United Kingdom
Mike is uniquely qualified as an Executive Coach following a 30-year first career in business and having gained masters degrees in Executive Coaching and Psychotherapy. For Mike's profile as a psychotherapist please see his page in the Counselling Directory: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/mike-grant As an Executive Coach, he brings both business & behavioural expertise, specialising in enabling those at Senior and Board level to increase their effectiveness and business performance. He has a key expertise in supporting leaders as they wrestle with the challenges of building performance cultures and leading with integrity and authenticity. Mike has a key capability in building high performance teams – working alongside leaders and their teams to maximise outcomes and achieve their potential. Style Mike’s approach is oriented towards the relational coaching school. He combines this successfully with the experiential & from research in leadership and organisation development. He sees the coaching relationship as being mutual and co-created, rather than a remedial contract to tactically solve a problem. Specialism Mike works with those at the most senior levels in organisations. This work focuses on developing and sustaining tolerance for situations many people actively avoid; ambiguity, daunting challenges, the anxiety and disapproval of others and our own personal sources of stress. And on the creation, stakeholder engagement and execution of a leadership agenda. He has a keen interest in working with the issues that may impede a leader’s progress e.g. overdrive patterns & hubris. Background Mike enjoyed a 30-year career in business and a decade as a Senior Executive in Lloyds Banking Group – where he led a business with annual income of £100m delivered through a team of 600 colleagues. Qualifications Mike has Masters degrees in Executive Coaching from Ashridge Business School and in Integrative Psychotherapy from Metanoia Institute. He is an Ashridge Accredited Executive Coach and is a member of the EMCC & UKCP. Clients Bank of America, Bibby, Black Swan Data, Brown Brothers Harriman, Cambridge & Counties Bank, CISI, Deutsche Bank, G-Research, HS2, C. Hoare & Co, the Kuwaiti Institute for Banking Studies, Lear Corporation, Lloyds Banking Group, Lodbrok Capital LLP, Marsh McLennan, MBNA, Metro Bank, North Wall Capital LLP, Omni Partners LLP, Orsted, Pay.UK, Pearson, Pension Insurance Corporation PLC, Redburn, RBS, Schroders, Spie UK, State Street, Terra Firma, and XL Catlin.
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Leading a complex and wide reaching strategic change programme to build and implement a profitable business model meeting the Financial Services Authority's RDR requirements - where implementation date is 1st Jan 2013.
Responsibility for the strategic development and delivery for the Wealth business - involving the sales of; life, pensions and investments products in the Bank's Corporate and Commercial channels to; businesses, business owners and key employees.
Leading a team of 600 colleagues across specialist sales disciplines; Bancassurance, International Trade, Mortgages and Personal Banking.