Professional Background
 

• Cameron has senior leadership and management experience e.g. business unit strategic leadership team, operational line management, leading international project teams and leading cross-matrix teams without formal line authority; all during 14 years with the leading multi-national pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly, GlaxoWellcome and AstraZeneca.

• For the past 16 years Cameron has worked as a leadership development facilitator and coach with clients in the public and private sectors.  

• Cameron’s approach to coaching is underpinned by a post-graduate level certificate in Executive Coaching and a MA in Management and Leadership Learning.

Coaching Experience
 

Cameron has been coaching leaders and managers to achieve high performance and change for 16 years

• Coached over 200 leaders /senior professionals and managers on a one-to-one basis

• Public Sector: Forestry Commission Scotland, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Fife Council, Network Rail.

• Private Sector: Wood Group plc, Edinburgh Airport Ltd, Wolfson Microelectronics plc, Nippon Sheet Glass, Ascom AG.

• Universities: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow, Heriot Watt.

• Best successes as a Coach:

  • Executive in an organisation undergoing significant restructuring: Increased strategic focus, success in multiple concurrent roles, increased time spent on leadership and delivering on strategy. Coachee was promoted to executive level during the period of coaching.

  • Head of division undergoing organisational change: Greatly increased understanding of different reactions to organisational change enabling adaptation of approach to motivating employees, and enhanced performance review conversations with direct reports leading to increased momentum in delivering the change.

  • Deputy Director in a large organisation during a period of major change: Increased impact in delivering the change via influencing senior stakeholders through more powerful communication and engagement of direct reports, enhancing resilience in self and direct reports.
     

3 words that have been used to describe Cameron as a Coach
 

• Thought-provoking

• Stretching

• Empathic
   

Training and Qualifications Relevant to Coaching

• Post-graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching

• MA (Management Learning and Leadership)

• In regular coaching supervision

• Licensed to use MBTI, Transformational Leadership 360.
   

Comments from Cameron’s Coachees
 

• ‘I have found my sessions with Cameron extremely useful; I emerge from each session more aware and confident, and feel I am better at my job. Cameron was a superb coach.’

• ‘As a technical specialist I was very sceptical about coaching that would not provide advice ...but coaching from Cameron helped me challenge my own mind-sets and generate ideas, and made a real difference by helping me to see and overcome my limiting beliefs …to move from expert engineer to a broader and much more senior leadership role in the business …I now have the confidence to go to the next level and succeed.’

• ‘…the results have been strikingly helpful.’

• ‘I look forward to the sessions, take away practical actions and that they are immensely helpful.’
   

Cameron’s Specialisms

• Leading self and others through change and transition

• Transition into a more senior leadership role 

• Confidence and capability to step-back and step-up as a leader

• Achieving high performance and influence in multiple concurrent roles

• Thinking systemically and creatively

• Willingness and ability to have challenging conversations

• Becoming an highly effective people manager as well as a technical leader