A former senior operating executive with IBM, PayPal and The Economist Group, Ben brings a wealth of corporate experience to his leadership and team coaching. As a business leader, Ben mastered the art of building organizations that can sustain learning, adapt to change, and deliver with excellence. As a consultant and coach, Ben helps his clients bring clarity, alignment, and intensity to the total functioning of the organization, from the C-Suite to the “shop floor”. With deep expertise in the financial services, healthcare, and technology industries, Ben is a master facilitator, communicator and—when required—disrupter of the corporate homeostasis. Leaders engage with Ben when they want to:​
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• Fulfill their own potential, power, and effectiveness.​
• Transform the functioning and performance of their leadership team.​
• Bring clarity and simplicity to corporate strategy.​
• Improve their organization’s capacity for innovation through new mindsets, behaviors, and practices.​
• Improve their organization’s operating agility and responsiveness to change.​
• Build teams and organizations that bring intensity and commitment to their work.​
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Ben began his career as a foreign correspondent, working for The Economist in London, Tokyo, and New York. He later returned to The Economist as publisher of its online edition. In between, he held senior executive roles at IBM, including Chief Communications Officer reporting to then-CEO Ginni Rometty. Ben also served as Vice President of Product Management at PayPal, where he helped to transform how the company’s product managers, designers and software engineers work together. Ben attended Oxford University as an undergraduate, and the University of London for his postgraduate work. He is a certified Co-Active coach, trained in Positive Intelligence coaching, certified with the International Coaching Federation, a certified agile coach, and is undertaking a certification in Gestalt Psychotherapy.​