Simon Howarth
As a former director with Johnson Matthey plc focussing on Supply Chain and Operations, Simon brings a wealth of corporate leadership experience having led multiple local and global teams. In his most recent role, Simon created the vision for a led a major global corporate transformation program. Having spent 30 years in large companies he as ‘been there’ and therefore personally experienced many of the challenges facing business leaders today.
Throughout Simon"s corporate career and life more generally he is driven by his passion to make things and organisations work better. Combining this passion with his drive to help people develop led to him being recognised for getting the best out people and building exceptional teams. In his second career as a Coach and Mediator he takes a great deal of pleasure from helping individuals and organisations to move forward from positions where they find themselves ‘stuck’.
From childhood, Simon has always been intensely curious and highly observant. Combining this with his great listening skills and ability to help people take apparently complex tasks and boil them down to their fundamental parts and simple actionable chunks makes him highly effective in his dual role:
- As coach helping individuals to successfully work their way through the full range of modern leadership challenges, and
- As a mediator helping parties move forward to resolution avoiding potentially painful litigation.
Simon lives with his wife Dawn in the beautiful Ribble Valley where he is in the process of completing a 6 year renovation of their home. Simon enjoys distance running, amateur motorsport and skiing.
I believe:
- That when you are experiencing difficulty or are stuck, trying harder to achieve the same outcome doesn't work and that being stuck can be a painful waste of time and energy.
- We all have the answers within ourselves, we need help to find them.
- Organisations (and the world) would be better places if leaders could have better conversations with themselves.
My approach
We help leaders and organisations get out of their own way (unstick themselves) By helping them to become visitors in their own world, we enable them to see things differently, design new actions and as a result have better conversations with themselves.