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The Thinking Academy

the thinking academy

5.0(20)

Christchurch

I have always had a passion for learning and supporting others to achieve personal and professional success. As a former Headteacher, I know the tremendous expectations that can be placed upon schools and their staff. I embraced my Headship with enthusiasm and ambition though at times I often felt isolated, insecure and exhausted. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to invest in coaching as part of my leadership development.  It was transformational. Coaching enabled me to improve professionally and create positive change for others. Working with my own coach, I learnt how to work effectively, manage change and remove or overcome any barriers that were holding me back. I became able to balance the demands of an intensive job with a young family and feel far more confident and energized. As a direct result of my experience I wanted to ensure all educators had the opportunity to experience coaching and  build their leadership skills to create success for themselves and inspire their teams and school community.  Feeling the experience of coaching for myself and seeing the positive impact it has on others is the reason I became a qualified coach. I know leadership can be tough, but I also believe it can be the most enjoyable and rewarding role you will ever have. Coaching reminds us of what we value and why we love what we do. Whatever challenges you face as a leader, I can assure you learning coaching is the best decision you will ever make.

Business Athlete

business athlete

London

Our Corporate Values/Style are: Aspirational, Professional, Friendly, Focused and Fun (where possible!). testi-img.jpgWe help you develop the skills and capacities that create and sustain high performance over time. As needed and desired we can also translate our knowledge of high-performance sport to help leaders improve their performance and release more potential. Consider for a moment the level of attention and detail that goes into developing a talented athlete. Imagine a business leader or executive team receiving the same kind of information and attention that an athlete does – but tailored instead to their own professional and personal needs in the business and personal context. And imagine if that business leader or executive was coached to coach themselves and others, so they could grow the principles and practices in their system, and fulfil more human potential and results in their organisation and their wider system. Welcome to The Business Athlete®. Our team is led by Colin Wilson – Board & Executive Team Coach. Colin is Managing Director of Business Athlete, a consultancy which specialises in individual, team, organisation and system potential, and in complex multi-stakeholder, multi-agency environments where there is a significant group dynamic component. He has acted as coach/consultant to seven FTSE100 companies at senior level, one major political party, and as a national non-profit full Board member. A national award-winning Executive Team coach, Colin mentors Boards and Senior Executive teams to create, deliver and evolve their core purpose and objectives. A versatile, incisive and challenging mentor, Colin aims to strengthen the team’s lived-out purpose, values, vision, strategy, culture and leadership in very practical and integrated ways. With the focus on achieving high performance, and individual fulfilment & enjoyment, with strong system and social responsibility, results can be measured in combinations of financial, social benefit, systemic and/or environmental impact, while ensuring business models that work and sustain. Opportunities and issues of diversity, inclusion and equality are progressed, held and mediated in a balanced way.