“Having worked with Mike for the past 2 years, he has helped to develop my thinking and leadership approach within a new Senior Commercial role in the business. Mike was introduced to me as a coach at a time of significant change within the business and his coaching style and approach helped me navigate some complex and at times sensitive matters to reach the best possible outcomes. I have grown professionally in the last two years and thank Mike for the role he has played in this, which evolved and adapted to my needs at the time. A pragmatic approach, a great listener, who lets you work through the challenges and come up with the answer, If you can’t and you push him, he’ll provide some sound guidance to boot! Thanks Mike, it’s been great working with you, and I highly recommend you for your coaching and mentoring skills.”
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Dan Timberlake,
Group Vice President – Sales,
IDC
Mike supported me in developing a greater depth of self-awareness that allowed me to better understand my goals, and form strategies to achieve them. He gently challenges in an encouraging way that leads you to not only ask yourself the right questions, but also provide yourself with the answers. He is a fantastic coach that I would highly recommend.
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Rebecca Hayes,
Chief Information and Technology Officer,
Family Building Society
Mike is the first executive coach I have had regular sessions with, and the experience has been transformative to my career and my mindset. From the very beginning, his understanding of my GC Index profile meant that we were able to hit the ground running. He allows me to download my thoughts, then challenges them and pushes me to rethink in line with what is best for me. Mike has made me understand that if I am happy and fulfilled with my work, then this is of the greatest benefit to my organisation. His technique of making me think more holistically about my career and life while pushing me to be clearer and more bold has reaped professional rewards, and I hope to work with him as I go through future phases of career and life.
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Emma Weston,
Head of Talent
Genel
“It has been a pleasure to work with Mike during my recent set of coaching sessions. He has an extremely approachable, accessible style which immediately put me at ease and helped focus the sessions. He listens carefully, effectively uses questions to help pin-point issues at hand and provides thoughtful and insightful comments which helped to both affirm and challenge perspectives and ideas I held. His input has provided me with tangible actions which I have employed to help me overcome obstacles and become a more effective leader. I would wholeheartedly recommend Mike as a coach.”
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Mike Hohbein,
Genel
Mike has coached me during what I would call a highly critical five months period when I was assigned multiple roles in my Company. My transition into these roles was somewhat painful and seemed quite a challenge to me. I needed an objective evaluation of how I was handling the day to day running of these roles and further, I needed someone to help me see how I could leverage on these new experiences in the context of my longer-term career. Mike is a sincere and genuine coach who is an extremely good listener. He has a great deal of business experience and is a true master in knowing how to benefit his coachee from his experiences. With the questions he directed and the insights he provided me during our sessions, he helped me to organise my thoughts and to articulate the essence of my career situation.
In the follow up sessions, he helped me to think out-of-the-box and to come up with ideas that I could quickly put into action which I did and since, have seen positive results and impact. I feel so lucky to have Mike as my coach, his coaching allowed me to look beyond what I thought was achievable. I would have no hesitation to recommend him as a career coach to those who need support in identifying and reaching their career aspirations.
Arda Yakici,
Financial Controller / Head of Procurement,
Taq Taq Operating Co.Ltd
“Having worked with Mike for the past 2 years, he has helped to develop my thinking and leadership approach within a new Senior Commercial role in the business. Mike was introduced to me as a coach at a time of significant change within the business and his coaching style and approach helped me navigate some complex and at times sensitive matters to reach the best possible outcomes. I have grown professionally in the last two years and thank Mike for the role he has played in this, which evolved and adapted to my needs at the time. A pragmatic approach, a great listener, who lets you work through the challenges and come up with the answer, If you can’t and you push him, he’ll provide some sound guidance to boot! Thanks Mike, it’s been great working with you, and I highly recommend you for your coaching and mentoring skills.”
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Dan Timberlake,
Group Vice President – Sales,
IDC
Mike supported me in developing a greater depth of self-awareness that allowed me to better understand my goals, and form strategies to achieve them. He gently challenges in an encouraging way that leads you to not only ask yourself the right questions, but also provide yourself with the answers. He is a fantastic coach that I would highly recommend.
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Rebecca Hayes<,
Chief Information and Technology Officer,
Family Building Society
Mike is the first executive coach I have had regular sessions with, and the experience has been transformative to my career and my mindset. From the very beginning, his understanding of my GC Index profile meant that we were able to hit the ground running. He allows me to download my thoughts, then challenges them and pushes me to rethink in line with what is best for me. Mike has made me understand that if I am happy and fulfilled with my work, then this is of the greatest benefit to my organisation. His technique of making me think more holistically about my career and life while pushing me to be clearer and more bold has reaped professional rewards, and I hope to work with him as I go through future phases of career and life.
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Emma Weston,
Head of Talent
Genel
“Mike has been a true partner for me in both understanding some of my weaknesses in my approach/positioning and then working on them in specific business situations. He has been fundamental to helping me navigate a promotion to a senior leadership role and navigating the politics/specific individuals that would block or influence this.
He tested and helped me correct my approaches to these situations and through this, it is evident that I have improved my approaches and overall capability.
Thanks Mike, I look forward to work with you on the upcoming challenges.”
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Philip Askew,
COO,
Enoclink
“Mike is an incredibly knowledgeable and skilled leader with evidential experience in helping people be the best they can be. His key strengths lie in being able to tune in to an individual to really work with them on clarifying
their personal wants, and then how to go about reaching these, to develop themselves. Mike is positive in character, pragmatic and understanding whilst being clear on his intention to develop people and push boundaries.”
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Faye Summers
Head of HR
UK Flooring Direct
I’ve known Mike for many years now and worked closely with him while setting up the Voice Services business in Colt. In that hectic phase Mike proved to be a great HR partner. He helped shape the organization and team, was a personal adviser to me, and helped create a culture where people were proud to be part of the business and focussed on getting things done.
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Richard Oosterom
Business Transformation
Interxion
I never thought coaching or mentoring is important. I thought it is one of those soft skills that you can go through life without. Companies may have certain programs internally but those are nothing alike the real deal! Mike is a people expert who knows how to help people get the best out of themselves and has had numerous leadership roles in different industries.
A tome of knowledge, a good listener and will give you pragmatic advice. The sessions with him have helped me improve as a person, enlarged my view about different things by adding perspectives or great insights. Mike is truly inspirational, I can’t speak highly enough of his work on coaching / mentoring.
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Vlad Radulescu
Global Head of Reward
Aggreko
“I recently had the pleasure of coaching sessions with Mike, I found them to be very interesting and helpful in my personal development journey. Mike is a very personable individual, his methods and insights worked well for me. I had no preconceptions of what coaching entailed and following my positive experience with Mike wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.”
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Greg Aburn,
Head of IT Service Delivery,
Family Building Society
“Mike is an excellent coach, able to understand and empathise with a client’s needs and build trust and confidence. He brings the right balance of challenge and encouragement to his coaching sessions, making sure that his client leaves well prepared to reflect and act on what they have learnt about themselves and the way they work and interact with others in their business environment.”
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Anonymous,
Founder and Director
“I run, what is predominantly a training and consultancy business for disability inclusion in the workplace. Mike has been mentoring me during the businesses period of scaling up and taking on more long-term contracts. This has led to having to strategise about business development in different ways and has included bring on more associates into the business.
With just the right amount of probingly open questions and active listening, Mikes expert guidance has enabled me to clear the fog of what are sometimes my jumbled thoughts and make sense of my ideas. Since working with Mike, my business growth has expanded at least 60%. This has enabled me the freedom to develop the business, contract more suppliers, clearly articulate what I need from my suppliers and improve my service offering.
I would definitely recommend Mike if you are ambitious about your business growth and need a little bit of a helping hand to make your thoughts a reality.”
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Esi Hardy,
Founder,
Celebrating Disability
Mike has coached me during what I would call a highly critical five months period when I was assigned multiple roles in my Company. My transition into these roles was somewhat painful and seemed quite a challenge to me. I needed an objective evaluation of how I was handling the day to day running of these roles and further, I needed someone to help me see how I could leverage on these new experiences in the context of my longer-term career. Mike is a sincere and genuine coach who is an extremely good listener. He has a great deal of business experience and is a true master in knowing how to benefit his coachee from his experiences. With the questions he directed and the insights he provided me during our sessions, he helped me to organise my thoughts and to articulate the essence of my career situation.
In the follow up sessions, he helped me to think out-of-the-box and to come up with ideas that I could quickly put into action which I did and since, have seen positive results and impact. I feel so lucky to have Mike as my coach, his coaching allowed me to look beyond what I thought was achievable. I would have no hesitation to recommend him as a career coach to those who need support in identifying and reaching their career aspirations.
Arda Yakici,
Financial Controller / Head of Procurement,
Taq Taq Operating Co.Ltd
I worked with Mike on a number of projects at Colt Technology Services and he quickly became my go-to person not just for HR issues but also for business advice and coaching. Mike is truly a business focused HR professional with superb influencing skills combined with the gravitas and credibility gained from years of HR leadership.
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Grahame Ball
Bluewire
Mike has been supporting me recently in my career pivot. The change I chose to undertake required courage, rethinking my past experience and building a new network. From our first interaction, Mike has been able to establish trust and credibility. He not only guided me to appreciate my strengths and apply those to my new path, but also helped me to find mobility towards my goals in a fulfilling and confident way.
Mike generously shared his own experiences and reflections in a straightforward and engaging way. I felt, he has been superb in customising his coaching style towards my personality, skills
and character.
He coaches you to shape your game, win your game and love your game.
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Olga Chetverikova
Former VP Marketing – Europe
Mars LLC
HE COACHES YOU TO SHAPE YOUR GAME,
WIN YOUR GAME AND LOVE YOUR GAME.
I’ve known Mike for many years now and worked closely with him while setting up the Voice Services business in Colt. In that hectic phase Mike proved to be a great HR partner. He helped shape the organization and team, was a personal adviser to me, and helped create a culture where people were proud to be part of the business and focussed on getting things done.
———————-
Richard Oosterom
Business Transformation
Interxion
I never thought coaching or mentoring is important. I thought it is one of those soft skills that you can go through life without. Companies may have certain programs internally but those are nothing alike the real deal! Mike is a people expert who knows how to help people get the best out of themselves and has had numerous leadership roles in different industries.
A tome of knowledge, a good listener and will give you pragmatic advice. The sessions with him have helped me improve as a person, enlarged my view about different things by adding perspectives or great insights. Mike is truly inspirational, I can’t speak highly enough of his work on coaching / mentoring.
—————–
Vlad Radulescu
Global Head of Reward
Aggreko
“Mike has been a true partner for me in both understanding some of my weaknesses in my approach/positioning and then working on them in specific business situations. He has been fundamental to helping me navigate a promotion to a senior leadership role and navigating the politics/specific individuals that would block or influence this.
He tested and helped me correct my approaches to these situations and through this, it is evident that I have improved my approaches and overall capability.
Thanks Mike, I look forward to work with you on the upcoming challenges.”
———————-
Philip Askew,
COO,
Enoclink
“I recently had the pleasure of coaching sessions with Mike, I found them to be very interesting and helpful in my personal development journey. Mike is a very personable individual, his methods and insights worked well for me. I had no preconceptions of what coaching entailed and following my positive experience with Mike wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him.”
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Greg Aburn
Head of IT Service Delivery,
Family Building Society
“Mike is an excellent coach, able to understand and empathise with a client’s needs and build trust and confidence. He brings the right balance of challenge and encouragement to his coaching sessions, making sure that his client leaves well prepared to reflect and act on what they have learnt about themselves and the way they work and interact with others in their business environment.”
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Anonymous,
Founder and Director
“I run, what is predominantly a training and consultancy business for disability inclusion in the workplace. Mike has been mentoring me during the businesses period of scaling up and taking on more long-term contracts. This has led to having to strategise about business development in different ways and has included bring on more associates into the business.
With just the right amount of probingly open questions and active listening, Mikes expert guidance has enabled me to clear the fog of what are sometimes my jumbled thoughts and make sense of my ideas. Since working with Mike, my business growth has expanded at least 60%. This has enabled me the freedom to develop the business, contract more suppliers, clearly articulate what I need from my suppliers and improve my service offering.
I would definitely recommend Mike if you are ambitious about your business growth and need a little bit of a helping hand to make your thoughts a reality.”
———————-
Esi Hardy,
Founder,
Celebrating Disability
I worked with Mike on a number of projects at Colt Technology Services and he quickly became my go-to person not just for HR issues but also for business advice and coaching. Mike is truly a business focused HR professional with superb influencing skills combined with the gravitas and credibility gained from years of HR leadership.
———————-
Grahame Ball
Bluewire
Mike has been supporting me recently in my career pivot. The change I chose to undertake required courage, rethinking my past experience and building a new network. From our first interaction, Mike has been able to establish trust and credibility. He not only guided me to appreciate my strengths and apply those to my new path, but also helped me to find mobility towards my goals in a fulfilling and confident way.
Mike generously shared his own experiences and reflections in a straightforward and engaging way. I felt, he has been superb in customising his coaching style towards my personality, skills
and character.
He coaches you to shape your game, win your game and love your game.
———————-
Olga Chetverikova
Former VP Marketing – Europe
Mars LLC
