Steve Hobbs
Association for Coaching - Professional Coaches Recognition Programme
Steve is a Performance Coach in which he combines his skills as an executive (and sports) coach with his experiences in senior leadership from his 20-year career in media and advertising. He helps people, teams and businesses to identify their values, determine a longer-term purpose, and then set challenging goals before constructing a motivating step by step plan to deliver. He interrogates why your goals are important to you and focuses on how you achieve them.
I've worked at Managing Director level in media agencies, and I am an active coach in elite level endurance sport. The combination of those experiences has driven me to apply the lessons of coaching in sport in a business context for individuals, teams and organisations. In my mind, there is no one better than an elite athlete at setting ambitious long-term goals AND constructing a day-by-day plan to deliver them and this thought sits at the centre of my approach. A key component of this is an in-depth understanding into WHY your goal is so important to you, and how each decision you make adds up to the delivery of that longer term goal. In a session with me, you can expect to go deep into your motivations AND come away with some clear actions.
Experience
After a 20+ year career in a variety of senior positions in media agencies, in which he was an intuitive and innovative action-oriented leader, Steve changed career to combine his passions for sport and for helping people to develop and be the best they can be by truly understanding themselves and their motivations. He now operates a Performance Coach, uniquely operating in business and endurance sport at all levels and now works with people from all walks of life.
Specialisms
Inclusivity, teams, why,action
Steve combines his experience as a senior leader in in which he favoured inclusive approaches to team development and culture, change management, organisational design and commercial performance with his skills in coaching to work with people, teams and businesses to identify their personal values, determine a longer-term purpose, and then set challenging goals before constructing a motivating step by step plan designed to remove the barriers in the way of success.
Personal style
Steve is an inclusive and intuitive coach who has strong empathetic skills. He focuses on identifying your personal values and why your goals are important to you. He is also action oriented and will often leave you with homework between sessions focussed on what you're going to do to deliver your goals.
"I found the process invaluable – especially defining my values and purpose for what I enjoy, what my strengths are and how I can find a role that is suitable to what I am good at and enjoy.Thank you for all your help and guidance, it's been brilliant!"
Thank you so much for all your help over the last few months. I've thoroughly enjoyed our sessions and you've been a massive help in clarifying my goals and in giving me clear, actionable steps to get me through each phase of plan. It's also just been so great to chat with an unbiased professional about all this – particularly someone who understands the industry – as your assurances have that extra bit of standing