About Alan
Alan Howard is a business and executive coach with more than 30 years of business experience, working with organisations and individuals across the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Far East.
His coaching focuses on leadership development, performance improvement, strategic thinking, communication, problem-solving and professional growth. The approach is calm and structured: understand the situation properly, decide what matters, then commit to practical action.
Organisations listed reflect Alan's stated business experience.
Read Alan's full backgroundTwo ways to work together
Personalised coaching for professionals, managers and business leaders who want to gain clarity, overcome challenges and make meaningful progress.
Facilitated coaching for 6–8 participants, combining individual objectives with reflection, dialogue, peer learning and shared accountability.
Coaching methodology
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Understanding how you think, decide and lead before deciding what to change.
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Turning intentions into commitments, and commitments into consistent action.
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Removing obstacles and building strategies that hold up in real working life.
The coaching journey
Coaching is a structured conversation with a purpose. Each stage builds on the last, so progress is visible rather than vague.
Understand where you are and what actually matters now.
See the patterns, assumptions and options you were too close to notice.
Choose a direction you can defend and commit to.
Translate the decision into a practical, time-bound plan.
Review, adjust and build habits that keep progress going.
Professional experience
Alan's stated experience includes work with organisations such as IBM, NATO, the European Commission, Rolls-Royce, Skanska and the UK Cabinet Office — alongside individual professionals and smaller businesses. That range informs the practical, unsentimental way he works.
In clients' words
Questions
Next step
The chemistry session is a straightforward, free conversation about where you are and what you want to change. If coaching is the right fit, you decide how to continue.
