Coach profile: David Wilson
David Wilson has worked for the past 21 years as an
independent management development consultant. He is also
an Associate of the Leadership Foundation for Higher
Education, and a Visiting Fellow or Associate of several
universities. For the past few years he has provided coaching
linked to 360 degree feedback and other diagnostic
instruments on the LFHE’s national programmes and also
works on bespoke university leadership development
programmes, which currently include the universities of Cardiff
and Cambridge.
He is one of the most experienced providers of post-experience programmes for senior
doctors and managers in the National Health Service. He has also worked extensively with
commercial organisations such as Shell UK, ICI, TSB, BACS, Norwich Union and Nestles. He
is experienced in the use of a wide range of development methods, for example
development centres, action learning, 360 degree feedback and coaching, diagnostics such
as the Myers-Briggs and Leadership Effectiveness Analysis, and skills workshops in such
areas as managing change and effective negotiation.
David Wilson studied Economics at the London School of Economics and then did a Masters
degree in Organisation Behavior at Leeds. He started his career as a graduate trainee in
the Steel Industry Training Board, and then worked for them as a training adviser. A
particular focus of this work was conducting cost-benefit studies of the impact of industrial
training on productivity. He then worked in training and management roles at the National
NHS Training and Studies Centre in Harrogate, with a particular focus on the effective
management of organisational change. Experience included leading management of change
workshops and consultancy for NHS organisations, following training by Richard Beckhard
in the methodology used successfully in the transformation of ICI under John HarveyJones. Work also included design and facilitation of the national general manager
development programme, a programme which selected and developed some of the most
outstanding leaders in the NHS.