Angelina Bennett

RIGOROUS • WARM •  CURIOUS

Angelina is known for her innovative approach to developing effective, productive leaders and her award-winning change leadership. While her work is rigorously backed by research, she engages with a combination of perceptive questioning and a warm, personable, non-judgemental style.

As a music obsessive, when not at a gig, Angelina can be found playing guitar, practising yoga or tap dancing.

Angelina is a Chartered Psychologist who specialises in raising self-awareness to enable people to realise their potential and overcome barriers to effectiveness. She’s worked with a wide range of clients in both public and private sectors including NHS, Civil Service, European Space Agency, HSBC, Procter and Gamble, RBS, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Canopius, Mitie, Interserve, Met Office, Moorhouse Consulting, Alstom, Amway, Euronet, Adidas, Equinix AXA, The British Army, Imperial College, University of Westminster, Kenexa and Costain.

Angelina has a reputation for bringing leading-edge thinking to her work. Her experience with a broad range of methods means she can quickly tailor her approach to best suit the client’s needs. Clients and colleagues find her approachable and trustworthy, which helps them to build rapport quickly and feel safe sharing their experiences both individually and in groups.

She’s a regular speaker at personality and coaching conferences world-wide and is continuously developing new ideas and expanding on existing knowledge of personality theory and its applications to coaching and team dynamics. She is the author of The Shadows of Type and a contributor to several other personality and coaching publications.

Focus

  • Individual and team coaching

  • Analysing team dynamics to improve working relationships

  • Shadow coaching for deeper self-awareness

  • Designing development programmes for leaders, managers and high-potential employees

  • In-depth psychometric profiling for selection, promotion and development

  • Applying research and statistical methods to evaluate interventions

  • Presenting and facilitating workshops internationally and virtually

  • Training others to develop others using personality frameworks

  • Designing questionnaires and psychometrics

  • Designing assessment and development exercises

  • Facilitating group processes

  • Writing books and articles about personality and other psychological concepts

“Angelina held a very successful workshop for us. She was professional and managed to connect with some of my more sceptical colleagues. She had interesting and innovative ways to get people involved. I very much recommend her.”
— R Aileen King, Diabetes Researcher, Kings College London

Career Highlights

  • President of the British Association for Psychological Type. Engaged in a complete organisational re-design, making it globally visible and ensuring its financial sustainability. Presented with the International Type Association (APTi)’s Award for Leadership for her work.

  • Working with scientists at the European Space Agency on promotional and developmental assessment, and being invited to tour the ESA main campus

  • Seeing a clear developmental step change in high potential coaches from a civil engineering company during an 18-month development program

  • Designing and running programmes to help senior leaders develop their strategic thinking

  • Creating a Growth Mindset assessment and development programme for aspiring managers at Adidas

  • Training hundreds of people in the use of psychometrics through BPS approved courses

  • Coaching young entrepreneurs on the NEFF program

  • Winning an industry award for the design of a blended learning training program

  • Presenting to Personality Type conferences in the UK, USA, Australia, France and Germany

  • Being invited to share my ideas on personality at the UK Psychometrics Forum

  • Writing a five-star rated book about personality development and contributing to other books about coaching and psychometrics

  • Speaking on the BBC World Service and Radio 2 about personality type

Qualifications

  • Chartered Occupational Psychologist

  • Registered member British Psychological Society (BPS) and Health & Care Professionals Council (HCPC)

  • MSc Occupational Psychology

  • Ashridge accredited coach

  • Member of the British Psychological Society

  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council

  • Professional Doctorate in Occupational Psychology

  • MSc in Applied Psychology

  • MSc in Experimental Methods in Psychology

  • BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Languages

  • Diploma in Hypnotherapy

  • Certificate in Psychosynthesis Counselling and Theory

  • Systemic Constellations 1

  • Group Process Facilitation

  • Certified in the Cognitive Process Profiler (for development of strategic thinking)

  • Diploma in Shadow Mastery and Advanced Shadow Mastery

  • Certified to use Barrett Values Tools for Organisational Transformation

  • Qualified to in a range of psychometrics including various personality tools, emotional intelligence and ability measures

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