SIMA Team Member

Nick Isbister

For twenty years Nick has established a consulting practice in the UK and throughout Europe. He has built the business from scratch into a highly respected niche consultancy working with a select group of clients.

Much respected as an executive coach he has pioneered the application of SIMA in individual and team coaching forging for himself a role as ‘trusted advisor' to many business leaders.

Relational, responsive and relaxed he helps individuals and teams make sense of their experience, understand their strengths so that they can leverage them to best effect.

He has twenty-year relationships with a number of FTSE 100 firms: BT, BP, O2, Vodafone

He has a twelve year relationship with one of the UK's ‘Magic Circle' law firms, providing them with coaching for: transition management; lateral hires; performance improvement coaching and career planning at all stages of the career life-cycle

He has coached in-house lawyers on how to serve their businesses and how to survive and thrive in the Boardroom

He currently coaches a number of ‘C-suite' individuals (CEOs, COOs, CFOs) from FTSE 100 organisations

He has worked with a huge variety of individuals in the City of London from investment banks to big 4 accountants

He has worked with In-house HR and HC professionals to create innovative development programmes for all levels of staff

He has spoken and written about trends in careers in the Twenty-First Century

He has written two books, the first a biographical introduction to the ideas of Sigmund Freud, the second a popular introduction to SIMA entitled Who do you think you are?

He holds a first degree and a PhD from Cambridge University. His doctoral work, conducted in the Department of Psychology was an in depth study of how psychiatrists justify their power and control over other professionals.

This work was an early example of a sophisticated piece of Organisational Development (OD) that has proved a bedrock to much of the OD work he has subsequently done in a huge variety of companies (both commercial and charitable).

‘Throughout my professional career I have been fascinated by those who can ‘get under the skin' of others. My early encounters with many of the leading thinkers in the field left me dissatisfied with the quality of their capacity to really listen, listen without prejudgment, and base their recommendations and solutions on the sure base of real insight and in depth knowledge. When I discovered SIMA I knew I had found a methodology that satisfied my desire to find a ‘technology' that enabled me to work in a truly generative way with my clients. I understand what Oliver Wendell Holmes has called ‘the privilege to listen', my clients know the wisdom this brings'.

E-mail: nisbister@simainternational.com

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