Seasonal Message from Guy Ashton

2024 has been a significant year for Meyler Campbell with many ‘firsts’ alongside a continued devotion to providing the very best training and development of coaches and coaching. We have delivered leader-as-coach programmes for the first time in Nigeria and in Greece. We have launched a WhatsApp community for alumni. We have developed a new digital learning platform (rolling out in January 2025). We have seen the biggest ever number of graduates. We have offered some fascinating Connect & Learn events covering topics like AI, the parallels between orchestral conducting and leadership, illustrated coaching, the use of mindfulness in treating trauma and many more. I could go on.

Underlying everything we do is a passionate commitment to creating an environment where people flourish and help others flourish through adopting a coaching approach to their most important relationships; clients, colleagues, team members, partners and even friends and family. Conversation by conversation, we help make the world a little bit healthier than it otherwise might have been.

On a personal note, it has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to lead Meyler Campbell for the last couple of years and I feel that I have been able to build on its 25-year legacy working closely with the office team and faculty. However, it has become clear, given Meyler Campbell’s strategic direction, that the business needs different skill-sets to those I bring. So, after some very helpful and supportive conversations with the Chair and the Board, I have decided to step down as CEO. We have agreed that I will transition at the end of December 2024. I will be returning to my role in Faculty, and also re-engage in my work coaching, teaching and supervising. Simon Fenton, Mastered graduate, Board member and a Senior Partner at Spencer Stuart, will take over as Interim CEO and Catherine Devitt will work alongside him in leading the Meyler Campbell Faculty.

I look forward to continuing my relationship with Meyler Campbell, its students, its alumni and its clients, and to seeing the business go from strength to strength – we are fortunate to be part of a very special community.

Best wishes for the holiday season and for 2025,

Guy Ashton