About Executive Connexions

Outplacement & Career Coaching Consultancy

As an outplacement & career coaching consultancy, we help you to achieve the career success you want, faster.

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Our Mission

Personalised career coaching for senior executives.

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Our Vision

We empower senior executives to achieve their next role faster.

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Our Values

Why choose us?

We understand

We know that as an executive, you face unique challenges in your executive job search and as a result, your needs differ from those of other professionals. We’ll work with you to overcome any obstacles and accelerate your job search. We want you to land your best senior level role yet!

Personalised 1:1 career support

Our personable, flexible service is tailored specifically for you, ensuring you receive precisely the right career support for your individual needs and circumstances. Whether you’re seeking your next role or a complete career change, we’ll work with you to reach a personal solution that satisfies you.

Sensible fee structure

We believe there is no justification for some of the exorbitant fees charged for career coaching services. We aim to be highly cost-effective to ensure our comprehensive, fully bespoke career coaching service is accessible to all senior executives. This is an important investment for you or your company, and we believe in providing value for money, with innovative approaches to your job search. We work with those executives funding their own coaching programmes, and with those where we work as your outplacement provider.

Recruitment industry insights

Understanding recruiters can help you, big time. We help you to learn what other senior level candidates won’t: understand the perspective of senior-level recruiters, headhunters and hiring managers enabling you to build stronger candidate/recruiter relationships. Our recruitment industry knowledge derives from independent research and frequent conversations with a great many recruiters and headhunters globally over the past nineteen years. Our philosophy? ‘You’ll know what we know after working together’.

Collaborative and empowering approach

Our collaborative approach to coaching is characterised by a process of mutual inquiry and constructive reflection. What’s more, our pragmatic executive career coaching programmes will stand you in good stead for your next role and for future roles as you further progress your career. With our ‘teach a person to fish’ style you will develop job search and networking skills and strategies to last a career lifetime.

Professional network growth

We know how valuable peer connections can be; our peers have both experience and contacts to be in a position to potentially facilitate your professional development. That’s why we want to help you to grow your professional network and share strategies, tactics and insights. As a client, you will be granted access to Executive Connexions LinkedIn Group where senior executives get fresh perspectives on how to accelerate career success in today’s competitive market.

Meet the Management Team

Steve Nicholls

Managing Director

Chris Gendall

Non Executive Director

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Jan Hunt

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor

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Abimbola Adesiyan

Marketing Executive

A Selection of Our Global Executive Career Coaching Teams

Meet some of the executive coaches we have all over the world by clicking on one of the regions below. Please note that not all coaches are featured on this site.

EUROPE

APAC (Asia Pacific)

LATAM (LATIN AMERICA)

USA & CANADA

MEA (MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA)

Specialist Career Coaches

Jim Claussen

Social Leadership Coach

Matthew Clark

Voice Optimisation Coach

carolyn trafford

Resilience Coach

Learn How Our Team Can Help You

We invite you to explore your career plans with us

Value-led, this complimentary & confidential discussion will help you to better understand the need for this new approach in today’s recruitment market, and you’ll also get some answers to any burning questions you may have about your career and job search strategy.

Steve Nicholls, Managing Director and Executive Career Coach

As a career development coach with 20+ years of career coaching experience, Steve specialises in helping talented senior executives and managers to achieve their full potential and forge meaningful careers. He has built a highly credible reputation as the ‘go to’ career management specialist for professionals worldwide. Steve is a member of the Career Development Institute, and holds the Post Graduate Diploma in Career Guidance. He adopts a straightforward, transparent and direct approach across all business and client relationships. After a successful solo coaching career Steve launched Executive Connexions in 2014. He draws on his diverse professional experience within business, gained across a number of sectors including corporate, public and third sector environments and consultancies. Steve’s key roles include coordinating the team and managing the business. Contact directly: Email: [email protected] | Direct Tel: +44 (0) 7508018470 | Connect with me on LinkedIn

Chris Gendall, Non Executive Director

Chris is a Masters level qualified Executive Manager, a strategic thinker with exceptional management expertise who is excited by developing business. A person with a strong ethical business approach, who loves life and the rich experiences it brings. Chris is a leader and a mentor with a ‘hands on’ approach who specialises in running high performance teams and organisations that deliver. He brings HR, Operations, and Strategy experience to the Executive Connexions table, and we’re grateful to have him on board.

Jim Claussen, Social Leadership Coach

Jim is an experience Social Leadership Coach, helping leaders and organizations transform how they engage, hire and collaborate in an increasingly connected business environment. Jim’s expertise spans social leadership practices, social business solutions and talent management technologies.
As the Founder of the Executive Social Academy and Co-Host of the #SocialLeader Chat, Jim focuses on helping leaders amplify their impact, lead with greater influence and provide value in today’s digital age of business. He is an active speaker, podcaster and thought leadership author.

With Executive Connections Jim is passionate about helping executive leaders stand out, amplify their voice, engage a network of influencers and activate digital serendipity to Be Found, be hired and make a bigger impact.

Matthew Clark, Voice Optimisation and Presentation Coach

Matthew coaches on presentation techniques and improving the sound of the voice for business purposes. He will help you to perform at your best in the executive job interview.
Matthew has more than twenty years’ experience in the wonderful world of the media. He started out in 1988 at a small recording company in South London where he worked as a sound engineer. He moved on to business affairs at EMI Records (UK) Ltd head office in the West End – where he bumped into stars of the day (Simon Le Bon, Jesus Jones, Blur etc…), before retraining at Falmouth School of Art and getting a job as a journalist at Radio Mercury in Sussex.

Matthew has spent 20 years in radio, with a short venture for a few years into PR. In 2010, Matthew branched out with his own business, launching KernowPods – Video Production and Media Services. Pulling on his journalism, radio and marketing skills, he also runs crisis communications training sessions.

Carolyn Trafford, Executive Career Coach

An experienced career and confidence coach, Carolyn has spent over 20 years working within financial services, gaining almost 10 years experience in personal development and coaching before starting out as a professional coach in 2010.

Carolyn has studied personal and business coaching at post graduate level and is passionate about supporting others through difficult times of career change and helping them develop confidence and the ability to stretch their comfort zone.

A skilled networker herself, she understands the value of using existing contacts to develop new key relationships, valuable to clients building businesses or seeking executive roles.

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