Dr Patricia Bossons
Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Director of Henley Coaching Services
Director, Henley Centre for Coaching and Facilitation
Subject Area Leader: Coaching. Client Director: Executive Education.
Email: patricia.bossons@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 1491 571454
Location: GB8 - Greenlands campus

Patricia Bossons is the Director of the Henley Centre for Coaching and Facilitation. She started the coaching activities at Henley in 2004, and is now Programme Director for the MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change, and the Certificate in Coaching. She is also the Subject Area Leader for Coaching. Patricia is a Chartered Psychologist by background, and works extensively in the Executive Education area of the Business School, both in the UK and Internationally. Her latest interest is in taking the Coaching initiatives developed at Henley into other cultures and in developing an active research base around Coaching. She holds a PhD in Personality and Learning Styles, and runs an annual Coaching Conference at Henley.
By area: Coaching, Executive Coaching, Coaching Psychology, Personal Development, Behavioural Change, Leadership, Psychology, Learning Design, Building a Coaching Culture, Coaching Supervision
By industry: Executive Education, Personal Development, Management Development, Executive Coaching, Coaching Qualification Programmes, Business Psychology
By geography: UK, Europe, Australasia, Far East, Middle East, South Africa, North America
Programme Director and Tutor on the Henley Certificate in Coaching and the MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change.
Tutor on executive education programmes in the fields of personal development, personality and psychology, coaching, behavioural change.
Bossons, P., Kourdi, J. and Sartain, D. (2009) Coaching: practical, proven techniques for world-class executive coaching. A. & C. Black, London, pp234. ISBN 9781408111093
New Zealand Association of Training and Development Conference 2010 - Keynote
First National Congress of Coaching Psychology, Northern Hemisphere, 2010
Henley Coaching Conferences, 2005 - present
Many pieces of Executive Education in the Personal Development, Leadership and Change and Coaching field, including work with:
- KPMG
- Atkins Plc
- Land Registry
- Fujitsu Services
- Orange
- KPJ HealthcareMalaysia
- Civil ServiceCollege Singapore
- South African Revenue Service
- Electrical Industry Training Board, New Zealand
- Allianz
- Welcome Trust
- Anglo American
- Oxfordshire County Council