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Jane Sassienie
Jane is the International Director of Bridge and has 15 years experience of consulting and coaching. Originally with an arts training she initially moved into the field of personal development through her interest in Neuro-Linguistic Programming as a Master Practitioner.
Jane’s professional career began as a personal coach and she gradually broadened her scope into designing and running non-traditional group events, then eventually into organisation-wide change processes, some of which have been with the Centre for Creative Leadership, some freelance as well as with Bridge.
She is a great researcher and loves getting to the bottom of why organisations – and the people in them – seem to get stuck. For example: exploring the relationship between the extent to which senior leaders have personally developed and the potential for their organisations to transform; creating cohesion in senior teams as a model for the wider organisation; the act of leading becoming as exciting a prospect as the results that it achieves; instilling the ‘art of detection’ in her clients' practice, such that they become skilful at looking past the presenting issues and divine what is really going on in themselves and their organisations.
In her coaching practice Jane works with organisational leaders (CEOs, managing partners, chairs of boards). She’s at her most powerful with talented leaders who are no longer so interested in ‘proving themselves’ – but rather in deeper learning and in changing their own businesses.
Jane has consulted to many organisations around the globe on transformational issues such as mergers, culture change and management, re-awakening energy and ambition and globalisation, and has a particular interest in the cross fertilisation of ideas from culture to culture, sector to sector and theory to theory. Jane brings unusual ways of seeing the world and the people in it to what she does. She never stops studying and has just completed a Masters in Psychotherapy - exploring the application of existential and transpersonal models to organisational coaching - and is now a Qualified Transpersonal Psychotherapist.
Jane has an MSc in ‘Change Agent Skills and Strategies’, BA in Fine Art and Art History and is a Master Practitioner in (New Code) Neuro-Linguistics and NLP and a Practitioner in Ericksonian language patterns. She has training in Gestalt processes for groups; Transactional Analysis; Cybernetics and systems theory. Jane uses the following instruments: MBTI, Firo-B, Firo Element-B, California Psychological Inventory, Benchmarks 360, Campbell’s Leadership Indicator, and Kirton Adaption/Innovation Inventory.