Marshall Cowley
Coach/Consultant/Facilitator, Auckland
As a consultant specialising in executive coaching and leadership development, Marshall works with individuals and organisations internationally to close the gap between what leaders know and what they do.
He does this through strengths-based individual and team coaching. Marshall has extensive experience coaching to the C-Suite in Commercial/NFP organisations and at Secretary/Deputy Secretary level in Government.
Unlike many coaches, Marshall has a strong background in C-Suite roles himself (National HRD and Executive People and Culture roles) and so comes to the table as a leader who’s learned to coach, rather than a coach who’s learned about leadership.
Marshall is also a proud founding member of the leadership team for the Homeward Bound Project, a 20-year global initiative to equip a 10,000-strong global collaboration of women in science to lead, influence and contribute to policy as it informs the future of our planet.
Common areas of focus in his executive coaching include:
- transitioning from functional management to whole-of-enterprise leadership
- balancing focus between people skills and business acumen
- skill and will to manage accountability and have the hard conversations
- building vulnerability and trust as a foundation for effectiveness
- assessing and addressing gaps in strategy development and/or execution
- stewardship of cultural transformation.
With a strong suite of diagnostic accreditations, Marshall is also able to establish a rigorous evidence base for coaching assignments.
Qualifications and Accreditations
- Lifetime Accreditation in the Human Synergistics Life Styles Inventory (LSI), Group Styles Inventory (GSI), Organisational Cultural Inventory (OCI), Organisational Effectiveness Inventory (OEI) and Customer Service Styles (CSS)
- Korn Ferry Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI)
- Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)
- SHL OPQ32 Ability Assessments
- Korn Ferry Talent Q Ability Assessments
- Quad Assessment’s Business Acumen Gauge
- Health and Care Industries Leadership Capability Assessment Tool (HILCA and CILCA)
- Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS)
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Lencioni - Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team
- Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI)
- Bachelor of Commerce: Management and Organisational Psychology
- Certificate 4 (Category 2) in Workplace Training Assessment