Meet the Coach

Ian Adkins

Ian brings a diverse set of skills and experience to his roles as a coach and consultant. He is an experienced leader of change with particular strengths in leadership, communication, strategic planning and analysis.

His focus is on delivering change through the positive engagement of the people involved. He is passionate about working with people, whether individuals or groups, using a coaching approach to deliver improved thinking that results in better decisions, stronger motivation, deeper commitment and greater success.

His career has encompassed a spell in the car industry before a 16 year career in the British Army and more recently 6 years as a management consultant and leadership coach. His military career gave him a solid grounding in leadership and the art of motivating and inspiring people. He saw active service around the world including the first Gulf War, Northern Ireland and Kosovo as well as more recent service in Pakistan.

His consultancy work has seen him work on a variety of large projects, mostly involved with the introduction of improved ways of working or better knowledge sharing. He also has a particular interest in scenario planning as a strategic planning tool. Key assignments have been in the Home Office, Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF), Ministry of Defence (MOD), Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA).

He has run hundreds of workshops and always brings an energetic, enthusiastic approach to working with people whether as groups or individuals. Ian enjoys helping people to create powerful personal visions and giving them the support to realise that they can make them become reality.

In the military, he was used to a culture of constant personal improvement and goal setting in which leaders always encouraged and supported subordinates to achieve more. His passion now is to support leaders in other fields to achieve clarity in their own thinking so that they can create inspiring and challenging goals, and have the confidence to work purposefully towards them.

He is trained and certified as a coach by Results Coaching Systems. His education includes an MBA, MSc, MA and BSc (Mechanical Engineering).

He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Directors, Chartered Management Institute and Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

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