Nick Kitchen
Nick has over 30 years’ experience coaching/developing senior leaders/executives and C Suite/senior leadership teams in a wide range of organisations across many different cultures and parts of the world as they negotiate and support themselves, their staff and their organisations through these highly challenging, BANI times (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible).
In his leadership development and coaching career, his clients have ranged from SME’s, PLC’s, UK Government bodies, Multinational organisations, large financial and consultancy organisations, tech start-ups, Creative agencies, 3rd sector organisations, and local state primary Schools in North London; the last being some of the most challenging leadership and organisational work for Head Teachers and Teachers as one of the ‘front lines’ in modern society.
His initial career was in advertising and marketing, culminating as the New Business Director of international advertising and communications agency TBWA.
He has over 25 years teaching coaching/team coaching and leadership development skills at various colleges and in-house, and also supervising leadership/executive and team coaches in support of their work, again from many parts of the world.
He brings to all these areas a deep and integrated Somatic/embodied, strategic/systemic and humanistic awareness:
‘For leaders and change agents, I suggest that all the skills required in the challenging environments they navigate have an increasingly somatic embodied foundation. They are required to think clearly under pressure, whilst thinking and acting systemically and strategically, having tough AND productive conversations, to manage increasingly rapid change, both personally and organisationally, to communicate effectively at every level of the organisation and the outside world, motivating diverse groups and others, creating great teams AND, through all this, somehow staying healthy, energetic and motivated.
All place a heavy burden on a leader's character and somatic cognitive abilities, not just simply their intellectual capacity.
Supporting people in this is the work I love doing and teaching others to do’.
In his leadership development and coaching career, his clients have ranged from SME’s, PLC’s, UK Government bodies, Multinational organisations, large financial and consultancy organisations, tech start-ups, Creative agencies, 3rd sector organisations, and local state primary Schools in North London; the last being some of the most challenging leadership and organisational work for Head Teachers and Teachers as one of the ‘front lines’ in modern society.
His initial career was in advertising and marketing, culminating as the New Business Director of international advertising and communications agency TBWA.
He has over 25 years teaching coaching/team coaching and leadership development skills at various colleges and in-house, and also supervising leadership/executive and team coaches in support of their work, again from many parts of the world.
He brings to all these areas a deep and integrated Somatic/embodied, strategic/systemic and humanistic awareness:
‘For leaders and change agents, I suggest that all the skills required in the challenging environments they navigate have an increasingly somatic embodied foundation. They are required to think clearly under pressure, whilst thinking and acting systemically and strategically, having tough AND productive conversations, to manage increasingly rapid change, both personally and organisationally, to communicate effectively at every level of the organisation and the outside world, motivating diverse groups and others, creating great teams AND, through all this, somehow staying healthy, energetic and motivated.
All place a heavy burden on a leader's character and somatic cognitive abilities, not just simply their intellectual capacity.
Supporting people in this is the work I love doing and teaching others to do’.