With 12 years working at the very top, Colin has a very broad range of leadership and situational experience and understands how to help with the significant challenges that face senior leaders as well as how to support them through the difficult decisions they face, often in the areas of human relations, health and wellbeing and ethically complex situations. He has always utilised coaching approaches as a CEO and senior leader, finding that they have always brought out the best in his team, empowering and developing them and increasing their own 'toolkit' to deal successfully with those tricky situations and then with increased autonomy in the future. Clients report (see Testimonial tab) that Colin provides a safe supportive space to discuss the issues that are facing them and find that his warm style, close attention to pertinent detail and empathy allow the full problem to be both identified and explored with solutions emergent from the process. Colin firmly believes in the potential of all people to learn from their experiences by reflecting on their situation to meet the challenges in front of them successfully and with real agency. His role is to listen. And then to use careful, powerful questions to help challenge his clients to understand their situation and decide on their best steps forward. Colin is very interested in language and pays close attention to the particular, and often revealing, words being used by the client. His practice draws on his organisational experience of leadership and as an Executive Coach he is sensitive to the coach/mentor balance and is clear about when mentoring should/should not be used. His coaching style uses a personal synthesis of several well-established models of executive coaching to challenge the thinking patterns of his clients. Colin is skilled in the use of a variety of coaching tools and techniques to help consider different viewpoints and unlock each individual client's next best steps. This approach provides a unique and flexible coaching framework to help develop clients’ thinking towards producing their optimum solutions and subsequently ensuring that their decisions are carried through.