Nick Smith
Nick Smith - Principal Consultant
Nick is a principal consultant who has been with Bath Consultancy Group for over 15 years. He is an experienced change consultant and executive coach. He worked as a senior manager and management developer for a number of years in the public sector. The current focus of his work is in helping organisations to develop new strategic directions and deliver new and challenging goals, to implement the culture and leadership changes that will sustain such activity.
Nick has been involved for many years on a variety of change consultancy projects, senior leadership programmes and business-based leadership development with
Bath Consultancy Group's private, public and third sector clients. He has worked in various parts of Europe, Asia, Middle East, the US and South Africa with a range of global private sector organisations including one of the world’s largest professional services firms, a global leader in business transformation consulting, a multinational professional services firm, and a leading global law firm. He has also worked with a variety of local authorities, healthcare services, universities, police, fire services, social housing companies, national advisory groups and charities in the UK. For the last three years he has managed Bath Consultancy Group’s Executive Coaching Service (ECS), a global, managed network of experienced coaches providing leadership coaching to global companies. He is also part of the faculty running Bath Consultancy Group’s prestigious Executive Coaching Supervision Programme and supervises trainee supervisors, experienced executive coaches and
experienced supervisors.
Nick qualified as a systems psychotherapist in 1988, and is a registered Myers Briggs practitioner, as well as a certified facilitator of Oshry Organisational Workshops.
He has also been a faculty member on the Oshry ‘Power Lab’ Programme in the US. He has co-written a book with Professor Peter Hawkins, "Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development" (McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2nd ed. 2013), and co-authored a chapter on Transformational Coaching, in the "Complete Handbook of Coaching" (Sage, London 2nd ed. 2013). Nick is also an accredited executive coach with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS).