Justin Bridge

Justin Bridge moved into leadership coaching in early 2003 after nearly seven years as a management consultant.

He is founder and Director of Bridge Leadership, a London-based firm that delivers leadership coaching, training and top-team facilitation.

Justin specialises in coaching senior executives to be more conscious and thereby effective leaders, with a broader span of leadership influence. The portfolio of work encompasses both one-to-one and board-coaching activities, one-off team-building or leadership training engagements and multi-party long-term programmes.

Examples include:

• The CEO of the leading global commercial real-estate consultancy had just been appointed. Justin helped him understand how his role as leader differed from that of senior broker and enabled him to define and confidently manifest his own leadership style through his first year in post. As a consequence of this intervention the business had its most successful years to date in 2006 and 2007.
• The divisional Board of the UK's largest Civil Engineering company had failed to come together as an effective leadership team. Migration through a period of major strategic and organisational change had left the organisation reeling. Justin worked with the team regularly over a period of months to identify and build on leadership strengths in order to pull the business together around specific performance objectives.
• A large retail bank wanted to 'push down' through management layers the same understanding about leadership they had developed (through one on one coaching work with Justin). Justin and his team delivered a series of group workshops and supplementary one-to-one sessions to over 20 senior and middle managers. The aim was to make them more flexible, inspirational, and emotionally intelligent leaders. This was achieved successfully and the 'next 90' are in line for a similar programme in 2008.

Justin is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a Results Certified Coach. His client base includes a number of international blue-chip organisations including Morgan Stanley (London, Hong Kong and Tokyo), Jones Lang LaSalle (London, Paris, Barcelona, Moscow, Milan and Munich), Nestle (Lausanne), Deloitte and Touche (where he works coaching Partners, Directors and Senior Managers), Carillion, Ulster Bank, Betfair, Aspect Capital and Barclays Capital. Justin has clocked up over 2000 hours of high-level executive coaching and is a trainer within the Results Coaching System network.

Justin has been engaged in various speaking and lecturing assignments at major business schools and has an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management.

An avid tri-athlete and huge rugby and cricket fan, Justin speaks fluent French and some Italian.

Justin is married to Winnie and together they have a son, Theodore and a daughter, Elsa.

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