WHAT CLIENTS & colleagues SAY about nic

Gary Foster, CEO, Transaid
"In his support to Transaid, Nic was involved with the workforce, strategies and was directly involved in the field himself. Shortly after my appointment as CEO, I asked Nic to provide me with coaching support in order to help smooth my internal transition to this role. Nic was able to rapidly understand my issues, act with total confidentiality amongst the personnel and engage me in questions, thoughts and actions to help focus my thinking and clarify my priorities. Nic's coaching style was direct, straight forward and thought-provoking. I recommend Nic as a corporate coach to enable senior leaders deal with sensitive issues under strict timelines and to positively move through organisational change."
Trevor Cooke, Director- EHS, Europe at Harris Corp
"Nic has done an incredible job whilst at FTA. He engaged his fellow senior managers whilst steering an underperforming training department through a series of changes and re-engineering. This resulted in a successful turnaround of the training business unit with a visible improvement in staff morale and overall business performance."
Renae Jackson, Head of HR at Search Laboratory.
“Nic made me feel at ease with his open and easy coaching style. I felt very comfortable with Nic and he helped to circumnavigate obstacles and come up with appropriate actions plans for improvement.”
Isobel Harding, Director at Ontogenesis
“I worked with Nic for three years and gained an insight into someone I have grown to respect and value. His ability to enable an individual to positively review and revise their perspective on situations, change, people, and strategies or just personal circumstances is considerable. His non-judgemental attitude and willingness to accept responsibility are refreshing. His rapport and behavioural preferences enabled clarity of the choices available, drawn from my own thinking, and moulded to enable me to form new strategies, vision and purpose. This was both impressive and welcomed. Nic demonstrates a deep understanding of methodology and pedagogy in both learning and development and actively promotes and values honesty, communication, innovation and challenge.”
Richard White, Chairman for Leeds, Halifax and Bradford at Academy for Chief Executives
"I worked with Nic Allen at the Freight Transport Association for a number of years and always found him to be a supportive friend and colleague. A key strength of Nic's is Board level collaboration on strategic projects, bringing a sharp focus on customer service and creative solutions to long term problems. Nic and I developed a particularly close relationship as we worked together to drive sales at the strategic level, working closely with customers to identify bespoke needs and delivering targeted solutions. Nic's lively personality and relentless optimism will be missed."
Samantha Law, General Manager - Marketing, Shopfta and Sponsorship, at Freight Transport Association
“Nic provided some excellent coaching to help me to reach my full potential as a newly promoted Senior Manager within FTA. We discussed what I wanted to achieve and together created a plan for how I was going to succeed. The coaching with Nic allowed me to evaluate myself and identify areas I wanted to improve. He was excellent at coaching the ideas out of me and making it a plan that I was comfortable with and that suited my goals. Through our coaching sessions we often evaluated the plan to assess my progress with valuable feedback from Nic on how I was doing. The end result of my coaching with Nic was increased confidence in my new role with direct positive results in how I conducted myself as a Senior Manager within the organisation. Many thanks Nic.”
Mike Monday, Creative Flow Specialist and Music Coach
“Nic and I worked together during our NLP Practitioner studies and found him to be extremely warm and personable with a great knowledge of the subject. He was one of the most helpful of the whole group, freely sharing what he had learnt. In getting to know Nic I realised that this was down to a genuine belief in and understanding of the potential of others. I would highly recommend him to anyone as a coach or mentor.”