EXECUTIVE COACH
ED
SKINNER

Overview
Drawing on his executive leadership experience across 10 countries, in engineering, mining, power generation, infrastructure, agriculture and renewables projects, Ed brings rich insight and experience to his coaching practice. Ed has worked in both public/private sectors and in client/contractor roles, at various levels including senior executive level.

Possessing the rare combination of analytical thinking and above average emotional intelligence, Ed helps businesses align vision with strategy and people for higher purpose, performance and profit. Ed’s coaching focus is directed towards emerging and highly accomplished executives and professionals, teams and people dealing with change. Ed is a certified Chair with the Advisory Board Centre and holds GAICD credentials. He therefore brings a “whole of business” focus to coaching and is equally comfortable in board contexts.
As Chair and Director of a registered charity providing services for special needs young adults, Ed is also passionate about improving and streamlining the business practices of not-for-profits so they can make a more significant difference in the lives of the people they serve.
Ed’s executive roles included accountability for:
- Startups
- Strategy, Business Planning and Budgeting
- Mega project delivery, in domestic and international, multi-country settings
- Team structuring, selection and development of high-performing teams
- Change and transformative leadership
- Business integration
- Relationship and Internal/External Stakeholder Management
- Efficient systems & processes
Ed assists businesses and leaders to focus on critical factors that shape the effectiveness of their leadership function, in the context of their organizational roles.
- Certified Chair, Advisory Board Centre AICD Director’s Course
- GAICD Company Director’s Course
- Coach – EMCC Global (teams), ICC Certified Coach
- Mediator (NMAS registered)
- Graduate Diploma – Technology Mgmt (MBA),
- Deakin University Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical, Hons), Swinburne University
- Certificate of Technology (Mechanical), Collingwood TAFE
Accreditations
- Resilience@work (RAW)
- Hogan 360 (based on Hogan Personality Assessment)
- Coach, International Coaching Community (International Coach Federation)
- EMCC Global, Team Coaching Practioner
- Qualified Mediator (NMAS), Resolution Institute
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