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Meet Alistair

From a young age 2 things fascinated me more than anything else, ‘building businesses’ and ‘personal growth’, so I guess it was inevitable that I would end up becoming a mentor and coach for primarily entrepreneurial business leaders where ‘business and personal growth’ are worked on together. The primary question that I help every business owner and leader, every martial arts competitor and every homeless person to get clear about is ‘what truly fulfils you’?  The answer to this question is the foundation on which everything else is built.
My mission is to help raise the level of human consciousness by helping businesses to identify and be be driven by their authentic core values and by teaching people from all walks of life to to live more purposeful and fulfilling lives.

In early 2006, I left my career as a business leader and owner to become a full-time coach, mentor and public speaker. In my business career, I co-owned and led 2 SMEs. After the provisional sale of Kempster Lobo Insurance Brokers in early 2000s, I took a year off to spend more time working with Tony Robbins in the USA, where I learned NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and became an NLP Trainer. When I returned, I knew that computers were the future, so I did an intensive IT course at a college where at the end of the course I was offered a job on the IT help desk of the BBC where I could carry on learning about computers. In a few short years by applying all the leadership skills I had learned in my year off, I became a Project Manager and volunteered to work on the projects that were going wrong.

In 2004, after proving I could turn-around failing projects, I was offered to be the Project Manager of the BBC’s Digital Production Project (Phase 1), which at £120M was then the largest project in the BBC’s history.  I realised that the reason that I was able to turn-around these failing projects was more to do with empowering people through ‘leadership coaching’ and ‘creative thinking’ than it was to do with ‘managing the project’.
The calling to become a full-time coach and mentor grew so much that after successfully delivering Phase 1 of Digital Production I resigned to start Certain Progress in 2006.

After 20 years as a full-time greater purpose and fulfilment coach and mentor I have now worked intensively one-to-one for 6 months or more than 100 owners, entrepreneurs and leaders of over 100 businesses and the data shows that over 20 years more than 80 percent of these businesses are still thriving or have been successfully sold for a profit.

OTHER EXPERIENCES OF NOTE
– Dr John Demartini – Over a period of 19 years I have been a facilitator at 50 (Fifty) of Dr. Demartini’s International Breakthrough Experience events. These are 2 day full-on immersive experiences where we help people to work through their deepest darkest emotional baggage that is holding them back from living at their fullest potential.
–  Axiology and Values Assessments – Under the guidance of my mentor Dr. John Demartini the world’s leading authority in Axiology (The study of values)
– Teleology (Study of purpose)
– Tony Robbins & SRi Coaching – For 5 years I supported Tony Robbins at is UPW events in the USA and the UK. I became a Master Practitioner of NLP (Nero Linguistic Programming) and an assistant trainer for SRi Coaching, who at time taught NLP to more than 80 percent of Tony Robbin’s trainers and coaches.
I have studied and, in multiple business environments, I have applied:
– ‘Talent Dynamics’ – For a number of years I worked closely with serial entrepreneur Rodger Hamilton and the creator of the brilliant and practical business profiling tools ‘Wealth Dynamics’ and Talent Dynamics’
–  DISC profiling
– ‘Holocracy’ – I have studied and applied ‘Holacracy’ the revolutionary, proven most dynamic approach to organisational structure which I have studied at close quarters in Zappos in the Las Vegas head office.
– Spiral Dynamics – The late great scientist Chris Cowan taught me ‘Spiral Dynamics’ (The science of thinking systems)
– Martial Arts Mindset –  I am a practicing Karate black belt and I was the mindset coach for 3 x British Kung Fu Champion Jon Robson before & throughout his career. I apply many of the same mindset principles to business leadership. Over 20 years I have developed and real world tested a martial arts mindset concept called ‘The Fulfilled Gray Warrior’.