Our Coaches

Phil Wong

Phil has considerable leadership experience at senior levels in business. With over 15 years of coaching and mentoring, he brings considerable knowledge and expertise to help individuals and teams to fulfil their potential by overcoming their barriers to increased performance.

He works with Chief Executives, Directors and Senior Managers, helping them to meet the changing needs of their organisations in some very challenging environments. Phillip coaches in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He is on the National Register of Coaches for NHS Scotland.

Phillip focuses on enabling people to appreciate and fully access their leadership potential and to lead their organisations with greater authenticity and genuine emotional intelligence. Working holistically, he helps leaders to identify and focus on the critical contribution that they can make and to fulfil their leadership potential in a way that is consistent with their own personal belief systems. He works to help uncover performance blocks at an individual, team, and organisational level.

Prior to working as an executive coach, Phil worked as an independent consultant. His projects ranged from leading sensitive business negotiations for a personal development business to implementing programme management into a £3bn product portfolio for a major pharmaceutical company. In a career spanning over 20 years, he has held a number of senior operational and functional roles in major companies. He has extensive hands on experience of managing large and diverse teams, taking organisations through major change, and delivering tangible improvements in service and quality.

As a professional, Phil is an accredited Executive Coach, having a Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching with Strathclyde University Business School, to EMCC‘s Practitioner Standard. He abides by the EMCC’s Code of Ethics, and retains his link as a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Phillip believes in putting something back into the community. He is a volunteer business mentor for the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, serves as Company Secretary for Partick Housing Association, and also works as a volunteer mentor with Glasgow Mentoring Network helping young long term unemployed people back into work.

Phil is keenly interested in personal development for himself as well as for others. He also enjoys outdoor pursuits, especially hill walking in the Highlands and visiting the many and varied islands of Scotland . He enjoys these pursuits with his wife and also has the joy of bringing up two wonderful children.

Associates

So that we can provide our clients with choice, we are able to draw on the experience and capabilities of a number of highly experienced associates.  All our associates are qualified executive coaches accredited by the EMCC and have many years of experience in a wide variety of private, not for profit and public sectors.

Peter Farr

Peter Farr, has over 30 years of senior management experience in the private and public sectors in the UK and Australia as well as running his own business.   He has held a number of top positions in training and development in national organisations including Barclays Bank, the Civil Service and local government.

Peter started coaching and mentoring while in the Civil Service.  Specialising in clients in the early part of their management or senior leadership career, he has coached and mentored clients in the Civil Service, the police and business services.  Peter is both a Chartered F CIPD and F InstLM , and is an accredited EMCC executive coach.  Peter has undertaken considerable continuous professional development and has completed a postgraduate qualification in executive coaching at Strathclyde Business School.  For more about Peter click here .