John Athanasiou

Personal Profile

John is a Senior Level Director of People and Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience in People Strategy, Leadership Development, cultural and behavioural change. His first-hand experience of the issues that leaders and management can face enables him to support leaders and businesses to improve personal and team effectiveness for higher commercial performance.

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Background and Experience

John actively believes in the power of people to learn, grow and change. His ultimate passion is to help deepen self-awareness, clarifying his clients' individual goals and maximising their potential for happiness and success in both their career and life.

His coaching style is supportive, whilst  challenging of limiting beliefs, and paradigms that hold people back. John prioritises establishing rapport, trust and immersing himself in the issues facing his client to build an approach that will allow clients to access their goals and ambitions. He has a strong intuition that often leads people to think about things very differently.

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural and behavioural change
  • Personal and team effectiveness
  • People culture
  • Talent development
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  • Team Management
  • Leadership
  • Human Resources

Professional Qualifications, Accreditation and memberships

  • BA (Hon) Finance
  • MA Human Resources Management
  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • ILM Level 5 Coaching
  • Myers Briggs Practitioner
  • Hogan Personality Profile Practitioner
  • NLP Fully Qualified
  • Belbin Team Dynamics Practitioner
  • SHL Level A & B in Personality Profiling

Clients

John has worked with clients from a variety of industries including:

  • Media
  • Retail
  • Education
  • Public Sector Services

Coaching Assignments

  • Publishing - Providing advice and coaching to the CEO, supporting him navigate issues and lead his Executive team of 12 to be a high performing team.
  • Publishing - Created several comprehensive leadership programmes for high potential individuals across the business
  • Television - Partnered with regional business leaders and human resource professionals to support enterprise-wide initiatives including internal mobility, workforce diversity, talent management and succession planning.