Our People:   Director Level Coaches

Here are the people from our team who specialise in the field of Director Coaching.

Andy Gannon: International Coach Federation Certified Executive Director Coach

Andy has managed a number of international businesses and teams, both in his executive leadership roles during a distinguished 19-year career within Hewlett Packard, and since.

Over the last decade alone, Andy has managed businesses ranging from 10 employees to thousands, and with turnovers from £1.5 million to £1.5 billion.

He has a reputation as a talented change manager and organisational designer, and has led several breakthrough projects leading to the repositioning of entire businesses – and resulting in significant improvements in their growth and profitability.

Over the last five years he has also adopted a number of Directorships both Executive and Non-Executive, complemented by pro-bono work in the charity and not-for–profit sector along with advisory, mentoring and coaching roles. His roles have included Group CEO of a fast growing Aim listed plc, Non-Exec Chairman of a consulting business and Chairman of a charity – The Talent Foundation.

Building on his consulting and mentoring track record, Andy has been operating as a coach for some five years, working with main board level executives from predominantly FTSE-100 and FTSE-250 clients across all disciplines and markets. Member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Paul Fleming:  Director Coach

Paul works with a wide variety of clients in listed and privately-owned businesses, large corporates and SMEs

In the last 13 years as MD, CEO & President, Paul has successfully executed three business turnarounds for Delphi Automotive, Europcar Car Rental & Volkswagen do Brasil.  At Britax Childcare, Paul was part of the MBO team who sold the business from RBS Equity Finance to the Carlyle Group

Paul is dedicated to business excellence and motivated to get the best out of people.

Gareth Evans, Head of Industrial relations at Skanska summarised Paul’s capabilities

“Paul successfully provided entrepreneurial and inspirational leadership in an organisation that was going through unprecedented change both in organisation and culture. Paul as a coach gives people both the support and freedom to maximise their effectiveness in their roles”

Neela  Bettridge

Neela Bettridge has been bringing her invaluable experience to bear as an executive coach and mentor for over 10 years. Highly qualified, she is skilled in inspiring and enabling individuals and groups to take ownership of emerging risks and issues, highly relevant in this current, volatile climate. She does this through enabling innovative ways of thinking, acting and communicating.

Neela’s areas of particular interest and competencies lie in getting individuals and teams to operate in a transformational way with their business.

Client Comments ...

Neela has worked extensively at multinational board level and has been a very successful entrepreneur herself. She understands what is required to perform at the top level and is willing to both challenge and support, to enable this to happen.’
(CEO, Financial)

‘Neela is very experienced in coaching and gave a good overview of the strategic side of the business and thinking long term about where we wanted to go with it. Neela is very inspiring and positive, which is great support.’
(Social Entrepreneur)

Ron Irving: Director Coach,

Ron has been a management consultant for the last fifteen years working in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. His specialism is Board Level Executive Coaching and Mentoring.  Born in Glasgow, Ron was educated in Scotland, gaining a degree in Business Management from the Scottish Business School.

His focus is directed at helping individuals grow and develop within their business, through intense one to one sessions.  Ron assists the individual to set the agenda according to her or his own needs, so they are dealing with their real concerns and issues.

 His style is to partner with each client in setting goals and outcomes to ensure there is a direct impact on the performance and effectiveness of both the executive and the organisation.  So all aspects of work including relationship management, dealing with stress and balancing conflicts in lifestyle are open to examination.
Clients have included BT, the Virgin Group, the Reed Elsevier Group, Ernst and Young, Legal and General, Punch Taverns, Danone and Motability.

John Gloster-Smith: Director Coach

John has been Coaching Directors and Developing leaders in business for the last 15 years since he transformed his own career from being a senior manager in private-sector education. He’s been a management consultant to almost every business sector of international and FT 100 companies.

He’s worked at developing leaders, coaching 1-on-1, and facilitating teams at all levels to board level, as well as organisational development. This has been supported by his own extensive investment in personal growth and in training in Gestalt and other process methodologies for personal and business transformation.

His style is focused and results-orientated but informal, with a strong ability to ask exactly the right questions that pick up the key issues and get to the heart of the matter, and to work with process, both in individuals, reporting lines and teams to help organisations bring about the desired change.

Contact email: info@rainmaker-coaching.com