Martin Goodyer, Business Coach

Martin is a coach of outstanding quality. With more than 30 years combined business management, consulting, coaching and mentoring experience, he is an expert in helping clients achieve significant profitability and performance improvements.

His unique background combines extensive personal business leadership with experience of pragmatic behavioural change. As well as being a coaching psychologist he has been the General Manager of international hotels, chaired and facilitated board level projects, both commercially and as a director of a Training & Enterprise Council, and consulted on change-management within the education, private and public sectors. He is a highly experienced coach having worked with senior members of financial & academic institutions, mining & oil exploration, construction, health-care, retail and information technology sectors to name but a few.

Martin has coached and guided business owners, directors and senior managers in methodologies to effect rapid and lasting changes to personal and team behaviour. Particular success has been achieved with developing flexibility and improved effectiveness in difficult but senior individuals and teams.

Martin has extensive experience within the corporate environment. He has coached at senior levels up to board level (£1bn+ turnover) within financial institutions and blue-chip clients such as Barclays, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Gleeds, Marks and Spencer, British Gas / Centrica, Npower, Roche, West Ham, Leicester and Derby County Football Clubs and the BBC, where he is an accredited Executive Coach.

Martin’s public sector portfolio is extensive and includes work within Birmingham City Council, Hillingdon Borough Council, Birmingham City University, Oxford Brookes University and the Home Office. He has worked within the healthcare sector with the NHS and organisations such as Newham Primary Care Trust, Cardiff University Hospital and the McQueen Clinic.

While primarily a personal coach, Martin is also a highly skilled facilitator of group coaching and coach training, an experienced change management consultant having headed up a number of major change programmes and an inspirational conference & seminar platform presenter.

Martin’s unique combination of skills, experience and business credibility result in him being in high demand from successful business people. He is also regularly asked to work within the media; he is the ‘resident’ coach & business psychologist on BBC local radio and regularly provides expert contributions to various television programmes. He has been employed and appeared on a number of television programmes for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. He was the series psychologist & coach with Jack Osbourne on Adrenaline Junkie (working on location in the Borneo Jungle and New Zealand), and was the on-screen coach for a daily reality show the ‘Fit-Farm’ by the makers of ‘Big Brother’.

During the past 14 years Martin has deliver thousands of hours of client interventions. He is an NLP Master Practitioner, has a raft of training, coaching and business qualifications as well as an honours degree in Psychology. He is a full member of the British Psychological Society and is also an accredited trainer of coaches with the Institute of Leadership and Management. He is married to Rachel and lives in Warwickshire with the last of their four children to flee the nest, along with Oscar the dog and Marmite the cat.

 

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Martin either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email him on: Martin@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Martin Goodyer's Biography

 

Watch Martin talking about his Business Success Strategies audio 'Quick to Cash'

 

 

 

Martin's Clients include:

Numerous SME’s plus:
AON
Birmingham City Council
Brains Brewery
British Gas
Centrica
Derby County FC
European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Leicester City FC
Marks &Spencer
Oxford Brookes
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Sheffield International venues
Welsh Development Agency
Wembley Stadium PLC
West Ham United FC

 

What Martin's Clients say about him:

Martin continuously receives glowing testimonials from his clients. Below are some examples of specific quotes that his clients have said about him.

Please note, we are always happy to supply specific references should you require them.

SME’s and Business Owners:

“When you get to my age you don’t expect to experience something that makes you rethink your way of life, particularly when you have already achieved all the goals set in your youth. It’s like being born again without the religious connotations” Geoff Berry, MD, GDG Management, Oxford

"Both my wife and I... are very pleased to say that our turnover has increased by 50% in a matter of weeks since applying your approach"  Christopher Pennington, Director, Capecan

“Martin is a fantastic coach. I am now laser-focused on taking the specific action needed to achieve my goals” Su Nyatedzu, Fashion Accessory Designer

“Martin has an amazing ability to get through the barriers and walls we create. He brings clarity and understanding of why we do what we do and how it can be improved, changed or dropped entirely. He really does know his stuff.” Mike Pagan

Corporate and Senior Executives:

“Being coached by Martin has been an outstanding experience and has been significant in helping me be successful” David Thorpe-Tracey, Director, West Ham United Football Club

“I achieved much more from the coaching programme with Martin than I expected; it was an excellent experience” Sarah Weller, Barclays Bank, UK

“Martin was an expert in coaching me to improve my business performance through communication & influencing. Two years on I still hear his words in my head in situations which help me handle them to get a great outcome. Since the personal coaching I have been promoted & achieved a new professional qualification.” Valerie Rees, Regional HR Manager, Marks & Spencer

Public Sector Organisations:

“Just a quick note to say many thanks for your support and challenge in working through our programme. I found the sessions informative, fun and relevant and like the notion of activity taking me closer to my objectives rather than further away!! I have enjoyed the experience immensely and believe that this will add value to my current working situation as well as future ones.” Steve Jarvis, Senior Constituency Manager, Birmingham City Council

"The ROI was fast and tangible – producing measurable improvements in productivity. It is however the improvements in teamwork, leadership, problem solving, confidence levels and approach to motivation and innovation, and the fact that these approaches are now firmly imbedded in the organisation that have been most striking.” Steve Simpkins, Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities Directorate, Oxford Brookes University

 

What Martin says...

“I don’t know anyone who is 100% satisfied with their performance, but am privileged to work only with those who both recognise their potential and are prepared to do something about it. If that sounds like you then I promise to help you reach higher than ever before”

 

 

Martin’s areas of Expertise:

• Coaching MD’s and/or Board Facilitation re Business Strategy and Business Growth
• Behavioural change
• Change Management Programmes

 

More about Martin’s Products..

Martin is one of the creators of Notion's acclaimed Business Success Strategies Programme. This is a monthly programme covering all aspects of Business Growth for Entrepreneurs and allows businesses of all sizes to start their coaching journey at a fraction of the price of traditional coaching, without compromising the quality of the coaching.

Martin has also created a leading edge CPD for Coaches Programme, Maintaining Coaching Excellence, in collaboration with Laura Ashley-Timms, to help coaches of all abilities and experience continually improve their performance and raise standards throughout the profession.

More information about both these programmes is available in the relevant section of the website.

 

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Martin either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email him on: Martin@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Martin Goodyer's Biography