About Neil
I am primarily a business coach, with specialist focus on well-being centred creative capacity building, for clients of all creeds. I am presently being contracted by Imperial College Business School as a Research Assistant and Editor.
Having coached individuals at Barclays, BNP Paribas and Boston Consulting Group, my most meaningful work is focused on helping those facing redundancy and wanting to reinvent. I consider it a privilege to unleash the considerable energetic potential present in every human being. Neurodiversity is of interest to me – I hold faith that we all possess special qualities.
My career started in 1999 at Kumon Educational UK, where I worked as a Maths Instructor to 3 -18 year olds – I loved unlocking their insight, as well as engaging mums and dads in this journey. My related management contribution to the organisation helped in shaping a successful business model; the company now has 70,000 students sprinkled across 650 study centres in the UK.
Thereafter, I made a ‘bright lights, big city’ move into investment banking at ABN AMRO Rothschild in London, Singapore, Hong Kong (via N.M. Rothschilds). After this worked for ABN AMRO in Dubai. I worked for a very short spell at the Matchett Group teaching investment bankers.
I then moved into a fundraising role in the social enterprise sector with a stint at Learning for Life UK, an organisation enabling South Asia’s most marginalised populations gain access to their basic human rights.
I had the subsequent opportunity to work as an internal coach / change manager at the PHG Foundation, a Cambridge-based think tank and charity with a focus on how genomics and related technologies can make healthcare better.
Charity has become a mainstay feature of my life – I have volunteered at the following shops: Sue Ryder (in Leeds), Save the Children (in Hendon) and the Oxfam Bookshop (in Hampstead).
I formally trained as a business coach with Meyler Campbell, also piloting a coaching programme for Executive MBA students at the Cambridge Judge Business School. I was Acting Development Liaison at The Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School during this time.
Academic Background
I graduated from Sheffield University with a BSc (1st Class Honours) in Mathematics in 1998; I completed my MBA at Judge Business School, Cambridge University (with an affiliation to Pembroke College) in 2007; I have a MA Psychosocial Studies (Birkbeck, University of London); I finished the 1st year of MA in Body Centred Psychotherapy at the Karuna Institute in Devon in 2014).
I love to learn, being fond of the (Albert Einstein affirmed) adage: ‘There is no better way to learn than to teach.’