David Bredin

David has been a Leadership, Executive and Life Coach for over 16 years.  Having studied the psychological dimensions of coaching he became a ‘Coach Supervisor’ in 2009. He believes 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.
 
The path to greater fulfilment and performance is seldom easy; David is both empathetic and supportive, but also robust and challenging when the need arises. He works with individuals and teams; aligning values with action, helping to maximise expertise in leadership, communications, engagement, teamwork and taking control of their lives.

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"...totally professional, very objective and a pleasure to work with".

Representative Client Engagements

• Executive coach and career change programme for CEO of an international scientific research Institution
• Team development programme for SMT of a scientific research Institute
• Personal Development programme for airline captain (Virgin Atlantic)
• “Young Talent” personal development programmes

Qualifications and Affiliations

• Full Individual Member of the Association for Coaching”
• Accredited Coach Supervisor of the Coaching Supervision Academy.
• Diploma in Life Coaching from Newcastle College
• Diploma in Executive Coaching from the Coaching Academy
• Certified Mastermind Executive Coach (USA)
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personal & Development
• Member of Institute of Directors
• Justice of the Peace in the Cambridgeshire LJA for Adult Crime and Domestic Violence.

Areas of Expertise

• Leadership Development
• Personal (Life) Development
• Coach Supervision
• Resilience and confidence building
• Facilitation of Boards and SMTs
• University ‘leaver’ and ‘young talent’ coaching
• Career transition support and coaching
• Delivers and interprets a series of assessments and psychometric tools:
  • MTQ 48 (Resilience & Mental Toughness)
  • ILM 72 (Leadership)
  • AQR 360 (360° Feedback)
  • Prevue (Benchmarking)

 
 What clients have said about working with David

• “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.”
• “David gave me excellent coaching on my professional development. He helped me define my career objectives and develop a clear plan on how best to achieve them. David provided practical advice and was a pleasure to work with. I would thoroughly recommend him.”
• “I recently worked with David and very much enjoyed the experience. I found it easy to talk to David, and the mixture of encouragement and his challenging me on certain points really helped to develop my thinking.”
• “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.”
• “I have worked with David for several months in preparing and executing a Personal Development Plan. He has really helped me to understand better and define my professional aspirations and provided clear advice on the best means of achieving them. David is very easy to work with and has made an invaluable contribution to my career.”
• "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.”
• "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.”
•  “The coaching experience with David Bredin was, although often probing and sometimes exhausting, extremely positive and beneficial. It was recommended by the company Director and I was very unsure what to expect, but happy to try anything that would tackle some of those irritating personal shortcomings that sometimes seem beyond one’s control."
• "Given the personal nature of the questions and the need to be honest, or risk the outcomes being pointless or inaccurate, it was necessary that the sessions were handled very carefully. I am not sure many could achieve this without coming across as intrusive or nosey. David’s combination of kind uncle allied to military boffin seemed to hit exactly the right note."
• The result of his work with me is a clearer idea of self and motives, combined with a more informed idea of the way that different personality types will react or behave in business related situations. I felt very sad when I came to the end of my series of sessions, combined with a tiny pinch of glad that I had no further tough searching questions to answer.”

 
​To arrange a free initial consultation with David call 01223 655667.