Creating Positivity Limited

Our company uses coaching principles to empower individuals to reach their full potential & /or work towards specific goals e. g. develop career /confidence

Dr Mo Gnanalingham
Accredited Executive Coach (Director of Creating Positivity Ltd; Company Number 9087062), Leader, Career Champion, Mentor (& Mentor Champion) and Mediator
Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care (RMCH) & Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Manchester)

E-mail address: creating. positivity@outlook.com

Previous coaching experience Mo has over 4 years active coaching experience, including 250 hours of executive coaching, mentoring and meditation. Mo also has 20 years experience as a clinician within the NHS, with 5 years as an NHS Consultant, and uses his own learning and reflection gained through working in a large, complex organisation to add value for his clients.

As a keen mentor and educator Mo thrives on developing others to maximise their full potential. Mo’s coaching style is both supportive and challenging. His feedback and observation provide clients with new insights into themselves and their lived experience, and regularly challenges their ways of thinking, being or doing. His coaching has delivered a wide range of benefits for clients in terms of maximisation of strengths within current roles, and thus applying these positive energies into areas of developmental need.

Mo is at ease working with clients of varying personal and professional backgrounds and aims to support individuals in dealing with organisational change, raising personal awareness or insight, personal-brand management, perception management, improved confidence /self-image, dealing with personal difficulties, challenging work relationships, clarifying career direction, next steps or achieving promotion, and specific leadership skills and development.
Relevant other experience Mo is an experienced NHS Clinician [Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care (RMCH) & Honorary Senior Lecturer (University of Manchester)] , Manager & Leader who is also an accredited Executive Coach, Career Champion, Mentor (Mentor Champion) and Mediator within the North West (affiliated with NHS NW Academies of Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching).

Mo has completed a European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) EQA quality-awarded coaching programme for Executive level delegates; a 10-week Certificate in Counselling Concepts; 2 Diplomas in Neurolinguistic Programming; a 6-day accredited OCN Consensio Mediation Training (and is an accredited Trust Mediator); and the Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5 endorsed Mentoring & Coaching Management course.

He has also completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching accredited by the EMCC at Senior Practitioner level (awarded Distinction overall).
Membership Mo is currently a member of
• European Mentoring and Coaching Council
Qualifications & Training Mo has the following qualifications:
• MB ChB (Honours) (1995; Manchester, UK)
• PhD in Developmental Physiology (2006; University of Nottingham, UK)
• FRCPCH (2009; London, UK)
• NLP (Diploma) (2011; NLP Excellence, UK)
• NLP (Diploma) (2011; Bridge Associates, UK)
• FFICM (2012; Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, UK)
• FCMI (2012; Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, UK)
• MAcadMEd (2012; Member of the Academy of Medical Educators, UK)
• FHEA (2012; Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK)
• MICR (2012; Professional Membership of the Institute of Clinical Research)
• MIHM (2012; Member of the Institute of Healthcare Management)
• FInstLM (2013; Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management)
• MFMLM (2013; Member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management)
• FInstCPD (2013; Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development)
• FRSPH (2013; Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health)
• FIfL (2013; Fellow of the Institute for Learning)
• AFSEDA (2013; Associate Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association)
• FCollT (2013; Fellow of the College of Teachers)
• PCBEC (Distinction) [2013; Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Executive Coaching, awarded with Distinction by PB Coaching (Leeds), in conjunction with Leeds Metropolitan University]
Supervision Mo has a coaching supervisor whom he meets on a monthly basis, and also participates in peer supervision.
Tools, techniques and models Mo utilises a Gestalt approach to coaching which is based upon a humanistic therapy technique. His style is holistic and examines the totality of a clients conscious experience in relation to their current activity or situation.

Mo is also experienced in the use of coaching frameworks (such as IGROW, PRACTICE, Transformational Coaching and Clean Language) and applies these methods whenever appropriate within a coaching relationship.