IHE Principals

Sir John Whitmore (Chair)

Rated as the number one Business coach by the Independent Newspaper and as having had the most impact on the coaching profession by the UK Association of Coaching, Sir John is a pre-eminent thinker in leadership and organisational change. He was a motor racing champion in his 20’s before retiring to run a large agribusiness, a product design company and a Ford Main Dealership.

In1968 he gave up businesses to study psychology in the USA, before returning to England to set up a tennis school and a ski school in the Alps licensed by Timothy Gallwey of the Inner Game. Together with other high profile achievers, he formed Performance Consultants, which has been highly influential in introducing new approaches to coaching and business training, and he remains a senior partner today. Sir John has personally trained some of the leading organisations in the world, such as Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Barclays, Lloyds, Rolls Royce, British Airways, Novo Nordisk and Roche.

He has produced and directed a feature film, performed in many guises on radio and TV and on conference platforms. He organised leading edge conferences and is the creator of the Be the Change movement. He has written five books on sports, leadership, and coaching, of which Coaching for Performance is the best known having sold a quarter of a million copies in 17 languages.