Executive Coach and Business Consultant

With over 30 years of experience working at the highest levels of leadership, Nick partners with CEOs, C-suite executives, senior leaders, and board members across professional services, corporates, and high-growth businesses. Nick’s work is direct, commercial, and results-driven – cutting through complexity to ensure leaders make sharp, high-impact decisions. Known for challenging assumptions and guiding tough conversations, his coaching enhances leadership credibility, decision-making confidence, and commercial effectiveness.

In 2012, Nick and his co-founder Jude Elliman created Listening Partnership and developed narrative coaching, an integrated approach that considers both the individual leader and their wider organisational context.

Nick’s coaching approach is sharp, commercially grounded, and designed for leaders operating at the highest level. He works with senior executives to refine their strategic thinking, strengthen their leadership presence, and drive tangible business impact. His coaching is:

• Strategic and commercial: focusing on business impact, market positioning, and leadership credibility
• Direct and challenging: encouraging leaders beyond their comfort zone for greater performance
• Results-driven: centring on tangible outcomes, from boardroom influence to business growth

His coaching methodology blends narrative frameworks with rigorous commercial insight, ensuring that senior executives operate at their most effective. As a co-developer of Transformational Narrative Coaching, Nick is a master TNC practitioner.

Nick works closely with boards to ensure alignment, performance, and governance at the highest level. He has a track record of cutting through ambiguity, ensuring boards operate with absolute clarity on strategic priorities. His services include:

• CEO and executive coaching: equipping CEOs to operate with total confidence, influence, and impact
• Strategic governance reviews: identifying gaps in board performance and governance
• High-stakes decision-making: guiding boards through complex challenges with unbiased insight
• Optimising leadership teams: addressing systemic team dynamics to enhance their effectiveness

Nick’s boardroom expertise includes serving as the Non-Executive Chair of Turley, where he played a strategic role in shaping the company’s evolution into the UK’s largest independent town planning consultancy.

Nick provides executive coaching supervision for coaches trained in TNC, with a focus on professional growth and reflective practice. His approach is structured and commercially aware, designed for experienced coaches seeking to enhance their narrative literacy. He supports both established and newly qualified coaches in refining their narrative-based approach, strengthening their strategic contribution, and maintaining good practice.

Nick is a course leader and facilitator, co-designing and delivering coaching and leadership training programmes. These programmes support executive coaches and leadership teams in integrating narrative coaching, strategic leadership, and high-performance methodologies into their practice.

His training style is structured, interactive, and business-focused, equipping leaders with the confidence and skills needed to operate at the highest levels. Participants develop fresh perspectives, strengthen leadership capability, and gain practical tools that drive lasting impact in their businesses.