DUNCAN BROWN

Executive Coach & Consultant

Duncan is an executive coach and team development expert specialising in high-growth and entrepreneurial settings, drawing on a career in and around start-ups as an investor, incubator and founder. His coaching is focused on helping people unlock their full potential and become authentic, adaptive leaders, ready to succeed in an increasingly complex and fast-changing world. ​
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Duncan’s coaching is high energy and dynamic. His clients are challenged to see themselves afresh, developing a new and profound understanding of the fundamentals that sit behind, and drive, their behaviours. Duncan focuses on supporting his clients to build their self-observation skills, so they can better interrupt habitual patterns that are limiting them. It’s this foundation that means his clients unlock changes that stick, building their capacity to effectively self-correct and become self-generative. Duncan works across a diverse set of client needs with a particular interest in supporting individuals stepping up into the most senior leadership roles where they must quickly develop new approaches to help them thrive. He also specialises in entrepreneurial settings working with management teams in fast-scaling businesses, utilising his extensive experience in the world of startups. ​
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The foundation of Duncan’s career was in the analytical rigour of blue-chip strategy consulting, working at LEK, before spending nearly a decade in investment, leading the private equity division for Rianta, a private family office. More recently, Duncan was CEO of Shift, a venture incubator building new businesses from scratch on a mission to deliver scalable impact that is commercially viable. Duncan co-founded the health-tech startup BfB Labs, where he remains an Executive Director. ​

When he’s not supporting one of his daughters on the side of the netball court, Duncan loves escaping London getting outdoors on his bike, or for a hike.​