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Gareth Osborne
Hello there! I’m Gareth and I’ve been coaching / mentoring for over 20 years. I have worked with wide variety of clients, from charity leaders, CEO’s and senior execs of SMEs, through to partners and aspiring partners in professional services.
I’m passionate about the impact that coaching can have, and firmly believe everybody should have a coach.
I enjoy working through complex challenges and helping people to get themselves into a better place. I’ve been told that my coaching has been life changing. I specialise in Exec. and leadership coaching and career coaching. My mentoring largely focuses on marketing, business development, and strategy.
Coaching Profile Gareth Osborne
With over 20 years’ experience of working in leadership roles, Gareth specialises in transformative Executive Leadership and Senior Management Coaching and Mentoring.
Gareth has supported Exec Directors and Partners of multi-billion-dollar global organisations, as well as Senior Clinicians and Operational Staff within the NHS and Partner Organisations.
Gareth helps individuals unlock and reframe difficult circumstances (both personal and professional) to expedite the process of maximising the potential and contribution of individuals and teams.
Gareth is an exceptionally talented coach and inspiring mentor. Gareth’s skills in enabling reflective conversations were key to helping me generate insights that were transformative and sustainable - a terrifically powerful combination - and enjoyable! Investing time as Gareth’s ‘coachee’ has been invaluable - thanks Gareth.
Louise Wilson Facilitator / NHS Clinical Networks / Learning Communities / Health Informatics / PhD student
As a coach, Gareth really listened to me and challenged me and in doing so, helped me to understand more about ‘what makes me tick.’ Gareth helped me to identify my key priorities (personally and professionally), work out what I needed to change, how I could do that and more importantly, helped me to find the confidence to do that. The end-result has been truly life changing. I cannot recommend Gareth highly enough.
Sam Clark Deputy Director at Government Legal Department
Key skills
Executive coaching; leadership and management coaching; work and personal relationship coaching; career and transition coaching; strategic planning; transformation and change; leadership development; building resilience and wellbeing; facilitation and action learning.
Style
Gareth’s clients describe him as having excellent listening skills which lead to a balanced, perceptive approach to coaching. This approach is complemented with a tenacious and responsive coaching style. Wherever possible Gareth allows his clients the space and time to find their own solutions whilst not shying away from asking the difficult questions. This powerful combination enables his clients to achieve truly transformational results.
Professional memberships
Association for Coaching
Career background
Gareth is increasingly concerned about the fact that he has fast approaching 30 years’ experience in total! Gareth has worked in a variety of roles and sectors, at Executive and Board level for the last 20 plus years. Gareth established his own successful Consultancy, Coaching and Mentoring business in January 2014. Gareth’s experience extends from healthcare and education to charities, social enterprises and professional services. Gareth is also a Non-Executive Director and Trustee at St Anne’s Community Services and a Guest Lecturer at Leeds University Business School.
Qualifications and training
Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (ILM); Executive Education course in Business Strategy (Harvard); Executive Education course in Leadership (Harvard)
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We are
professionally and experientially qualified, regularly supervised and have appropriate professional memberships. CBC is a corporate member of the Association for Coaching.
We offer
individual coaching to executives, and leaders and managers of various levels as well as group and team coaching
We follow
professional guidelines, principles and competencies including the Global Code of Ethics for Coaches, Mentors and Supervisors