Alan Taylor

I am an executive and team coach with broad experience supporting individuals, leaders and teams in developing, growing and delivering.

Leaders and teams working with me achieve success and make significant progress with their business and leadership goals. They succeed primarily through me helping them find out about more themselves, from where they build their mental muscles and overcome not only the challenges they brought in, but are better prepared for lifelong learning.

Alan also has a passion for our environment, and works with businesses and communities to help clients achieve their outcomes while increasing cognitive ability, satisfaction and connection to the organisation.

Alan's Provides:

• Executive Coaching: supporting managers in seeing situations from varied perspectives, such viewing challenges from tactical and/or strategic angles
• Leadership Coaching: empowering leaders as they clarify their goals, whether for themselves personally or for their teams. Alan assists them in growth mindset and constructively navigating challenges and disagreements to become better leaders
• Agile Leadership Coaching: providing support for leaders (in a wide range of roles) in adapting to the ever changing needs; helping them work towards a vision and make things possible 
• Team and Group Coaching;&nbsp coaching and supporting teams
  ○ in growing cohesion
  ○ identifying a vision and overcoming challenges towards achieving it
• Extended DISC&nbsp Assessments; Individual behavioural assessments and 1-on-1 debriefs
• Conflict Management: helping people overcome conflict situations through reflection through to identifying positive ways forward

Experience

With over 9 years experience as a consultant and coach in a wide range of areas, I have extensive real-world knowledge and appreciation of the challenges people face, whether with workplace dynamics or in themselves.

Qualifications

• International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach (ICF-ACC)
• Extended DISC Practitioner - Talent Tools
• ICAgile Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
• ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner (CPO)

Training

• Process Oriented Executive and Systems Coaching Program - Global Coaching Institute
• Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) Trained - CRR APAC
• Conflict Management Coaching - CINERGY Coaching

My coaching experience is built on top of a diverse career including military aircraft avionics engineer and flight line management, software development, project management (traditional and agile) and business analysis. My life experiences are also quite broad, having lived and worked in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia.

Communities and Research
I am co-creator of an international research program with The Climate Coaches. We developed effective learning methods, enabling individual growth applicable to climate sustainability action and transferable mental skills. The results demonstrated a 7% improvement in cognitive uplift in the program participants. These benefits ultimately enable outcomes including productivity and employee engagement and retention.

I enjoy sharing knowledge and learnings, including speaking at the Melbourne LAST (Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking) Conference.

I contribute to the Australian hub of the Inner Development Goals, which provides a framework of the capabilities, qualities and skills we need in order to achieve the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We are exploring how we can assist growing awareness and effectiveness of this powerful framework for inner growth.

As a co-convener of the Climate Coaching Alliance for Australia and New Zealand, I enjoy helping an engaged community build awareness in the many psychological and practical areas that climate change is creating.

People come to me at times such as when they:

• are seeking a change, and are not sure where to go or how to get there
• see opportunities and are not sure how to realise them
• seek to become better leaders
• wish to increase collaboration
• seek to grow confidence and communicate more effectively 
• wish to relate and engage with people better
• wish to overcome conflict

I support and help clients understand the situation from new perspectives (rather than directing), so they can determine their own best way forward.

Feedback

• "Alan understands my unique needs and tailors each session accordingly.
  I continue to feel supported and motivated and love that he is genuinely passionate about helping others achieve their goals.
  I highly recommend Alan to anyone seeking exceptional coaching services. Whether you’re looking to enhance your personal development, improve your career, or achieve specific goals." Tracy

• "You have wonderful strength in your knowledge and ability to connect with many frameworks, approaches and new ideas across technology, psychology and business. This plays out in the great resources you're able to share and the questions you ask, which spark internal reflection and external discussion." Project Manager

• "You help clients see differently the systems in which they operate" Psychotherapist and Coach

• “Bringing theory into practice in complex organisations that need to transform” Product Innovation Principle

• "You always allow people to come to their own conclusions which is empowering and makes people take ownership of their work. That does not mean you are not providing guidance. You do that well as well but you do it in a way that lets people come to their thinking in their own time on their own path." Customer Experience Manager

• "You get the team to recognize there are many distinct and differing characters and ways of working, and that it is not a bad thing" Data Compliance Lead

• “You calmed the farm! Despite us being a team that were not always on the same page you helped us find a common route” Brand Experience Manager