Executive Coaching

Executive coaching grounded in strong communications: Coaching leaders on their journey towards, within and beyond the CEO role.

Coaching for senior leaders navigating their most important decisions.

I work with existing and potential CEOs as well as senior executives preparing for board-level responsibility. The work is discreet, challenging and collaborative, with a clear aim: to help you know yourself and to show up at your very best every time, regardless of the pressure.

What it’s like to work together

My clients value coaching that is direct, practical and grounded in real-world experience. My approach is shaped by:

30+ years working with global brands at board level

10+ years coaching senior leaders across Europe, Asia and the US

Insight from psychometrics and time with a psychologist

A high-trust, high-support environment

Discovery

Understanding who you are as a leader and how you are experienced by others.

Focus

Addressing a leadership challenge or limiting belief that may be holding you back.

Personal Brand

Understanding your leadership identity and strengthening behaviours that express it.

Ascend

A programme for leaders preparing for the CEO role.

Fly Solo

Coaching for senior leaders stepping away to build an independent practice.

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"Rob is an insightful and experienced Leadership and Communications Coach. I have had the fortune of working with Rob on several assignments - at Biogen UK, Bioverativ and Codiak. He is excellent at developing relationships and can help his clients elucidate their personal goals and what might impede their success. He leverages these deep relationships to appropriately challenge his clients resulting in demonstrable skill building and development. I highly recommend Rob if you are looking for a leadership coach who specializes in communications and branding."

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Nicole Barna
Senior Vice President. Head of Human Resources

"Rob always displayed great empathy while managing to identify key priorities and goals during our sessions. I would not hesitate to recommend working with Rob.”

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Dan Hanbury
Partner & UK Equity Fund Manager

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“Rob helped me develop my own personal brand. It’s not about being a completely different person, it’s about dialling up your strengths whilst being aware of your challenges and helping you control the perception others have of you. At the end of our sessions I always felt I remained true to myself but much more aware and focused on how I project, making me more confident in managing how I am seen.”

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Gillian King
Head of Global Regulatory Operations and Compliance

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"I have recently had the great pleasure of working with Rob on my personal branding. Rob has not only coached senior executives across various industries, he has worked with the FT for 10 years bringing powerful, insightful, and a bespoke coaching style that cuts very deep into the psyche and needs of his mentees. A brilliant and inspiring coach to work with."

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Yasir Mirza
Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion

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“Rob is like a good mirror where he illuminates your strengths and makes you aware of your blind spots. He diplomatically works with both these insights to develop a credible and more impactful communication strategy and delivery. Rob goes out of his way to ensure he understands and immerses himself In your business in order to produce a bespoke offering that not only enhances the communication skills of the team but delivers an on-the-job solution that benefits the overall business."

Biogen
Terry O’Regan
Senior VP and Head of USA, MS Franchise

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“The past 18 months with Rob have been a truly transformative journey for me as both a leader and a human being. The path and self-exploration that Rob has guided me through has exceeded my expectations. I appreciate the confidence, trust and vulnerability that Rob creates throughout this process. He has a unique ability to connect divergent stories and experiences into a series of relevant next steps. He’s helped me instill simple check points and watch outs into my daily routine so as to preserve who I am at my core whilst simultaneously improving my effectiveness. Rob’s helped me make more progress in my executive development areas than I’ve made over the past 10 years.”

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Chad Salisbury
Head of Global Planning

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"Rob is an excellent leadership and communications coach. I have been working with him for about 2.5 years and he has been an enormous help to me, in building an effective communication style and framework that is based on my strengths. His coaching is very personal and tailored and therefore effective. He spent a great deal of initial time getting to know me via 1:1 meetings. He also used psychometrics to understand my strengths and weaknesses, in addition to speaking to my colleagues and gaining detailed 360 feedback. We discussed insights from this and developed a personal brand that succinctly captures my strengths and aspects that form critical brand attributes. They helped me guide my decisions and reinforce my inner strengths to navigate me through tough periods. He was very accessible and was available to discuss and was very generous with his time. He continues to remain my mentor, friend, and a great sounding board whom I routinely reach out to. I would highly recommend him to anyone wanting to develop their leadership skills."

Sriram Sathyanarayanan
Chief Scientific Officer Head of Global Planning

“Being an effective leader takes time, desire and hard work. If you are ready to put the work in I can assure you that working with Rob will produce positive results. Rob brings a unique blend of real life experience along with a true passion for coaching AND he is just a great individual."

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Tara Veit
Managing Director