COMPLETE COHERENCE - Key Persons
Alan has had a career as a people developer for more than 20 years, including coaching since 2004. He began as a trainer in a fast-paced call centre environment, developing his own and others' customer service skills. Alan moved to a public sector organisation for 7 years as part of the HR function. Whilst there he programme managed leadership development initiatives for the top 40 leaders and the wider management population.
Alan has since spent his career as a consultant partnering with many clients. He spent 5 years with a global HR solutions provider where he used behavioural profiling and feedback to develop clients. Alan joined Complete Coherence in 2012 where he has focused on building long-term client relationships and growing our team of practitioners.
Alan's coaching and facilitation experience covers a broad range of industries including financial services, retail, FMCG, professional services, pharmaceuticals, transport, engineering and the public sector.
Job Titles:
- Professional Coach
- Senior Practitioner
After graduating in languages, Alex started her career in national newspapers. Within two years, feeling the lure of wider horizons, she headed to INSEAD for her MBA, and from there built a career in marketing, strategy and innovation which took her round the world and across industries from consulting to media to banking. In a dramatic mid-career pivot, Alex left industry for the UK Government's Cabinet Office to lead a cross-government transformation programme, later joining a global consultancy to lead projects for government clients across Whitehall and beyond.
Today she combines coaching and consulting to work with ambitious organisations and people who want to make a positive impact in the world. Trained in the behavioural sciences, neuroscience of change, and positive psychology alongside coaching, she brings all of this to her work in service of her clients.
Alex is a professional coach, trained by the globally renowned Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), accredited as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and as a practitioner in The Leadership Circle™ Profile. She has an MBA from INSEAD, 1st class degree from Bristol University and is a longstanding Fellow of the RSA.
Qualifications //
Alex has worked across sectors, at board level and in large multi-national corporate contexts, in a range of roles from strategy and innovation to business development. So she understands and has lived the inherent challenges of business and leadership. Alongside this, she brings huge empathy and heart to her coaching work, as well as playfulness and challenge, thereby creating the safe and courageous conditions that underpin the most powerful personal and professional growth.
Alex works one-to-one with ambitious executives and leaders who want to be challenged to get more out of life and truly transform themselves, their work and their communities. A veteran of workshop design and facilitation, she loves to bring tried and tested approaches to clients.
Bevan's lifelong passion for personal development germinated professionally when he designed and managed an integrative wellbeing platform for a large corporate finance client. A writer by trade, Bevan spent the next seven years running his own content creation agency with a personal focus on research and creative projects in executive development.
When a major life event presented him with a powerful opportunity to ‘wake up', Bevan realised he could no longer ignore the call to serve the evolution of the people and systems around him. Since then, he has worked as coach and facilitator for corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and their teams.
Bevan's coaching style is defined by sincerity, compassion and presence. He creates robust, psychologically-safe environments for clients to explore and experience the change they seek. He takes a direct but empathic approach, being willing to challenge clients and offer insight, while always ensuring they feel continuously supported in their development. He likes to bring humour and levity into the coaching journey and is a big believer in walking the walk, committed always to embodying the level of change clients are invited to experience in their own lives.
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Bevan is an ICF accredited coach and is certified as an Integral Professional Coach through Integral Coaching Canada. He is trained in Time to Think facilitation and has completed multiple programmes in integral theory and development. He holds a BCom in Law and Economics.
Gestur has worked with pop artists, business leaders, international soccer players, injured sportspeople, ministers and many more. Many of whom have chosen to stick with him for years.
Bevan has coached senior leaders and led vertical team development initiatives in multiple geographies and industries, including pharmaceuticals, FMCG, transport and logistics.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and CEO of the Centre for High Performance Development
- Senior Practitioner
During her long career Chris has experienced leadership from many perspectives. Her early career in financial services saw her become the youngest women to reach senior management in a global bank which also established her reputation for developing women in leadership. As an entrepreneur, she set up and grew her own business to over 200 people steering it through a series of mergers and acquisitions until its final acquisition by IBM.
She now devotes her time and experience to helping other leaders rise to the unprecedented challenges we face today and to achieve their own dreams.
As the co-founder and CEO of the Centre for High Performance Development, Chris achieved a listing in the Sunday Times top 100 best small companies achieving several number one rankings for her inspirational leadership.
Claire has worked in the UK and internationally as an executive coach, supervisor and development consultant. Prior to joining Complete, Claire led the coaching and leadership development agenda at Deloitte. Initiatives were focused around C-suite succession and transition, executive team development and development journeys for those leading leaders across the business.
Committed to the coaching profession, Claire currently serves as a Governor Member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC). She is also part of the supervision team for Henley Business Schools Professional Certificate in Coaching Supervision.
Claire is a transformational coach who combines her experience and expertise in C-suite roles with an elite athlete background. She has held several executive positions including Chief Operating Officer at UNICEF UK and Chief People Officer at Save the Children International. Prior to this she spent over ten years at Unilever in global and national HR Director roles as part of the leadership team for different businesses leading people and organisation strategy and delivery. In her sports career Claire competed for Great Britain for several years as a white-water slalom canoeist.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Senior Practitioner
Daryl is an executive coach and organisation consultant with over 20 years of experience helping individuals, teams and organisations learn to become more thoughtful and deliberate about their work. His experience includes working with CEOs, senior managers, and boards of organisations in industry sectors as varied as Finance, Legal, Pharmaceuticals, Mining and Public Health.
Job Titles:
- Engineer
- Business Leader
- Senior Practitioner
Dave is a highly experienced, senior supply chain executive who has recently transitioned into a new role in leadership development and coaching.
Dave trained as an engineer and worked for Unilever for more than 30 years in a wide range of manufacturing and supply chain leadership roles. His last role with Unilever was Executive Vice President for Supply Chain for the South East Asia and Australasia Region, a 7.5bn Euro business. Dave has led and participated in Company Boards, Joint Venture Boards, Global and Regional Executive Leadership Teams, with responsibilities covering global strategy, local operations, pioneering new technologies and capabilities, building new factories and running multi country business transformation programmes. Dave has lived and worked in UK, Singapore, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Dave has over 30 years of experience as a leader, coach and mentor, mostly in line management roles and more recently as a professional coach and facilitator.
As a business leader Dave delivers results through people. He is very inclusive, brings the best out of people and works very effectively with people from all backgrounds.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Senior Practitioner
Debbie is a qualified executive coach with a specialism in ego maturity. She has been trained by Pacific Integral in the model underpinning the Complete Maturity Profile. She is a certified Systemic Team Coach and holds a range of project management qualifications in addition to a BA Hons in English Literature.
Debbie has developed her career in the public and not-for-profit sector including a range of Director roles in Strategy and Transformation within Social Housing and NHS organisations and most recently as a Director of an innovative crowd-sourcing business.
Debbie has led wide ranging transformation portfolios and programmes, led on organisational design and development, building lasting capabilities for change and improvement.
Matt started working in mainstream education in 2009 after 25 years with a Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) charity and is now CEO of Pathways Education. He has also completed his doctorate on self-determination theory in education.
Matt created Meaningful Mastery, a project-based learning curriculum for the 21 st Century, which is showing incredible results across all aspects of school data. He also lectures on a number of leadership Masters courses and is the Director of the National College of Education's MBA programme.
Matt is driven to define best practice in education for the 21st century. He draws on the development of the self and systems, as well as conscious leadership to create that best practice.
With Complete, Matt's passion is to unlock the capacity of others in education. His vision is for EQ to receive equal recognition to IQ in education.
Matt specialises in developing leaders and teams in education. He believes that development is the missing piece to the education picture and that increasing the capacity of leaders and learners alike can allow leaps of progress and innovation to occur in the whole community.
With over 8 million views, Alan is well known for his TEDx lectures.
Alan's purpose is as clear as it is ambitious. When you know that Alan trained and worked as a physician and a neuroscientist for many years you can understand the source of his passion. However, Alan left medical practice 25 years ago to try and reduce human suffering on a large scale than he was able to do though individual patient interactions.
He decided to work with large multi-national organisations employing thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. He recognised that while corporations can be a force for good in the world when leadership goes wrong they can also be a source of great suffering. People's livelihoods are impacted as well as their mental and emotional wellbeing. When leaders make poor decisions people suffer.
Alan believes that every single person can become a better, more complete and effective human being. And leaders who are better human beings make more compassionate, inclusive and wiser decisions that can improve the lives of thousands of individual employees. This can affect an organisation's supply chains and if we include all the families of those employees and supply chains we're talking about reducing the suffering in millions of people's lives.
Every day Alan and the Complete team are helping leaders in corporations all over the world as well as working with educators in schools, elite athletes and their coaches and politicians from right across the political spectrum.
Alan is a coach and confidant to many global leaders. He integrates a deep understanding of human development with his passion for human consciousness, emotional wellbeing, neurophysiology and applies it to a wide variety of organisational contexts with a range of clients.
Alan is recognised as a global thought leader on human performance, complexity and wellbeing. His five TEDx talks have been seen by over seven million people and he is an inspirational keynote speaker.
A physician and neuroscientist, Dr. Alan Watkins is recognised as an international expert on leadership and human performance. He has coached thousands of individuals to greater levels of performance and transformed organisational cultures.
Emma started her career as a marketing account director in a fast-paced print media firm and witnessed first-hand the impact stress can have on wellbeing in the workplace. She realised a passion in this area and pivoted careers to become a Chartered Psychologist. Emma completed her doctoral thesis on Compassion in the NHS and interviewed NHS nurses and patients to understand the dynamics of care and what helps nurses to excel in the workplace.
Over the years she has worked with many clients supporting them to make positive changes in their lives, for example overcoming stress and anxiety. Emma is also a qualified yoga teacher and is passionate about the link between mind and body and supporting people to think about their mental and physical wellbeing holistically.
During her time working in the City of London (Bank) her work evolved to include many professional executives who have used her approach to enhance their personal growth as well as their professional development and leadership skills. Read more Read bio
Job Titles:
- Coach from the University of Reykjavik
Gestur is a qualified coach from the University of Reykjavik coaching program which is certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) where he is also a member. Gestur has a diploma in group and team coaching from the same university. He has worked on implementing the Icelandic Equal Pay Management Standard within the public sector, built and successfully implemented various strategies, cultural and team transformations and commercial successes. He is considered one of the top coaches in Iceland.
Helga has a background in business, leadership and marketing both in big organisations and smaller startups. She was a Marketing manager for the biggest telecommunication company in Iceland and prior to that she was a CEO for an event and music production company. She also has experience as a consultant and Project manager.
Her constant love of learning keeps bringing her to new places and challenges and she decided to study Positive Psychology and that led her to study Executive coaching where her main focus is today.
Helga is energetic and passionate. She creates a safe and supportive environment where she helps people unlock their potential and maximize their performance. She has a passion for supporting people to thrive in all aspects of life.
Katie is a highly experienced practitioner, equally comfortable exec coaching, guiding teams or hosting international conferences. Twelve years working as a journalist and TV news presenter for the BBC, ITN, Channel 5 News and TVB in Hong Kong followed by nine years of running her own communications business, Katie now uses her skills in the business sector to help leaders shift from ‘turning up' to ‘showing up'. She enables individuals to both increase their capabilities and capacity using practical tools to deliver desired results.
Katie coaches senior leaders in multiple markets and geographies. For the last 10 years, she has worked extensively with leaders and innovators in media and technology sectors helping them to unlock their potential and deliver results despite the pressure they face.
"If you want to perform at your best you need to know how to make this happen. Fortunately for me I met Alan Watkins."
Job Titles:
- Business Leader
- Senior Practitioner
Nick has recently transitioned to leadership consulting having been EVP HR at Unilever, having had day to day responsibility for Unilever's HR partnering globally.
As a business leader Nick delivers results through people. He is an incisive thinker and brilliant people strategist. He works very effectively with people from all backgrounds and is able to take groups in conflict and turn them into creative teams that can drive growth and innovation. As a consultant and facilitator Nick likes to listen and to ask very precise and powerful questions to help reveal an way forward for teams, individual leaders and entire organisations. He does this with incredible good humour and a wealth of experience that makes being on the end of Nick's questions is a highly enjoyable experience.
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Nick has a BA in Politics and Economics from Newcastle University.
Nick has over 35 years of experience as a leader, coach and mentor, mostly in line management roles and more recently as inspirational global key note speaker on change and the future of work.
Nick has had a very successful career which includes delivery of some incredible transformations in organisational culture and HR practice. He is now an advocate for "Paradox HR", the 6th great wave of leadership and people management.
Peter started his professional life in London as a Chartered Surveyor, specialising in commercial real estate investment and development. He quickly rose to the C-suite, eventually becoming the CEO of a FTSE 250 property company in his late 30s. Appointed CEO in the midst of the global financial crisis, Peter is very experienced at having to manage challenging business environments.
Building on his commercial experience and drawn by his passion for people development and helping others overcome their challenges, Peter focused on becoming a professional coach in 2012.
Peter has worked with hundreds of executive professionals and used his approach to significantly increase leader's and team's vertical development. He has over 20 years of business leadership experience.
"After working with Alan and his team I see the progress we've made every day. The dynamics of our team are great. I feel very proud of what we've achieved, and the change is cascading throughout the business to our millions of customers."
Rachel's road to leadership and team development began on retiring from the Great British Rowing Team in the late 1990s. During her time in the team she experienced the taste of high performance as part of a several crews, medalling at two world championships.
Ralph started his career at Selfridges helping the business to adopt new technology so that it could better manage the one million products they sold.
That lead to a career as a change consultant and in 2002 Ralph founded a Change Management Consultancy helping clients such as Tesco, Universal Music, Burberry and Vodafone transform their supply chains and their customer experience.
Ralph leads a portfolio of digital products that enable leadership development, change and transformation at scale, through Complete's web, mobile and assessment technology to empower people in their own development.
Ralph has mastered the art of leading clients through the toughest transition of turning strategy into delivery. He can enable teams to accelerate through designing the approach whilst keeping to the point of delivering through all the internal processes to customers.
Sarah is a co-founder of Complete and has been involved in the development of the business over the last 15 years. Her focus is directed internally as she oversees many of the financial and business support aspects of the company. Sarah has a medical background which gives her a unique understanding of the content, products and tools we use. This enables her to offer a depth of experience and guidance to our team to in turn ensure the best possible solutions for our clients.
Shaun started his career as an apprentice in manufacturing and over a career of more than 25 years he progressed as a manager into senior leadership roles. He led teams bidding for and delivering major infrastructure projects with significant technical complexity and high profile customers. From this business experience he understands the challenges of operating at executive board level in a global matrixed business.
Shaun has been coaching since 2016 in the private and public sectors, initially as part of his leadership repertoire and now as an independent executive coach.
Shaun likes to create the space for his clients to self-discover, so that they raise their own awareness. His style is non-directive, whilst also being challenging so that clients can achieve their potential.
Job Titles:
- Head of RBU UK / Ireland / Africa at the Linde Group Wanted to Enhance the Performance of Her Senior Leadership Team
Sue Graham Johnston, Head of RBU UK/Ireland/Africa at the Linde Group wanted to enhance the performance of her senior leadership team.