David Bredin

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​Following a successful career of 20 years of senior management in the military, David worked in PR for 6 years before returning to the world of leadership. He has been a Leadership, Executive and Life Coach for over 18 years and in 2009 qualified as a ‘Coach Supervisor’.  He has accrued over 900 hours of coaching and supervision experience with a wide variety of clients.  He has delivered over 300 psychometric assessments and facilitated senior management teams and boards in a diversity of organisations. 
David specialises in helping senior business people, particularly in Legal and professional services, hone their leadership skills using proven techniques to maximise communication, engagement and teamwork, as well as introducing emotional intelligence, mindfulness and ethical thinking in an holistic approach to facilitate effective change that leads to individuals fulfilling their true potential both in an organisational setting as well as their private lives.

David is both empathetic and supportive: he uses humour and a light touch to encourage clients to address key areas that have been avoided, but works equally well with those who are goal driven and need robust and challenging support.
 
Areas of Expertise
  • Leadership Development
  • Personal (Life) Development
  • Resilience and confidence building
  • Facilitation
  • University ‘leaver’ and ‘young talent’ coaching
  • Career transition coaching and support


Qualifications and Affiliations
  • Accredited Coach Supervisor of the Coaching Supervision Academy
  • Full Individual Member of the Association for Coaching
  • Diploma in Life Coaching from Newcastle College
  • Diploma in Executive Coaching from the Coaching Academy
  • Delivers and interprets a series of assessments:
  • MTQ 48 (Resilience & Mental Toughness)
  • ILM 72 (Leadership)
  • AQR 360 (360° Feedback)
  • Prevue (Benchmarking)
 
What clients have said about working with David
  • “In both my previous role as CEO and Director of NIAB, Cambridge and my current role as Director of IBERS, Aberystwyth University, change management has been a major feature.  The business coaching provided by David has been a major boost to my professional performance and has certainly aided my ability to lead organisational and cultural change.  His experience and style provide a very good foundation to develop and embed a culture of coaching within the organisation.” (CEO)
 
  • “My coaching sessions with David Bredin has been an important step in my personal development, providing clear new opportunities to reflect, learn and implement a number of new concepts and ideas. Providing a conceptual framework for issues such as influencing, creating relationships and networks have provided a robust understanding of behaviour in organizations that are essential for effective leadership. Many of the topics introduced such as single/double learning loop provide excellent, generic models to understand and therefore change behaviour.  The Leadership mapping exercise has provided me with a framework to allow reflection and provide focus for personal growth. Inevitably, the coaching sessions require time and commitment. In my opinion, this investment has been very worthwhile and I intend to continue my professional relationship with David Bredin.” (CEO & Director – Leading Scientific Research Organisation)
 
  • "David worked with me as an executive and personal coach. I found him to be totally professional, very objective and a pleasure to work with. He assisted me greatly in clarifying my objectives and achieving these, recognising the importance of both my personal goals and the needs of my employer.” (Self employed Engineer)
 
  • "David was a lead coach on a law firm talent programme that I participated in. I found David to be an excellent coach; insightful, creative and able to bring his wide experience to the role in an effective solution-focused manner. David has great integrity and performs his role with style.” (Solicitor in a Law Firm)
   
  • “I was coached by David over the course of several months. He helped me achieve a significant promotion at my firm. David's patience, understanding and guidance was invaluable. David assisted me in focusing on where I was at in my career, where I wanted to be and what I needed to do to achieve such career goals. David always made himself available at convenient times for me to meet or speak. David is an excellent coach.” (Manager in Real Estate)
 
  • “I have recently had the pleasure of working with David as part of a law firm personal development programme.  David encouraged me to focus on my career goals and to determine what steps were needed to achieve them.  David is extremely easy to talk to and offered positive encouragement at all stages, whilst at the same time challenging me to push the boundaries of my comfort zone.  I would have no hesitation recommending David as a professional coach to others.” (Solicitor in a Law Firm)
 
  • "David is an excellent coach and professional supervisor with a positive coaching style. He encourages reflection by insightful questioning and works with you to develop a plan of action to achieve your goals, offering support and challenge equally.” (Supervisee)
     
  • “Your facilitation of our Board on Thursday was a real success – we addressed some difficult issues and got through them without any real dissension.  We were all hugely impressed at just how well you had mastered your brief and understood the issues we sought to tackle.  You very skilfully steered us through our complete agenda showing great patience, charm and tact and yet forcing us to address things.  It was a real tour de force and, very much thanks to the positive way you so successfully managed to engage us, that evening and indeed during our meeting on Friday there was a real buzz and much unanimity amongst the Board.” (Board Director of a Travel Firm) 

To arrange a free initial consultation with David call 01223 655667 
"...totally professional, very objective and a pleasure to work with".