Simon Bennett
Simon Bennett’s philosophy is that everyone has the inner resources required to achieve their leadership potential. As an executive coach, Simon blends process and content to help you access and apply your own resources.
At all times Simon balances the needs of each individual executive with those of their organisation, exploring issues that typically arise at points where your personality intersects with the demands of your role. Simon helps each client to find their way forward by working at these points of intersection.
He has considerable experience supporting senior managers to find a personal resolution to issues such as role transition or the confidence to be yourself as well as how this can be manifested in your leadership style
Clients include:
- Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte and Ernst & Young.
- Barclays, LloydsTSB and Nationwide.
- Centrica, GlaxoSmithKline and Group4Securicor.
- Morrisons and Sainsbury’s.
- Organisations in the not-for-profit sector.
Background
During a 20 year career as an IT and strategy consultant, Simon has worked at a senior level in some of the world’s largest companies on issues of direction and performance. As a partner in The Boston Consulting Group, he led their IT practice in the UK, helping clients to identify the contribution that IT could make to their business, define an appropriate strategy and organisation and then mobilise to deliver that contribution. Since leaving BCG in 2002, Simon has been coaching senior managers in the financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail and industrial goods sectors as well as working as a part-time counsellor for four years with alcoholics in south London.
Simon has a BSc (Hons) in Physics from University College, London and a MPhil in Systems and Cybernetics from the University of Aston and a BA (Hons) in Person Centred Counselling from the Metanoia Institute, London.
Specialist expertise
Simon is an Accredited Executive Coach with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS).