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Business Coach

GAVIN

Coaching Qualifications

  • QUALIFIED SA Business Coach – 31 July 2024

Other Qualifications

  • Said Business School Oxford – ESG Transformation – 31 July 2023
  • London Business School – Financial Management – 30 June 2017
  • UNISA – Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management – 30 November 1999
  • Rhodes University – Higher Diploma in Education – 30 November 1990
  • Rhodes University – BA Hons. African History – 30 November 1998
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Coaching Passion

Gavin recently launched Partners for Growth – Strategy and Coaching Pty Ltd with the founding purpose to ‘Provoke Positive Change‘ and the ambition to grow leaders, their teams, and their businesses. The focus of his work in executive business coaching is helping leaders find clarity of purpose, define winning strategies, implement deliberate and conscious leadership shifts, and grow effective teams with engaged people.

These shifts are embedded through structured executive coaching and leadership team interventions that make them stick! He is passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of the people he works with and positively impacting the businesses they lead.

Work Experience

Gavin is an experienced Managing Director & NED with a proven track record in growing & transforming brands and businesses. He has broad experience working in FMCG & PHARMA with senior leaders across manufacturing, operations, sales, marketing, finance, and HR.

His functional background is in sales and marketing with a global career as an international brand builder and market growth strategist. He has lived and worked in 5 different countries within Europe and Africa gathering broad cross-cultural experience covering roles with a global remit as well as leading listed local market entities.

A most notable career success saw revenue growth of $640M over four years on the worlds leading premium spirits brand under his directorship. He is also known for his transformational shifts in employee engagement across teams and businesses he has led.

Coaching Specialties

Executive Business Coaching

Winning Business & Market Strategies

The "Power of Purpose" in Leading Transformation

Optimising High Performing Teams

Coaching Experience

As a seasoned executive business leader, Gavin has coached many senior leaders across multiple businesses locally and abroad. Coaching has been part of his leadership practice for >20 years and he has honed his skills through multiple corporate coaching programmes. These are now formalised through his SA Business Coaches training in South Africa which is accredited through the International Coach Register (ICR ISO 17024) in Holland.

A quote from the Managing Director of the SA operations for a global FMCG business ‘Words cannot do justice to the impact your coaching has had on my life’ speaks to Gavin’s value as a coach.