Joy Harcup

With over 15 years learning and development experience in the professional services sector, Joy specialises in learning and development consultancy, leadership and management training and executive coaching - aligning changes in process with changes in behaviour.

Formerly a solicitor, Joy had previous management and strategic responsibility for learning and development as Head of Learning and Development at the City law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner. She managed the integration of the learning and development function, following the firm’s merger, and also a strategic review of the function. She successfully introduced and implemented leadership, and talent management, training programmes at senior levels.

Joy is accredited as a coach by the International Coaching Federation. She has undertaken over 250 hours of coaching training with Coach U and other leading coach training providers. She is also a licensed trainer of the Coaching Clinic, a programme that trains leaders to adopt a coaching style of management.

Joy has MBA (Distinction) from Bath University, where she researched how coaching achieves individual and organisational learning in professional service firms, for her final dissertation. She is also qualified to administer a range of psychometric tests and assessments including Bar-On EQ-i (measuring emotional intelligence) and MTQ 48 (assessing mental toughness).

A past chair of a national lobbying and best practice group for learning and development in the legal sector, Joy has sat on a number of regulatory learning and development committees. She is also an author of academic text books and a speaker at learning and development conferences.