Bill Brand is a multilingual executive coach, consultant and trainer recognized for cultivating participatory, results-oriented work environments, winning the trust and confidence of clients and their teams, and with a proven track record of 15 years
coaching, consulting, and training across diverse industries.
Key skills include emotional intelligence, thorough grounding in business process and training and coaching
methodologies, and languages (fluent English and Dutch, reasonable proficiency in German and French).
Professional Summary:
Bill has extensive experience coaching business and organisational leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs and their
teams to optimise competencies in three key contexts:
• Leadership Development and Strategic Guidance: Coached individuals and teams to achieve business goals,
accelerate growth and equity valuation, and develop effective styles and strategies for new leadership
challenges. Recent sector experience in law and legal recruitment with senior partners embarking on global
leadership roles and founding partners on growth strategies, as well as in the Media/Entertainment, Banking, and
Healthcare sectors.
• Cultural Challenges: Coached senior execs, and trained emerging leaders and their teams in the Oil and Gas,
Pharma, Defence, and Aerospace sectors, and entrepreneurs focusing on China investment relationships and
Middle East sovereign wealth funds, in managing relationships across different cultural contexts,
individually/organisationally/internationally/cross-culturally, including diversity and inclusion.
• Charisma, Communication, and Personal Engagement: Drawing on experience of over 50 roles as a leading
actor in the West End, Film, and TV, coached successful leaders and their teams in Law, Pharmaceuticals,
Medical Technology, Hospital Management, Surgery in developing the look, sound, and feel of a charismatic
leader and authentic communicator by optimising the content, structure, and style of the communication and
presentation process.
Recent Experience:
• Designed Leadership Development program for the Association of Colleges. (2017 – 2018)
• Strategic planning and relationship management of M&A/JV major expansion phase with Founder/CEO of
international Media/Entertainment group. (2016 – 2018)
• Trained graduate inductees at EY. (2016 – 2017)
• Coached international disputes resolution lawyer in career development, international and internal
relationship management, organizational strategy and leadership capacity. (2013 - 2017)
• Developed Growth acceleration and equity valuation strategy with CEO/founder of international professional
services headhunters. (2015)
• Enhanced personal and presentation impact through training and coaching senior lawyers in Silver Circle Law
Firms and Surgical reps in Medical Technology Sales. (2014 – 2018)
• Designed and delivered training programs for Shirlaws Coaching and The Corporate Theatre (2003 – 2011)
Selected Sector/Industry Overview
Law/Legal Recruitment (Signature, Latham & Watkins, Herbert Smith Freehills, Fox Rodney Search), Media
(Argonon), Pharmaceuticals (Bristol –Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline), Energy (BP), Banking (HSBC), Financial
Services (EY), Food Services & Facilities Management (Sodexo), Digital (Tonic Design Ltd), Private Equity (Eric
Jones Associates), Marketing (Powerhouse Consultancy), Health Industry (Homerton University Hospital), Waste
Management (Waste Management International), Professional Bodies (Arts Marketing Association), Educational
(Association of Colleges).
Highlights of Qualifications:
• Master Coach Accreditation, Association for Coaching (2018 completion)
• Diploma in Executive and Corporate Coaching, Noble Manhattan/ILM 7 (2018 completion)
• BA in English and Anthropology from the Colorado College
• Postgraduate training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• Graduate of Art & Business’ Training The Arts-based Trainer
• Member of the Association for Coaching
• Member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
Selected Continuing Professional Development:
• ACT for Self Esteem with Joe Oliver and Richard Bennett (2018) Contextual Consulting
• ACT for Coaches with Joe Oliver and Jon Hill (2017), Contextual Consulting
• ACT Clinical Skills with Steven Hayes, (2016) Contextual Consulting
• Numerous master classes (2008 – 2016), Association for Coaching
• The Practice of Leadership (2004), Olivier Mythomania Training Associates