Louis M F Harvey

I am an accredited business coach who designs and delivers management development, coaching, mentoring and training across a multi-billion dollar global media corporation. My background is that of a career sales manager in the wholesale financial services industry.

I rejoined Reuters, now Thomson Reuters, six years ago as a specialist soft skills trainer working with the sales teams and their managers across Europe, Middle East and Africa. I was asked by my company to undertake a course of development in coaching and was recommended to the course run jointly by Performance Consultants and Portsmouth Business School. This course, recognised by the EMCC, is one of the few that combines extensive theoretical and practical tuition, and supervision from some of the finest professional coaches in the UK, with an academic credential.

The last four years for me have been absolutely transformational and enabled me to work at all levels as a professional coach within Thomson Reuters. Completing my Masters degree in Coaching and Development has given me a whole new set of personal and professional career options.

My coaching philosophy is based on a ‘non-directive’, non-judgemental and open approach which creates for the client the quality space they need to enable them to go the place they truly want to be. My belief is that the coach is there to empower the client. Everyone has the ability to control their own destiny, the coach is the facilitator.

My coaching clients also have every right to expect their coach to be present for them. It my responsibility to understand them as a whole person, and avoid focussing just on the concerns or issues they bring to the coaching session.

One of the most significant outcomes of becoming accredited by the EMCC as a senior practitioner is that I do have a heightened sense of professional pride and an awareness as a ‘professional coach’. That is maintaining the high standards of ethics, practice and confidentiality expected of a coach.