Lindsay Forster
former Director at Aviva
I worked with Colin over a number of years, the combination of his extensive leadership experience, and his genuine interest, passion and curiosity for people made our coaching relationship hugely valuable.
Sean Gogarty
former Director at Unilever
Colin and I worked together at Unilever running European Innovation centres. His insightful understanding of business, brands, consumers and marketing more generally enabled him to lead his team with great professionalism and success. He is energetic, challenging and always focussed on helping others to develop their competencies and skills. He was a supportive colleague across many European business initiatives.
Sue McIntosh
Head of Marketing, 3V
I have worked with Colin over the past 8 years in a Mentoring Capacity. As the Senior Marketing leader in my organization I often feel rather ‘alone’; my colleagues are professionally very astute, but they are not Marketing experts. Colin has extensive Marketing experience from many categories and in a sense I have used him as my ‘Marketing Mentor’; I am able to test and refine my own Marketing thinking which has been invaluable in developing my own expertise and ensuring I’m really on message when with the Board. It has also built my personal confidence.
Ross Matthews
CMO, Awaze
I’ve worked with Colin for over 12 years and …… learned a huge amount from him. He has a unique perspective, having led some of the 1st wave of digital and ecommerce marketing teams for large international brands. As a mentor, Colin helped me to develop a clear understanding of leadership values and an approach that has proved invaluable as I’ve led larger, multi-disciplinary teams across different businesses.
…he believes in the ’mentee’ finding the solutions within, essentially their own voice, it is a good angle and chimes well with the current ‘inner belief’ movement being promoted by the SAS Who Dares Wins team on C4.
Georgie Whitaker
former Senior Account Director at Stericycle
Colin and I worked together for a number of years and I have always valued the Marketing, Consumer and Customer perspectives I was able to embrace. I grew as a Marketing, Communication and Business professional through both the Mentoring and direct line management I received from Colin. What I valued most from Colin, was instead of him telling me what I needed to do, he often just gave food for thought allowing me to figure things out for myself without been told directly what to do. Of course there were occasions where Colin to be a bit more direct, which he balanced very well.