Tom Beardshaw

Working with Banks, Legal firms and Media companies in the City to enable them to support their male employees with families since 2005. Before this, he was a Director of UK’s The National Fatherhood Institute and led the political lobby to introduce Paternity Leave into Law in 2003. He is also a consultant working with digital media and productivity and has worked with clients that including a number of national institutions in Wales, where he is based.

Highly focused on individual client’s needs and goals, Tom’s coaching style is structured to allow them to develop relevant insights, action plans and achievable results. Tom uses his insight to enable clients to process their learning and develop their self-awareness, so that they are able to harness their own strengths in support of self-development and goal oriented action.

Tom heads up ECC’s development of paternity coaching, working with groups and individual men who are experiencing family transitions such as the birth of children. He is a passionate advocate of the value of men’s engagement with their children and family life, and is experienced in working with clients to enable them to coordinate demanding careers with demanding personal lives.

Tom is helping to develop our services around the transition to parenting, parental leave, and work life integration issues for men.

Tom has a degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics, a Master’s Degree in Ethics from Cardiff University and he has completed a Professional Coach Recognition Programme. He is a member of the Association for Coaching.

Since joining ECC in 2011, Tom has worked with executives in a variety of managerial and professional roles in Allen & Overy, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, MediaCom and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang.