Mark Manley, BA (Hons) Coach & Facilitator Kent mark@oaktreecoaching.com + +44 (0)7889 868472

Mark Manley is an executive coach, facilitator and consultant with over 20 years of experience of major multi-nationals. Mark’s background is in large organisations, mainly pharmaceuticals, where he has held line management roles in a wide range of functions including IT, HR, Sales Leadership, Training and Development and Project Management. As an external coach-consultant, his clients have included major organisations such as AstraZeneca, Teva, The Environment Agency, the Care Quality Commission and the BBC.

Mark builds meaningful relationships with people quickly. He has an open and curious approach, combined with a genuine concern for the welfare and growth of others. Mark has a calm, relaxed and natural manner that puts people at ease and enables them to flourish.

Following over seven years focused on developing teams and individuals, Mark has an extensive knowledge of a range of development tools and resources, and he blends this with his coaching expertise to create a learning experience uniquely tailored to each assignment. Mark’s clients describe him as someone who balances warmth and compassion with a strong challenge to habitual thinking. His three main areas of specialism are:

• Coaching and Training Leaders. Mark’s experience of working in and for successful organisations has led him to have a strong commitment to the development of leaders who speak and act with clarity and authenticity.
  

• Team Development. Mark has extensive experience of working with large (120+) and small teams, from junior managers through to senior leaders, across the UK and Europe. He uses a range of interventions to enable teams to deepen the quality of their conversations, to build new and develop existing relationships, enabling teams to explore new possibilities and opportunities and achieve greater results.
  

• Coaching Skills Training. Mark has designed, developed and led a range of highly successful workshops to develop internal coaches within organisations, supporting managers who wanted to acquire or improve their coaching skills, through to full time performance coaches.
  

Mark has a BA Hons and is BPS Level A and B qualified. Mark is qualified to use MBTI, OPQ and SDI tools. He was trained to an advanced level as an internal coach within Glaxo SmithKline. Mark is currently studying for an MA in Coaching Psychology with the Metanoia Institute.

Client Testimonials

“Mark has a natural supportive yet challenging style. He draws well upon examples from his own personal experience and that of his wider interactions in his recent role as a trainer/facilitator/coach etc. to good effect. Mark can be quite direct and consistently provides feedback in the moment and requests feedback on our sessions with a view to re-contracting. He is able to mix experiential learning with reference to recent texts from the open literature to test assumptions, develop strategic thinking etc. From my own personal experience, Mark has listened well, supported me to revisit my key drivers, re-examine my values, re-instil self-belief and confidence and acted as a soundboard to test my assumptions in situations where I may not have all the data. This has been valuable support to my making some recent key career (and life) decisions. He has also used our sessions to good effect in challenging aspects of the wider organisation in a more discrete fashion.”
Research and Development Director, Leading Pharmaceutical Company

“I find my coaching sessions with Mark to be inspiring and motivating. He asks pointed questions which challenge my thinking and push my boundaries. Whilst in theory the concepts we have discussed are really simple, putting them into practice is where the greatest challenge lies. Mark has encouraged me to focus on one or two specific objectives, chunking them down into simple, measurable steps, which has enabled me to make significant progress in areas that had previously been onerous and challenging to me. During our sessions, there have been a number of “lightbulb” moments for me, relating to my professional development. It was the probing and insightful questioning from Mark that brought about these revelations. I am very grateful for the opportunity to take a helicopter view of my career and role within J&J and Mark has been instrumental in my progress and development”.
National Sales Manager, J&J Vision Care