Guiding you towards sustained success.
My coaching is based on the wisdom acquired through a life-long curiosity in human behaviour and personal experience, my own and many others'. It cuts through self-delusion and self-doubt to help you build a grounded, honest picture of who you are: how you feel, think and behave, your real strengths and limitations.
“Knowing who you really are is at the heart of every good decision.”
Forty years, then a discovery
The most important quality for sustained success is genuine self-awareness.
During more than forty years working across the world, followed by four years of Leadership Coaching at the London Business School (2021–2025), I realised that the quality that matters most is not the obvious one.
Not ambition, drive or confidence, important though they are, but true knowledge of yourself, and of how others actually experience you.
My Background
My lengthy corporate career enabled me to live and work in London, Continental and Eastern Europe, the United States, Turkey and the Middle East. Now my coaching practice is based in London and reaches across the world, from Geneva to Sydney, from Shanghai to Istanbul.
I am a graduate of Oxford University, a Harmsworth Scholar of the Middle Temple, Founder and Director of the Relaxation for Living Institute (2008–11) and a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme, accredited by the World Association of Business Coaching.
I write articles for journals and magazines on dealing with stress-related anxiety, I deliver a lecture called Pressure Points at the London Business School and elsewhere, and in 2018 I published privately an anthology entitled Plenty of Grapes, followed by Yet More Grapes in 2025.
How I work
A structured 1:1 journey through external and internal awareness, the masks we wear, the biases we hold, and the change that follows from seeing clearly.
Explore the programme → 02 Pressure PointsRecognising and dealing with the anxiety and consequences of stressful, fast-forward lives, drawn from a method I learned, and lived, myself.
Read more → 03 JournalOn wisdom, and the origins of the words we use so easily: kindness, anxiety, humility, character. Reflections worth thinking about.
Read the journal →In their words
“He is a remarkably wise and careful listener. By asking thought-provoking questions, he encouraged deep reflection and helped me view situations from entirely different angles. Most importantly, our work together has left me considering leadership, and what it personally means to me, in a completely new light.”
Independent Education Head
From the journal
Wisdom is at the heart of my self-awareness coaching: helping people see themselves, and their circumstances, more clearly. It is drawn less from cleverness than from fifty years' experience across many countries and cultures, a deep curiosity about people, and the wish to be of use.
Read the full reflection
“Perhaps the wise are simply able to help others see more clearly what is already in front of them.”
wisdom · from *weid‑, “to see” → to know → to understand → to discern and judge rightly.
