'Oppo'; your opposite number or partner in a buddy-buddy system
Zero bullsh*t coaching for people who want to lead.
Hi! I'm Ben
I am a leadership & performance coach and visiting lecturer on leadership at King's Business School, London.
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Leading is a brave choice. Leading is increasingly complex. Leading our own lives, leading others, leading teams of teams and businesses. It's hard.
Inwardly, leaders need to dial up self-awareness which can be confronting.
Outwardly, the essentials are vision, communication and decisiveness. Clarity.
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Let me be your 'Oppo'.
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We've got lives to lead, big and worthy problems to solve and businesses to build, and we're going to need to inspire and enable others to get it done.
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So, I'm on a mission to build better leadership so that leaders build better businesses.
>> Target Acquired
Wannabe leaders
New leaders
Forced-to-be leaders
Lonely leaders
Lost leaders
All leaders are all of these at some point. Sometimes, more than one at the same time.
I have always been fascinated with leadership.
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I have worked with leaders of all kinds: from multi-national billionaires to twenty-something founders, as well as technical experts thrust into leadership. I have worked in highly technical and regulated environments such biotech and fintech, as well as private equity, utilities and infrastructure, events and the creative arts.
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Coach > Endurance Athlete > HR Leader
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​Authentic, ethical and commercially astute leadership has always been a challenge, it's now more nuanced than ever.
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That said, we over-complicate it. That's what humans do to justify our own cleverness. We get in our own way.
Keeping things as simple as possible will require your deepest thinking. To protect your vision, to communicate with clarity and be decisive when making the tough calls...
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...You're going to need an Oppo.
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As your 'Oppo', I'm here to hold time and space for you. Sometimes to be silent and sit in the sh*t with you, sometimes to ask the stupid, or pokey questions; but always to meet you where you are and listen intensely.
DISPATCHES
Shaun, Client
We found the centre of me today. And from there we focused the attention on my forward trajectory
Yasmin, Coach
Ben stands out as truly exceptional. His mind is razor sharp and fast. He brings the perfect blend of intellectual rigour and emotional intelligence to his work.
Liliana, Client
Ben has the most intelligent sense of humour. He can really listen and help others achieve sustained excellence and maximum performance.
I'm on a mission to build better leaders
Lead your life > Lead others > Lead organisations
>> Teamship & Facilitation
High performing teams are all-in with each other, committed and able to seamlessly shift gears through conflict to clarity.
Diamonds are forged in fire.
Either in your work environment, or preferably away, I create sanctuary for your team.
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I work with a number of rural locations where your team can stay, decompress and focus on the big stuff. This sanctuary allows for deep work, whether that be strategic planning, or deepening relationships and teamship. I work with you and your team to craft a powerful and immersive experience that endures.
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​Do you know what trust looks like to each other? (It's not the same for everyone). Do you know each others communication styles and preferences, strengths and blind-spots? Have you worked out what happens when the wheels fall off? How conflict will, and needs, to show up to make your team successful? We'll take you through the tenants of high-performing teams.
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I partner with locations that offer open space, opportunity for adventure, inspire deep-thinking and a big canvas to stretch and galvanise your team with sessions that are skilfully facilitated to enable powerful conversations.
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SH ELD
The hidden-hand for CPeO's and CHRO's.
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You're the top 1%. Walking-the-talk as the top 1%, all of the time, is hard. Everyone has high expectations of you, including yourself. Your business and your team depend on you, but also perhaps a partner, child, parent or sibling. And, depending on your role, it might be the wider public or stakeholders like patients.
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Enter SHIELD >>​​
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I've combined my experience as a HR leader, skills as a coach and learnings as endurance athlete to offer a wrap-around service to senior industry colleagues that keeps the top 1% at 100% sustainable, healthy high-performance.
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Direction > Culture > Performance
Strategic clarity.
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> Purpose
> Mission
> Differentiation
Operationalising the mission and making culture real, defining how the work gets done.
Agency everywhere.
> Autonomy
> Powerful conversations
> Continuous improvement
Leadership > Teamship > Coaching
We're on a mission to build better leaders.
> Lead your life
> Lead others
> Lead organisations
High performing teams.
> Clarity
> Communication
> Collaboration
> Agility
Zero bullsh*t coaching for those who want to lead.
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