skills to influence
Inspired Coaching & Team Facilitation
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About skills to influence
Inspired Coaching and Group Facilitation
Your skills and expertise have taken you a long way in your career, but now you need something more. For some reason, when you try to influence others to your way of thinking, they don't always listen or follow you. This can impact your performance when you speak at a conference, lead a team through change, or manage your own career progression. It's not enough to have the best ideas in the room. You need to cross the bridge from having skills to having influence.
Deep down you know that you can be more and achieve more in your life. There’s a voice inside challenging you to go further and faster down your chosen path – within your organisation, or in a completely different one - but to get there, you need to change something inside. You need to develop more confidence and clarity to connect at a deeper level.
The good news is that it’s never too late to change when something is important to you. It's a lot less daunting when you have someone else to support you. All it takes is a better process, a different mindset, and some practise.
We can work together to fulfil your potential, and it begins when you decide to make the transition from practising skills to practising influence. I’m here to help you get there, and I think you will find the process enjoyable and insightful. The journey starts here and I promise you it’s worth it.
Who am I?
My background is sales and marketing, working in the City for Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, both of which went through huge change and transformation during my time there.
I became deeply interested in the effect on people of all this change, starting with myself, and made the transition in 2003 to the world of leadership development and behavioural change. I became accredited in coaching by ICF to add to my practitioner status around personality profiling tools including Insights and MBTI.
I began to recognise that the most successful people - in their whole lives, not just at work - have something more than the sum of what they do. They know who they are and what they want, and they can connect with others with real authenticity and depth. Which brings me to the point of what I do: I help move people from having skills to having influence
Services
I work with individuals and teams who are ready for change and want to work with someone experienced who can move them to action
Individuals
What's holding you back from realising your true potential? When I coach you, my aim is to help you get unstuck and reclaim your clarity, creativity and sense of purpose.
I work best with people who are ready to change and want support to improve something important in their lives in and out of the workplace across a range of challenges that include:
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Overcoming stage fear and anxiety around conference speaking
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Mastering the skill of storytelling to influence others
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Contributing at meetings with greater power and presence
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Realising unfulfilled potential
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Reclaiming creativity and your true voice
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Conquering past fear and finding self-belief
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Getting a promotion
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Returning to work
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Changing careers
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Regaining confidence after a slump
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Dealing with imposter syndrome
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Finding your values, purpose, and inner fire
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Freeing yourself from incessant negative thinking
If it’s time to transform your work and life, I'm here to give you the tools you need in order to succeed. Ready to get started? It generally takes 3-6 sessions to make the changes you want, and there is no charge for a preliminary chat to ensure my approach is right for you, and to agree how we'll work together.
Send me a message and tell me what you want more of in your life and what that change would mean to you.
“When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.”
W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis
Teams
What's holding your team back from realising its full potential? I can help you and your team find a more enjoyable, more human and effective way to work together through change and drive performance.
It often starts with a day out of the office where you spend some time together exploring better ways to connect and trust one another. I collaborate with senior team leaders and heads of HR to design a programme that will resonate and move people to action. From there we can work together on individual and team performance.
I deliver workshops and longer-term programmes - often in collaboration with some great coaches and facilitation companies - across a wide variety of leadership, teamwork and communication challenges including:
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Presenting with confidence, authenticity and influence
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Vision and Values
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Realising and valuing one another's strengths
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Profiling personality team traits - including MBTI and Insights
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Collaboration - exploring new ways of working
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Trust, connection and team performance
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Innovation
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Purpose and meaning
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Mindfulness and being present in the moment
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Finding the team's narrative, identity and sense of belonging
I am based in London but free to work anywhere in the world, and I have worked extensively with senior teams in Europe and across a range of cultures including the Middle East and Far East.
Send me a message and tell me what you want to change about your team and we can start a conversation.
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."
Past Client Experiences
What People Say
Coaching me to get more clarity
“I often feel like a Rubik's cube with all the colours mixed up. After a coaching session with Ian, I get enough of the sides to be one colour so that I am able to focus and act strategically.
Close friends and family tell me I have changed - I seem more grounded and positive to them. I have a new calm, self-confidence and am able to listen more effectively. It feels great!”
