CV Issue 1 2018

8 CORPORATE VISION / Issue 1 2018 , Ricky Drain is an experienced Executive Coach and facilitator who draws on an integrated range of coaching tools including GROW, Gestalt and NLP. We profile Ricky and his new endeavour as we look to explore the secrets behind its success. Moulding Strategies and Solutions for Improved Business Performance Ricky Drain Executive Coaching is a new venture, having not quite reached the end of its first trading year. Its Principal and founder, Ricky Drain, is a skilled business strategist with a background in Law, Accountancy, and Commerce. Previously, Ricky was involved at a senior level in the manufacturing industry, working with high value companies, necessitating bespoke customer interaction and exporting. During this time, he engaged with senior leaders from all over the globe. Before that, as Director of the local main dealership for a high value international brand, Ricky’s focus was on bespoke customer delivery and a strong brand value adhering to stringent franchise requirements and targets. Possessing a wealth of knowledge, Ricky’s experience, prior to coaching, includes front line high value sales, tailored finance, and retail management. As an experienced and qualified Executive Coach, Ricky draws on an integrated range of coaching tools including GROW, Gestalt and NLP. He very much believes in accessing the core of the individuals involved in any process to ensure commitment to the sustainability of a commitment to change. Boasting an impressive portfolio, Ricky has been responsible for the design and delivery of a number of leadership development programmes and has carried out research identifying desirable leadership behaviours, which positively influence the culture of an organisation. He typically works at senior manager and director levels on a one-to-one basis. Specialising in Executive and Leadership Coaching, Ricky aims to enable clients to assess their existing capability, increase their own self-awareness, and develop the required competence, capability and commitment to be the best version of themselves, Furthermore, the vision is to enable improved performance and business results, as well as helping clients to adjust to new organisational realities and become inspirational as leaders. His methods involve appropriate challenge around limiting beliefs and narratives, and encouraging clients to hold themselves accountable in respect of commitments made. Following a strict process, Ricky will engage in a pre-contracting and diagnostic phase to ensure the engagement is collaborative and there is clarity around key objectives. This will involve a number of meetings and chemistry sessions prior to engagement and supported by regular touch points during the engagement. With regard to Ricky’s new venture, Ricky Drain Executive Coaching is committed to enabling and facilitating clients to be the best possible version of themselves in their organisation, and to engage with staff and colleagues in a more sophisticated and emotionally intelligent way. This path involves spending time establishing a deep level of trust and psychological security with each client. Setting an example to his clients, Ricky believes that by committing to this process the foundations are laid which enable open and honest communication and challenge. The venture appreciates that the basis for any successful business is grounded not in what you say about yourself, but in the testimonies of others. One of Ricky’s unique qualities is his breadth of commercial experience obtained before becoming an executive coach. This brings a realistic appreciation of the pressures and challenges faced by leaders in organisations, and allows a very pragmatic and relevant approach to coaching. Ricky is also accredited in Emotional Intelligence Profiling and has spent considerable time studying and defining desirable leadership behaviours which 1712CV41 help to avoid the incubation of organisational crises. Linking these elements with empirical evidence around wellbeing and the option for physical recovery assessment creates a unique value proposition offered by very few. Moreover, Ricky is linked with a company specialising in Human Performance. The mission of the company is to improve Health and Performance through a better understanding of Sleep, Nutrition and Physical Activity by providing data and personalised feedback to help create positive and sustainable changes in behaviour. Executive coaching necessitates continual learning through CPD lectures and training in addition to supervision sessions allowing decompression. This is essential in order to stay present during every session and is something Ricky Drain Executive Coaching is fully committed to. Ultimately, Ricky Drain Executive Coaching, though still young, has been fortunate to establish a strong reputation in a short space of time. No company should ever rest on their laurels and growth plans are based around identifying commonalities in relation to sector specific behavioural and cultural challenges, and build a strong holistic value proposition around the evidence.