Jo Williams

Jo Williams is a a skilled and experienced independent social work consultant, supervisor, coach, academic, educator, author and researcher with 30 years’ experience in social care settings. She works with organisations, teams and individuals to provide reflective, experiential learning spaces where practice and being a practitioner can be explored in a safe and containing way.

Her professional specialism and passion is social work supervision, leadership and management, with a particular interest in the emotional and psycho-social landscape of supervision and anti-racist supervision and leadership in social work. Her goal is always to strengthen a person’s knowledge and skills as well as to enable the development of a reflective culture within an organisation.

She also develops other academic and practice-based learning and teaching offers to the sector, which draw on a range of key theoretical frameworks such as systemic practice, psycho-analytical, psychodynamic, relationship based, restorative practice and leadership models.

These offers range from whole system consultation, to developing the curriculum for formal qualifying and post-qualifying programmes and continuous professional development.

She is proud to be a source of expertise and opinion for the sector and has been published widely, as well as contributing to a broad range of conference papers, professional research websites and blogs, and to podcasts too.

She publishes her own blog – The Supervision Space – which is a growing resource of applied expertise, theory and research.