ABOUT
I used to think coaching was soft, fluffy and full of platitudes. I was wrong.
If you had told me twenty years ago, back when I was on a rugby pitch in the North of England, that I would eventually call myself a coach, I would have laughed you out of the room.
It carried a stigma for me. An industry built on cuddly validation rather than the hard-edged reality of progress. I valued the grit of the pitch and the honesty of sport, and I did not think there was a place for me in that world.
What changed my mind was realising that good coaching is not about comfort. It is about perspective, challenge and action. A positive disruptor when you are too close to the problem to see it clearly.
THE SCEPTIC
Twenty years building businesses.
THE CREDENTIALS
I have built and scaled three businesses, operating across China, Australia, Europe, North America and other parts of Asia.
One of them ended badly, in a split with a business partner. That taught me more about myself and what actually matters than any success did, and it changed my direction of travel.
My career has been defined by taking risks, accepting failure and deliberately choosing the less conventional path. Turning complexity into clarity, risk into results, and setbacks into the foundation for what came next.
BEYOND THE BOARDROOM
I have served as Safety Officer on two expeditions with the Flipflopi Project across the Kenyan coast, Uganda and Tanzania, completed a kitesurf expedition along the Brazilian coast, and attempted assent and ski Mont Blanc.
I do not do any of it to impress. I do it because I believe how you do one thing is how you do everything.
And above all of it, I am a father of three. I know the particular pressure of wanting to give your family a world-class life without losing sight of the man you were when you started.
MAKE IT HAPPEN
IT IS NOT A BRAND NAME.
On Expedition in Uganda
Royal County Down
On expedition in Kenya
Mont Blanc Expedition
It is something I have said to my kids their whole lives. When things were difficult, when the easy option was available, when something needed doing.
Recently both of my boys were going through something challenging. I asked them separately how it was going. Both gave me the same answer: just making it happen.
That is the business. That is the motto.
“Jack has a direct, no-nonsense approach that cuts through the noise quickly. One session shifted how I was looking at a challenge I'd been circling for weeks.”
Rob Young · Associate Director