THE COACHING COMPANY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director, Human Resources
"Steve's invaluable coaching partnership helped contribute to transformational change at Elsevier. Steve helped high-performing individuals accelerate their progress by aligning their goals with what is personally meaningful to them. Intuitive and highly pragmatic, Steve encouraged greater collaboration, responsibility, and accountability across teams during a time of immense organizational change. Steve's energy and enthusiasm make him very easy to open up to and wonderful to work with. He brings about a clarity of purpose in individuals and teams that yield powerful results. I highly recommend Steve to any group or individual wanting to increase motivation, build capacities, and reach their fullest potential. The strategies and skills I gained by working with Steve continue to inspire, motivate, and influence my daily work."
"I have participated in and even facilitated several coaching courses and none have permeated the true meaning and benefit of coaching quite like The Coaching Company course. I love that the structure is such that you are coached through the coaching course and all lessons are cemented quickly because they are taught through the lens of your real life working day, enabling you to put them into practice (and see the benefits) immediately.
"I find Steve to be an engaging, inspiring and approachable coach who role models perfectly what a great coach does - builds rapport and asks really great questions. A 60 minute coaching session with Steve helped me shift a professional blocker I had faced all of my career!
"As someone whose professional career relies heavily on being a strong coach - and potentially successful home life too with three children and a husband! - The Coaching Company course has been invaluable to help me drive my coaching ability to the next level. Thank you Steve!"
Job Titles:
- HR Director, Employee Relations Specialist, Managing Director, Non - Executive Director and Chairman
"Steve and I met over 10 years ago as the result of a chance encounter on a train and on the two-hour journey discovered the alignment of our interests, Steve as a highly experienced Coach and myself as a Human Resources specialist. Since that chance meeting Steve and I have worked together and with my employers on a number of occasions, most recently Steve led a coaching programme at the Cumbrian nuclear facilities of Sellafield Limited.
"Steve's focus is performance coaching. He is a coaching specialist, with 25 years of coaching experience across a range of business sectors as well as in elite sport. Steve has the advantage of taking up coaching at the beginning of the development of coaching as it is now understood and as it was being developed by Timothy Gallwey, Sir John Whitmore and others. But Steve has continued to develop and evolve the techniques and thinking and along with his clients has developed his approach to one tailored to what it is today. To that end, and during the pandemic of the last year, Steve has continued coaching using technology to support his clients when face-to-face meetings are not available.
"Steve's background before coaching (during his earlier career) is in senior leadership roles in the corporate world and it on this that he has built his approach to coaching and from which he develops his understanding of the needs of clients, individuals and teams. His specialist niche is one-to-one leadership coaching, high performance team coaching and developing leaders as coaches along with coaching for performance in sport. All these elements of coaching contributing towards an embedded coaching style within a team."
Job Titles:
- Business Transformation & Prestige Brand Growth
"I first "discovered" Steve nearly 10 years ago, when he was highly recommended to me by one of the largest beauty corporates as The Expert on leadership coaching and performance enhancement. Since then, Steve has consistently been my ‘go-to', across the businesses I have helped run. Without exception, his impact has been very significant, coaching leaders and teams to maximize their personal and team performance by giving them toolkits to harness their strengths and unlock the potential that they already have! It sounds simple, and of course, it isn't - but Steve's style and very personalised engagement has successfully and measurably delivered on every occasion. One of the key reasons is his full immersion and commitment to understand the needs of clients and individuals. Whether a tailor-made company-wide programme, management team option, one-to-one leadership coaching - either faceto- face or virtual - or a combination of all, the results are truly impressive and very visible.
"As we emerge from COVID, I can foresee that Steve's model for developing leadership potential is even more relevant. Having also used technology to facilitate and support over the last challenging months, he can also offer a full menu of options including e learning programmes. If necessity is the mother of invention, then re-invention for companies and individuals will be critical in the coming months. And it will only be successful with the right mindset and approach to leadership capabilities deeply embedded in the cultures of the companies and habits of the individuals. Not just for business performance but also to coach and inspire individuals to become the best version of themselves, both at work and in life."
Job Titles:
- Performance Coach
- Performance Improvement Specialist
Steve forms a strong rapport with people and his enthusiastic, straightforward approach, coupled with highly participative and practical work, fuels belief and inspiration amongst the people he works with. Simplicity and quality runs through everything he does.
Steve Harrison is a performance coach, an early pioneer in business and leadership coaching who has constantly adapted to changing circumstances and client's needs. He has ensured that his work has evolved to reflect the current digital era, whilst staying true to his core belief. Influenced by his involvement in elite level sport, Steve's brand of coaching is about performance improvement.
He forms a pillar of support, creating challenge and inspiration which becomes the catalyst for positive change in leaders of today and the future.
Steve's qualifications include an MSc in Coaching & Development, he is a Master Practitioner NLP and Sport Psychology. He is also a member of the EMCC (European Mentoring & Coaching Council) and has been an invited facilitator with the prestigious Windsor Leadership Trust for the past six years. For Steve though, his most significant qualification is his breadth of experience, something that does not go unnoticed by his clients.