Highlights of Qualifications

  • Master Coach Accreditation, Association for Coaching (2018 completion)
  • Diploma in Executive and Corporate Coaching, Noble Manhattan/ILM 7 (2018 completion)
  • BA in English and Anthropology from the Colorado College
  • Postgraduate training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
  • Graduate of Art & Business’ Training The Arts-based Trainer
  • Member of the Association for Coaching
  • Member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
  Continuing Professional Development

  • ACT for Self Esteem with Joe Oliver and Richard Bennett (2018) Contextual Consulting
  • ACT for Coaches with Joe Oliver and Jon Hill (2017), Contextual Consulting
  • ACT Clinical Skills with Steven Hayes, (2016) Contextual Consulting
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Coaches with Joe Oliver and Jon Hill (2016), Contextual Consulting
  • Numerous master classes (2008 – 2016), Association for Coaching
  • Shirlaws Coaching UK 75 hours CPD (2007 – 2010)
  • The Practice of Leadership (2004), Olivier Mythomania Training Associates                                 
  • Training the Arts-Based Trainer: Design & Facilitation (2002), Art & Business
  • Organization Workshop (2002), Power & Systems
  • Team Management and Leadership Program (2002 - 2003), Landmark Education
  • Self Expression and Leadership Program (2001), Landmark Education
Recent Experience

  • CEO Mentoring and strategic guidance on M&A/JV major expansion phase with Founder/CEO of international Media/Entertainment group.​
  • Leadership development with international disputes resolution lawyers on relationship management and organizational strategy.
  • Growth acceleration and equity valuation strategy with CEO/founder of international professional services headhunters.
  • Coached CEO’s, Corporate Manager in International Financial Institution, Healthcare leaders, global clinical director of major Pharmaceutical, Chair of international board of top 5 global bank.
  • Designed and implemented training programs to develop cross-cultural competencies.
  • Consultant and trainer for cultural and social organizations.
  • Coached senior UK business leaders to design and implement cross-cultural relationship management strategies with sovereign wealth funds.
  • Training and coaching senior lawyers in Silver Circle Law Firm to enhance their personal impact and make peak performance presentations.
  • Advised a major London foundation trust hospital on their strategy to build a more patient experience-centered culture.
 
More about Bill Brand
 
Bill enjoys balancing his long-term 1 – 1 executive coaching relationships with working collectively on experiential group facilitation that delivers both individual transformation and valuable business outputs. He traces his love of working collaboratively to extensive in-depth ensemble experience in the performing arts, and uses his theatre skills to help clients unlock their own physical and expressive powers to engage and connect authentically with others.  Bill’s involvement in the learning and development field began with his interest in arts-based training and his years as an associate of The Corporate Theatre.  He continues to act and will soon be seen on the big screen in a comedy with Anne Hathaway.  He was the Austrian minister of war in the BBC’s recent adaptation of War & Peace last year, and was recently seen as the University of Heidelberg provost in the Ron Howard helmed Genius, National Geographic’s first scripted series.
 
Bill is passionate about using dispute resolution to transform communication practices by replacing competitive conflict styles with cooperative ones to achieve conciliation resulting in mutually preferred outcomes and "dropped hands".
 
Bill has worked with clients in Europe, North America, and the Asia/Pacific region.  Living in twelve different countries left him with an abiding curiousity about global art, culture, history, and cuisine, and accounts for his ability to order food in a bewildering variety of languages.
 
A keen cyclist, mountaineer, and glider pilot, Bill is a trustee of Ginkgo Music, a charity that advances global awareness of the critical importance of biodiversity through the creation and promotion of projects linking music, the arts, and ecology.
 
He also plays guitar and harmonica, and sings in a Bluegrass/Cajun/Swamp Blues band called the Good Honeys, and has performed at many of the UK’s music festivals, and internationally as well.