John Pickston
John is a highly experienced business coach who thrives on supporting individuals and teams. Additionally, he has a deep expertise in designing and delivering development and assessment centres for new or aspirational leaders. John has experience of a significant range of global organisations, but has deep expertise within professional services where his career began and he was formerly an equity partner and head of a specialist litigation team at global law firm, Clifford Chance LLP.
As a coach, John enjoys supporting individuals with leadership, role transitions, lateral hire integration, business development, personal effectiveness and resilience/stress management. John is also passionate about and offers unique insights and support in relation to retirement planning. John leverages a wealth of business and coaching credentials and blends them with a highly personable and intuitive approach that facilitates tangible positive change for his clients. Clients refer to John’s approachable character, ability to effortlessly tune into people and his commercial awareness.