Eve Turner | CEF | Advisory Team Member
Eve combines writing and researching alongside a busy practice. She has co-written/co-edited 4 books: on supervision, on systemic coaching and the most recently: ‘The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook: A Guide to Developing Ethical Maturity in Practice’ and ‘Ecological and Climate-Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice,’ along with many chapters and articles. A past Chair of The Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS), Eve volunteers for the AC and the EMCC including as part of their Centre for Excellence in Ethics.
Eve is a co-author of our profession’s Joint Statement on Climate Change with 13 signatories and an active member of their JGSG (joint global statement group). She set up the Global Supervisors’ Network (GSN) for continuing professional development for supervisors (with 380+ members) and co-founded the CCA (Climate Coaching Alliance) to discuss global challenges, nowgrown to nearly 4,000 members worldwide. Eve’s won 9 international awards for coaching, supervision, writing and research, most recently the 2023 EMCC’s Global Special President’s award.
What is it about ethics—or the Coaching Ethics Forum—that resonates with you? Why does this work matter to you personally and professionally, and how do you see yourself contributing to the conversation through CEF?
For me ethics is the heart of our practice. It is the glue that forms who we are, what we do, the values we espouse, the decisions we take, the way we interact with people including those we work with, and what we believe is “right” and “wrong”, is or is not “true”. While I am interested in, and write about, many areas, for me ethics is the foundation for it all. It is fundamentally relational, so impacts every relationship, our personal and professional decisions, the assumptions we make, what we hold to be truths, consciously and unconsciously, and is influenced by our backgrounds, our culture, our identity. Understanding ourselves and the role of ethics, is lifelong work, for which I have a passion, a passion shared by, and explored through, the CEF. And it is an ongoing privilege to have dialogues on this in the CEF’s webinars and conferences, from contracting and dealing with the unexpected, to ethics and the ecological environment.