sun at Midnight in 1984. The revised second edition was published in 2009.
Geoffrey Ahern
Geoffrey currently runs a consulting practice, 'Geoffrey Ahern Consulting.'
About the Author
Geoffrey is an author and highly experienced leadership coach. His approach is to engage and work with the uniqueness and agenda of each organisational and individual client.
His delivery to multinational companies, public sector organisations and SMEs has spanned senior and board coaching/mentoring, team facilitation, and leadership consultancy. He is on the UK Executive Board of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) and is an associate of Mainstay International.
Geoffrey works independently with colleagues having led the successful integration of 30 diverse coach/mentors for RightCoutts (as it became), and the external senior executive coaching/mentoring delivery for Coutts Consulting Group. Before this he practised as a management consultant and also as Director of Research and Programmes at Maresfield Curnow, where he was involved in the CPD of seasoned management consultants.
He has published a book, features for the national press and many articles including seven on coaching, and has presented at international conferences. He has tutored on diverse cultures for the Open University and has led social research teams.
Geoffrey has a certificate in management from the Open Business School, a certificate in general consulting skills from Maresfield Curnow, a diploma including coaching from the Roehampton Institute, is a MBACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) accredited counsellor/psychotherapist, and is a barrister. Earlier he completed a PhD in social sciences from the London School of Economics and a BA in law from Oxford University.
Publications
Since 2000 Geoffrey has released the following publications:
- (2001) ‘Individual Executive Development: Regulated, Structured and Ethical',The Occupational Psychologist 44.
- (2003) ‘Designing and Implementing Coaching/Mentoring Competencies: a Case Study', Counselling Psychology Quarterly 16 (4)
- (2004) ‘The Case for Multi-Provider Collective Evaluation: Moving Beyond Current Coaching Evaluation,’ International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching, December
- (2007) ‘In Praise of a Balanced Professionalism in Coaching’, Leadership Matters 12
- (2009/1984) Sun at Midnight, The Rudolf Steiner Movement and Gnosis in the West. 2nd ed. Cambridge: James Clarke.
- (2009) ‘Implementing Environmental Sustainability in 10 Multinationals’, Corporate Finance Review 13(6).
- List Item(2011) ‘Tracing the origins of sustainability’, T Magazine (5).
- (2015) ‘Imagining what underlies corporate sustainability’, Journal of Management Development 34 (4).
- List Item(2018 & 2017) Six article/blogs on sustainability and coaching. Five hard-published in (2017) Translating Coaching Codes of Practice. Leading the Way into the Personal Knowledge Bases of Everyday Practitioners, ed.Yvonne Thackray, London: Blogpress Publishing.