David Wise
Hello, I’m David Wise
What’s important to me?
I’ve always enjoyed helping people and see it as one of my key strengths. Whether coaching, knowledge-sharing, strategizing , team-working – It’s all about helping others move forwards with their lives, careers, businesses.
With a passion for learning and personal development, I find the most appropriate sources of information to share with my Clients, to complement our coaching together.
I love the synergy of working with others and like to keep our sessions light-hearted while focusing on what’s important and delivering the right outcome for each session.
Wisdom.
Fun.
Teamwork.
Why Coaching?
I first got into Coaching 15 years ago, as a line-manager going through a high performance manager programme in the large corporate I was working for, where Coaching was an optional module within the programme. At the time, the general perception of Coaching was that it was ‘done to under-performers’ to help them reach the expected performance bar.
But Coaching is so much more than that! Coaching is about help you move from where you are to where you want to be, quicker and easier than if you tried to do it by yourself. In the knowledge that you have me, as your coach, walking alongside you, supporting, encouraging and challenging you to keep making progress and learning from your experiences.
I really enjoyed that first experience of learning and trying out Coaching, and decided to use it with my team, to help them aim and reach higher. Yes, I did have one team-member to help ‘reach the bar’, as well as coaching my deputy to build their confidence and help them shape their career in team leadership, starting with taking over from me!
Since then, I’ve used Coaching both personally and professionally to help friends, colleagues and clients break through their stuck circumstances and make progress towards what they want for themselves and their businesses, using a blend of the various coaching methods and techniques I have gained along the way, tailored to suit!
In my former career over the last 20+ years, I have had various team leadership and management roles including project-management, transformation lead, continuous improvement lead – all roles involve an element of facilitating Change through people.
Being a Coach, a lot of the approach is very similar, except the terminology is different: instead of leading/ managing my own project, I’m supporting my Clients to lead their own projects (about improving their own lives or their business)!
Location / Coaching Approach
My home office is in Worth Matravers, near Swanage, on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck.
I generally work with my clients via virtual online sessions (eg. Zoom, MS-Teams, Google meet, etc – all booked through my Calendly booking system, to keep our diaries in synch!).
I’m also flexible to working with Clients in neutral locations away from their normal personal or business life – let me know if you want to discuss that option.
We would typically work together for 3 or 6 months and have coaching sessions at least fortnightly (option of weekly) so that together we can help you create and sustain your momentum towards what you want to achieve.
David coaching online
All work, no play…
Outside of my Coaching work, I am happily married to Suzie with two grown adult lads, Matt and Jonny who make me very proud.
Our choccy labrador Fudge passed in 2019, but he was really part of our family too and I miss him very much, as had such a loving temperament and encouraged me to get out and go for long walks.
Looking after my own mental health
I absolutely love walking, hiking and wild-camping. Surrounded by the Jurassic coast and the awesome Dorset countryside, who wouldn’t!?
Walking / Hiking is a great way to look after my mental health – with the fresh air, physical exercise and a real chance to be immersed in the countryside, noticing what’s around me, rather than being stuck in my own head!
Strangely enough, it’s when you create that space in your head from all that busy-ness, by focusing outside, that your sub-conscious mind has an opportunity to mull over ideas to bring you (me) those Aha! moments.
There’s so much to explore in the Purbeck landscape and further afield, with local day-long walks, and 2-3 day hikes on the ridge walks of southern England. I’m thrilled when I have a chance to share these walks with family, friends and clients.
Each year, I set myself a goal of completing one of the National Trails – last year it was the Wessex Ridgeway (from Avebury to Lyme Regis, 130 miles), this year I’ve recently completed the Ridgeway from Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon (87 miles).
Next year? My 3D OS map is calling me to do the North Downs Way, from Winchester to Canterbury and Dover.
Exhilaration and Fun!
Ever since my eldest son became a ski chalet host, I’ve been booking a ski chalet for 8-12 people each January and then back-filling it with friends and family. As a result, we’ve got a core group who ski every year and have an amazing time together on the pistes!
Even though my son is no longer a ski chalet host, the tradition continues and I get to use my organizational skills to bring people together for a week of exhilaration and fun!
With a group of our number, it would be easy to miss someone on the slope, in the mass of passing skiers in their multi-coloured ski attire. So we’ve had to come up with an alternative way of picking out our group members. Watch out for the Angry Birds!
Your Turn
How do you balance your time between work, family, friends, hobbies and anything else in your life?
How are you looking after your physical, mental and emotional health?
What activities do you typically do, where you notice those Aha! moments arise?
If you’re finding that you could do with some fresh air, some physical and mental space for clarity, then perhaps we could do a day’s walk around Purbeck, to explore what’s going on for you!
I’d love to hear from you – drop me an email or use my Contact page to get in touch.
Thank You!
Thanks for taking the time to read this page.
I hope that you’ve enjoyed reading and learning about who I am and what sets me alight, so that you can make an informed decision about working with me in the future.