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Leadership Coaching

Leadership coaching gives you the opportunity to gain clarity and perspective; to reflect on what’s been happening for you and at the same time ensure you identify and work towards your goals, keeping your eyes on the future.

Leadership coaching will help you to learn and grow by improving your self awareness, your communication style and listening skills. A great leader has a growth mindset, is empathetic and can leverage strengths, theirs and those around them. 

Focus on ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’

David focuses on embodied leadership. In a world driven by complexity and speed, there are more demands on our time and energy. We can often feel overwhelmed and burnt out. We also disconnect from our inner knowing. Embodied leadership enables and inspires leaders to access whole body intelligence and develop the capacity to be centred and grounded – even in difficult circumstances.

Embodied leadership is about marrying the ‘doing’ and ‘being’ parts of us to:

  • Deepen our emotional intelligence
  • Inspire quality relationships, trust and motivation
  • Become part of a leadership team that demonstrates greater collaboration and cohesion
  • Know how to become fully present and aware
  • Know how to access our full embodied intelligence — head, heart, gut

Team Coaching

David offers leadership coaching for teams as well as individuals.
A team coaching engagement will often start with Ways of Working (WoW) workshop series. These are not like a typical workshop where there may be set content that is delivered. The workshops are fully customised and shaped completely from the diagnostics that stemmed from individual interviews with team members. This leads to further discovery as a team to identify areas of focus that the team agree are important to them to explore as a collective group.
David will often partner with another coach as having two team coaches combines strengths and ensures support to hold the space. Having two team coaches also allows us to model behaviours and ways of working together that demonstrate what good teamwork looks like. We demonstrate in the moment coaching with each other and with the team.
Our experience of delivering this kind of intervention has led us to appreciate that we need at least 6 sessions before the team begin to fully understand and appreciate the value and benefit of working together and how to effectively self-manage as a collective group.

A high-performing team is “a small group of people so committed to something larger than themselves that they will not be denied.”

Katzenbach and Smith

David supported me to clarify and integrate my personal values and to also identify and examine limiting beliefs and habits of thought. He customised content and questions, through a timely book, shared article or our direct conversation where David astutely enquired into many things I would have not have stopped to explore myself. Through reviewing some of the latest evidence-based research into leadership development, I refined my future direction and motivation as a leader. This increased personal clarity and vision, supported by regular coaching sessions, has significantly accelerated my professional and personal development this year. It has enabled me to take a new leadership role with more confidence and deliver at a higher level for the team and the wider business. The benefit outside of work has been even more pronounced. Having a knowledgeable and motivated guide, in who’s training and professional experience I can respect, has changed the pace at which I learn and realise the benefits in all parts of life.
Tom Hunt - Invest in better thinking
Tom Hunt - Invest in better thinkingProduct Marketing & Management - Innovation - Spark New Zealand
My recently completed coaching sessions with David have been a really enjoyable and challenging experience for me. David took the time to get to know me as a person as well as a professional in my role and this ensured we covered a wide range of topics during our times together. Setting my objectives up front ensured we maintained focus. Most of all, I have found this to be a real confidence booster thanks to David's approach and our detailed discussions.
Tim Morris - Professional and Personal Growth
Tim Morris - Professional and Personal GrowthHead of Aviation Operations - Christchurch Airport
David brings an incredible breadth of knowledge to the table both practical and academic. He is uniquely skilled at asking the key question at precisely the right time. This Socratic process (again backed by experience and academic knowledge) really opened some mental doors that helped me understand my own strengths/weaknesses/aspirations and how they influence my relationships. The unique combination of expertise, caring and kindness made for a really special growth experience for me, the fruits of which have been noted by others.
Dr Murray CotterMedical Executive Committee Chair, ADCS, USA
David, I have found our time together really valuable. I feel very strongly that this has been a good return on investment for the organisation. I really like your style. You are really personable, with a lovely approach. I felt very comfortable with you. You’ve provided me with the opportunity to think through some big challenges and come up with solutions, as well as to make significant progress on my career aspirations.
CEO, Health Sector
CEO, Health Sector
During 2018 I've been fortunate to work with David as part of a comprehensive senior leadership development program at Enable Networks. David was engaged to deliver 1:1 coaching on my individual development plan which had its foundations in 360 feedback and via a 6-month Emotional Intelligence program. I've found David to be extremely adept at helping me to ascertain the drivers for behaviours (self and others) and is a walking library of ideas, anecdotes, books and other resources to use to help reinforce development concepts.
Greg Rossiter
The greatest benefit is my coach helping me recognize my own authenticity in my leadership and articulating my leadership intent in a way that can be adapted to different leadership settings to include whom I am talking too and where (local, global) I am speaking. Coaching has assisted me in being far more intentional about my engagement both at a strategic and management perspective. I have recognized my strengths to continually showcase and further develop and I have also recognized areas that require improvement. Coaching has allowed me to ask effective questions within a boardroom setting. I have really appreciated David and his way of coaching. His honesty and direct constructive coaching allowed me to be ‘real’ with myself and ‘stop beating about the bush’.
RachelIndependent Director
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