“Giles’ unusually diverse sweep of experience, across commercial field archaeology, active military leadership, training, third-sector senior management and staff development added a truly transformational skillset to our executive team. Leading the traditionally conservative compliance business functions of Occupational Health and Safety, Quality, HR and Community Engagement, his people-centred approach provided our teams with the safe space to innovate and to develop compliance and digital communications capabilities which marked us out amongst our competitors and around which our organisation grew at an unprecedented rate. As a strategic thinker and implementer, Giles formulated policies founded on sound academic theory and professional practice and delivered change through consultation, creativity and collaboration. At a personal level, as CEO, I found Giles to be invaluable as a critical friend and an analytical problem solver. His leadership experience, positivity, innate understanding of people and formal coaching skills gave us the resilience to navigate both the darkest days of the pandemic and some of the most exciting growth opportunities our organisation has ever encountered. I would highly recommend Giles as an executive coach working one-to-one with senior staff or to work more widely across your organisation on the facilitation of strategy development and organisational design or the design and delivery of leadership and management development programmes.”
Chris Brayne, CEO Wessex Archaeology
“I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Giles early in my accountancy career for both professional and life coaching. Giles is an exceptional coach who helped me to develop a deeper understanding of my strengths and weaknesses and how to leverage them to achieve my goals. Giles created a safe and non-judgmental space where I could explore my goals and challenges, and he always asked the right questions to help me think about things more deeply and from different perspectives. Our sessions were hugely beneficial in helping me to develop my confidence, self-awareness, and a clearer perspective on my professional and personal aspirations. Even now, years later, I still find myself reflecting on the techniques that Giles taught me when I'm preparing for a presentation at work or pushing myself outside of my comfort zone. The skills and strategies that he helped me to develop have been invaluable in both my personal and professional life. I highly recommend Giles to anyone looking for guidance or support through coaching. He is passionate about helping others achieve their goals and has a natural talent for bringing out the best in people. Thank you, Giles, for all your help and support! ”
Sara Marsh, Senior Finance Analyst
“Giles is an exceptional coach. His willingness to share his own experiences and wisdom whilst listening closely is an invaluable quality. I was able to have an open and honest relationship with Giles which made our sessions productive. Giles helped to facilitate my thinking during the sessions by providing constructive feedback and challenge which has helped me to improve my thought process.”
Tina Mistry, MLRO, FAB
“Having been mentored by Giles during my final year of university, I cannot recommend him enough. He has been completely valuable in my understanding of the workplace, demystifying the transition process. He has a powerful way of communicating, adapting his approach according to what his mentee needs; is knowledgeable with first hand experience in a number of fields; and is encouraging of those he works with. But most importantly, he genuinely cares. A great mentor to have! ”
Megan Pope, Marketing Executive
“I ‘met’ Giles via Teams through the Nottingham University mentorship scheme. However, I am a little older than the average student! I went back to university after having a career break - not ‘time off’! - to raise my children. I had no idea what work I wanted, where to look or whether I’d be able to get an interview, let alone a job. I was seriously lacking confidence in my own ability after being out of paid employment for 10 years. Enter Giles. I cannot say enough good things. Giles listened to my rambling ideas. Likes, thoughts, dislikes. A complete verbal outpouring of all the work thoughts I’d kept to myself for so long. And he managed to organise them into a coherent summary - a place to start, to disentangle my thoughts and fears and took me on a journey to discover for myself firstly what kind of work I would like to do. He also challenged me (kindly) to explore what I didn’t want and to have the confidence to feel like I didn’t have to settle for the first thing that came along. Later he empowered me to look for jobs, completely revised how to present my CV and covering letter and even gave advice about individual applications. I now work as a product manager for Cancer Research UK and am really enjoying it. I can even say with confidence, I’m good at it! Thank you so much Giles. I’ve felt lost for quite some time and you’ve helped me so much. I’m back!”
Carolyn Burke, Project Manager
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