About
Background
I spent more than twenty years building and leading engineering teams in financial trading systems — environments where the cost of poor decision-making is immediate and visible, and where the gap between a good leader and a poor one is measured in real outcomes.
At firms including ION Group and Fidessa, I operated at senior levels across technical leadership, delivery, and organisational change. That experience gave me a direct understanding of what high performance actually looks like in practice — and what gets in its way.
The move into coaching was a deliberate one. I trained formally as an executive coach and brought the same rigour I applied to engineering problems to the discipline of developing people. I work with a small number of clients at any one time, by design.
How sessions work
Coaching sessions are structured around the GROW model — a disciplined framework that gives every conversation a direction and a purpose. GROW stands for Goal, Reality, Options, and Will: we establish what you are trying to achieve, examine the current situation honestly, explore what is possible, and commit to specific action.
The structure creates the conditions for genuine progress rather than conversation that feels useful in the room and evaporates afterwards.
Qualifications & experience
Professional Coaching Body
Neil is a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC), aligning his coaching practice with internationally recognised standards of ethics, supervision, and continuous professional development.
As an EMCC member, Neil commits to the Global Code of Ethics, ensuring a professional, transparent, and accountable coaching relationship.
If you would like to know more, the best place to start is a conversation.
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