Michelle Lucas, faculty member for supervision

Michelle’s work reflects both her personality and her practitioner background – perceptive, practical, action-oriented, and with a preference for using real examples to explore the dynamics of experience.

Her psychology background coupled with her rich organizational HR experience means she offers sharp insight into individuals, organisations, and the interplay between the two.

As a coach supervisor, Michelle’s desire is to enable coaches to develop their own authentic approach to their coaching practice. Her rigorous academic training and her eclectic standpoint allows her to support coaches with a variety of backgrounds.

Whether working as a coach or a coach supervisor, Michelle’s strength comes from the paradox of combining two potentially conflicting elements.

First, the ability to create a safe space for people to work, which stems from a fundamental Rogerian belief that people have the resources within them to create the changes they desire.

Secondly, taking the pragmatic view that sometimes others can see what you cannot see yourself. Combined, this drives an approach where she acts as a catalyst, seeking to mobilise the self-discovery process and yet being prepared to carefully offer her insight and experience to optimise learning.

Michelle has a BSc (Tech) Hons. in Applied Psychology, and MBA, and postgraduate diplomas in both coaching and mentoring and coaching and mentoring supervision from Oxford Brookes University. She is an Accredited Master Executive Coach and Accredited Master Coaching Supervisor with the Association for Coaching. She also won the 2021 EMCC Global Supervision Award.

Michelle has published a number of articles in peer reviewed journals, each offering innovative perspectives on coaching supervision and distinguishing nuances that emerge when supervising in a coaching compared to a therapeutic context. She is an author for Routledge, writing two co-authored and two solo edited books in the fields of coaching supervision and reflective practice.

She is currently co-editing with Lily Seto a book about Group Coaching Supervision (due for publication 2025) and a second edition of Creating the Reflective Habit (due 2026).