About
I came to Manchester in 1993, went home, and came back
I first arrived as an American exchange student, studying European media at the University of Manchester. I went home to finish my degree, then came back for work in 1998 — and built a career here. It’s also where I met my partner.
Nearly thirty years on, I work from two bases: Manchester, UK and Boston, USA — in person in both, and online with leaders around the world.
Education
- BA, European Communications and Politics — Pennsylvania State University, 1991–1995
- Study abroad, European Media — University of Manchester, 1993
- Study abroad, Politics — University of Leeds, 1995
How I found my way back to one-to-one
About five years ago I was burnt out. I was delivering virtually to groups of 25 to 100 people, day after day, and missing the one-to-one connection that made the work worth doing. I felt like I had lost my mojo.
Then I got a call to career-coach undergraduates at Manchester Metropolitan University. Sitting with one person at a time, developing my listening rather than my presenting, something shifted. I became a trusted thinking partner rather than a virtual answer vending machine.
From there I coached leaders at Siemens, and global sales leaders at Reuters on personal impact. My soul felt full.
That’s the work I do now: leadership coaching for people who have outgrown their current box.
“Know yourself and focus on your Circle of Control. Self-management and adopting a Growth Mindset in all things that you do unlocks your biggest potential.”
Track record
The background behind the coaching
Two decades in corporate leadership development — before, and alongside, the coaching practice.
I founded my own practice in 2008, but I was already running leadership and sales development inside GE from 2003 — so the twenty years covers the whole arc, not just the years under my own name.
- Leadership development experience
- 20 yearsLeadership development experience
- People trained
- 15,000+People trained
- Countries delivered in
- 18Countries delivered in
- Associate Certified Coach
- ICF ACCAssociate Certified Coach
- ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- DiSC® certified
- Emergenetics® certified
- Emotional Intelligence certified
- Former GE Capital commercial training manager
- MBA-programme faculty: HEC Paris, Lancaster, NYU
Brian has worked with:
- Bank of America
- Baker Hughes
- BP
- GE
- HP
- HEC Paris MBA Program
- Lancaster University Management School
- Lufthansa
- NYU Wasserman
- Royal London
- SABIC
- Siemens
- Springer Nature
Delivered across: AviationBankingEnergy technologyHealthcareMediaUtilities
Free, 30 minutes, no obligation — a good way to see if we make a good partnership.