Read about the positive evidence for working with me, for workplace coaching for health leaders, and for the Health Leader-as-Coach for doctors, medical leaders and public health leaders
Coaching is most effective when delivered by coaches who are Individually Accredited by a professional body, and especially by Registered & Chartered Coaching Psychologists.
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Read my other publications on medical and public health coaching and leadership
Hepworth C, Day F, Poate-Joyner A. How can coaching and coaching psychology avoid doing harm and do good for coachees, specifically those who have underlying mental health concerns? Calls to action and practical suggestions to ensure ethical practice. International Coaching Psychology Review 20 (1); 2025; 23-35
How can I prepare for a general election? doi:10.1136/bmj.q1371
Day F. Lessons in leadership with Fiona Day, medical and public health leadership coach. FMLM 2024.
Day FJ, et al. Understanding the evidence base for leadership coaching for medical doctors: a rapid scoping review protocol (2024. Protocol)
Day F. GP Online; October 2023. How to flourish as a GP by learning from the good and the difficult
Fiona Day. Book review: Third wave cognitive behavioural coaching: Contextual, behavioural and neuroscience approaches for evidence-based coaches. Edited by Jonathan Passmore & Sarah Leach, Pavilion Publishing, 2022. In The Coaching Psychologist, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 2022. Here is a pre-publication version of the article.
Prudenzi A, et al. A workplace Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention for improving healthcare staff psychological distress: A randomised controlled trial. PLOSONE. April 2022.
Day F. Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) Blog. March 2022. What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?
Day F. Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) Blog. Feb 2022. Developing psychologically safe cultures while also commanding and controlling.
Prudenzi, A et al. Group-based acceptance and commitment therapy interventions for improving general distress and work-related distress in healthcare professionals : a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021; 295. pp. 192-202.
Day, Fiona. Metamodernism- are you ready for a cultural pandemic? BMJ Leader Blog, July 2021
Day F. Public health leaders have been exceptional but we need a whole new approach to society. BMJ letters, April 2021
Day F. Coping through covid-19: commissioned BMJ Opinion article, March 2020
Day F. What does the global climate emergency mean for UK healthcare leaders?Health Service Journal commissioned article, May 2019
Day, F. Finding Help. In Staten, A (Editor). Combatting Burnout: a guide for medical students and junior doctors. 2019, CRC Press.
Publications from my former medical and public health career
Wilding S, et al. Cluster randomized controlled trial of volitional and motivational interventions to improve bowel cancer screening uptake: A population-level study. Social Science and Medicine,2020 Nov:265:113496
Day F. The Challenge of Multimorbidity and Programme Budgeting. Rapid Response. BMJ 24.9.12
Day F, Pollock C, Brook C, Albus A. Crucial for Population Health. BMJ 2010;340:c2125
Day F, Cassels-Brown A, Buchan JC, Fear, J et al. A Glaucoma Equity Profile: correlating disease distribution with service provision and uptake in a population in Northern England, UK. Eye 24, 1478–1485 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2010.73
Day FJ, Mok J. Children affected by domestic abuse while abroad on holiday. Arch Dis Child. May 2008;93(5):362-3.
Day FJ, Sutton G. General Practitioner notifications of gastroenteritis and food poisoning: cause for concern. J Public Health. Sep 2007;29(3):288-91.
Day FJ, Clegg S, McPhillips M, Mok J . A retrospective case series of skeletal survey in children with suspected non-accidental injury. J Clinical Forensic Medicine 2006; 13 (2): 55-59
Nsutebu E, Day F. Chemical Incidents and Major Fires in West Yorkshire. Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report, Health Protection Agency May 2005(4): 24
Day FJ, Nettleton B. The Scottish Borders General Practitioners Exercise Referral Scheme. Health Bulletin 2001; 59(5): 343-346
I am Individually Accredited as a Master Practitioner Coach & Mentor, and as a Chartered Coaching Psychologist. I offer leadership coaching for doctors, medical leadership coaching, medical leadership development, coaching for public health leaders and coaching for global health leaders.
If you’re a medical or public health leader, contact me today to find out how I can help you!
Choose your 1:1 Coaching Partnership:
The Focused Health Leader Coaching Partnership – Career clarity and leadership support for health leaders – under 6 months
The Strategic Health Leader Coaching Partnership – A strategic partnership to support health leaders in ongoing complexity – 12 months plus
The Global Health Leader Coaching Partnership – A unique service supporting global health leaders operating under extreme pressure – 12 months plus
Training & Development:
Training and Development – for medical and public health leaders
The Foundation Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring for Health Leaders – Learn coaching skills for doctors and public health leaders
Please book a Confidential Consultation with me to find out how I can help you with your medical leadership career coaching or public health leadership career coaching. I am a Chartered Coaching Psychologist and an EMCC Individually Accredited Master Practitioner Coach and Mentor, specialising in coaching for doctors and public health leaders.
Improved cognitive outcomes including:
goal setting (ability and quality of); self-awareness; sense of responsibility to one’s own learning; goal achievement; goal-directed self-regulation; self-control; adaptability and flexibility.
Improved meta-cognitive outcomes including:
the processing and organisation of information; the planning, monitoring and revising of goal-orientated behaviours; internal self-regulation and cognition stimulating purposeful mental (internal) and behavioural (external) changes such as goal-attainment through a continuous cognitive process.
Improved affective (emotional) outcomes including:
satisfaction with coaching achievements; satisfaction with work, career and private life; wellbeing; coping; personal as well as work attitudes; motivation to apply new knowledge in the work environment; reduced stress; higher commitment to the organisation; self-worth; motivation; initiative; social integration; core self-evaluations (self-efficacy, self-confidence, and self-esteem; internal locus of control; reduced neuroticism).
Improved skills outcomes including:
improved performance and skills at work including strategic thinking, decision making, communication, interpersonal skills; improved transformational leadership; improved 360′ leadership ratings (self/others); improved resource management eg time.
