Alistair specialises in ‘coaching for high performance’. His clients are typically company directors, partners, civil servants and top talent from organizations in the retail, IT, central government, finance and legal sectors including: KPMG, McDonalds, Tesco, John Lewis, PC World, Sony, Deloitte, Barclays, Interflora, The National Leadership College, Lloyds of London, The Department for International Development, The Passport and Identity service, Oxfam, BP, Eversheds, Morgan Stanley, Transport for London, Cosmos, Hewitt, Fujitsu, CFS, Siemens, Britvic, Mercer, UBS, Oliver Wyman, Watson & Wyatt.

His current clients are working on their leadership style, building teams and accelerating performance, developing corporate cultures, resolving issues, leveraging opportunities, personal impact, efficiency and effectiveness, getting to the ‘next level’, impact in a new role, conflict and difficult relationships, achieving balance, self-confidence and empowerment.

His coaching style is behavioural and outcome focused. This means he creates a stimulating, client focused, action and results orientated space for the client to succeed in; he is positively challenging, incisive, light touch, fast moving; he works in ways tailored to the individual client’s needs and focused on them achieving their goals swiftly and easily.

Before qualifying as a coach Alistair ran one of the UK’s largest and most influential newspaper companies in the UK so his coaching approach is influenced by the leadership and life experiences associated with being at the helm of a large, fast moving and complex organisation, with responsibility for creating the best possible customer experience, inspiring talent, leading change and building sustainable profit. This sets him up to be an especially aware and attuned executive coach who can ask the penetrating question and provide a wide range of interventions tailored to the client need.

Alistair is, an accredited coach, certified NLP master practitioner, qualified to use MBTI and EQ-I tools, an Associate member of the International Coach Federation, executive performance coach, action learning group facilitator and key note speaker.

Alistair’s purpose in coaching is to help people succeed more easily, stay on top longer, and recover faster, so they achieve their immediate objectives swiftly, become more generally resourceful, future-proof their talent and build strategic advantage.