John Whitmore
Sir John Whitmore is Executive Chairman of Performance Consultants. He is a pre-eminent thinker in leadership and organizational change and works globally with leading multinational corporations to establish coaching management cultures and leadership programmes. He has written five books on leadership, coaching and sports, of which Coaching for Performance is the best known having sold 500,000 copies in 17 languages.
He was a motor racing champion in his 20's before retiring to run a large agribusiness, a product design company and a Ford Main Dealership. Together with other high profile achievers, he formed Performance Consultants, which has been highly influential in introducing new approaches to coaching and business training, and he remains a senior partner today. Sir John has personally trained some of the leading organisations in the world, such as Deloitte, icewaterhouseCoopers, Barclays, Lloyds, Rolls Royce, British Airways, Novo Nordisk and Roche. The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options/Opportunity, Will/What Next) model of coaching has been developed and popularized by Sir John Whitmore. These four simple steps can be applied to any coaching challenge or opportunity. Sir John was rated as the number one Business coach by the Independent Newspaper and as having had the most impact on the coaching profession by the UK Association of Coaching. Honoured with the President's Award by International Coach Federation (ICF), Sir John is is one of the leading figures in the international coaching community with activities and operations globally. Together with Tim Gallaway and Bob Kriegel he was the first to formulate the coaching processes and create experiential learning to overcome the inner obstacles to human potential and high performance such as fear, doubt and limiting beliefs.
What he presents:
Evolution is essential
The future of coaching
Coaching is about leadership
Transpersonal coaching in action
Global leadership & coaching for organizational success