Jo Ellen Grzyb – Executive Coaching

Executive Coaching

Jo Ellen Grzyb is a keen, passionate and devoted gardener who also happens to be a co-founder and Director of Impact Factory, a training and personal development company specialising in making work a better place to be. She makes her garden and allotment much better places to be as well.

Let's get a little serious here. Jo Ellen, who holds dual American and British Citizenship, spent 20 years in the arts, entertainment and corporate sectors in development work on both sides of the Atlantic (including the New York City Ballet, the Arts Council of Great Britain and the London Philharmonic), before setting up Impact Factory with Robin Chandler in 1991.

Another of her passions is writing and she is responsible for most of the material on Impact Factory's considerable and comprehensive website library of jolly good reads, sound snacks and other heftier documents. Her latest book, Family Heaven Family Hell, a comprehensive look at family dynamics and 'How to Survive the Family Get-Together' is available through Amazon or at good bookshops. Read more about it at www.familyheavenfamilyhell.com

The Nice Factor Book (written with Robin Chandler), was published by Simon & Schuster in 1997, and revised and reissued by Vision Paperbacks in 2008. Their work is continually being written about, televised and broadcast in the UK and abroad.

Jo Ellen is a counsellor/psychotherapist and broadcaster as well. She likes doing media work and was featured in The Human Mind series (BBC1) and SKY TV's Angry Britain displaying the 'magic' of intensive anger management. She lends her advice to such diverse publications as the FT's Financial Advisor and Brides Magazine and enjoys being a talking head on anything from Radio 4's Woman's Hour to Radio Liverpool.

Jo Ellen is particularly interested in facilitating people so they can fulfil their dreams and aspirations while keeping an eye firmly on reality, and gives a deal of her time at Impact Factory enabling her colleagues to be able to do the same.

That is, when she isn't giving away all her time gardening and working on her allotment. Indeed, she is a member of her Allotment Committee and has a monthly column for the East Anglia Daily Times (Gardening Allotment Diary) on allotment life. See, we told you she was keen!