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Tom Beardshaw

Tom Beardshaw

Executive Coach

Tom is an executive coach with 10+ years’ experience guiding leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-potential professionals through career transitions, leadership challenges, and neurodiversity support, helping clients unlock potential and achieve sustainable growth.

Country: Spain

Sector experience: Legal, financial services

Background

Tom is an accomplished executive coach with over a decade of experience in guiding leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-potential individuals through complex professional challenges and transitions. He excels in helping clients navigate pivotal moments in their life and careers, whether it’s adapting to new roles, launching innovative ventures, or balancing the demands of leadership with personal responsibilities. Tom’s approach is grounded in a deep understanding of organisational dynamics and a commitment to helping his clients unlock their fullest potential.

With a strong track record of supporting new parents, founders, intra/entrepreneurs and ambitious professionals, Tom is skilled at helping clients clarify their vision, sharpen their focus, and achieve sustainable success. His integrative coaching style combines strategic insight with practical, actionable guidance, making him a trusted partner for those looking to reach their next level of performance.

In addition to his extensive experience in executive coaching, Tom has developed a specialism in working with neurodivergent clients, including those with ADHD, Autism, dyslexia and other neurological conditions. Drawing from his postgraduate studies in Neurodiversity Coaching at the University of London and his own lived experience, Tom brings a unique perspective to supporting clients in understanding and harnessing the strengths of their neurotype.

Tom’s empathetic and tailored approach ensures that each client, regardless of their background or challenges, feels seen, supported, and empowered to thrive in both their professional and personal lives. He is passionate about helping individuals navigate the intersection of their environment, their talent, and their ambitions to achieve high performance and meaningful growth.

 

Coaching Style

Highly attuned to individual client’s qualities, needs and goals, Tom’s coaching style is structured to allow them to develop self advocacy, relevant insights, and achievable plans and  results. Tom focuses on developing a strong partnership with his clients and uses his insight to enable them to process their experiences and learn to develop their self-awareness, so that they are able to advocate for their needs, harness their own strengths in support of self-development and pursue their goals. 

 

Special Interests

Tom is particularly interested in coaching individuals with neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia and others, he has experience with adaptive techniques for managing such conditions and processing a new diagnosis. He is also 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. 

 


Training & Qualifications
  • Degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics
  • Master’s Degree in Ethics from Cardiff University. 
  • Accredited Foundation Executive Coach and Member of the Association for Coaching (AC). 
  • MBTI Practitioner.
  • Currently studying for a PG Cert in Neurodiversity Coaching at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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. 

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 judgemental and supportive.
Jonathon Whiteford
Legal Director, DLA Piper
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