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Specialising in helping senior managers step up into strategic roles, navigate organisational politics, influence with integrity and manage their key stakeholders and strategy. David turns ideas into action.

Pragmatic, focused, targeted, timely and cost effective. Delivering lasting change and developing leadership capability in turbulent, uncertain business environments, through an authentic, honest and challenging approach. Bringing clarity, awareness of self, and impact on others. A catalyst, breaking unhelpful patterns, inspiring new approaches and delivering a measurable return on investment.

With 25 years experience in industry, David has held senior Operational, HR and General Management roles, driving major change programmes in turbulent environments. His breadth of experience affords him a deep understanding of the difficult issues facing leaders in organisations today.

In coaching senior leaders, teams and boards, he specialises in personal power and politics, developing political intelligence and managing key stakeholder relationships. He finds politics are an inescapable feature of organisations and business today and whether it is to manage your own career, to negotiate the resources you need, or to influence key stakeholders, winners demonstrate political intelligence and influence with integrity.

It is not enough in today’s world of work to just do a good job. Doing a good job and being good technically gets us the job but being poor at influencing and managing politics loses it.

He offers short, focused, cost-effective, leadership coaching, mentoring and training.

• to be more influential, assertive and effective.
• to understand and motivate your stakeholders and get the best out of them.
• to develop your ‘ how to …', rather than learn more concepts and theories.

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