Gavin’s mission is to help the people he coaches to design a career that gives them the greatest achievable combination of fulfilment and success for them, as well as their employer.
Over 25 years he has had the privilege of guiding thousands of people through successful career transitions and job search, as well as managing their careers within their current organisations.
Gavin has also managed both planned and forced career changes of his own on several occasions. He has changed industries and roles, and moved countries three times. He also has substantial experience in coaching high performers and future leaders.
What I commit to, I will deliver. As a coach I am willing to have hard conversations when necessary, always couched in terms of mutual respect.
Clients can misunderstand the role of the career coach. They think I should tell them exactly what path to follow and find the role for them. My role is rather to guide them to make their own informed decisions and help them move forward with confidence.
A lesson learned from going out on my own: don’t try to do everything yourself. Invest in outside expertise for tasks that are not in your core skillset.
Gavin originally qualified at postgraduate level to teach languages and worked for a couple of years in secondary education. Since then his career journey has taken him to 6 industries on 3 continents, through 2 redundancies, corporate employment and periods of self-employment and contracting.
To underpin his coaching, Gavin regularly uses what is arguably the world’s leading behavioural and motivational assessment tool, the Birkman Method®. He coaches with a balance of sensitivity and directness and this tool gives him and his clients validated data on which to base real, actionable insights.
