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Meadow Green | The Batch | Churchill | North Somerset | BS25 5PP

simon.hegarty2020@outlook.com | www.simonhegartycoaching.co.uk

01934 853273 | 07747 413734

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Simon has been the most amazing resource...
he has given me fantastic focus and energy.

A former senior partner in an international law firm and now a highly experienced coach and mentor to senior lawyers in the UK and abroad, Simon is varyingly described as “the most amazing resource”, “fantastic support”, “an inspiring personality”, “legend” and “a perfect coach”.


Senior Support Managers, Senior lawyers, Partners, Heads of Legal - all benefit from Simon’s highly practical and engaging style of coaching to enhance their own performance and meet the manifold challenges of operating in a highly competitive legal world.

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Education

University of Leeds (LLB)

College of Law (CPE)

Britannia Royal Naval College

Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring (EMCC Level 7)

Books

“In the Mind of the Rainmaker”

Co-authored with John Timperley of The Results Consultancy – highly practical guidance to professionals on how to be really effective at developing business relationships and winning work.

Royal Navy

Simon served in HMS Fearless, HMS Apollo and HMS Birmingham with deployments to the Caribbean, Mediterranean, United States, and the Falklands and taught at the International Officers Training School at HMS Raleigh.


PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND


Executive Coach and Consultant

As a highly experienced coach and mentor to lawyers, Simon draws on 5 years’ leadership experience as a Royal Navy Officer, 22 years’ ‘coalface’ experience as a private practice lawyer with an international law firm and 16 years coaching, mentoring and training lawyers in the UK and Europe on all aspects of their roles. Specific training has included business development, networking, presentational skills, coaching, financial acumen, team building and leadership. Simon has an Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching from the highly regarded Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.

Simon’s clients include Senior Partners of international law firms, Heads of Legal of Accountancy and Insurance businesses, partners, senior lawyers and senior support managers, in the UK and Europe. Simon sees his role as helping professionals to flourish as practitioners and leaders in their workplace, and cope with the challenges and stress of operating in today’s highly competitive legal industry. He has coached over 200 lawyers to partner status and further promotion within their firms as well as assisting senior professionals at all levels with key career decisions. Simon is varyingly described as “the most amazing resource”, “fantastic support”, “an inspiring personality”, “legend” and “a perfect coach”.



Private Practice Experience

Simon practised for 22 years with CMS Cameron McKenna and, as a Partner, Practice Group Manager, Board Member and Office Managing Partner, he was involved in all aspects of managing a professional practice: recruiting, training and development of fee earning and support staff, the assessment and promotion of senior lawyers to partners, firm-wide strategy, practice development and financial management. As a practising partner, Simon specialised in banking and insurance, securing panel appointments with major clearing banks and leading professional indemnity insurers and being regularly ranked as tier 1 in Chambers.



Personal Interests

Simon’s interests are predominantly sporting having played rugby for his university, the Royal Navy and Saracens. Current pastimes include running, cycling, sailing, tennis, local politics, conservation, maintaining a small holding and cider. He lives with wife Lesley and children, Helen and Patrick, in Somerset.

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Testimonials

Simon’s testimonials reflect his approach to coaching: a great commitment to his clients, a hugely encouraging approach, and a blend of both coaching and mentoring drawn from extensive practitioner, coaching and training experience.

Simon's coaching helps people succeed in:

Gaining promotion, establishing themselves in a new firm or new role, shaping, evolving or kick starting their practice, creating and implementing a really effective business plan, managing time far better, handling a crisis of confidence, establishing a decent work/home balance, holding much more meaningful meetings with colleagues and clients, giving a great presentation, performing to their best in interviews handling promotion to a senior management position, inspiring and leading their team more effectively, recognising and addressing personal stress, handling demotion or a career ‘pause’, achieving a greater degree of satisfaction with their current role, and, last but not least, retiring gracefully with a plan for the next phase in their career and life.

“Simon is an absolute legend. Extremely helpful, very knowledgeable and very approachable. He really couldn't be better. A perfect coach.”

“Simon's coaching sessions with me during the past year were absolutely amazing in terms of results… sessions with him always helped me to structure better my thinking process and to set up goals which were relatively easy to achieve, realistic and yet quite ambitious in my view.”

“Simon was brilliant! He was brim-full of enthusiasm and ideas and the energy and focus which he put into coaching me was invaluable...Overall Simon's great strength is his boundless energy and personability, which he applies really thoughtfully to the matter in hand.”

“Completely focused on me - all aspects of my life as well as work. I knew I could talk about things and evaluate what I want from my career and how to get there.”

“Simon is an excellent coach - he is pragmatic and to the point, full of ideas without being too directional, bursting with energy but with the right measure of realism to win over the most cynical of lawyers, and non-judgmental. Simon's own experience of private practice and his knowledge of the firm mean that he has a very valuable perspective on the personalities and pressures involved. I found Simon to be very committed - not only did he make sure that our appointments happened, but he followed up informally in between appointments. He is, in short, brilliant.”

“Simon is a true professional, his knowledge of the business is invaluable. He was always enthusiastic and followed up as appropriate. He is full of ideas and approaches.”

“Simon has the great ability of assimilating information and getting to the point. It is a rarity to discuss anything with him without him contributing insights and adding value. I cannot imagine anyone regretting signing Simon up as a coach. He really cares and is a great guy to run anything past, in the confidence that he will come up with some new and helpful angle.”

“Coaching with Simon helped me enormously and, despite having been extremely sceptical from my previous experience of coaching, I would not hesitate to recommend coaching with Simon to anyone (and indeed I have been enthusing about the experience to my colleagues).”

“Superb - focused, 100% relevant information; everything is straight to the point and there's no peripheral stuff covered. Simon also really goes out of his way to make sure that you are following through on the key messages and always makes himself available for offline discussions..”

“Simon was an excellent listener, did lots of research and followed up several ties outside of the coaching. He was very committed.”

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CONTACT


Meadow Green | The Batch | Churchill | North Somerset | BS25 5PP

01934 853273

07747 413734

simon.hegarty2020@outlook.com