Why work with Sandiar?

Rosemary Sandham set up Sandiar to provide excellent leadership services which get results. She has over 25 years combined experience in business, including working at board level, chief executive and senior management, leadership consultancy, coaching, mentoring and action learning. In addition, she also provides counselling / psychotherapy services to individuals.

Having worked in the private and not for profit sector including housing, for over 25 years she understands the particular challenges facing those sectors.

Rosemary’s value to housing/not for profit professionals, is her keen understanding of the field combined with the objective perspective of an outsider. Rosemary possesses what are often considered the three core executive coaching competencies including extensive business experience, high level coaching skills and an understanding of the psychological perspective. Her counselling / psychotherapy background enables her to work across the psychological spectrum with people, enabling her to understand human potential, which when combined with performance coaching can produce profound and lasting change.

Having worked as a chief executive of various organisations she knows what it is like to deliver at senior level, the specific pressures, challenges, politics and the satisfaction of achievement. She is skilled at helping people become inspirational and effective leaders, competent in managing and motivating their staff and delivering high quality services for their clients.

Combining her experience with extensive coaching skills enables her to be very effective in helping clients manage change, including mergers and partnership working. Conflict resolution and creating effective and high performing teams are other areas where she has successfully worked with numerous clients.

Rosemary has a particular interest in helping people develop their internal leader and she works with people to help them access their own resources and examine their inner thinking, identifying and helping decrease limiting self beliefs and recognising the importance of internal dialogue which is supportive and liberating.

Successes have included enabling clients to have the confidence to move on to high level jobs. To overcome unhelpful thinking patterns, liberating them to do what they really want including setting up their own business, dramatically improving performance and inspiring their staff to make their organisation one that is listed in the Times top companies to work for.

Having worked at Board level, Rosemary has had considerable experience as a board member of large Housing Associations and in her capacity of Chief Executive; she has also worked extensively with boards.

She also has had considerable experience of working with senior women and with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures as both a coach and a leader.

Sandiar has a number of consultants who have considerable experience of providing a range of professional development services for both the private and public sectors. Their specialisms include executive coaching and leadership mentoring, facilitation, action learning, project management and training and research.

Qualifications

Rosemary has a BA in Sociology, an MA in Film & TV Studies and an ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring, accredited with the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM). She is also a Psychotherapist/Person Centred Counsellor, accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). In addition; she is a qualified Action Learning facilitator (Action Learning Associates). She is qualified in psychometric testing using FIRO -B. Rosemary is a member of, and subscribes to the code of ethics of, the Association for Coaching and the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Testimonials

Companies Sandiar has worked with, either directly or through partners:

Amicus Horizon Group
Hexagon Housing
Hammersmith Women’s Aid
Kensington Law centre
Genesis Housing
Tower Homes
Housing Corporation
EDF Energy
Eden Brown
Westside Housing
Grove Housing
Various SME’s

Here’s what some of our clients have to say...

"I found Rosemary to be a very skilled coach.

I felt straight away that she was committed to the job she was doing and would approach the whole thing very diligently, and she proved me right.

Rosemary is a great listener. Her approach to coaching is to let you discover the answers yourself, with the assistance of some subtle, yet very powerful and insightful questions, in response to what you have shared with her.

I would highly recommend Rosemary as a coach to any Chief Executive or Director who is considering finding a coach."

Tom McCormack, Chief Executive, Hexagon Housing Association.

"I had executive coaching with Rosemary Sandham of Sandiar for six sessions over six months.

My reasons for wanting coaching were to explore my career options and manage various major initiatives I had to deal with.

The coaching sessions were invaluable in that they enabled me to take time out, address issues in a holistic manner and in the final stages, enabled me to develop a well thought through action plan for my future career.

I found the coaching programme to be the best learning I had been on for a very long time. They gave me a chance to examine my leadership style and explore some personal issues.

I have no hesitation in recommending Rosemary as a coach based on my experience."

S Clydesdale Cotter, Executive Director Hestia Housing & Support

"Coaching has really challenged and enabled me to find solutions to a variety of problems. It has provided me with a supportive space where I can be creative, develop ideas and share my vision both for myself and my organisation."

John Ackrill, Chief Executive Grove Housing

"Coaching has had an enormous impact on me as Chief Executive working in a highly pressurized environment. I leave sessions feeling energized and more confident and really excited about the changes I am going to make-and I make changes, lots of them, in fact, my life has changed in many ways since I started coaching. I am a more effective leader and my performance in general has improved."

Sean Canning Chief Executive North Kensington Law Centre

"I have enjoyed the coaching sessions enormously. Rosemary is skilled at making her clients think about their needs, at making them feel positive about themselves and envisaging a future where they have achieved their goals. This all makes it seem more possible to achieve one’s objectives.

I believe my attitude has been much more positive since the coaching started and this has been instrumental in me securing a new post in the private sector."