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Supervision / Mentoring
Colin Wilson provides high-quality, accredited Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision/Co-Vision services for senior and aspiring:
- Leaders
- Coaches (sport, life, executive)
- Organisations
- Organisation Consultants
- Entrepreneurs
- High Public Profile individuals (HPPs)
- High Potentials (HiPo’s).
Colin works with individuals, groups, teams and multi-agency, multi-stakeholder groups.
Experience the power of intentional growth through Supervision.
What is ‘Supervision’? (or ‘co-Vision’)
Supervision is a vital support and development process to enable continued and ethical professional progress through the complexity of your professional world. Bring an honest self-appraisal of the work you have been doing and how you are doing. Supervision offers a structured, confidential and deliberate space for you, creating optimal conditions for reflection, insights, learning, and personal & professional growth. Support is high and feelings explored, whilst assumptions and beliefs are checked and challenged for robustness and helpfulness. Together this generates greater creativity, maturity and new abilities – which you can then apply with your clients and your system. It applies both to the work you are doing, and to your business development challenges.
Academically speaking, it covers Qualitative (Normative), Developmental (Formative/Educative) and Resourcing (Restorative/Supportive) aspects of a practitioner’s work. See Brigid Proctor (1986 onwards, for therapeutic settings), and Hawkins & Smith (2006 onwards, for coaching settings).
While all three are related, compared to Coaching and Mentoring, Supervision emphasises depth of:
- Assisted reflection on past and recent events, clients and patterns – and their meaning
- Reflection on self – thoughts, feelings, insights, behaviours, learning
- Reflexivity – orienting self as both an object and a subject within the landscape of life; reflecting while taking into account our own biases; uncovering assumptions – and so applying one’s own principles to oneself, even more effectively in future.
We work at, integrate and synergise across the following levels:
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
- Managerial
- Organisational
- Cross-agency
- Political
- Systemic.
All in service of you, the supervisee, and your clients, stakeholders, client’s clients and the wider business and physical environment.
This framework enables you and us to determine the most appropriate form of support. The support is valuable for both new and for very experienced professionals. It aims to progressively enhance your effectiveness and broaden your perspectives, uncover blind spots, gain new insights, navigate challenging client situations more effectively, assist in dealing with ethical dilemmas, deal with unprocessed emotions from the impact of client work, and promote continuous professional development. It’s a personal journey to greater professional excellence, understanding and fulfilment.
Our Business Athlete approach also provides industry-leading support in promoting personal resilience and burnout prevention in the Restorative aspect of Supervision. Colin works with mental health and is accredited in psycho-traumatology and psychodynamics.
Colin has 35 years of experience in coaching – in high-performance sport, business and organisations. In the world of Supervision he became accredited by Bath Consultancy Group (Hawkins, Smith, Ryde, Shohet, Schwenk, 2013) and by the Universal Coaching Alliance (2025). He works with a balance of cultural sensitivity, respecting lived experience, critical thinking and evidence-informed practice. This can lead to a sense of unfoldment, curiosity, realisation, and greater capability.
Colin’s approach is described as empathetic, insightful, incisive, playful and versatile – aimed at providing clients with a compellingly high return on investment as they grow and apply new ideas and skills in an ongoing virtuous spiral.
Contact us for a free initial conversation to see if we might match well.
What they say
“It was honest, kind and supportive. I felt you saw me for all the good bits and also what can improve. That’s why I’m going through the process so I’m very grateful to you. I feel I am aware of some of the reasons for my own behaviours, but talking through them with Colin was invaluable. Huge thank you for your time and effort; the whole process really has been extraordinary, and I’ve loved it!”
Sophie Starr
BHS St5 Performance Coach (reg)
What is Organisation Supervision?
- Which qualified expert supports you and your business/department to get the very best from yourself, ensure your success, and take your enterprise to your desired levels?
- Who can you talk to anytime and repeatedly in an informed and confidential way about your business, its direction, values, growth and challenges?
- Who provides you with high-quality, high-experience non-executive partnering with no other agenda than your personal, professional, long-term and short-term success?
- Who is highly-qualified in listening, questioning, supporting and challenging in relevant ways to keep you on the optimal path to success – while keeping you in charge?
- Who can understand your systems, stakeholders and teams as well as you as an individual?
- Who helps protect you from bad decisions and risk?
- Who helps you plan and implement your personal and business excellence and success, tells you truth, helps you stay sane and healthy, and growing fast as a person?
- Who has experience of cultures across continents and has worked with many people of diverse backgrounds and different needs?
This is our Organisation Supervision offer.
Colin is a recognised expert in partnering with business leaders to propel them to a step-change in their excellence and success.
He is one of fewer than 1,000 coaches worldwide who hold qualifications in Organisation Consulting and Executive Coaching Supervision, Complex Adaptive Systems Executive Team Coaching, and with a deep knowledge in elite sport performance development. Colin also adds Psycho-traumatology, Psychodynamics, Agile Mastership and professional Mediation.
He has worked with Nokia, Barclays, HSBC, BT Global, Unilever and Delphi, a major political party, as well as SMEs and many national and local non-profits and charities.
By choosing Colin as your Organisation Supervision partner, you have access to the Business Athlete methodology to help you achieve greater success mindset, personal resilience, understanding of yours and others’ unconscious drivers, greater commerciality, clarity of personal and business values and purpose, strategy, culture and risk management. In delivering this you will become a more effective and influential leader, especially in complex multi-stakeholder environments and in critical projects.
Over 20 years’ experience consulting to global corporates on senior leadership capability including BT Global’s International Sales Transformation programme; co-leading the Nokia HQ Next-Generation Global Leaders course in Helsinki, Finland; Global Culture-Change co-designer for Unilever; Transformational Coaching and Enabling Excellence in two global banks at senior level. Before that Colin is a double Commonwealth Silver Medallist in table tennis, an international coach and was a full Board member of Table Tennis England. He still coaches in sport, taking players from beginner to international level. His executive roles in non-profits have included Senior National Manager and Interim CEO. Alongside his ‘soft skills’, his technical background is in Economics and Statistics. He has over 400 hours of live TV studio experience as a studio analyst and commentator and is a film acting coach on productions to BAFTA level.
Colin’s working style is described as empathetic, insightful, incisive, playful and versatile.
Contact Colin’s team for more details.
