The coaching experience with Graham has been tremendously rewarding. His personal experience together with his deep knowledge and practice in coaching made a real difference to our work and the results. I particularly appreciate Graham's experience in business which makes time spent with him much more valuable than in case of other coaches whom often have a much more psychological role that is not directly applicable to every day work in a large organisation.

Carlos Jose Mollatpujante, Support Manager, Enterprose Market, Telefonica o2

Graham Bird

Fellow

Graham has more than 20 years experience as a training and development consultant and qualified coach, specialising in Leadership Development and Culture Change.

Graham works with senior executives in his role as executive coach across a variety of industries within the public and private sector.

Graham is a Certified Master Practitioner in NeuroLinguistic Programming. He has a Diploma in Business Coaching and an Advanced Certificate in Executive Coaching and an Advanced Certificate in Psychology for Trainers.

Graham has been at the forefront of leading the Oxford Leadership Academy's™ open Self Managing Leadeship® programmes in the UK. He is also a regular facilitator of OLA programmes in the UK and Europe. His most recent activities include major cultural change programmesworking with private sector companies AkzoNobeland Telefónica.

For the past twenty years, Graham has worked with organisations, both in the UK and abroad, helping them to develop their people. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to organisationalchange and people development. He has helped organisations, teams and individuals to improve their performance by establishing what needs to change and how to implement that change.

He has worked for a broad range of International, European and UK based organisationsin a variety of industries within the public and private sector, including retail, utilities, pharmaceutical, financial services, distribution and education. Some of the companies he has worked with include: Marks and Spencer, Prudential, Npower, EDF Energy, Nokia, BSI Swiss Bank, Asquith Court Schools, AldermastonWeapons Establishment, Hasbro, Centrica, Sara Lee, Nisa Today's, Cunningham Lindsay, Carlsberg Tetley, Whitbread Leisure, Sara Lee, Pfizer, Telefónica, Vediorand AkzoNobel.

Graham also works with non-profit organisations such as the Bath Area Drugs Advisory Service, RedbridgeBorough Council and Blackburn with DarwenBorough Council.