“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
What can you expect when working with me?
I care deeply about you and your goals, and will at all times honour the trust that you have placed in me. In order to achieve this, I constantly reflect on our progress (“Did I lose rapport at that point?” “Did we lose direction?”) and seek to learn from each session to make the next one even better than the last.
I work from a strong moral compass so when we work together it will be to equip you as an honest, authentic leader, not a ball-breaking, profit-at-all-costs leader. I think that leaders should be able to deliver bad news in an honest way that informs, reassures and supports their staff.
My approach is practical, rigorous and grounded in the real world. I use models and metaphors to grasp sometimes abstract concepts. So I will draw a lot of diagrams to show exactly how thoughts and emotions interact; I will use stories (metaphors) to bring issues to life, to pin down the nebulous, and to analyse it in granular detail. From these models and metaphors, we will create maps, which will chart our way forward.
If I feel that an experience of mine would help to illustrate a point or give your situation context, then I will share that – even if it makes me look less than great!
My military and corporate background, coupled with my education and training, gives me the experience to understand where you are and where you want to be, the empathy to recognise the emotions that that path invokes, and the authority to ask tough questions and invite you to make painful changes.
Some Kind Words
“You have an authoritative air which gives me the confidence that you know your industry inside out. You have also worked on a high level and the connections you will have made through the consultancy world allow you not only to ‘walk the walk but to talk the talk!”
“Your approach is really professional and well informed. I like the fact you come from a corporate background and that you coach based on real life experience and not because you have read a few text books.”
“You talk on a level above most coaches and are most definitely not ‘airy fairy’ which is super important in my opinion.”