Overview
A jazz-playing former mathematician and management consultant, Daniel retrained as a psychologist and is now a leading business coach and trainer of coaches. A valuable sparring partner for individuals and teams facing particularly challenging tasks, he has long experience of the complexities and turbulence of global strategic change, and the simple but powerful structured interventions which leaders can deploy to navigate them. He uses an insightful, empowering and eclectic approach, with creativity, wry humour and rigour.
Coaching Examples
- Working with the Chairman and the CEO of MESA Region of Big 4 accounting firm as they devised and implemented a major change programme, which resulted in a more cohesive operation and dramatically improved performance
- In an influential UK charity, coached key leaders through the transition as the charity moved from start-up phase to maturity
- In a FTSE 100 company, coached the Finance Director of a major division to step fully into his new role: building presence and impact with senior colleagues, and better harnessing of his teams and individuals
- Created and delivered a series of engaging, innovative and practical coaching workshops for partners in a global law firm to help promote and embed a coaching culture
- Provided a series of group coaching events for the Executive Team of a major statutory corporation, together with individual coaching for the COO, to bring about cultural and behavioural change at both an organisational and individual level
Business Background
- As a Partner in the International Leadership Team of KPMG, Daniel worked with the Global Chairman on a number of key projects including the negotiations on a possible merger with Ernst & Young, strategy, and building the first ever International Executive Team
- As the first Secretary to that group, Daniel led a number of International Board projects including global practice remuneration and governance, and designing and delivering the global business planning framework
- Extensive experience leading and facilitating client service and project teams
- Originally trained with KPMG as an accountant specialising in computer audit and risk assessments
- Now also trains coaches to professional standard as a Faculty Member on the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme. Clients include FTSE 100 and 250 companies; private bankers; law firms great and small; global consultancy practices; entrepreneurs and charities
Qualifications
- BSc First Class Honours in Mathematics; MSc Computer Science, Imperial College
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Postgraduate psychology study: research on motivation
- The School of Coaching; Meyler Campbell Business Coach, accredited by WABC
- Inaugural US Positive Psychology Coaching Training with Martin Seligman
- Faculty member for Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme
- MBTI® and FIRO-B®; Mindfulness for Coaches; The Thinking Partnership® (Nancy Kline)
- British Psychological Society ¡V member of Special Group in Coaching Psychology
- Continuing professional development programmes, including coaching supervision
Other Information
Daniel has a great love of music and is a keen jazz trombonist. He has travelled round the world by bicycle, funding part of the trip by busking in Taiwan, and has run five London Marathons. A current project with his wife is the restoration of the garden and fabric of an old property – and he is the self-appointed manager of a ‘hedge fund’ (of the beech and hawthorn variety).