About EQworks
EQ experts, who coach and train high performers at work
Let us be your partner. We’ll guide you to build high performance people skills to make a real difference to you and your organisation. Many organisational and people issues result from low or imbalanced Emotional Intelligence. We’ll assess and analyse you and your team’s EQ, then coach you to succeed. Whether it’s effective leadership, relationships or adapting to change you’ll discover that EQ works.
Why we’re different
Few leadership coaching consultancies combine emotional intelligence, business, financial and research expertise. This rare mix means we’re uniquely placed to understand how your business and people can work best, together.
We’re leading UK experts in EQ coaching and development since 2006. We’re specialists whilst many others see EQ as merely an add-on
We’re passionate about building high performing, collaborative work places based on research and psychometric assessment tools
Tailored to you
Choose your ideal EQ learning experience, from insightful keynote talks through to profound culture-change programmes. We put together the right mix of components to best suit your needs.
Comprehensive
We test, analyse, educate & develop the critical human attributes proven to create success.
Our training programmes are designed to teach the techniques, skills, behaviours & mindset of high performers. We use not one but two comprehensive EQ assessments that reveal both you and your team’s overall EQ potential as well as in-depth interpersonal skills. No-one else offers this detailed analysis and development potential. We’re simply better equipped to help you.
Emotionally Intelligent process
We put you first. We start and end with your goals, needs, issues and contexts. By using our unique training needs analysis process, we adapt our approach and language to your preferences and sensitivities.
Rare breadth and depth of expertise
Our approach is eclectic, pragmatic and flexible. We encompasses psychological (NLP, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology), research-based (resilience, 6 Pillars, A.R.T.), leadership (coaching) and business expertise (consulting, branding).
We focus on balance, with one eye on your success and one on the wider context of sustainability and wellbeing. EQ development works in this naturally holistic way.
Our values and beliefs
Our people
Philip Gimmack
Philip is a leader in emotional intelligence development. He receives exceptional feedback as both EQ executive coach and motivational speaker. With 25 years coaching experience, he specialises in identifying and developing the leadership skills people and their teams need most. He combines both significant psychological & corporate experience. This gives him unique insights into developing high performing people taking into account both organisational and personal perspectives.
Research
Philip established EQworks coaching in 2012 to conduct research into how EQ skills build relationship and communication skills. Prior to this time EQ assessments simply didn’t reveal much social-communication information needed to effectively coach these areas. By developing the unique Advanced Relationship Skills model & test (A.R.T. ™), we are now
able to uncover a profound amount of detailed interpersonal information that unlocks these skills faster and more effectively.
Corporate experience
Philip’s years as a management consultant for the likes of Oracle, KPMG, Cap Gemini & Accenture helped him develop a deep understanding and appreciation of how organisations can effectively manage change and leadership. On realising that the ultimate resource, people skills, affects performance more than cognitive or technical skills, Philip returned to his roots, building performance through emotional skills as a leadership coach and facilitator.
Russ Ayres
Russ’s entrepreneurial spirit and experience give him exceptional insights into executive coaching. His passion and experience generate a compelling presence around him to coach leadership skills and as a trainer-facilitator. Russ’s passion for adventure and independent nature provide his clients with a model of contemporary self-leadership.
Corporate Coach
Having a 15-year corporate career in consulting & training, including 5 years with McKinsey & Company in London, Russ has a wealth of experience in practicable leadership, drawn from his exposure to challenges & change. Life in McKinsey was results-focused. This crystallised an understanding of what high performance & corporate competence means, which he in turn is able to elicit from his coaching clients to exceed their expectations.
Russ describes his key qualities at work as; insightful, enthusiastic, inspirational & entrepreneurial. Working with Russ, both his colleagues & clients find him a wonderful oasis of calm & kindness.
Vicky Shaw
Vicky brings immense experience to EQworks. A qualified and experienced psychotherapist she has been supporting people to bring out their best for many years. Her gifts go well beyond this though. Having significant emotional and spiritual understanding Vicky supervises our coaching programmes and helps refine our training approaches & material.
Vicky is accomplished in many diverse fields which give her excellent all-round experience of life & work. These include graduating from University in Architecture & Environmental Studies, working as a chef, living in an intentional community, qualifying & working as an attachment-based Psychotherapist & as an artist creating in two & three dimensions.
Vicky is passionate about her spiritual practice, works with subtle energies & is committed to the expansion of her consciousness & to playfulness, peace & love. She brings enormous breadth of knowledge & personal experience to bear in expertly supporting EQworks in many ways, not least as facilitator & coaching supervisor.
Services We Offer
Motivational Speaker
Experience an insightful and motivational speaker who inspires, educates and entertains your people
Training
Develop business-focussed skills that focus on leadership, resilience and relationships
Executive Coaching
Immerse yourself in our unique approach to develop the awareness and resources to attain goals and new skills
