Sharon Wakeford

Sharon Wakeford

Executive coach, mediator, facilitator, trainer.

Sharon is an internationally accredited business executive & life coach and mediator. She brings to her coaching and mediation practice, a background in law and nearly 20 years experience in conflict resolution, as well as a deep curiosity about people and how they interact with the world.

Sharon has a fundamental belief in the power of executive, business and life coaching to ignite new possibilities for understanding and action. As such, she works in partnership with executives, managers and individuals to develop their self-awareness and their competence to engage more skillfully with the world.

As a workplace and relationship mediator, Sharon assists parties in conflict to handle situations more effectively by helping them to move beyond the ‘presenting issues’ and appreciate how their own interpretations and behaviours contribute to the conflict. From a point of deeper understanding, Sharon works with parties to craft mutually beneficial outcomes and a more constructive future relationship.

Recent Activity

Coaching playfulness in workplace mediation

Over the past few months I have been working with two directors of a large and very successful organisation who jointly head one of the organisation’s highest performing departments. My intervention with them started in a mediation which focused on assisting them to deal with some difficulties which had arisen in their relationship and which more »

Recent Activity

Team Facilitation in Nambia

Last week I facilitated a team alignment session for what’s called an EPCM (Engineering Project and Construction Management) company which has been contracted to build a mine for a Chinese client in Namibia. Although the mine, once constructed, will be the second biggest of its kind in the world, it is what’s referred to as more »

Sharon’s Insights

‘The L Words’
Language, listening, loving, living and learning: strong stand alone words which hold equal measure of challenge and opportunity; and words which have woven together to form the main threads of ...
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‘The gentle whispering of the liminal space’
So I am sitting in my office in my ‘client chair’. What I mean by that is that I have two chairs, one which I sit in and one which ...
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The ‘small’ matter of the heart
In the past couple of weeks, I have been exposed to two small things, but two small things that made a big impact on me. The first was a small ...
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‘Being big enough to learn’
I have just returned from Francistown in Botswana where I conducted mutual gains negotiation training for union and management negotiators of a large mine. It is a course I have ...
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‘The Gifts in our Stocking’
Being the time of the year that it is, it seems appropriate to think a little bit about gifts. I’m thinking not so much about the giving of gifts to ...
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