About Neil Scotton
Neil comes to you with 20 years of business experience. For the last 8 years he has been a director at board level. His experience covers both service and manufacturing sectors.
He has coached over 80 business leaders in the last 3 years. These have ranged from of small and medium sized businesses to directors in a major multinational. His skills, experience, training and testing by his peers have enabled him to be one of the 200 professional coaches in the UK to gain a credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF). (The ICF credential is the internationally recognised gold standard for professional coaches). He is one of the few coaches to pass the rigorous selection process of University of Surrey for their Coaching Faculty to provide Leadership Skills coaching for business leaders.
He is a skilled Master Practioner of NLP and has supported others learning at Master Practioner level.
As Managing Director of Coaching Professionals, he has created a professional coaching business that enables sustainable change, growth, fulfilment and success by providing high quality coaching and coach skills training.
Neil is President of the board of the International Coach Federation in the UK (UK ICF). He ensures professional excellence in the fast growing coaching market. Neil represents the UK ICF and it’s hundreds of members in strategic and influential activities at UK, European and global level. He is intimately familiar with the issues facing growing organisations and engaging people in challenging, competitive environments and fast moving situations, across cultures, and with limited time and financial resources – both as coach and as leader himself.
His coaching style is practical, positive, honest, supportive, solutions focussed. Leaders choose him as a sounding board, a reality check, a supporter and guide, an objective observer, a reminder, a thought partner, an enabler of real and deep change. He listens, reflects, shares, questions, challenges, encourages, reveals, enables. And smiles. He enables people to fully recognise and appreciate what they can really do, how they can make the most of their skills and experience, recover from setbacks, deal with doubt and uncertainty, build on successes, make exceptional things happen and get the outcomes, success, balance and fulfilment they really want.
Typical issues addressed when coaching with Neil include: • Gaining clarity, confidence, direction, purpose, success and fulfilment. • Growing the business • Removing blocks. • Increasing motivation. • Improving business relationships. • Facing tough situations and decisions. • Overcoming fears, confusion and self-defeating attitudes. • Developing personal leadership strengths. • Building teams. • Developing personal impact. • Recognising unique abilities and personal value. • Increasing self-esteem and self-awareness. • Getting things done in a balanced way – planning, prioritising, time management, and action. • Achieving sustainable changes in a way that naturally suits individuals.
Neil is married with 3 children (2 of teenage age). He is a School Governor.
He provides seminars to raise money and support for good causes.
He highly values trusting, respectful relationships.
His personal mission is sustainable change – for individuals, teams and organisations – to enable a sustainable future for all.
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