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Callum James

Executive Coach
Fearless Engagement

“We all have problems we want to overcome, goals we want to achieve, or simply for someone to listen when we feel stuck.

Partnering with a highly qualified coach can change your life for the better, setting you on a journey to greater self-fulfilment and well-being.”


The Personal Bit
60 seconds’ work and play…

3 words that sum you up?
Motivational. Challenging. Person-centred.

And 3 words that don’t?
Monotonous. Lazy. Uncreative.

The best audience/coachees?
Anyone who has the curious drive to reflect and explore where they are (including their positionality, i.e., what makes you who you are to think, feel and behave the way you do), where they want to be, and how they might bridge the gap.

What makes you laugh or smile?
People (and pets).

Talk to me about…
Anything that has a point.

Ideal superpower?
To turn into a mushroom, then I’m always a fungi to be around.

Biggest ‘Doh!’ moment?
Arriving at the theatre a month early for the ticket I’d bought. No staff picked up on it until the show was about to start. Our seats were on stage, so everyone saw the Doh!

When not coaching, you’ll find me…
Studying, reading, researching, walking my dog, training/facilitating, designing, thinking, reflecting, planning, experimenting, cooking, eating, drinking and somewhere in there… sleeping.

My Objective:

To partner with you in a thought-provoking and creative process in a way that inspires your imagination, productivity, and leadership to unlock and maximize your personal and professional potential.

Executive Coach

Callum is a certified workplace, systems, team, executive, and cross-cultural coach. He is also a consultant designer, trainer, and facilitator of behavioural change using both cognitive and behavioural experimentation. Much of his work is with FTSE and Fortune listed organisations, UK Government Departments, and the NHS.

Callum’s skills specialities focus on and support KPI and OKR excellence of mid, senior, C-suite, and senior civil service leaders, and on creating and sustaining high- performing teams.

He also has a professional background in performing arts and creative writing, is a published author, and will soon publish his dissertation research into real-play as a coaching intervention and its influence on soft skills goal attainment.


Professional Credentials

Coaching Specialties and how Callum can help you…

Behaviour Change Consultant, Coach, and Facilitator. Motivating and inspiring experiential learning and development, and executive and team coaching, since 1999.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Behavioural transformation
  • Audience: 1:1 – Teams – Groups – Business Transformation – all functions, all sectors
  • Style: Person-centred, learner-driven, inclusive, energised, experiential learning
  • Approach: Pluralistic, scientific approach to executive and team coaching, which focuses on connected systems and the key determinants of high-performing leaders and teams. Turns evidence-based theory into practice through experiential learning design and high impact goal-focussed facilitation

An established expert in how to build well-structured, persuasive stories, and how to become a confident, engaging storyteller.

My time with Callum:

“If soft generic hygiene factor advice is what you are after...don't call Callum. Having worked with him for over 5 years, I have valued most his transformational coaching for individuals and teams; how he supports individuals truly step change the impact of their presentations; and many, many times just chewing over a challenge or an opportunity he will always bring a new perspective or coax one out of me that I didn't know was there. I feel very fortunate to be connected with such an inspirational, challenging and motivational human being with integrity and authenticity in spades.”

Commercial Experience

Business Background and a life in the real world…

Broad history and background in corporate finance, performing arts and creative writing.

Literally thousands of behavioural transformations, from graduates to middle, senior, and C-suite leaders, including:

Healthcare: NHS, Abbott, Takeda, Roche, Jazz, Sanofi, and UCB.
Finance: MasterCard, Santander, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, NatWest Group, and Nationwide.
Engineering: John Laing, HCP, Arup, Rolls Royce, Safran, Aecom, Amey, Network Rail, VolkerWessels, and Alstom.
Law: Kaplan, Joelsons, Loyens and Loeff, and Leigh Day.
Retail: Selfridges, Arcadia Group, John Lewis, and Specialized.
Business Services: Miller LLP, Allianz, RSA, TMF, EY, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte.
Public Services: SERCO and Kier.
FMCG: Campari, Wm Grant & Sons, Coca Cola, Pepsico, and Diageo.
UK Government: HO, FCDO, BEIS, DEFRA, DFID, Essex and Haringey Councils.
Oil and Gas: Gazprom and Statoil


Qualifications & Certifications

  • MSc Psychology (Roehampton University; qualification pending)
  • MSc Coaching and Behavioural Change (Distinction, Henley Business School, England)
  • Professional Certificate in Coaching (Distinction, Henley Business School, England)
  • Accredited Cultural Orientations Coach (University of Cambridge ICL – ICF Accredited)
  • Accredited Systemic Team Coach (Academy of Executive Coaching – ICF Accredited)
  • Advanced Practitioner and Assessor, 6 Team Conditions
  • Member of ICF, AC, and IOC coaching standards organisations
  • Member of British Psychodrama Association

Address

Floor 3,
207 Regent Street,
London,
W18 3HH

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