What clients say

I started coaching with Ollie just as I was taking on larger accountability and a seat at a well established senior leadership table.

Ollie helped strengthen my existing skills and supported me through a journey of growth, giving me a real voice with my peers, driving and improving goals as a team and meeting our overall strategy.

Ollie has been my professional confidante allowing me to open up and really explore key decisions in my role.

As our relationship has deepened, Ollie has increasingly become a mentor which continues to build my potential to grow and I couldn’t recommend him more.

I've worked with Ollie during a period of significant growth and change within the business, and I've found his support extremely valuable.

What I appreciate most is his ability to combine challenge with support. He doesn't tell you what to do or offer easy answers. Instead, he asks the right questions, helps you look at situations from different perspectives, and creates the space to think more clearly about the decisions that matter.

As a business leader, it's easy to become consumed by day-to-day operational issues. Our conversations have helped me step back, focus on the bigger picture, and approach challenges with greater clarity and perspective. I've found myself making better decisions, communicating more effectively, and being more deliberate about where I spend my time and energy.

Ollie is an excellent sounding board. He brings enough challenge to stretch your thinking while creating an environment where you can talk openly about the realities of leadership.

I'd recommend Ollie to anyone in a senior leadership role who wants an intelligent sounding board, practical challenge, and support in working through difficult decisions and situations.

Ollie started coaching me as I entered a new role that was daunting (new industry, step up to c suite etc). He gave me incredible support over a six month period - helping me build my confidence, understand areas of focus, supporting me to approach difficult conversations with colleagues. I really value the structured approach he brought to our sessions, always leaving me thoughtful but also equipped to tackle the issue at hand. He is experienced, kind, thoughtful and insightful. 

I have also worked with Ollie with an Exec team who were going through significant change and he was able to successfully navigate some tricky politics and behaviours, to bring clarity and direction to them, with a particular ability to hold the leader to account. I couldn’t rate Ollie more highly as an individual coach and team coach

Ollie has bags of experience as an Executive, understands the challenges we face and is incredibly personable.  He uses these three key attributes along with a number of other positive qualities throughout his coaching, providing practical advice and support no matter, it seems, what subject is thrown at him.  An hour working something through with Ollie is time well spent.  

“Ollie’s style is relaxed, humorous and supportive which enables him to ask the probing questions that make you stop and challenge yourself in a way that doesn’t make you feel uneasy or awkward. 

I felt he listened intently in a truly non-judgemental way.

I’ve really enjoyed our sessions and I'm now more reflective, cognisant and structured in the way that I’m preparing the next stages of my development and the potential changes that I want to make in the business”.

“Ollie has an incredible knack of combining mentorship and coaching in a way I’ve never experienced and has a real talent for listening and getting to the core of issues I had previously run away from. 

Ollie made all the coaching sessions about me and his drawing on an incredible wealth of personal senior management experience was both credible and useful in helping me develop myself and my career plan to reach my goals in life (not just work). 

I’ll continue to work with Ollie as a great soundboard for reflection and a great support in my life pursuits”.  

“Ollie's coaching helped me reflect hard about my drivers, skills and areas of development but most importantly, what I really wanted / needed from a new job. 

This was done in a constructive, open way which suited my needs. 

In fact, the conclusion was perhaps not what I expected at the start but illustrated clearly the benefit of working with Ollie”. 

"I was unclear on my future career direction and through Ollie's coaching techniques I've now established what my drivers are and what I value and enjoy from work. Ollie created a safe, supportive but challenging environment to help me gain clarity on my thoughts and an action plan for my future career direction". 

“Ollie, I love the way you use humour to uncover what’s really going on. You have a clarity of thought that helps me work through the outer edges of my thinking and you hold me to account when I’m at risk of sidling off! 

You’re also kind and thoughtful when needed and I feel very safe when I’m exploring tougher stuff - and confident I’ll move forward”.

Ollie's trademark is a disarming blend of humour and directness that cuts through the crap and allows you to step out of your self-sabotage and drama and into a better version of yourself. 

He's the coach I would have wanted when I worked in the corporate world because he has that experience in spades. He knows his way around that environment, he gets it AND he's also a fantastic coach. 

If you're stepping up into a more senior role and you want the support of a top-notch coach, then I highly recommend Ollie.

“Having recently started a new role in a large public sector body, I'm finding that the soft skills and emotional intelligence that Ollie helped me build on are paying dividends in setting out my new working relationships on the right footing. 

I have also found a much better work-life balance through Ollie's encouragement to look at what is important to me in the new role I sought out”.

Ollie is a fantastic coach. He has the uncanny knack of making you see what is before your very eyes, despite you previously being blind to it. All is done in a relaxing, trusting environment with a degree of humour where appropriate. 

You leave each session feeling better, walking taller and thinking positively. I can’t recommend Ollie highly enough.

“I have found Ollie’s coaching an amazing experience and it has helped me immensely. Ollie’s style of coaching is relaxed and engaging where a relaxed environment allows free conversation and honesty to ‘flow’. 

Coaching helped me disassemble quite complex work and family issues and enabled me to rationalise the changes needed to solve these. 

Ollie’s coaching has given me perspective, positive action plans and helped me simplify ways of solving worries in my work and family life”.

Ollie has an incredible ability through his listening and coaching skills to sign post in order to help navigate through issues to get to the end goal.

Ollie enabled me to view emotional issues from a rational perspective to develop the most positive outcomes. I feel that through his coaching, he has enabled me to continuously assess my progress against my career objectives and make informed decisions to shape my future.