James McLeod

After a long career in international media sales, James moved into Coaching, Leadership Training and Facilitation in Shanghai, China in 2009. He worked with multinational corporations based in Greater China including Ericsson, Siemens, Novartis, Carrefour, GSK and Rio Tinto.

He has over 30 years of business experience in a variety of senior leadership roles at established media powerhouses including The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.

He has been coaching, facilitating, training, and supervising in Ireland since 2014 and his main clients are:

• Google – IT
• LinkedIn – IT
• ESB – Energy
• IRFU – Sports
• Deloitte – Audit, Tax, Consulting, Corporate Finance
• Bord Gais – Energy
• Department of Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation – Irish Government
• Sport Ireland – Sports
• Office of Government Procurement – Irish Government
• Courts Service – Irish Government
• Boston Scientific – Medical Devices
• Department of Public Expenditure and Reform – Irish Government

James has also worked internationally in this time with Performance Plus International and has been involved in several global leadership programmes, spanning many countries. These have included:

• Andritz – Power Generation and advanced manufacturing
• Cargill Foods – Agri-Conglomerate
• Carrefour – International Supermarket Group
• Stibo Systems – IT
• Hoganas – Industrial Manufacturing

James has trained and coached teams from:
American Superconductor, Airplus, Activision, Actuant, Mastercard, Novartis, SIKA, Target, Bertelsmann, Rio Tinto, CRTX, Jones Lang LaSalle, DTZ, IBM, Astra Zeneca, Genencor, Yves Rocher, Luxottica, Kongsberg, Symrise, Danisco, Prologis, Voith, Philips, Morgan Stanley, Hoganas, Swedbank, Carrefour, DSM and Ericsson.

He is a regular speaker at international events on Coaching, Communications, Management and leadership.

Range of assignments

• Introducing the coaching approach and coaching dialogue into managers’ leadership styles
• Team development
• Complex decision-making
• Preparing for Promotion
• Dealing with pressures of handling a team
• Handling difficult conversations
• Interpersonal skills
• Managing upwards
• Communications & Influencing skills
• Situational Leadership
• Developing High Performers
• Developing High Potentials
• Conflict management
• Anger management
• Calibrating work/life balance
• Developing self
• Dealing with external stakeholders
• Managing the Board of Directors
• Handling Mergers & Acquisitions
• Managing subordinates in the organisation who used to be Peers
• Emotional Intelligence
• Career coaching, career change and career development
• Identifying and utilising one’s innate talent
• Dealing with the causes, effects and impacts of Imposter Syndrome
• Identifying and utilising one’s character strengths and innate talents
• Developing self
• Building resilience
• Developing a resourceful mindset