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
Europe
Area of expertise
Working Parents
Tom Beardshaw
Executive Coach & Paternity Specialist
Tom is particularly interested in working with executives and creative individuals during transitions in their careers, either developing new initiatives or organisations, or during significant periods in their lives. He enjoys working with high potential individuals and leaders to help them develop and realise their potential and aspirations.
Tom has a structured and empathetic approach to coaching which enables him to respond sensitively to individual challenges and work with his clients to help them develop their own insights and solutions to the issues they’re facing.
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.
Coaching Style
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.
Special Interests
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.
Training & Qualifications
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.
Current Clients
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.
What Our Clients Say
Tom is a fantastic listener. He shared insights based on his expertise and his own personal experience. He probed and helped me to process my thoughts and assess my position in a logical and structured manner, which I would not have been able to do on my own. He was able to understand my own personal priorities and my individual circumstances. He always seemed completely non judgmental and supportive.
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.