Matthew Smith Coaching
Executive & Leadership Coach and Mentor
Welcome, I´m Matthew, an Executive & Leadership Coach and Mentor. I help leaders, business owners and ambitious professionals to achieve their personal and professional goals.
How I Help
For individuals
Are you a C-Suite executive, established leader, emerging leader or ambitious individual seeking to be the absolute best you can be? I work on a 1:1 basis with you to help you gain clarity, work through complex challenges, develop key leadership skills and create deliberate and meaningful plans to help you achieve your goals and develop as leaders.
For Organizations
Are you a business owner, senior leader or HR professional looking for an Executive Coach for one of your teams? I work with organisations who are committed to transforming their performance through focus on the personal and professional development of their people.
I work with leaders across all levels and professions, utilizing my own corporate leadership and coaching expertise to support my clients in achieving the outcomes they want.
About Me
I help leaders develop their careers and build teams of the future.
My Background
I am former Tax Director with 18 years of corporate experience, the last 10 of which
involved leading teams in FTSE100 and Fortune500 companies. I have worked in both highly regulated corporate environments as well as Big 4 consultancy, both in the UK, Switzerland, Spain and India. I am a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and a member of the International Coaching Federation. I am native British and speak fluent Spanish. I live in Valencia, Spain.
My Approach
My international corporate and leadership experience means I have a comprehensive understanding of complex organisational structures, strategy and culture, and the conflicting nature of decisions and dilemmas that my clients face.
My aim is to create long-lasting partnerships with my clients based on honesty, trust, authenticity, and pragmatism. I provide my clients with the support, guidance, and tools they need to allow them to achieve their desired outcomes, whilst holding them to account for actions they commit to.
I approach every coaching session with an open mind, a sense of curiosity, and a sense of humour. I am honest and direct in my observations and questions and bring a positive outlook and growth mindset to all of our sessions.
Every coaching client is different and therefore every programme is designed around the needs and desired outcomes of my clients. I understand that is essential for many of my clients that goals and outcomes are clearly defined and measurable in order to ensure real tangible results and ultimately a return on investment.
For Individuals
Powerful coaching conversations which broaden thinking and inspire action.
My 1-to-1 coaching services provide a confidential space for my clients to focus on their own agenda, talk through the issues that are important to them, and create purposeful plans and actions to achieve their goals.
This can often involve work around:
Career and personal development
Increasing resilience, confidence, and assertiveness
Increasing presence, personal impact, and influence
Improving communication skills
Managing complex relationships (including conflict and having difficult conversations)
Increasing self-awareness to better understand your own thoughts and behaviour (including identifying blind-spots)
Discovering, defining and exploring your leadership style
Stepping up into a new leadership role/ first 100 days in role
Work with me:
1-1 Individual Coaching
What´s included:
- A 30 minute chemistry call to see if we’re a good fit and to agree ways of working (free)
- 90 minute coaching sessions over Zoom either fortnightly, monthly or bi-monthly
- Resources, workbooks and exercises as required
- Full email and telephone support between coaching sessions
Your investment:
€220 per session. A 10% discount is offered for block bookings of 6 or more sessions.
For Organizations
Developing key talent, team leaders and their teams.
1-1 Individual Coaching
I work with large corporates, SME´s and professional services firms who are seeking a coach to facilitate professional growth in their leadership teams and potential future leaders.
You may be wishing to support new leaders in their first months in a new position. You may wish to help existing leaders discover, define and explore their leadership style and its impact on the
organization. You may wish to discover where your leadership team´s blind spots exist. I can help with all of this.
Both my 1-1 and group programmes are tailored specifically to you and your business and the outcomes you desire. The content, pace and delivery of the programmes are always agreed with you in advance.
My aim is always to support and upskill so that you are able to take away the outcomes and implement meaningful transformational change in your organization.
Group Coaching
I also work with teams of up to 8 on delivering improvements in internal team dynamics. This can typically involve:
Improving team engagement and motivation
Unblocking difficult communication dynamics
Resolving conflict within a team
Implementing more impactful KPI´s
Proposing changes to organizational structure
Work With Me
1-1 Executive & Leadership Coaching
Group Coaching (maximum 8 people)
What’s included
3-6 Month Partnership
- A 30 minute chemistry call
with each employee to see if
we’re a good fit - A 90 minute kick off
meeting with myself, the
coachee and the sponsor
(optional) to discuss
objectives and ways of
working - 90 minute coaching calls
over Zoom fortnightly or
monthly (6 sessions in total) - Resources, workbooks &
exercises as required - Email support between
coaching sessions
Your Investment
Prices available on request.
1 Day Intensive
- A 15 minute chemistry call
with each employee to see
if we´re a good fit - A pre-session workbook to
analyze your current
situation, challenges,
objectives and thinking. - A session agenda agreed in
advance plus any required
resources, workbooks &
exercises - Either a full (7 hrs) or half
day (3.5 hrs) intensive
coaching session on Zoom
or In-Person - A written report
documenting key learnings, actions and additional thoughts on items discussed - Post-session email support
- A 60 minute follow-up
session 4 weeks later
1 Day Intensive
- A 30 minute chemistry
call with the session
sponsor to see if we´re
a good fit - A pre-session workbook
to analyze your current
situation, specific team
challenges and
objectives for the
session - A session agenda
agreed in advance plus
any required resources,
workbooks exercises - Either a full (7 hrs) or
half day (3.5 hrs)
intensive group coaching session on
Zoom or In-Person - A written report
documenting key
learnings, actions and
additional thoughts on
items discussed
What People Say
“The coaching sessions that Matt provides are interactive and utilize a range of skills. Matt has been a great help to me in building confidence and helping me to think around alternative solutions to complex topics. Matt’s coaching sessions have been really beneficial to me, and I would highly recommend for anyone working in any area of tax.”
“I’ve recently had some Leadership coaching with Matt and would highly recommend him. He has helped me believe in my abilities more, increasing my confidence and reaffirming the leadership skills I possess as well as on how to improve them.”
“It has been highly valuable and worthwhile working with Matt over the last 2 months. He was able to identify and challenge cognitive distortions about myself and outward perceptions. I went from lacking direction and feeling stuck to having a clearer vision and purpose with practical step plans of how to get there. My mindset and thought patterns shifted as the weeks passed. Matthew was attentive, assertive, encouraging and practical! I would highly recommend his professional coaching services.”
“A truly magnificent Coach who creates an amazing amount of ease and psychological safety to explore thinking. Highly recommended!”
“Matt is an excellent coach. His calm and supportive presence makes it easy for you to open up and develop your thinking in specific areas. His questions are timed perfectly to get the most from you. With his help, I have explored deeply rooted beliefs and become clear on steps to take to align key elements of my life around these.”
“I’ve had the absolute privilege of having Matt as my coach recently. He expertly guided me through a tricky topic and unlocked my thoughts which gave me some concrete actions to work through. He is present, confident and calm in his approach, I cannot recommend him highly
enough. Don’t be afraid of the silences…embrace the space.”
Get In Touch
If you have any questions or would like to discuss working with me then please get in touch to arrange a call:
matthewsmith.coach@gmail.com
+34 675 42 26 16
Or message me here:
All information shared between me and my clients, both individuals and organisations, will be held in the strictest confidence. Any notes taken will be held in secure private files only accessible by me and will only be held for as long as my clients are comfortable.
