Praesta LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING

Barry Woledge

My own coaching style is both searching and inspiring. I believe that all obstacles can be overcome, all problems turned into opportunities. By bringing situational leadership alive, providing alternative frameworks and context, executives are enabled to develop new and innovative solutions.

Experience

Uniquely, Barry is as much at home working with senior executive teams as he Is working with individuals. He has developed the art of translating coaching skills in to the top team environment and spends half of his life in boardrooms around the globe doing just that.

Barry is a leading exponent of executive coaching having been professionally engaged in the work since 1994 and prior to that had incorporated coaching within his professional business portfolio in the UK and overseas.

Barry started life as an operator with British European Airways. His career migrated to labour relations during the periods of significant industrial strife in the UK and he played a pivotal role in the creation and reshaping of British Airways, including the corporate change programme and privatisation. After a spell in the USA, Barry left British Airways and was appointed a main board Director with the Lancer Boss Group.

After leading the business through some difficult pan-European adventures, Barry joined the British Railways Board as the Director of Human Resources and board member for the InterCity business. Barry was instrumental in successfully marching the people of this business to the starting line for a privatisation.

Moving out of corporate life, Barry was a founder of The Change Partnership in 1994, and is today Chairman of Praesta Partners LLP.

Barry is a fulltime coach and Boardroom facilitator and continues to deliver his brand of expert coaching in the UK and internationally.

Professional Expertise

Barry has been a specialist executive coach and expert facilitator since 1994 and has worked with individual and corporate clients from a wide range of industry, commerce, government and private practice.

Selected Client Companies

Apetito A.G.
Arriva plc
Balfour Beatty plc
BCI Incorporated
Cross Rail
D2 Communications
Eurostar
Go Ahead Group plc
National Express Group plc
Punch Taverns plc
Resolution Life
SERCO plc
The Home Office
The John Lewis Partnership
The Scottish Government
Transport for London
Welcome Break Limited
Zurich Financial Services

Education, Qualifications, Professional Positions

Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Manchester Business School Executive Development Programme
Fellow Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

Contact details

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