PARTNER, EXECUTIVE COACH
Alistair’s coaching style is born from over 30 years’ commercial business leadership and Executive Board experience. His challenging Thinking Partnership style, combined with a total belief in peoples’ potential to excel, inspires C-suite executives and senior leadership teams to stretch, grow and deliver across diverse global organisations, cultures and geographies.
Experience
Alistair’s blue-chip leadership career consistently focused on helping individuals and teams to outperform. His success at leading change and unlocking sustainable growth led to senior Marketing, Sales and GM positions at multinational corporations including Danone, Diageo and GSK. Having worked across diverse geographies and cultures from America and Europe to Asia Pacific, Alistair eventually joined the Global Executive Board at Danone Early Life Nutrition. His extensive experience of business integration and transformational change has left him with an unshakable belief in the success achievable through harnessing employee creativity and engagement.
Alistair’s strength and passion for people growth and development gained him a reputation in his corporate life as a strong mentor and coach. In 2005 he joined The Preston Associates and now coaches C-suite executives, GMs and Senior Leadership Teams globally, who benefit from his results-focused, challenging yet genuine coaching style. Alistair thrives on being able to underpin his pragmatic experience with practical theory in his own practice and development. Having gained his initial coaching accreditation and a Masters in Coaching he went on to achieve a professional Doctorate at Oxford Brookes, exploring the positive influence of high performance flow in developmental coaching practice.
Education, Qualifications, Professional Memberships
• Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring, Oxford Brookes University
• Masters in Coaching and Mentoring, University of Chester
• Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching, University of Chester
• Professional Certified Coach, ICF
• Master Coach, EMCC
• BSc (Hons) Aero Engineering
Download biography