Matt Driver
Matt believes that growth and development are fundamental to human well-being as well as to success for individuals and organisations. His has been an executive coach for over 10 years.
Matt’s focus as a coach is the area where business and psychology meet. He has a strong academic and hands-on background to support this. He works particularly well with people who feel ‘stuck’ (often very successfully stuck!) and want to move forward or who need to think differently about where they are and what they need to do.
Recent Clients
- A finance director who was left out of a re-structuring and found a fulfilling role for her talents in a new sector
- A director who found himself dealing with tough major players in the local economy after a rather protected decade in the public sector
- A senior media executive trying to break through to the top, but needing to come to terms with some very disabling personal history
- A business leader whose organisation was merged with a larger organisation with a very different culture.
- A chief executive who needed to get more out of her senior team in a highly competitive industrial sector.
Matt has significant overseas experience having worked in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe. He is a talented linguist and can coach in French and Italian. He also has a good knowledge of Russian and Spanish. Above all, Matt values the positive in every culture and has a real skill in working with people whose first language is not English.
Active outside work as a school governor and leading a family support network, Matt has chaired a number of conferences on work and community issues. He holds an MBA, an MSc in Organisational Psychology and Diplomas in Executive Coaching and Organisational Consulting. He has practitioner training in NLP and Gestalt and is qualified to use the MBTI and 16PF personality questionnaires. He is a supervisor and assessor for our ILM-accredited Coaching Diploma.