Bill Best

As a coach Bill specialises in coaching senior professionals and executives looking to enhance their effectiveness either in response to feedback or as part of tackling key transitions in their responsibilities, organisations or careers. Bill also works in developing teams of professionals.
His coaching style combines challenging and supporting, questioning and encouraging and listening and advising. His aim is make individuals increasingly self-sufficient in managing their growth.
His philosophy is that individuals perform most effectively, and get most from their work, when they play to their strengths. Helping people find ways, or roles, in which they can do this (whilst also addressing areas for development), leads to satisfied clients and individuals.

Examples of recent assignments include:

• Working with the Head of Compliance of a major financial institution to both galvanise a new team and bring about significant improvement in the Department's profile and its partnership with the business.
• Coaching a technically excellent lawyer in the development of his leadership and team player skills.
• Supporting an experienced in-house lawyer in planning and managing his next career move; identifying and evaluating alternatives, including some he'd never considered before.

Over the last 25 years Bill Best has worked accelerating the personal development of senior professionals, executives and leaders providing a range of services including assessment, coaching and team building.

After studying at Cranfield University Bill worked at Birkbeck College on contract to the Ministry of Defence researching recruitment into the Army. At the end of his contract Bill joined APT Ltd an HR Consultancy specialising in assessment and development; his work on development centres there evolved into longer-term coaching assignments.

Bill was a Director of APT before he moved to Personnel Decisions International, a firm renowned for its long-established assessment and coaching practices, working with numerous multi-nationals. He gained experience in a variety of industry sectors and partnered with all functions.

For the past decade Bill has worked as an independent consultant delivering coaching, assessment, 360 and team development services. He continues to work with a number of lawyers and their teams within the Legal and Compliance departments of a number of banks. He is the co-author of the book "Executive Coaching: Exploding the Myths".