More about Shaun

Empowering Leaders to Thrive with Clarity, Confidence, and Impact

Shaun began his career as a manufacturing apprentice and progressed into senior leadership roles over a 35+ year career. He has led teams in bidding for and delivering complex large scale infrastructure projects for high profile customers, giving him a deep understanding of the challenges faced at the executive board level of a global, matrixed organisation.

Throughout his successful career, Shaun discovered a passion for developing leaders through coaching. As an executive coach, he leverages his expansive business experience, empathy and strategic thinking to challenge his clients and help them achieve actionable insights that they can apply to their leadership roles.

Track Record

Since 2016, Shaun has been coaching leaders in both the private and public sectors. Initially, he incorporated coaching into his leadership roles, but today, as an independent executive coach, he specialises in working with existing and aspiring board-level directors.

Shaun is passionate about developing talent, preparing leaders to step into senior roles, and helping them navigate complex, changing environments.

With extensive experience in promoting gender and cultural diversity, he ensures that his coaching is inclusive and sensitive to the diverse backgrounds and challenges leaders face. His coaching helps clients thrive through significant career transitions and organisational shifts, empowering them to meet their next big challenge with confidence and clarity.

Shaun frequently allowed me to unpick a situation or challenge I was dealing with, metaphorically laying all the various pieces out and helping me put them back together in the right order. Shaun remained impartial and uninvolved through this where, upon reflection, I can see it would’ve been tempting to offer a direct solution. Finally, Shaun provided a wealth of patience throughout our coaching sessions – allowing me to think, often in silence, without pressure or expectation.

Senior SW Engineer

Shaun could have easily moved into being a mentor as I was talking about situations and people he knew and was much more experienced in. However, he never moved out of the coaching space and allowed me to find my own resolution to the issues I was raising.

HR Director

I started coaching with Shaun shortly after returning from maternity leave (having been away for 13 months). I had lost my confidence and was struggling to balance all my different priorities in and outside of work. Shaun helped me rebuild my confidence at work and to realise the importance of “headspace” to discover what I wanted my career focus to be at that time.

HR Director

Shaun was great at creating a safe space and an environment where I felt comfortable to have those challenging conversations that were required. He followed up on specific conversations from previous sessions with ease which made me feel that he was also engaged in the coaching process and my progress.

Senior Project Manager

Shaun is a real role model and I really appreciate our Coaching relationship. He was always calm, professional and unjudgmental. He rarely jumps into giving direct suggestions, instead he listens and asks open questions. I would often find my own answers during our conversations. He is very good at knowing what questions to ask and providing me with real and relatable examples or tools to inspire my thinking and help me to find what I needed and come away feeling inspired and reassured. I feel safe to share my thoughts and feelings with Shaun. I have really developed myself thanks to the coaching, it’s been fun and relaxing experience for me.

Engineering Director

Shaun’s chairmanship of a Peer Review of our largest UK Defence programme ensured a very constructive and fiercely independent outcome. His understanding of the sector, operational environment and business challenges allowed him to maintain focus on adding real value throughout. We will certainly make use of his services in future reviews and follow ups.

VP, Bids and Programme Management Office

I immediately felt at ease with Shaun and that I could trust him, which made me open up quickly.

Shaun’s listening skills were excellent and non-judgemental. He somehow managed to listen to all of my sometimes chaotic situations and playback to me in a very succinct manner so that I could make sense of myself and the situations!

Sales & Operations Lead

Shaun questioned some of my thoughts and thinking which helped me come to my own practical conclusions. It also helped me to better understand my own self-control, what I can and can’t control and how to better deal with those situations.

Transformational Change Leader

Style

Shaun creates a space for his clients to engage in self-discovery, raising their awareness and empowering them to find their own solutions. His non-directive approach fosters autonomy while also being appropriately challenging, encouraging clients to push beyond their comfort zones to reach their full potential.

Shaun keeps clients focused on their stated outcomes, holding them accountable through regular check-ins and progress tracking, ensuring they stay on track in their development journey. His style helps clients gain deeper insights and make impactful decisions with confidence.

Qualifications

Shaun is a professionally accredited executive coach, having completed a Diploma in Transformational Coaching, which equips him to guide clients through profound personal and professional change.

In addition, Shaun holds an MBA, earned during his business career, providing him with a robust understanding of business strategy and leadership. These credentials, combined with his extensive executive experience, allow him to offer coaching that integrates personal growth with practical business insights.

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Address

Nottingham, UK

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Phone Number

+44 7971 425 239

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Email

shaun@sjcoach.co.uk

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