Alison Reid

Alison Reid, MM(BEC), PCC,  is an Internationally certified professional coach (ICF) and a Professional Associate faculty member at GIBS, University of Pretoria (UP). As a professional practitioner in the psychology and learning/change sciences of human development, Alison helps people to create meaningful positive change that matters most for themselves and others.

Alison is currently the Director  of Personal & Applied Leadership (PAL) at GIBS; which consists of both the Coaching Solutions business unit and the PAL Centre of Excellence. The latter is a community of 70 worldclass executive coaches; and houses the strategic institutional partnerships, thoughtleadership and pedagogies in personal, applied leadership for the business school. Prior to joining GIBS, Alison ran her own business, coaching, training and consulting to a range of corporate clients. She worked in the clinical healthcare environment in Saudi Arabia conducting Brain Function assessment and was the academic researcher, consultant and media liaison officer for the Brain Function Research Unit (Wits Medical School).

 Alison writes for the media and has published academic research in both local and international academic journals (on brain function and leadership topics). She served as a board member of the international Graduate School Association of Executive Coaching (GSAEC), and was awarded the Corporate Coaching Award by the ABCCCP (African Board of Coaching, Consulting and Coaching Psychology) in 2015.

She holds a Master’s degree in Leadership & Executive Coaching and Honours degree in Counselling and Sports psychology. Alison’s coaching specializations are in  Leadership development, Systemic Team (AOEC), Consciousness (CCA), Analytic-Network (ISPSO), Narrative, Neuroscience (Neuroscience Coaching Centre), & Sustainability Mindset (SMI) Coaching. She is credentialled as a Master coach with the IMCSA (Institute of Management Consultants SA) . Alison has a particular interest in working with people who want to leverage their innate capacity for conscious creativity to cultivate thriving sustainable lives beyond themselves and their generation.