Coaching & Mentoring
“My time spent with James is focused on supporting me with the real world challenges I face in my role. He creates the space needed to prioritise my own needs, reflect, think clearly and learn. I feel like he is genuinely invested in me and he has become a trusted colleague and friend. I am a better leader (in my view!) as a result of his support.” Head of Football Operations, Premier League football club
- James has worked with leaders at all levels. Every case is different but challenges James might support with include performance, wellbeing & resilience, leadership & management, stakeholder management, reputation management, career planing & transition, building & changing a team.
- James has coached and mentored ex-international footballers, Premier League match officials, Formula One Grand Prix winning race engineers, Chief Executives and other C-Suite leaders. He has worked across most sectors, with graduates & apprentices through the most senior people in global organisations
- In 2022 James was named The Premier League’s Mentor of the Year for work with Leaders in Youth Development
Development workshops
“You have been a great influence and I wanted to let you know the work you did has really helped me on my journey. “
- James delivers people and leadership development workshops on topics including:
- Resilience & Wellbeing
- Performance Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Time management & Productivity
- Team Effectiveness & Collaboration
- Change Management
- Creativity & Innovation
- Challenging Conversations
Programme Design & Management
- James oversees people and leadership development programmes, offering guidance and support to programme leads. Sample engagements include:
- Chairing a Programme Advisory Group which oversees development programmes in elite sport
- Mentoring a Head of Leadership development; offering challenge and support in programme development and team building
- Mentoring a business division head during a ‘from scratch’ department set up
Selection & Assessment
“A note to say thanks for this morning’s feedback and your valued guidance & advice on future directions, developments and tips. Altogether I have found the assessment process to be a very positive experience and have lots of take aways to work on. I feel invigorated!”
- Services in selection and assessment include:
- Selection Process Design. Designing materials to help managers make good selection decisions
- Interview skills training. Helping people get better at interviewing.
- Leadership Assessment. In-depth, multi method assessment for senior selection & development
- Psychometric and 360 degree feedback. James is qualified in many psychometric instruments. Sometimes as part of a coaching package and sometimes ‘standalone’
- Hogan Assessment Accreditation training. James is accredited to train and certify practitioners to deliver the Hogan Assessment suite. Click here to find out more about the assessments, and the training
- Many years ago, James was shortlisted for the British Psychological Society’s prestigious ‘Practitioner of the Year’ award with a client colleague for their work on a high volume selection process at a FTSE100 company
