Our People
Meet the pioneers in performance coaching, transformational leadership and the GROW model for personal and organisational transformation.
People are at the forefront of everything we do.
With over 40 years of expertise in the world of performance coaching, consulting and cultural transformation, we working in close partnership with our clients, facilitators, employees and champions.
Let us introduce us to a few of them, including our Founders and current leadership team.
Sir John Whitmore (1937- 2017)
Pioneer of coaching in the workplace and Co-Founder of Performance Consultants, Sir John Whitmore defined the theory of the GROW model in the 1980s. Sir John Whitmore was a pre-eminent thinker in leadership development and organizational change.
He wrote five books on leadership, coaching and sports and published the first edition of Coaching for Performance in 1992, now running into its 6th UK/US edition, having sold over a million copies in more than 20 languages.
Read more about Sir John Whitmore here.
David Brown
Founder and Chairman of Performance Consultants, and a close collaborator of the late Sir John Whitmore, David has spent 30 years working on creating high-performance cultures for global corporations.
Starting his career as an Advisor to Macquarie Group and Prudential Financial, David was invited on to the advisory board of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for 5 years.
Today he heads the global rollout of Performance Consultants, and is the principal lead of its Executive Coaching practice.
David believes that we each have unlimited potential and that once we align with what we truly want to do, anything is possible. He believes that people need to find and own their personal motivation for their role and unearth the rules of behavior from within. David coaches & mentors individuals and companies to harness potential and unblock limitations.
Tiffany Gaskell
Currently the CEO of Performance Consultants, Tiffany is an international authority on performance coaching and leadership. She has spent 20 years working with C-suite at Fortune 2000 and FTSE 100 businesses.
Tiffany is co-author of Coaching for Performance (6th edition, 2024) and a keynote speaker on transformational leadership, the impact of coaching cultures, and corporate culture evolution.
She has been featured in and written for the Financial Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Smart Brief, Strategic CHRO and a number of high-profile podcasts.
An innovator and advocate of ways to measure the benefits of coaching and the impact of leaders, Tiffany is the creator of Coaching for Performance ROI Methodology, Impact 360, the Performance Curve™ and the Safety Performance Curve™.
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