Alison Pacifico-France (She/They) MSc MCIPD
I run evosis as an independent consultancy. However, I also often collaborate with friends and colleagues in my network to provide teams with the mix of skills and diversity required for the project.
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About Alison
Alison Pacifico-France is a psychologist, organisation and leadership, Gestalt and diversity and inclusion specialist with over twenty years’ experience. She enables transformation through creativity, enabling leaders to explore and develop their attitudes and emotions, creating measurable behaviour change.
Alison’s work is grounded in her qualifications in Occupational Psychology (MSc), Organisation Development (NTL), and Gestalt Leadership (iGOLD, international Gestalt Organisation and Leadership Development). Alison has worked across sectors including Retail, Pharmaceutical, Defence and Charity/NGOs. She works globally, nationally and locally, integrating learning to adapt to each leader and organisation she works with. She has also been a non-exec director, chairing boards of Trustees.
Alison is a white, educated woman from the North of England. She is also pansexual, non-binary, dyslexic, has a physical disability and experiences mental health challenges. She uses all of her complex identities, privileged and otherwise to support others to achieve their potential through their own identities.
Philosophy and approach
Alison’s key strengths are Collaboration, Courage, Creativity and Flexibility. She creates environments where people can connect, value their differences and achieve business benefits. Her practice includes Gestalt techniques to help people recognise and engage with their resistance. She also takes a complexity approach to transformation, co-creating innovative, sustainable and engaging solutions.
How clients describe Alison
Experience summary
Qualifications and memberships
Interests
Alison enjoys Travel (particularly through Italy with her Italian wife). Formally a lover of extreme sports, since becoming Disabled, Alison has now focused her creativity into mixed media art and writing.
Alison Pacifico-France is a psychologist, organisation and leadership, Gestalt and diversity and inclusion specialist with over twenty years’ experience. She enables transformation through creativity, enabling leaders to explore and develop their attitudes and emotions, creating measurable behaviour change.
Alison’s work is grounded in her qualifications in Occupational Psychology (MSc), Organisation Development (NTL), and Gestalt Leadership (iGOLD, international Gestalt Organisation and Leadership Development). Alison has worked across sectors including Retail, Pharmaceutical, Defence and Charity/NGOs. She works globally, nationally and locally, integrating learning to adapt to each leader and organisation she works with. She has also been a non-exec director, chairing boards of Trustees.
Alison is a white, educated woman from the North of England. She is also pansexual, non-binary, dyslexic, has a physical disability and experiences mental health challenges. She uses all of her complex identities, privileged and otherwise to support others to achieve their potential through their own identities.
Philosophy and approach
Alison’s key strengths are Collaboration, Courage, Creativity and Flexibility. She creates environments where people can connect, value their differences and achieve business benefits. Her practice includes Gestalt techniques to help people recognise and engage with their resistance. She also takes a complexity approach to transformation, co-creating innovative, sustainable and engaging solutions.
How clients describe Alison
- "Alison created spaces that were safe and trusted, whilst also being challenging and making you stop and question your own beliefs, prejudice and position."
- “Alison is a fantastic leadership coach. She has inspired me to grow as leader.”
- "Her kindness and guidance were exceptional on a very emotive set of topics. She was able to be both encouraging and challenging”
- “Thoughtful, insightful and… able to navigate complex transformation environments… with inclusion embedded in her thinking.”
Experience summary
- Executive coaching for numerous CEO’s and senior leaders focused on enabling personal, leadership and organisational growth (cross sectors and countries)
- Affirmative/strengths-based leadership coaching, to help leaders grow with their identities, including leaders who are LGBTQ, neurodiverse or people of colour (cross sectors and countries)
- Leadership and team development programmes, integrating creativity to achieve transformations (cross sectors)
- Team coaching and group dynamics including Corporate boards and senior leadership teams, Trustees plus D&I steering groups, HR and OD internal consulting teams (cross sectors)
- Diversity & Inclusion consulting including development programmes (Global, NGO& & SMEs)
- Complex cross-organisational transformation projects (Retail and Defence)
Qualifications and memberships
- NTL (National Training Laboratories) Member, 2023
- iGOLD (International Gestalt Organisation Leadership Development) – Gestalt OD Partners, 2022
- Organisation Development Certificate Programme, NTL (National Training Laboratories), 2015
- Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD), 2011
- MSc Occupational Psychology (distinction), Liverpool John Moores University, 2005
- Member of the British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology (MBPsS), 2005
- BSc Psychology (2:1), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004
- Qualified Psychometric test user in Occupational Ability and Personality Testing (BPS Level A and B), Strengthscope®, Emotional intelligence profile (JCA), Type Dynamics Indicator (a form of MBTI)
Interests
Alison enjoys Travel (particularly through Italy with her Italian wife). Formally a lover of extreme sports, since becoming Disabled, Alison has now focused her creativity into mixed media art and writing.