Mike Cole
Executive and business coaching for leaders navigating bigger roles, more complex decisions and the challenge of leading well as the business around them grows and changes.
Mike Cole
Executive and business coaching for leaders navigating bigger roles, more complex decisions and the challenge of leading well as the business around them grows and changes.
“Working with Mike completely changed how I run my business. He helped me understand my company finances, improve communication with my team, and step into the role of CEO. After years of running the business with just my partner, growing to a team of 12 was a huge shift, and I needed the right support to navigate it. His guidance gave me the confidence and clarity to lead effectively, make smarter decisions, and build a stronger business. I can’t recommend Mike highly enough!”
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Next Level Leader
Your next level as a leader might mean thinking through a decision where there isn’t an obvious right answer, working out how to delegate more without losing grip of what matters, shaping strategy, handling difficult stakeholders, testing whether an assumption really stacks up, or simply creating space to look ahead rather than just dealing with what is already on your desk.
I ask questions to help you get underneath the issue; bringing challenge and commercial insight where needed. That might mean looking at a problem from a different angle, weighing risk and opportunity, or helping you spot something you haven’t considered yet.
Working together, I can help you to see the situation more clearly, make higher-impact decisions and lead effectively as the business around you evolves.
“Mike is a tremendous mastermind coach! He’s been running the our high ticket group mastermind sessions in our Rebels accelerator programme since February 2022, and we super appreciate having him on our team. Our clients are always telling us how awesome he is, and how valuable his skill at asking the right questions is to helping them get unstuck and take action.”
About Mike Cole
I studied aerospace engineering, specialising in astronautics, before joining EY and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with ICAS. I then spent 16 years in the Big Four and FTSE 100 businesses, including Rolls-Royce and Experian.
Over time, my work moved beyond getting the numbers right into helping leaders work out what to do with them. I investigated complex issues for Finance Directors, built tools that helped non-finance leaders test different scenarios, worked through major commercial and organisational change, and helped shape decisions around strategy, pricing, risk and investment.
I also led multinational teams and sat on leadership teams for a 140-person service centre, an 8-figure technology centre and an 8-figure revenue-generating business unit. Later, I co-founded and ran a small business too – a very different perspective on leadership and commercial reality.
Since qualifying as a coach, I’ve delivered more than 1,000 hours of professional coaching and I’m ICF-accredited at PCC level.
