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Kevin S Craig – PCC, CPCC, ORSC

Location: Manama

Kevin is a senior level executive, team and organisational coach, entrepreneur and businessman with exceptional outstanding abilities enabling both teams & individuals to maximise their full potential; an outstanding communicator able to develop knowledge, skill and facilitate behavioural and values based changes; within challenging global, multicultural competitive environments at a strategic level to business.

Kevin was born in the UK and raised in Oman. From his base in Bahrain, he has worked throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and USA for multi-national blue-chip companies such as Siemens and DHL International.  With a multi-cultural international perspective on life and business, he is passionate about what he offers. His awareness and familiarity with Middle Eastern culture is an asset. He can be both the person outside looking in, and the person inside helping others look out.

Kevin is the first person in Bahrain to be a Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC). A graduate from the world renowned Coaches Training Institute (CTI), the global leaders in coaching education and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), he is continually expanding his learning, skills. He is also qualified and licensed to deliver Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching, which expand the individual to move forward and organizations come together in harmony increasing conscious and intentional behaviour. Kevin is the first in the Middle East authorised in psychometric administration and debrief of The Leadership Circle Profile tool, a well researched battery of competencies with the deep motivations and underlying habits of thought. It reveals the relationship between patterns of action and the internal assumptions that drive behaviour.

In addition he is also a graduate of the highly challenging CTI Leadership Programme in the USA. This is all testiment to Kevin’s passion to be at the forefront of his field adding value to the lives of people and organisations he works with.

Kevin earlier this year spoke and conducted a workshop on conscious and intentional relationships within organisations at the University of Bahrain in association with AIESEC. Passionate about developing leadership capability and consciousness he coaches around specific leadership objectives. Kevin is the key ingredient to change within the Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas and Logistics sectors within the Kingdom of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Not only is Kevin prominent within the Middle East coaching community, he was instrumental in co-founding the Bahrain HR Forum and the Professional Coaches Network in Bahrain as well as a reputed speaker on leadership and systems work, and a regular contributor to publications in the region.

From The Blog

The action of challenge has been a recurring theme for me in recent days. I had forgotten how important it is to be challenged and to challenge others. Growth is dependent on this dynamic and as leaders we can forget that this is a powerful way to motivate, excite, engage, intensify and wake-up the talent around us. As leaders we must expand our range of styles in this domain of challenge.  

Busyness and action are the bywords of our current lives. There is no room for space/emptiness/quietness/nothingness. These seem to be the enemy that no one is prepared to succumb to, so we fight it off by always being on the go, most of it in the name of productivity. 

Sir John Whitmore shares a true story of a key moment of awakening that created a positive powerful engagement of his true capabilities. Speaking here at the recent ICF European Conference 2011, Sir John is considered one of the founders of the modern coaching industry. 

In a joint initiative aimed at self-regulation, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF) today file with the European Union a common Code of Conduct as the benchmark standard for the coaching and mentoring industry.

 

Our interview today gives great insight into the challenge faced by all leaders in the Middle East namely, ‘how to adapt our leadership style to this specific market with specific nuances’.  

The ‘Executive Next Level’ interview this week is with a top US executive coach. The content is about leadership and the challenges being faced by those people leading organisations in the US as well as thoughts on the key steps we can and should take in stepping up in our leadership of self and others. 

This is the percentage of Middle East Professionals who are looking for a change in career. The recent poll by Bayt.com has highlighted the large gap that exists between employees and their engagement or commitment in their current organisations. 

Yesterday we were invited to speak at the Dubai Financial HR Forum. As people that are passionate about coaching it is great to be able to engage with this high level of HR experience in global organisations and see that coaching has a critical role to play.  

Following a fantastic event in Paris last year I will be attending the ICF conference in Madrid this year.  This is where the leading coaches in Europe convene to talk about and share coaching practices and thinking. 

31st May-1st June 2011
For the first time in the Middle East a conference dedicated solely to Coaching is being run in Kuwait. Woodthorpe Wright Associates have been invited to speak at the conference due to our extensive regional experience in this arena.