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Dr Anthony Berendt

Qualifications

BM, Bch - Oxford University

MRCP - Royal College of Physicians 

Executive coaching, trained to ILM Level 7 

Masters’ Degree, Leading and Consulting in Organisations

Accredited coach, Analytic-Network Coaching network 

Affiliate Member, European Mentoring and Coaching Council (UK)

About Me

I am a trained executive coach, organisational consultant, and a qualified doctor. I firmly believe in the value of coaching to unlock our talents and maintain our resilience and effectiveness.

In over 12 years as a Medical Director in two different Trusts, monthly executive coaching made all the difference to how I delivered and sustained my leadership roles. Coaching opened my eyes to understanding healthcare organisations, and healthcare leadership, through psychodynamic and systemic lenses – how our “inner worlds” impact on the way we take up roles in groups and organisations; how organisational and group cultures shape, and are shaped by, our behaviours as leaders; and how our patterns of relating to others can become “stuck”. I am passionate about supporting doctors in their leadership roles, developing their awareness of self, team and organisational contexts, and helping them use their knowledge and skills to develop as compassionate and skilled leaders.

Coaching Process

For me, executive coaching is about helping the person being coached to reflect and think on issues related to their working role. I have a Masters’ Degree from the Tavistock and Portman NHS FT in “Leading and Consulting in Organisations” and am accredited as an Analytic-Network Coach. In addition I have been trained to ILM Level 7 standard in the processes of establishing coaching relationships and helping a coachee to think in depth about an issue. I use these trainings and a range of methods with you, to explore different aspects of your relationship to your working role; as a person, as member of a team, as a leader, as the centre of your personal network, and as a strategic thinker viewing all these domains together.

What can I offer you?

Like other coaches I offer a confidential and safe space within which you can reflect, think (in quiet or aloud), be challenged, and explore different options, perspectives and mindsets. I can help you relate this thinking to your own past experiences and your previous patterns of behaviour, and can help you develop different ways to view issues at your work. I can do this from a position of having a deep understanding of medical leadership and healthcare, which I use to deepen my compassion and my curiosity for finding out what solutions will work for you.

If you want to become a more effective and a more compassionate leader, whatever your level, and are willing to explore and challenge your existing ideas and perspectives in order to change, I have the skills, and would be delighted, to help you do that work.

What are your three unique selling points?

I don’t have three unique points, as there will be people with one or two of them, but I have three things that in combination make me unique:

1. A trained doctor with 35 years of experience of practice and a medical leader with over 12 years of Medical Director experience. I have “been there and done it”, or at least enough to have insight and compassion for other leaders in healthcare

2. Training in executive coaching and in organisational consultancy (Tavistock and Portman NHS FT and University of Essex Masters’ in Leading and Consulting in Organisations), giving me a strongly experiential training with increased awareness of self and difference

3. A passion for the development of leadership skills in others, and the support of compassionate leaders, through the application of theory into practice, including systemic, psychodynamic and network approaches to leadership.

 


Which region of the UK would you be willing to coach? All over 

How will you be willing to coach? Face to face, Skype, and via telephone. 

Who will you be willing to coach? Individuals, teams and organisations

For what medical career stages are you willing to coach? Medical Students, doctors in training, staff and associate specialists, consultants, GPs, medical leaders. 


Testimonials 

"After taking on the new role of Guardian of Safe Working Hours at Oxford university Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, I was fortunate to benefit from the coaching skills of the then Medical Director Dr Tony Berendt. Our working relationship was born out of the fallout of the 2016 junior doctor contract negotiations and consequent industrial action; there was no explicit plan for coaching. Our monthly meetings presented an opportunity beyond the business of the junior doctor workforce; Tony was evidently mindful about my leadership development and made a welcome offer to provide some coaching. A key component of Tony’s coaching method was to question my personal status quo by providing a thought provoking challenge that would live with me beyond our meetings; the challenges were supportive, non-threatening and appeared to be personally tailored to take advantage of my strengths and to better manage my weaknesses. Whilst this coaching was provided in the context of my role as Guardian, I have been able to apply the principles to other areas of my professional practice. On reflection, the coaching provided by Tony has encouraged me to assess challenges not only in terms of the task itself, but additionally in terms of the interaction between ‘self’ and the task; the coaching might have been provided by Tony, but the resulting output is not dependent on the coach. Given my experience of Tony’s coaching and his credibility as a senior medical leader at a complex Shelford organisation, I’d have no hesitation in using his services again in the future."

“I was fortunate enough to benefit from a coaching relationship with Tony shortly after getting my first senior position in the NHS. Tony’s insightful and calm, confident style empowered me to clearly understand some challenges I was experiencing with a senior colleague.  More importantly he worked with me so I was able to approach the challenge in a clear, confident manner and positively resolve issues without impacting my relationship with the individual. To have this type of support so early on in a senior leadership role was  invaluable, and encouraged me to lead with confidence in a situation in which I may have floundered without his skilful support.”

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