Here is what some of the people I have worked with have to say.
I engaged with Mark during a difficult period in my working life. Mark listened to me and challenged me with searching questions that made me think in a different way, helping me achieve clarity and direction. His guidance was immensely valuable and his manner always engaging and caring. Working with him was a pleasure.
Andrew Walker
Partner, Montagu Evans
“Mark helped me to identify, understand and change my mindset in certain situations, allowing me to develop personally & professionally, providing me the ability and confidence to continue that growth.”
John Collard
Head of Finance, Campions
Being coached by Mark has been an incredibly transformative experience. He is not only kind and intuitive but also creates a safe space where I felt truly listened to. Each session allowed me to explore my thoughts, intentions, and fears in depth. I gained invaluable clarity that has helped me better understand myself and the journey I want to take. I would wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone seeking personal growth and insight." Anda -Practice Manager at Bupa Dental Care
Anda
Practice Manager, BUPA Dental
I would thoroughly recommend Mark to anyone looking for coaching. Mark is professional, personable and insightful. Our sessions have given me a deeper understanding of myself and my career and have had a noticeable, positive impact on the way that I work. I look forward to working with him again in future.
Kate Towers
Content Director, Publisher
Mark is very calm and measured with extensive experience of the challenges operating at a senior level within business. He sensitively asks questions to get to the heart of problems, reflecting regularly on what has been said to check understanding, allowing you to move towards your own solution. Mark is very encouraging and builds trust straight away, so the sessions are very open and conversational, with Mark taking an active interest and gaining a good understanding of the organisational context and culture to help you navigate through difficult situations and challenges.
Gary Collins
Director of Asset Management and Operations, Sage Housing
The sessions with Mark taught me so much about myself and really changed my mind set and approach to work. With warmth and humour, he created an encouraging environment of learning and exploration. Working with Mark and utilising his wealth of experience, I feel better equipped to take on the next challenges in my career and grow into my own style of leadership. I would highly recommend Mark to anyone looking for self-improvement and development in their career.
Kiri Aikman
Head of New Content , Publisher
As an experienced business coach, I greatly value my interactions with Mark. He skilfully combines very strong technical coaching skills with pragmatic business understanding and a gift for human connection. The result is a safe and calm space where you can stand back from challenging situations, reframe and reconsider options and determine a clear and confident way forward.
Ian Wheeler
Coach, Leadership & Management Consultant, Bluebird Solutions
Mark is highly personable with a warm and open style. He is naturally easy to talk to, a great listener and a genuinely authentic individual. This results in an ability as a coach and leader to communicate with, nurture and develop individuals at all levels in a natural and supportive way.
Guy Thomas
Head of Place Assets, Lendlease
Mark's coaching sessions are insightful, thought-provoking and constructive. In seeking to develop and refine my business proposition, Mark's experience of the retail property market was particularly useful. He is a good listener, easy to talk to and the sessions were well structured to achieve agreed outcomes. The whole process was an interesting, rewarding and enjoyable experience. I would definitely recommend Mark to anyone considering personal or professional life coaching.
Emma Robinson
Director, ERA Asset Management
I undertook coaching with Mark at a time when I had a distinct lack of clarity around my career progression and aspirations. Through Mark’s ability to ask the ‘right’ questions, I developed a better understanding of my strengths and greater awareness of the things I enjoyed. This in turn has provided me with a positive outlook for the future with a sense of direction. It is never easy to speak openly, but Mark has an empathetic way about him and is easy to build rapport with. The whole process was confidence boosting, enjoyable and focused towards my needs. I learnt things about myself that I never knew about. Definitely recommend
Abdus Salam
Senior Finance Business Partner, LLDC
Mark's coaching style and careful questioning created an easy headspace where we could explore career related topics that I'd been ruminating on for a while. If there is one way to sum up the impact of Mark's coaching is that it accelerated the positive thinking about my career direction. The end result being more self-awareness, more clarity on career direction and a plan/method of tackling challenges and pursuing opportunities. I can highly recommend career coaching sessions with Mark.
Ben Rostron
Haematology Strategy Director, GSK
I engaged with Mark as part of a leadership programme. He helped me structure the sessions to ensure each one was productive. I was able to understand some of the challenges I had been experiencing in moving to a leadership level and to recognise possible future challenges as my career progresses. Mark was a great listener and provided thought provoking questions and suggestions to help take my career to the next stage in both the short and medium term. I would highly recommend using Mark’s services to instil confidence and identify how to reach the goals you’ve set out to achieve. Some of the tools, techniques and experiences discussed have enabled me to secure greater leadership responsibilities as part of my current position.
Craig Roberts
Senior Planning Manager, LLDC
Mark is a highly intuitive coach with exceptional listening skills. His lovely, calm manner immediately made me feel at ease and enabled me to trust him. His considered use of thought-provoking, succinct and gently challenging questions, and follow-up probes, stretched my thinking which ultimately, and most importantly, really helped me make progress towards my goals.
Suzanne Pullen
Global Executive Coach
If you want someone to listen, to give high-level insight into what you’ve said (and the way you’ve said it), then provide direction to enable you to move forward and meet your goals, Mark is your man. I found my Professional Coaching sessions with Mark to be worth their weight in gold; worth preparing for in advance and worth reflecting on afterwards. Mark has a kind, observant, softly-spoken manner and provided me with tangible, objective takeaways to digest, to reflect on and to grow. I warmly recommend him as a coach and a contact in the industry.
John Lawlor
Senior Development Manager, LLDC
Mark helped provide a heightened sense of clarity regarding what I value and how to make decisions which will set me up to reach my own definition of success in the future. He's very flexible, a fantastic listener [and] will be fluid, to cover the highest priority issues for you. He's simply a great guy!
Clarke Dodd
Management Consultant
Mark is a fantastic and incredibly impactful coach. With his kind demeanour and attentive listening, Mark has the ability to create a safe space to allow you to share fears, doubts and goals and guide you on a path of self-development and growth to help you overcome obstacles and achieve those goals, whether they are personal or professional. I highly recommend Mark to anyone who wants to improve their life, their relationships and achieve their goals.
Dr Marcela Johnson
Restorative and Cosmetic Dentist
The process that Mark led me through was incredibly valuable - through self-reflection, analysis and a clear focus on outcomes, Mark calmly helped me to distil the often hectic demands of work/life balance and identify innovative, yet simple, steps to achieve my goals.
Neil Casson
Director, Strategy and Technology, Ensure
My coaching sessions with Mark have provided me with clarity whilst helping me navigate through some tough career challenges. There is no judgement and with carefully crafted questions he enables you to unlock solutions/answers that I have struggled to do so on my own. I am often amazed at how much I have achieved in our hourly sessions. He is really supportive and creates a trusting and highly positive environment to work in. I have seen a real positive change in my perspective and a huge improvement in my confidence whilst working with Mark as my coach.
Anita Bassi
Financial Controller
Mark has a wonderful ability to blend humility, an open and positive style and seasoned business judgement, to deliver well rounded and strong people outcomes.
Tony Brown
Global Head of Real Estate, M&G Real Estate
If you're serious about being coached, then Mark is for you. Having been coached several times during my career, it was the low-hanging fruit that distracted them and me from the real hard work. Mark used kindness, persistence, patience and curiosity to unlock knotty stuff. It's been amongst the best investment I've made, and I have no hesitation in recommending Mark if you wish to transform your conditioned behaviours and realise what you need.
Polly Plunket-Checkemian
Senior Director, Aletheia
Mark has an exceptionally strong set of core values. Managing the growth of the individual and team is at the heart of what he does, without compromising wider business objectives.
Hugh Seaborn
CEO, Cadogan Estate
Mark has a truly unique talent, blending his significant business leadership experience with a remarkable and highly personable coaching approach. The result is incredibly powerful; setting a space to unlock effective interpersonal reflection and valuable pathways forward.
Chris Coleman-Brown
CEO, Cureoscity
Mark’s approach is one in which he guides and challenges within a clear framework. Our discussions would go beyond the confines of work to explore unconscious forces within myself, making me aware of previously unknown connections. I would heartily recommend working with Mark if you would like a deeper understanding of yourself in a way that helps you grow as an executive and a become a more effective leader.
Tony Scully
Director, Product Strategy and Commercial Performance, Publisher
He has a wealth of business knowledge and experience, and uses this to enable discussion and reflection with a light touch. I found the sessions to be well structured, enjoyable, and really valuable in enabling and supporting review and re-evaluation of both personal goals and business objectives.
Iain Bowker
Director, Ensure Safety and Compliance
Each session with Mark left me with positive and tangible outcomes in a way that no other development programme has. Mark has a fantastic ability to get to know your motivations, your barriers – you as a person - before he delves into you as a professional and it is this unique skill which allows for tailored applicable takeaways to develop as a leader but also to grow as a person.
Ruby Jhita
Senior Director - Legal, Oxford Properties
Mark is a people person who has a natural ability to inspire and develop both individuals and teams, contributing to enhanced culture and performance.
Ali Abbas
UK Managing Partner at Art-Invest Real Estate Management
I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with Mark. I found his coaching style to be calm, professional, intuitive and empathetic. All traits which I have admired and appreciated. Through our sessions he has empowered me to face challenges head on and as a result, new doors have been opened. I look forward to working with him again in the future.
Clare Frankland
White Rabbit Executive Coaching
His tailored style is challenging and supportive in equal measure, and above all take-aways are always tangible.
Miles Dunnett
Director, Property Consultant
Mark took time to understand me and the challenges I was facing, and crafted an approach specifically for me. He helped me to understand myself better: what drives me and what my values are, why I react the way I do in certain situations and the tools I can use to improve my reactions and performance. He has given me a whole new set of skills that I not only use at work, but also have been able to transfer into my personal life too. Since working with Mark, I have progressed on to the next rung of the corporate ladder and am now much happier in both the work I do, and the reasons for doing it. I can attribute almost 100% of that progress directly back to him.
Steph Yates
Director - Investor Services, Remit Consulting
Mark coached me during my own journey to becoming a coach in 2021. His coaching style is calm and intuitive. During our sessions I felt listened to and had the space to explore my thoughts and intentions fully, with Mark facilitating this beautifully. The outcome of our sessions was a feeling of clarity, as well as a better understanding of where I wanted to be and how I was going to get there. Mark helped me to see more clearly how all elements of my life integrated into this vision. I would highly recommend Mark as a coach.
Jane McKenna
Brilliant Me Coaching
I have no hesitation in recommending Mark for career coaching. He has enabled me to better understand myself and consequently how I respond / deal with challenges in the work environment. His calm manner and approach in the sessions encourages you to think deeply about the feelings and beliefs that can hold you back from fulfilling your potential and being happy in your career.
Paul
Head of Technical & Compliance, Accountancy Firm
He is warm, relatable and very down to earth in his approach. He’s an intent listener, giving you the time and space to talk without interruption before he then responds in a thoughtful and constructive way, helping one create more clarity, purpose and direction. The advice he offers is highly practical and workable.
Paul, Post Production Runner
BBC
Mark is a people person with high EQ. He is an enthusiastic, optimistic, humble person who is passionate about cultivating the power of the individual which he harnesses to build effective relationships and outcomes.
Lisa, Director of People and Culture
