Leigh is Master Executive Coach, Speaker and Author who specializes in helping people enjoy greater success in their careers, work-life and businesses.
After a successful career as a consulting structural engineer and having played a major role in the design and construction of award-winning bridges and buildings and other structures, as well as lecturing to thousands of students at a number of Australia universities, he took time out to re-evaluate his life and to set a new direction for the next stage of his professional career.
Like many people, over time he had personally experienced many of life's highs and lows. Although many of these experiences were quite painful, he found them to be rich opportunities to learn and grow philosophically, emotionally and spiritually.
After working through a carefully planned personal development program, he became reacquainted with his real passion and purpose in life, which is “to discover, learn and assimilate knowledge for his own personal growth and to pass on this knowledge for the benefit of others in the broader community”.
Having realigned and re-vitalized his goals, he undertook intensive training in a range of modalities and studied the great teachers and leaders with the aim of establishing an executive coaching practice to pass on to others the really important lessons that he had learnt.
Although this might seem to have been an unusual career transition, in reality it was not. Leigh had been interested in personal development since his early teenage years, having applied much that he learned from attending many courses and trainings and collecting a most extensive library of books, tapes, CDs, DVD’s on this field. Furthermore, he had dedicated much of his working life in his earlier professional career to teaching, mentoring, coaching, counseling and training others.
As a result, it was a natural transition to transfer his problem-solving skills from the field of structural engineering to the field of personal development and the psychology of excellence.
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are two of the principal modalities that Leigh uses in his coaching practice to help clients most efficiently and effectively resolve their issues and limitations so that they can get in touch with their passions and life's purpose.
To reach out to as many people as possible and in the belief that this knowledge would give young students a wonderful start in life, Leigh returned to some of the universities where he had given lectures on structural engineering to give presentations on personal development and the psychology of excellence. Although this type of material had never before been included in these courses, the lectures were extremely well received, something that he found to be most rewarding.
More recently he was delighted to have had the opportunity to write his first book: “Surviving Financial Meltdown: How to Triumph over Personal Financial hardship and Unleash Your Tue Potential” to reach an even broader global audience and improve the quality of life of many more people,
Apart from his family and his deep interest in personal development, Leigh also enjoys sailing, windsurfing and distance running. He lives and works in a beautiful seaside location in Melbourne, Australia.
