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Biography: Adrian Gilpin


Adrian Gilpin is best known for working with Chief Executives and their management teams to help them turn their organisations into Inspired Enterprises. He also leads the IHD’s High Performance Coaching Academy.

“There are three key forces of change that leaders understand - Storytelling, Energy and Drive. Bring these forces into alignment in an individual and we immediately recognise the power and potency of personal authenticity. Bring these forces into alignment within an enterprise and enterprise-wide performance transforms. Individuals take responsibility for unleashing their full potential; managers coach high performance in other; and leaders create an inspired environment where people are able to be at their best. This is not pie-in-the-sky idealism; it is a vital journey for any business that wishes to survive the next decade.”

Adrian Gilpin has helped his clients to implement some of the most effective and sustainable change programmes in British business. Many organisations – recently Royal Bank of Scotland, Prudential Property Investment Managers, Barclaycard and Central Bank of Kuwait – have retained Adrian to coach their Managing Directors and senior executives. Clients such as Argos, Homebase and William Grants engage Adrian and his colleagues to train their leadership teams the principles and practise of high performance coaching. Numerous entrepreneurs have worked with Adrian to maximise the value of their enterprises; Adrian coached the board of Bookham Technology through the largest ever public floatation of any UK technology business. Adrian works regularly within the public sector too, including the MOD, all three forces, the NHS, Housing Associations and social enterprises. Adrian’s personal passion is also to impact the long term thinking about how we educate our children – it is about as misguided as we can get it right now; and he is a regular speaker at national and local education conferences.

Adrian’s masterclasses and seminars are a unique mix of story-telling, movie clips, wisdom, common sense and a deep understanding of what makes human beings tick and perform at their best. His presentations get very high endorsement from CEOs and business leaders for the sustained impact they have on audiences. He is regularly voted ‘best speaker’ at conferences across all industries.

• Chairman, Institute of Human Development
• Bestselling author, Unstoppable – The Pathway to Living an Inspired Life
• Founder, Inspired Enterprise
• Co-creator, The Aspell-Gilpin Personal Profiler (psychometric tool)
• Main activities:
  – Keynote speaking
  – CEO Mentoring
  – Top Team Coaching
  – Designing Strategic Culture Change Programmes

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