LEADERS IN EXECUTIVE COACHING

Paul Gray CB, CCMI

Experience Coaching I received several years ago helped me realise that what I regarded as one of my greatest strengths was getting in the way of my seeing the full range of future possibilities. So, for me, coaching in a supportive and trusting environment is about helping to recognise and remove the blinkers and limitations we place on ourselves. We all have untapped talent and energy we can translate into stronger performance and closer alignment with our core values.

Experience

Paul’s career has been largely in the UK public service, working in the Treasury, 10 Downing Street, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). But alongside that, in the 1970s he spent several years in the private sector as a corporate planner with Booker McConnell, and in the 1990s was a non-executive director of Laing Management.

Paul has held three Permanent Secretary posts, culminating in his role as Executive Chairman of HMRC. His approach as a senior leader in two of the three largest Government Departments was to reinforce their core public service values while transforming them into the customer focused financial services businesses they need to become. Earlier in his career, he spent two and a half years as Margaret Thatcher’s private secretary for economic and domestic policy issues.

While serving as HMRC Chairman Paul was also Head of Profession for Operational Delivery across Government; and was invited by his international peers to chair the OECD Forum on Tax Administration comprising the heads of tax authorities in the 30 leading developed countries.

For the last 15 years, Paul has been a governor of the local secondary school his children attended and will shortly be taking on the role of Chair of Governors there.

Paul and his wife live in rural North-West Essex where they tend the surviving members of a small flock of Wensleydale sheep they bred until a few years ago. They have 2 sons and, recently, with the birth of Lauren they now have their first grandchild. Apart from doting on her, Paul relaxes with mild physical, outdoor activities when he is not mourning the recent descent of Leicester City to the third tier of English Football.

We are a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) and subscribe to the EMCC code of ethics (see www.emccouncil.org). The EMCC exists to promote good practice and the expectation of good practice in mentoring and coaching across Europe.

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