“Life is heredity plus environment.”

Luther Burbank, American horticultural scientist

It is essential that you and your coach have a level of rapport that supports confidence and security. Part of that rapport comes from an appreciation of each other’s life path.

I arrived at my role as a Dynamic Life Coach in an evolutionary way: it was the natural synthesis of my twenty years in international business and a similar period as a registered psychotherapist.

That said, I recognize that the basic facts of a person’s existence give little sense of who s/he really is. So I’m dividing this introduction to myself into three sections.

• This page, where I will simply list my CV-type of information
• Objective truth, where I describe the results of psychometric testing and give the life background to my becoming a coach. Sections include:
  • What do my psychometric tests show?
  • What has prepared me to act as your coach?
    • Life experience
    • Training
    • Reflection
• Subjective truth, where I look at my opinions on various matters that might affect your decision whether or not to work with me. Sections include:
  • What kind of working partner am I?
  • What is my attitude toward men and women?
  • A miscellany of thoughts, beliefs and facts.

The different parts add up to a good many words but I want to give you the chance to know too much rather than too little.

Summary

Overall, I see myself as a thinking person who has had a lot of experience in life. I have put my thoughts and dreams into action.

The result hasn’t all been pleasant or conventionally successful, yet I feel satisfied with my approach and my ongoing progress. I’m looking forward to much more in the next thirty years.

I believe my journey has equipped me extremely well to do the job I do, and my clients’ successes would seem to bear me out in that belief.

It is not often that I am left struggling to comprehend a situation or a state of mind, and my instincts and intuitions have been well-honed and tested in high-stress situations on both sides of the Atlantic. I am creative and resourceful both on my own behalf and on behalf of my clients.

Here is my bald CV. It gives a good sense of the vital energy that has fuelled the development of Dynamic Life Coaching:

Objective Facts: Basic data

• Height: 6′ 0″ (1.83 meters)
• Weight: 159 lbs (11 stone 5 lbs; 72 kilograms)
• Interests: All sorts of music and the visual arts, sailing, rowing, running, writing, science, anything to do with humans.

Professional and General Education:

• Numerous short courses and certificates on coaching, hypnotherapy, therapeutic techniques. etc;
• Coaching: Institute for Life Coach Training 2004;
• Psychotherapy: MAHPP (MA Equiv) 1991;
• 10 year Certificate Of Advanced Training in Psychotherapy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1980-1990;
• General Education: King’s School, Rochester, UK. 1954-1964.

Professional memberships:

• Coaching: European Mentoring and Coaching Council No. 04240 IND1
• Psychotherapy Registration: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. No. 00930050;
• Counselor Registration: European Association for Counseling. Number UK1408;
• Associate memberships: American Psychological Association; Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs; International Association for Marriage and Family Counselling; American Counselling Association; International Association for Coaching.

Work experience

1992 to Present: Private Practice in Geneva, Switzerland (2016 to present); UK (1992-2001, 2010-2016) and USA (2001-2010)

• Skype and telephone coach and counselor
• Face-to-face coach and counsellor
• Dynamic life coach
• Dynamic partnership coach
• Eating disorders coach
• Psychotherapist
• Group psychotherapist
• Relationship counselor
• Counselor
• Clinical Supervisor
• Originater of Dynamic Life Coaching.
• Delegate to United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (until 2001)
• Director: Lapis Fellowship (until 2001)
• Director and General Secretary: UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners (until 2001)

1978-1992 Boston, MA, USA:

• Life coach and psychotherapist. First in training and later in private practice
• Head of International Marketing Communications for MSP Inc. (International software company)
• Cofounder and president of the Database Research Group, a consulting and publishing company;
• Cofounder and executive vice-president of Technology Insight Inc.;
• Founder of publishers Cognition Inc.;
• Cofounder of marketing communications consultants Coulson-Wellinger Associates and Coulson/Grant, working predominantly with IT hardware and software organizations.
• North-American correspondent for European journals; consulted on the launch of US magazines such as Software Magazine; business journalist exploring innovative management practice from the world of management consultants;
• Advisor to companies from all parts of the world on whether and how to enter the USA market. Worked with the British Consulate on these same issues.

1965 -1978 (UK resident):

• 1974-1978: IT marketing communications consultant to IBM (UK), Burroughs, Unisys, Honeywell and assorted software companies.
• 1972-1974: IT industry journalist
• 1967-1971: Systems analyst and IT consultant.
• 1966: Warner Bros. (Film Distributors) International Sales
• 1965: Jack Holt Ltd. (Boat builders) general management

I hope this information has been helpful to you. If you would like to find out more about Dynamic Life Coaching or myself, please use the form below to schedule a free 50-minute introductory session, in-person or by‘phone, Facetime or Skype.