“Rowan offers a singular mix of high end genuine corporate experience with a truly hands on professional coaching relationship.  It is challenging, and deliberately so, in both a personal and professional perspective.  I have seen this at first hand, as he has worked with a group of mixed experience and nationality across my company, and engendered a real commitment to want to lead, with a change agenda, and a realignment of organisational values.”

Senior Executive, HSBC

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“Born & bred in the international corporate universe, I thrill at playing in its dreamscape diversity. Initially as an increasingly super-specialised 25-hour a day international corporate lawyer-expert, then as a regional director in a radically-transforming multinational bank – exploring the fascinating matrices of formal corporate ‘leadership’ and now as a confidante-coach-consultant, re-defining & integrating mine and others’ experiences & aspirations…

Each career has been a dream-career, and, as the enacting of each such dream helps me to grow, so too do i outgrow it. In each case what I initially-consider as a career for an entire life spirals into a career for that stage of life… a life journey, which keeps asking me to reconsider – ‘Why be a high-performing HALF-PERSON when you can be a peak-performing WHOLE-PERSON?!”

A “man in the mix”, consciously modeling innovative deep diversity/integration, Rowan has an applied passion for whole-system approaches and creative complexity-development. He works with his breadth of experience, as potentially the world’s most technically-qualified developmental coach (from Harvard-Oxford-HEC Paris through to hypnosis), international corporate lawyer, senior banking executive, yoga instructor/Dalai Lama-taught meditator, tri-continental citizen, and co-developer of conscious systems by “playfully provoking inspiring trans-paradigm performance” with multinational executives globally.

Some of the developmental technologies in which Rowan is trained include: Barrett CTT, Spiral Dynamics, Kegan’s ITC, Torbert’s LDF, Joiner’s Leadership Agility, Leadership Circle, RisoHudson’s Enneagram  9Domains, Sharmer’s Theory U, Holacracy, Constellations, Grinder’s NLP, NeuroLeadership, Bartlett’s Matrix Energetics, Grof’s Holotropic, Genpo’s BigMind, Yoga & Meditation.

Rowan is based in the UK.

SPECIALITIES & PASSIONS

  • Coaching teams, senior executives, high-potentials and coaches themselves.
  • A passion for practical Peak-Performance state inducing work, including through intensive-immersion using ancient/modern bio-cardio-neuro feedback technologies
  • “External/Internal Adventuring” (from fly-fishing, free-diving, climbing, exploring, to meditation & yoga)
  • All, being playfully provoking/inspiring means to consciously evolve conscious human systems and thereby elicit systemic trans-paradigm performance/complexity

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Over 20 years industry experience across banking and law sectors including:
    • Regional Director (S&SE Asia) and Business Leadership Team member at Standard Chartered
    • International corporate lawyer at Skadden Arps, London’s Simmons & Simmons and Webber Wentzel (SAfrica)
  • Consulting in the corporate world since the 1990’s, adept versatility as coach-consultant-confidante, facilitator, designer, trainer and/or mediator, serving cross-sector corporate leaders & coaches globally

QUALIFICATIONS

  • “Immunity to Change” Coach (Harvard – Ongoing)
  • MSc in Coaching/Consulting for Change (Oxford Said Business School & HEC Paris)
  • Accredited by International Coaching Federation
  • Potentially the world’s most technically-qualified developmental coach, trained in a plethora of leading-edge values/culture, leadership developmental, organisational systems,  peak performance technologies. See partial list above.
  • Member of NeuroLeaderhsip Institute and the IAPP CAPP positive psychology institutes
  • LLB, Dip Arb, CEDR Mediator, Solicitor, Attorney

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