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Self-Awareness
Understanding how you think, decide and lead before deciding what to change.
About Alan
Alan Howard
Business & Executive Coach
Alan's experience over the last 30 years spans a wide range of organisations and clients, providing bespoke coaching and consultancy services. These include small privately-owned companies, medium to large commercial enterprise organisations, and both local and national government departments. During this time, Alan has worked in the UK as well as across Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the Far East — all the while delivering valued advice and trusted guidance to his clients.
His experience includes work with organisations such as IBM, NATO, the European Commission, Rolls-Royce, Skanska and the UK Cabinet Office. That work has spanned large institutions and individual professionals, in varied cultures with very different expectations of leadership.
His coaching focuses on leadership development, performance improvement, strategic thinking, communication, problem-solving and professional growth.
His wide range of experience allows him to work across many kinds of organisation and to address challenges drawing upon contemporary ideas and models, collaborating with his clients to provide optimum solutions.
Coaching philosophy
Structure, not slogans.
Alan's coaching starts from the belief that most professionals already hold more of the answer than they realise — what they lack is space, structure and someone experienced enough to ask the harder question.
Sessions combine reflection with commitment. You leave with something specific to do, and you are held to it in the next conversation. Progress is tracked against goals you set, reviewed openly, and adjusted when circumstances change.
Coaching with Alan is a professional, forward-looking service. It is not therapy, counselling or crisis support, and it does not promise guaranteed career, business or financial outcomes.
Areas of expertise
- Leadership development
- Performance improvement
- Strategic thinking
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Professional growth
- Career development
- Decision-making
Professional background
- IBM
- NATO
- European Commission
- Rolls-Royce
- Skanska
- UK Cabinet Office
Organisations listed reflect Alan's stated business experience.
Cognitive assessment
Verified cognitive profile.
Alan's cognitive assessment, certified by Cognius, records a standardised IQ score of 122 — placing him in the 93rd percentile and classified as High across verbal reasoning, visual analogies and logic & patterns.
How Alan coaches
Three pillars, applied consistently.
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Accountability
Turning intentions into commitments, and commitments into consistent action.
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Performance & Growth
Removing obstacles and building strategies that hold up in real working life.
Contact Alan
Send a message through the contact form and Alan replies personally.