Alan Littlefield

Senior Practitioner

“The stories we tell ourselves are often self-limiting. The potential for our evolution is limitless and the ability to lead people and businesses through transformation is more vital now than ever.”

Expert In: Leaders & Organisations
Style: Collaborative, Challenging & Compassionate

Biography

Alan has had a career as a people developer for more than 20 years, including coaching since 2004. He began as a trainer in a fast-paced call centre environment, developing his own and others’ customer service skills. Alan moved to a public sector organisation for 7 years as part of the HR function. Whilst there he programme managed leadership development initiatives for the top 40 leaders and the wider management population.

Alan has since spent his career as a consultant partnering with many clients. He spent 5 years with a global HR solutions provider where he used behavioural profiling and feedback to develop clients. Alan joined Complete Coherence in 2012 where he has focused on building long-term client relationships and growing our team of practitioners.

“The stories we tell ourselves are often self-limiting. How would we evolve if we reauthored the story? What kind of leader, team or organisation might we become? The potential for our evolution is limitless and the ability to lead people and businesses through transformation is more vital now than ever.”
Alan Littlefield – Senior Practitioner

Track Record Style Qualifications

Alan’s coaching and facilitation experience covers a broad range of industries including financial services, retail, manufacturing, FMCG, professional services, pharmaceuticals, transport, engineering and the public sector. He has developed people internationally working with leaders in Europe, Asia, Australasia and North America.

Alan is a world expert in how to assess and develop leadership behaviours. He is particularly skilled at enabling leaders to successfully transition into new roles and accelerating a team’s development to breakthrough to new levels of performance.

Alan is warmly collaborative, combined with a disarming ability to challenge more firmly than expected, whilst still being compassionate. He encourages clients to be curious and to experiment with new ideas and practices. Alan guides clients to a much deeper self-awareness and purposefulness to reinvigorate their capacity to perform. He believes passionately that people and teams can evolve and enjoys engaging clients in their own transformation, so that they can lead at a new level.

Alan completed a Psychology of Coaching Certificate with the Academy of Executive Coaching in 2011. He is currently upgrading his former coaching accreditation to a new professional body. In 2013/14 Alan studied integral theory through the Generating Transformative Change programme with Pacific Integral. He graduated with a BSc in Zoology and an MSc in Water Pollution Control.

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“No doubt Alan [Littlefield] has done a lot of research and understands a lot of concepts and models which have been useful in our coaching.

Alan has strong interpersonal skills, puts things on the agenda in a non-threatening way. In a way that does not bring out your natural resistance antenna.

Because Alan [Littlefield] is coaching so many people, he has had the ability to experience many personality types and can bring those insights into the coaching which is a powerful addition.

Highly competent, professional services firm with strong evidence of EI and practical insights.”

Des MooreCEO, CBS

“Can definitely say I’ve gained from the programme – all of what we are doing is about me understanding myself better, enabling me to respond to things better. Understanding how my mind works and understanding and controlling my triggers.

Alan is an excellent listener – does take the time to listen and understand what the client is saying – very rare, most people spend their lives working out how to but in and “steal the mic”

Des MooreCEO, CBS

“Alan is a world-class coach and I’ve worked with him for over 3 years. As well as being a wonderful listener with exceptional recall and having a very supportive style, he is also not afraid to challenge. When he does challenge, he does so really thoughtfully and constructively. With his considerable expertise in human behaviour, mindfulness and psychology, he has helped me not only become more effective in a work context but he has also improved the quality of my life. In addition to coaching, Alan is a superb facilitator – always inclusive and engaging but never afraid to challenge / confront. I intend to work with Alan for a very long time.”

Anthony BurrowsFounder, Intelligent Emotion

“Alan [Littlefield] is very experienced, I’d worked for him before 2 and a half years ago. Already back then I could see he was very experienced. I don’t think I have ever felt so comfortable sharing personal stuff with someone for as long as I can remember. I felt that I could talk to him about anything and that everything would be safe – very high degree of trust on my side which is not something I do very easily, hardly ever.“

Dirk GeeraertsVP Sales EMEA, Thales Belgium

“Alan’s passion for coaching and commitment to quality have been obvious to me since the first time I met him. We worked together at the Centre for High Performance Development for 3 years, and during that time, I had the opportunity to see him coach, to attend advanced coach training that he developed and delivered, and to use the coaching engagement process he created for CHPD’s use with clients.

Alan’s coaching and coach training are second to none, and I still refer to the process he created on a regular basis. I have worked with other executive coaches since leaving CHPD and have not found anyone whose process is as thoughtful or as thorough as the approach that Alan crafted. For me, it has become the gold standard.“

Susan SalomoneHealthcare

“I worked with Alan at Kenexa and was extremely impressed by his passion and expertise of coaching. With his warm and professional disposition and exceptional interpersonal skills, Alan proved to be a real advocate for coaching across Kenexa and always had an open door policy with anyone that had an interest in the subject. I attended the Coaching skills course that Alan designed and conducted and found this to be fun, informative and more importantly it helped to develop and enhance my skills as a Coach”

Ruhina O’Boyle

“I have had the pleasure to work with Alan on a number of occasions with Tesco and each interaction has been a delight and a pleasure. Alan’s understanding of Tesco and retail is second to none, and makes the development come alive. He is a fantastic facilitator and generous with his knowledge and learnings.

As a coach, he is quick to put you at ease and his ability to help you get to the crux of your issue and a solution is second to none. I have the utmost regard for Alan’s coaching capability and professionalism and would recommend Alan wholeheartedly for anyone seeking an executive and knowledgeable coach”

Rob S.Tesco

“Alan was my coach and trainer in Advanced Coaching techniques during a Senior Leadership Development programme for NMSI. He is wonderful to work with and always helped me to arrive at a solution with humour, sensitivity and intelligent thinking. He has become a friend and confidante and I have great pleasure in recommending him.”

Sue Dewey OBEDirector

‘Alan came along to our Mountain Rescue Conference in September last year. My colleague and I have long been advocates of the benefits of coherent breathing – and the link with HRV – in improving health, wellbeing and thinking. It was a topic we were keen to promote to mountain rescue team members who, by the nature of the work, need to be at their best in terms of fitness and clarity of thought. Many in the audience were medical professionals, and the majority were casualty care/first aid trained. Mountain rescue is all about working in harsh environments, in timely manner, to find and treat injured hillgoers, so responders need to be at their best! So we were delighted that he was able to come along and share these ideas.

He talked to us at length before the event, to establish what we were looking for and how these ideas might best be shared with what I can only describe as a ‘determinedly sceptical audience’. He assured us that he had heard and dealt with any challenges they could possibly throw at him, however mischievous, and this proved to be the case.

On the day, Alan talked us through the concept and used a willing volunteer for Complete’s classic demonstration of how heart rate and HRV are affected under pressure. He answered questions and there was very positive feedback both during the weekend and afterwards. That said, as we rather expected, there were a few questions raised – after the event – and both Alans were very generous with their time in answering those queries, offering feedback and providing relevant references, for an article I subsequently wrote for Mountain Rescue magazine. Alan also shared this on Complete’s Linkedin page.’

Judy Whiteside MREW