About Me
Our work together is about you, not about me.
Still, some clients like to know a little bit about me.
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I coach because I was blown away by its impact on IMD's High Performance Leadership and Advanced High Performance Leadership courses. The key principles from those courses come up time and again when I coach.
My career is about simplifying things to their key focus areas, making them concrete, and getting them done. Creating value for organisations, teams, and individuals.
​Educated as a manufacturing engineer and a chartered accountant, I've worked across cultures in several industries, for listed and privately held organisations. Working with teams and individuals to adapt to changing situations and move things forward, across all levels of the profit and liquidity cycles.
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I'm at ease at the front-line business, corporate, and investor levels, and understand the power of effective fact and trust-based relationships across organisations.
Following my engineering education in Scotland, my career started in London with pwc, training as a chartered accountant. Based in Switzerland since 2015, I lived in France for thirteen years before that.
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Blessed with a wonderful, supportive wife and a very proud father of three, I enjoy running, water sports, and winter sports.
I am bilingual in English and French, and can work with you in either or both languages.
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I am an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
Education
Coaching
​Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC):
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Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching
(Program triple-accredited)*
Gestalt Coaching Skills
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International Coaching Federation (ICF)
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Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
​* ICF (International Coaching Federation), EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), AC (Association for Coaching)
Business
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales:
Chartered Accountant and Fellow
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University of Strathclyde:
MEng - Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering
IMD Business School, Lausanne:
High-Performance Leadership
Advanced High-Performance Leadership
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INSEAD Singapore:
International Management in Asia Pacific
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