Alan Carpenter
Executive Coach
Personal support for executive development
Brief Biography
Alan Carpenter is an executive coach who specialises in working with managers and
leaders in the education and health sectors. With bachelor and masters degrees in
psychology, Alan had a long career as a senior NHS manager. He was the Chief
Executive of first an NHS Trust and then a Primary Care Trust (PCT) for fifteen
years. The PCT (Somerset Coast, South West England) was a highly regarded
organisation that won many awards and was known to be innovative, effective and
forward thinking.
Throughout his career, Alan has placed an emphasis on supporting colleagues and
staff and this led him to develop his current coaching role and skills. He was formerly
the Wessex Regional Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) and is
still active within the IHM- supporting and developing their coaching and mentoring
activities. He has just helped the IHM set up a coaching database for its members
(www.ihm.org.uk). Alan was made a Companion of the IHM in 2009.
As a Chief Executive, Alan experienced personally the pressures, issues and
challenges that very senior managers face routinely. He and his top team made
regular use of coaching to tackle specific challenges and to develop their leadership
skills. He is passionate about the need for proactive leadership development and the
vital role that coaching and personal support plays in this- to help managers and
leaders develop their effectiveness and performance. Alan concentrates on working
with clients on a 1:1 basis and aims through coaching to help them identify their top
goals and use their own resources to move them forwards- to identify new solutions
and actions themselves.
Alan is currently coaching and supporting a range of senior managers and clinical
leaders- in total nearly 150 over the past five years. One of the major strengths he
brings to his coaching is his extensive understanding of the public sector and large
organisations. He also has a special interest and expertise in working with
organisations to set up or provide coaching support.
He has completed the Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) Diploma in
Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching (level 7) and is a member of the
European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).