Testimonials.

David very quickly recognised how to adapt and align his coaching approach to bring out the best in me, raise my awareness and help me strongly develop my leadership brand, resilience and helped me manage challenging work situations. I refer to David's guidance on an almost daily basis; he has been fantastic as a coach and I would really recommend him.

— CW, Senior Consultant

David positively challenged me to think strategically about my new role and about my career and personal aspirations for 2020. David is an excellent coach and is able to ask incisive questions when needed. His supportive, challenging and knowledgeable approach has enabled me to develop a much more aspirational and empowering plan. I thoroughly recommend David to anyone undergoing a transition and developing related goals and plans.

— JC, Legal Operations

David's support has transformed my thinking around my career and life aspirations, during a period of significant personal change and reflection. 
David has sensitively asked challenging and incisive questions about who I am, how I see myself, and what I want to achieve from life. He has worked with me to develop much greater clarity about my values and who I want to be in the future. Together, we have collaboratively develop a number of plans and approaches to take me forward towards my goals. With David's support, I am now achieving those goals and taking my life in a new direction.
David is a great, knowledgeable coach who creates a safe, supportive environment for his clients. I recommend David to anyone who wants to significantly transition their career and life towards a new adventure!

— HT, role and life transition

David has worked with me as a coaching supervisor and has been enormously helpful in supporting me to develop as a coach. Thanks to him I have gained greater clarity into who I am as a coach and how I can improve my coaching practise. He provides me with deep insights into different styles and approaches which can be used in my coaching sessions. When I present him with challenges from my clients he integrates constructive challenge to build my perspective-taking capability so that I can gain deeper insight into my clients' situations, and their motivations. David always focuses on developing my strengths and uses an evidence-based, goal-focused approach. Especially as an emerging coach it is immensely helpful for me that David brings more than 8 years of coaching experience. With his support I feel confident to deal with even the most challenging client situations. David is a fantastic coaching supervisor and I would absolutely recommend him to other coaches!

— HH, Coach

This has been my first experience with professional career coaching and found it to be more personal than I had imagined.  Each session, David created an open, informal environment in which I felt comfortable conversing.  Apart from being a genuinely kind person, David is expert in facilitating the conversation, knowing when to jump in and lead and when to let me sit back and think about what had been said.  The environment David cultivated enabled me to be honest and open about my career goals and ambitions, resulting in productive and effective coaching sessions.
David is a very effective elucidator.  Coming into each session, I would usually throw out a jumble of thoughts, solutions, tangents, and hypothesis.  David had an amazing way of listening to everything I said and summarising it in a way that both captured all aspects of what we had discussed and condensed it into a clear, manageable path forward.  David made sure to challenge my perception by asking questions that were, at times, difficult to answer; but in doing so, made me think about why I responded in such a way to a situation.  I have tried to apply David's strategy myself in everyday life by objectively analysing my professional responses and decisions.
Importantly, I trust David's advice due to his wealth of real-life commercial knowledge and experience.  David has worked all over the globe in corporate leadership positions.  As a result, he brings an abundance of commercial expertise to each session.  Knowing that David has experienced the issues we are discussing first-hand makes me trust in his mentorship and advice wholeheartedly.  The fact that David has lived it makes him not only a stellar career coach, but an invaluable mentor and advisee for someone like me at the beginning of her career in the corporate world.

— KM, lawyer and emerging leader