About me
Hi, I'm Fred, I'm a coach and facilitator with a passion for bringing the best out of creative, innovative, and ambitious individuals, teams, and organizations.
Everything I do, I do with passion and enthusiasm. This extends to my belief in amplifying creativity, innovation, collaboration, compassion, and understanding. To work with technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, managers, producers, and business leaders with a bigger vision for their world and a drive and ambition to make an impact.
All of my work is based on a core philosophy that growth requires the vulnerability to leave our comfort zone, which in turn requires physical and psychological safety. My job is to make you feel safe, then to help you get uncomfortable! To explore and dismantle your unconscious defense mechanisms and behaviour patterns, so that we can build new patterns that serve your full capability. This is only possible by building a foundation of trust, support, partnership, genuine care, and belief in your bigger, brighter future.
Everything I do, I do with passion and enthusiasm. This extends to my belief in amplifying creativity, innovation, collaboration, compassion, and understanding. To work with technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, managers, producers, and business leaders with a bigger vision for their world and a drive and ambition to make an impact.
All of my work is based on a core philosophy that growth requires the vulnerability to leave our comfort zone, which in turn requires physical and psychological safety. My job is to make you feel safe, then to help you get uncomfortable! To explore and dismantle your unconscious defense mechanisms and behaviour patterns, so that we can build new patterns that serve your full capability. This is only possible by building a foundation of trust, support, partnership, genuine care, and belief in your bigger, brighter future.
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Training & Credentials
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) - Co-Active Training Institute
Associate Certified Coach (ACC) - International Coaching Federation
Executive Coach Training Certificate - Inpowered Coaching Institute
The Neuroscience of Change - Coaches Rising
Transforming Teams - Coaches Rising
I also have an MSc in Computer Graphics and a BSc in Marine Biology and Dynamical Oceanography
Associate Certified Coach (ACC) - International Coaching Federation
Executive Coach Training Certificate - Inpowered Coaching Institute
The Neuroscience of Change - Coaches Rising
Transforming Teams - Coaches Rising
I also have an MSc in Computer Graphics and a BSc in Marine Biology and Dynamical Oceanography
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Creative, Technical, and Management Experience
For the first decade of my career I built a reputation for creative and technical problem solving, including creating some of the most challenging technical animation in multiple tentpole Hollywood movies.
Over the subsequent decade+ my interest in problem solving was overtaken by my passion for leading and working with people and empowering them to succeed and grow, ultimately leading to my current work as a coach and facilitator.
For full details of my past career, roles, awards, and projects worked on, here are links to my IMDB and LinkedIn profiles.
Over the subsequent decade+ my interest in problem solving was overtaken by my passion for leading and working with people and empowering them to succeed and grow, ultimately leading to my current work as a coach and facilitator.
For full details of my past career, roles, awards, and projects worked on, here are links to my IMDB and LinkedIn profiles.
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My Core Values
These core values are at the heart of how I live and work.
- Challenging the status quo
- Care
- Creativity & Play
- Sincerity
- Growth & continuous learning
- Belief in potential
- Attention to detail
- Responsibility
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Personal Life & Hobbies
I live in beautiful North Vancouver, BC, Canada with my amazing, inspiring wife, Laura. We live on the edge of the forest, at the base of Mount Seymour, close to the ocean. We met while train running and still love spending time in nature.
I enjoy growing vegetables, especially tomatoes, building wooden furniture, baking sourdough bread, cooking pizza in our outdoor oven.
I'm a former triathlete, having completed 2 Ironman endurance races and competed in world championships on both the British and Canadian Teams. I'm a former yogi, who practiced Ashtanga yoga for several years including 5 months in Mysore, India, with the then 90 year old K. Pattabhi Jois.
I volunteer as a global board member for the Visual Effects Society and serve on their member education committee and as Co-Chair of the Vancouver section.
Just in case you haven't got the message yet, I don't do things half-heartedly! When I commit to something, including working with a new client, I'm all in.
I enjoy growing vegetables, especially tomatoes, building wooden furniture, baking sourdough bread, cooking pizza in our outdoor oven.
I'm a former triathlete, having completed 2 Ironman endurance races and competed in world championships on both the British and Canadian Teams. I'm a former yogi, who practiced Ashtanga yoga for several years including 5 months in Mysore, India, with the then 90 year old K. Pattabhi Jois.
I volunteer as a global board member for the Visual Effects Society and serve on their member education committee and as Co-Chair of the Vancouver section.
Just in case you haven't got the message yet, I don't do things half-heartedly! When I commit to something, including working with a new client, I'm all in.
