Impactful coaching fosters sustainable change for the individual and transforms your business
Our global clients repeatedly describe our coaching as sharp and strategic with a pragmatic business focus. Coaching will help your people see themselves more clearly, and gain the insights they need to grow and develop.
But that’s not the whole story. We help them with the right balance of support and challenge to find their answers and the route to change. We are experts in neuroscience, including behavioural, and strategies for performance. That means it’s a long-term and sustainable transformation, and they will feel the benefit long after we have stopped working with them.
Getting the right coach for your leaders can be daunting, but we will help make it easier. Because we have been matching coaches to leaders for years, and we know what works. And our global and diverse team of coaches are the best; we carefully selected each one -all 90 plus of them.
Region
United Kingdom
Area of expertise
Working Parents, Developing Leaders
Patrick McMaster
Executive Coach
Patrick has been delivering executive coaching, leadership development and inclusive leadership programmes since 2004. He coaches both individuals and teams, helping them to realise their full potential and clarify/attain their goals. Patrick’s focus is with high potentials, Execs and especially with individuals at key transition points in their career/life.
Patrick has a unique and deep background in leadership and talent development from the Technology and Sport sectors. From 2013-2018 he worked in an elite and grassroots sport environment at England Rugby, responsible for all executive coaching, leader and employee development.
Previously, he spent 12 years working for three high growth/performance technology businesses – Three, O2 and BlackBerry, directing both recruitment and leadership/learning & development across Europe, Asia and the UK. He’s been a Director with £1m+ budget and a team of 15 direct reports in multiple countries.
Prior to working in leadership development, Patrick worked in recruitment, identifying talent for start-up technology companies in the late 1990s. He has lived and worked in Japan (published children’s book author) and Australia.
Patrick lives in Maidenhead with his wife and 3 daughters and volunteers as Vice Chair of Newlands Girls Secondary School and as an FA Level 1 football coach.
Coaching Style
Patrick has an informal, listening and positive style of coaching, helping individuals enhance self-awareness, confidence where needed, and action. He enjoys both supporting and challenge client’s behaviours and he believes in life-long learning. There are millions of books, websites and models/theories which aim to improve people’s and organisations leadership, performance and engagement available….with so much choice, how do you know what will work best for you? Patrick listens to your needs and plays back what he hears/sees and feels. He helps you think through what you’re really aiming for organisationally and individually and how high you’re aiming. You achieve more.
Special Interests
As well as executive coaching, Patrick designs and delivers programmes specifically aimed at developing and retaining talent and leaders in organisation such as;
- ECC Leadership & Management Development Programmes.
- Patrick is also a parental transition coach. He’s the only man he knows who has worked in plc standard businesses on a part time basis for c10 years. He has supported other men to transition to part time working. He is passionate about flexible working.
- Patrick is particularly interested people’s perceptions of taking personal risk and the short- and long-term consequences of these actions.
Training & Qualifications
- Qualified ILM Performance Coach
- Accredited Association for Coaching Coach
- Member of the Association for Coaching
- MSc in Organisation Consulting (2011)
- BSC (Hons) in Management Science (1993)
- Insights practitioner
Current Clients
- King
- McLaren
- Derwent London
- Deutsche Bank
- Nuveen
- Morgan Stanley
- Reckitt Benckiser
What Our Clients Say
Patrick has been a great support to me throughout my first two years at England Rugby. He is extremely knowledgeable about leadership development, progressive in his approach and always keen to challenge you.
Thank you for your help and advice over the past 4 or 5 years. You’ve really help direct my mind and really focus on what post rugby may look like.
It was a transformational journey and I loved the fact that Patrick not only pushed me but also helped me reflect on the challenges ahead of me.
What Our Clients Say
The six sessions I had with my ECC Coach changed my perspective of coaching. I was initially uncertain (and possibly sceptical) about the benefits of coaching but my coach read me very well and knew when to coax a response out from me by being encouraging and when to firmly push me to see the benefits of reframing some of my previously held positions.
I found my ECC coaching sessions incredibly valuable – for the unique and necessary space I was seeking as a sole proprietor to feel heard, understood and connected to a peer in business. My coaching experience provided a safe space where I could be the real me, and provided a relationship I could truly trust. Thank you ECC.
The team is a pleasure to work with, consistently bringing expert advice and guidance, energy and professionalism to the partnership.
Both from my personal experience of ECC’s approach, and from seeing the impact on our company I can particularly recommend their pragmatic approach and their insight into our collective and individual needs.
The coaches at ECC are commercial, pragmatic and highly focused. The coaching they provide on an individual basis has given valuable insight and helped our senior executives to gain greater perspective in terms of managing relationships, prioritising, strategic thinking, influencing and confidence.