Connect Coaches

Sample Biographies of some of Connect's Executive Coaches

Malcolm Arin-Strutt BA (Hons) MA MCIPD C.Psychol An accredited executive coach with APECS and also a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 30 years experience in enabling individuals and groups to manage change, both as a trainer and a consultant. Coming from a technical background in the BBC, Charity Operations management and MD of a multiple retail health business, for the past 18 years, his professional portfolio has included performance coaching and stress management for blue chip company directors and Local Authority executives; the application of psychometric instrumentation in the selection of senior staff for major institutions, and the development of management teams in multi-national and start-up operations. His key strength is in enabling individuals to clarify their direction and manage internal change to effect external performance improvements.

Gail Brown FCIPD FIBC CMC Gail is an experienced and qualified management consultant and trainer with over 10 years experience as an executive coach. She has coached Managing Directors, Finance Directors and senior and middle managers in sales, operations, quality, product development, IT, retail, recruitment, property management and leisure. She has run an HR consultancy and training company for 15 years and now specialises in leadership development and people performance. She has proven expertise in Strategic Development and Planning, Change Management, Job Evaluation, Design and Delivery of Management Development Training courses, Investors in People, Career & Redundancy Counselling, Performance Management. Her soft skills training is informative and highly interactive incorporating traditional, neuro-linguistic programming and accelerated learning techniques. She is sensitive to people and situations and adopts the best tools and techniques to effect positive change.

John Bates FCIH An experienced director and executive coach, John has an outstanding track record in his specialised fields of executive & career coaching. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing, he is a qualified trainer and accredited coach as well as Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development and holds a practitioner Certificate in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). John undertook his Career Practitioner's training with two of the foremost international career specialists: Windmills Programme, Liverpool University and Work Life, Australia. He is a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council. John has developed a range of skills designed to improve individual and team performance within the context of coaching and action learning skills. In the UK he is one of a limited number of practitioners accredited by Hay Management as a coach in emotional intelligence

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