David is an EMCC-accredited coach and experienced organisational development leader, bringing over 20 years’ experience of enabling measurable performance improvement across complex, regulated and fast-paced environments including banking, energy and multi-nationals.

The Positivty Partnership is a coaching practice grounded in the standards and ethics of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) and shaped by extensive leadership, portfolio and transformation experience.  We understand first-hand the pressures leaders face when strategy, delivery and culture must align.  

On a personal level, coaching is never abstract or theoretical; it is commercially aware, outcomes-focused and systemically informed.

One-to-One Executive & Business Coaching

David partners with senior leaders, emerging talent and business owners to create the conditions for sustainable performance, not just short-term behavioural change. My one-to-one coaching integrates:

• Strategic clarity and decision-making capability

• Leadership presence, influence and stakeholder management

• Navigating organisational complexity and change

• Resilience, confidence and wellbeing under pressure

• Accountability for measurable business outcomes

Drawing on systemic coaching, psychometrics (including Insights Discovery), and 360-degree feedback, we help clients build deep self-awareness and translate insight into action.  Each engagement is structured around clear contracting, defined outcomes and agreed success measures—ensuring coaching is aligned to business priorities, not detached from them.

Working with us it will be a partnership with the individual and the sponsoring organisation to ensure psychological safety, ethical integrity and meaningful return on investment.

Team Coaching & Organisational Capability

High-performing teams do not emerge by chance. 

They require clarity of purpose, aligned behaviours and robust ways of working.  The Positivity Partership will design and deliver team coaching interventions that strengthen:

• Collective accountability and trust

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Strategic alignment to business goals

• Healthy challenge and constructive conflict

• Delivery discipline and performance rhythm

Why Coaching Programmes Fail – and How I Address It

Too often, coaching fails because it is isolated from strategy, lacks clear outcomes, or is treated as a perk rather than a performance lever. My approach mitigates these risks by:

• Establishing clear organisational intent before engagement begins

• Contracting for observable behavioural and business shifts

• Embedding coaching within wider capability frameworks (Experience, Exposure, Education)

• Measuring impact through capability metrics, engagement data and applied business projects

• Supporting line managers and stakeholders to reinforce learning

This ensures coaching becomes a catalyst for cultural and performance change, not a standalone intervention.

Business Mentoring

Alongside executive coaching, I provide structured business mentoring, including through UK based charities. Here, founders and emerging leaders are supported with practical guidance on business planning, financial discipline, growth strategy and personal effectiveness.  This style of mentoring blends challenge and support - helping individuals build both commercial capability and confidence.

Whether working one-to-one or with intact teams, my purpose is consistent: to develop leaders who think systemically, act decisively and build organisations that thrive—strategically, culturally and commercially.