FRANK BOLAJI IRAWO

Executive Coach & Consultant

Frank is an Executive Coach and consultant accredited as a Professional Certified Coach by the ICF with a Postgraduate Certificate from the University of Chester. He has over 30 years' experience leading teams in the Retail, Entertainment, Financial Services, Criminal Justice and Not-For-Profit sectors. He has coached senior leaders across sectors that include Financial services, Retail, Broadcasting, NHS, Military & Education. His clients range from Entrepreneurs, Vice Presidents, C-Suite Executives, Senior Managers to Team leaders.

Frank brings the best of human psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness as well as his myriad of experiences to the service of his clients in a truly shared learning environment creating an effective working alliance. He does this by holding expansive thinking spaces guided by powerful questions to help his clients unravel complex challenges. He Inspires powerful and incisive reflections supported with tools, and exercises to drive sustainable transformative change through mastery of new perspectives and practices.

He designs and delivers bespoke leadership programmes incorporating creative mediums such as poetry into his coaching to help his clients join the dots between apparently disjointed concepts and define new strategies to move forward. This all translates to greater performance and enhanced wellbeing for the leader and the organisation.

Frank believes that creating a transformational leadership experience begins from within, by engaging the whole self and helping leaders discover their inherent potential, identify and remove mental blockers. This give them access to fearless innovative thinking that delivers outstanding results quicker, without compromising their wellbeing.

The typical outcome of this approach includes raised self-awareness, demonstrated emotional intelligence, enhanced clarity in decision making, greater executive presence, effective execution of strategic goals, creative freedom, improved organisational citizenship and greater team cohesion.

Frank is passionate about gender and racial equity as well as giving back, all the proceeds from his book DREAM, which showcases his unique coaching approach using poetry as part of powerful transformative conversations goes to charities providing education, business opportunities, education, housing, and mental health support to those less privileged in society.