Matt Shelley

Matt Shelley is director of a coaching centre in Europe, Middle East and Africa, a centre that provides advice and support to organisations seeking to improve the quality, impact and coherence of leadership development,organisational development& cultural change programmes. Working as an executive coach, coach supervisor, facilitator and programme advisor in has given Matt the opportunity to work with a diverse range of public and private senior executives and EXCO teams in various industry sectors including finance, chemicals, engineering, pharmaceuticals, logistics, environmental consultancy and telecommunications. In addition to this private sector experience, Matt has worked with government departments, parastatal corporations, multilateral agencies, academia, training providers and international NGOs.

Matt has a practical and supportive approach to working with his clients that is underpinned by his ability to get to know and understand the coachee’s work environment and organisational strategy. He works with executives and top teams to deepen and ignite their motivation and passion for their role, and to recognise and tackle the apparent and more subtle hurdles to reaching personal and organisational goals. Matt enjoys working with executives and leaders in a variety of contexts who face complex and challenging business environments involving multiple stakeholders.

Matt has always been interested in how best to make a difference in society. At first, he was attracted to civil engineering as a profession for the infrastructure benefits it provides. This was matched by an interest in the powerful contribution business and entrepreneurship can make to people’s lives, which led Matt to do an MBA at Cranfield and management research at Bath University.This was followed by 15 years of establishing and running his own businesses.