Dr John Collins, PCA Founder Member and Business Coach
John Collins is a professional coach who works mainly with business leaders and their senior teams to generate real and lasting improvements in their individual and business performance.
He specialises in working with organisations that are experiencing significant change, coaching the people to manage and drive that change successfully, to perform beyond expectations.
John’s strengths are in helping people to approach business issues from different perspectives and in developing their personal skills and attributes to generate creative and innovative solutions to those issues. His approach is practical and challenging but always learning oriented. He has a demonstrated ability to mobilise, enthuse and coach business teams to deliver practical solutions to complex business problems, his pragmatic approach works from board room to shop floor.
Experience. A chance encounter with a book, ’The new science of strong materials’, led John to a Degree and PhD in polymers and composites and a successful career in Plastics industry, mostly in multinational business. His professional coaching skills build on and draw from over 20 years senior business and people management experience. He is a strong, commercially oriented manager with extensive business development, technical, operations, global sales/marketing and general management skills.
John subsequently spent several years as a consultant managing business transformation and change management programmes across a range of manufacturing and service businesses. He worked with and managed teams from board to shop floor, building and coaching improvement teams to drive performance improvements across all areas of their businesses. | “All of the work I have done running businesses, driving sales and manufacturing performance, building and coaching teams, emphasises time and again that “the people in the business,
make the business” . We generally underestimate their capacity and capability for growth and development. I developed a real passion for driving and delivering business performance improvements through developing and coaching people and teams”. |
John’s style as a coach is performance and change oriented, focussing on both individual and business goals. His non judgemental and open minded approach focuses on moving his clients to take the actions that will transform their individual and business performance. John draws from his extensive business, consultancy and coaching experience to provide the objectivity, motivation and support his clients need in this process to deliver both their personal and business aspirations.
John continues to be trained by the ICF (international Coach Federation) accredited Adler School of Professional coaching. He is a member of the ICF, a growth coach on the flagship EMDA high growth coaching programme, an EMDA Business Champion and also coaches University spin out businesses.
Favourite Quotes
“Your Future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow”. Robert Kiyosaki.
“If you think you can, or think you can’t – You’re right”. Henry Ford