Joanna Molyn

Dr Joanna Molyn BSc, MBA, MPhil, PhD

Senior Lecturer

Joanna is an academic researcher and a senior lecturer with a background in City finance (Dresdner/Allianz), Organisational Development (OD) and consultancy. Joanna's research primarily focuses on the effectiveness of coaching. Her PhD examined the role and effectiveness of coaching in increasing students' self-efficacy and employability efforts.

Before joining academia, Joanna worked in the City investment bank, Dresden Kleinwort, in their Corporate Finance, Marketing and Global Debt divisions in different roles. Prior to that, Joanna worked as a Research Assistant for BMF UK Ltd, a City-based management consultancy appointed as an official advisor to the Polish government responsible for major restructuring and privatisation programmes in Poland.

Most recently, Joanna has worked as a leadership facilitator and coach. She co-designed and delivered two leadership and innovation development programmes for the BBC, and a marketing project "The Commercial Value of Innovation" for BNY Mellon. Joanna has also designed and facilitated leadership workshops for Angel Academe, FLASH (a EU funded project) and a Malaysian public sector

Accounting and finance

Responsibilities within the university

A module leader for Foundations of Scholarship. Delivering resilience building coaching workshops for students at the University of Greenwich since 2009.

Awards

Winner of the Best (co-authored) Article Award' in the Coaching at Work 2020 Editor's Awards.

Recognition
  • An External Examiner for the Professional Psychology Department at University of East London
  • A Reviewer for:

-Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research & Practice

-International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring

-Coaching | Theorie & Praxis

  • A Contributor to Coaching at Work ‘Research Matters’
  • The Impact of Coaching on Students’ Wellbeing, Resilience and Goal Attainment: A Resilience Building Coaching Workshops & Artificial Intelligence Coaching Case Study
  • Recently completed research projects:
  • The Artificial Intelligence Coaching Effectiveness Comparative Study: Impact of Artificial Intelligence Coaching on Students’ Goal Attainment, Resilience, Wellbeing and Perceived Stress

Research / Scholarly interests

I am interested in measuring the impact of coaching on wellbeing, resilience, goal attainment and stress through RCT studies. I am also researching the impact of Artificial Intelligence coaching on goal attainment, wellbeing, resilience, stress and perceived social support.  The other area of my research interest is the role and effectiveness of career coaching in increasing students' self-efficacy, outcome expectations and employability efforts.I have recently started exploring trauma-informed coaching. My knowledge exchange areas involve leadership training, resilience coaching workshops for students and developing coaching skills in students.

Key funded projects

In 2017 I received a research grant from the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, for more details click here.

Recent publications
  • Terblanche, N., Molyn, J., De Haan, E., & Nilsson, V.O. (2022) ‘Coaching at Scale: Investigating the Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence Coaching’ International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 20(2)
  • Molyn, J. (2022) 'Is Social Support an Overlooked Common Factor in Coaching Research?', Research Matters column, Coaching at Work, August issue online
  • Terblanche, N., Molyn, J., Williams, K., & Maritz, J. (2022) Performance matters: students’ perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Coach adoption factors, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
  • Terblanche, N., Molyn, J., de Haan, E., Nilsson, VO. (2022) ‘Comparing artificial intelligence and human coaching goal attainment efficacy’. PLoS ONE 17(6)
  • Molyn, J., de Haan, E., van deer Veen, R., & Gray, D.E. (2021) ‘The impact of common factors on coaching outcomes’, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, pp. 1-14.
  • Molyn, J., & J Gannon. (2020) 'Benefits of student schemes', Research Matters column, Coaching at Work, 15(4), pp 56-57.
  • de Haan, E., Molyn, J., & Nilsson, V. O. (2020). New findings on the effectiveness of the coaching relationship: time to think differently about active ingredients? Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.
  • Molyn, J. (2020), ‘The Role and Effectiveness of Coaching in Increasing Self-Efficacy and Employability Efforts of Higher Education Students', in (C. Urrea), Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, MIT, Boston, Kalpa Publication, EPiC Series in Education Science, vol 3, pp. 178-187.
  • de Haan, E. & Molyn, J (2020), ‘Active Ingredients’, Coaching at Work, January/February 2020, 36-40.

Presentations

‘ Measuring the Impact of Coaching using a Randomised Controlled Trial Design’, The Coaching Psychology Conference: Integrating research and practice. 8-9 June 2023, London, UK.

‘Impact of Artificial Intelligence Coaching on Students’ Goal Attainment, Resilience, Wellbeing and Stress: a longitudinal study.’ Coaching meets Research: Organisation, Digitisation, and Design Conference. Olten, Switzerland in November 2021

‘Impact of Coaching on Students’ Wellbeing, Resilience and Goal Attainment: A Resilience Building Coaching Workshops and Artificial Intelligence Coaching Case Study.’ Coaching meets Research: Organisation, Digitisation, and Design Conference. Olten, Switzerland in November 2021

Joanna presented her research at the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School in 2014, 2015, 2018 and in 2019 and at MIT in 2019.