Paul Crick
Professional Development Director
Paul is an EMCC accredited coach (senior practitioner) and is Professional Development Director for EMCC UK. He has been a management consultant, coach, educator, facilitator and trainer for over 20 years, working across the world with private, public and voluntary organisations for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, CapGemini and IBM. He recently transitioned out of IBM and is currently preparing to launch his own leadership development consultancy, The Elevate Partnership, in the second half of 2020.
The Elevate Partnership seeks to help change our culture of leadership, one leader and one organisation at a time. It focuses on taking an inside-out approach to leader development, leadership development, and culture shift using a potent mix of coaching modalities and best-in-class technology and tools.
Paul previously co-led IBM’s Global Coaching Community of Practice of 4,000 coaches across 80 countries, and served as an Executive Coach in IBM’s Professional Coaching Service. He has taught and coached leaders individually and in groups, both inside and outside IBM, across 22 countries up to and including C-Level Executives.
Paul lives happily in the middle of nowhere in the UK, nestled in nature with his wife, Tina, their dogs (Jock and Maisie) and horse (Penny), indulging his passion for Aikido, music and exploring new developments across a variety of psychology-related disciplines.