When Life Gets in the Way of Living

Gladeana McMahon combines academic rigour with down-to-earth communication skills and provides coaching and therapy to politicians, celebrities, senior business people and those in the media. A clear, informed and direct approach mixed with humour and compassion being her trademarks. She is considered one of the UK’s "Top Ten Coaches" by the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Observer.

As one of the leading personal development and transformational coaches in the UK, Gladeana was instrumental in founding the Association for Coaching for which she now holds the positions of Life Fellow and Vice President. She is also a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Institute of Management Studies and The Royal Society of Arts. Gladeana is widely published with some 17 popular and academic books on Coaching and Counselling.  Her most recent Self-Help Book being, ‘No More Anger – be your own Anger Management Coach’. Her Most recent professional books include, ‘ Positive Psychology for Dummies", Performance Coaching for Dummies’, ‘Essential Business Coaching’ and ‘Achieving Excellence in your Coaching Practice’.

An innovator, Gladeana is one of the UK founders of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching together with Professors Stephen Palmer and Windy Dryden of City University and Goldsmiths College and Michael Neenan of Goldsmiths College.  She currently works as the Director of Professional Coaching Standards for Cedar TM and is Co-Director of the Centre for Coaching and an Honorary Visiting Lecturer in the Psychology Department of the University of East London where she taught on the Diploma and Masters programmes for many years. She is passionate about her work in coaching business and public sector leaders to master the psychological complexities of 21st Century corporate life.

Gladeana is Life Coach for the GMTV Website and Stress Coach for the Channel 4 Website.

Her Media work includes being: Presenter of ‘Get Ahead with Gladeana’ and ‘Ease the Load’ for Teacher’s TV, Co-presenter of ITV’s ‘Dial a Mum’ and Co-Presenter of Granada Television’s ‘Sex and Soaps’.  Gladeana has appeared on many shows such as ‘This Morning’, ‘Richard and Judy’ and ‘The Wright Stuff’.  She pioneered the UK’s Ethical Guidelines for Reality Television in association with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Gladeana is the kind of woman who will have you saying – “Don’t say I can’t – say how can I and believing it!” (Independent on Sunday)