smiton consulting gmbh individual, team & organisational consulting
Dr. Siobhain Smiton - About me
My Experience
I am an internationally-experienced executive coach and organisational consultant, working with clients across sectors and disciplines including General Management, Commercial, Financial, Technology, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing and Medical.
My 18 years of experience spans 10 years with BP plc in the UK and 8 years with Novartis in Switzerland, enjoying leadership and consultancy roles in Sales & Marketing and predominantly HR. My final role was Head of Talent Management, Organisational Development & Staffing for Novartis Pharma Manufacturing, a global organisation of 12,000 associates and 24 manufacturing sites.
For the last 14 years I have been coaching leaders, developing leadership teams and working with departments, functions, country, cluster and enterprise-wide to support their organisational development.
I hold a professional doctorate in organisational consultancy, from the Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust / University of Essex
I am a Senior Practitioner Executive Coach (EMCC)
I am accredited to run, debrief and coach using:
- Leadership Circle Profile, Manager Edition and Leadership Culture Survey
- Human Synergistics Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) instrument and Leadership Work Styles (LWS) instrument
- MBTI & FIRO-B
I work in English, French and Italian
My Approach
I work with clients to support their understanding of their motivations and strengths, generating greater insight into their unconscious barriers to fulfilling their potential whether through individual coaching, team development or organisational consulting. My aim is to facilitate understanding of how the client`s patterns interplay with the organisation and wider environment, to refine their own identity as an effective, influential and resilient leader. My work is informed by the Systems-Psychodynamic approach (the Tavistock tradition).
What's in it for you?
Executive Coaching / Organisational Role Analysis:
Trained at the internationally-renowned Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, potential clients can expect a profound experience that will help deepen personal understanding of unconscious patterns in the work system and how they play out in-role - how a person-in-role takes up their leadership and interacts with the organisation around them in productive and unproductive ways. My focus is on supporting the person to take up their role in the organisation in productive ways and to recognise when it is unproductive, in order to achieve integration between role and organisation. As with some coaching, it is not about changing character or personality, rather on systems thinking and integration of the person-in-role as they do their work in the organisation.
Clients have regularly commented that it has been the most impactful development of their career.
Team Development:
When working with teams, the focus is customised based on what they need in order to identify and deliver their purpose and primary task. I often but not exclusively use the open systems approach which considers Task, Roles, Boundaries, Authority (B.A.R.T.). I typically work with groups and teams for 12 to 18 months and often work in parallel with the leader in order to underwrite the leader`s capacity to contain the system and make sustainable shifts in how the work is performed.
Previous clients have described the work we have done as enabling them to think more systemically, more broadly and to take hold of both the technical and social elements of group work. It happens often that I work with groups or teams who are working in particularly difficult or complex contexts.
Organisational Consulting:
This area of work addresses the structural and emotional aspects of organisational change whether enterprise-wide or with teams/groups.
Areas where I have supported change are in organisational restructuring, acquisition, separation, business model transformation, change of purpose and resulting culture change. I have worked with a variety of governance structures including large integrated matrix organisations, decentralised organisations, charitable and NGO associations, venture capital-funded organisations.
Clients have described the benefits of working with me as turning creative ideas into action to support the transition, sensitivity to and skill in working with the emotional side of change, and enabling changes that are sustained.