Duncan Skelton
| COACH
Duncan spent 25 years in the tech sector creating and launching leading edge technologies. He worked in startups, experienced an acquisition and built large engineering groups from the ground up inside Google in New York. He was part of the team that launched the world's first smartphone that created that market. For 6 years he led engineering teams alternating working remotely 1 week from home, then 1 week in the office 250 miles away. At Google he took on a passion side project as a front of room leader on their flagship internal leadership development program "EDGE", an intense 3-day experiential offsite for emerging leaders.
Duncan's work as a tech leader and since 2018 as a full time executive coach, is informed by his experiences of 25 years as a rock climber, including leading on a year-long overland climbing expedition across South America and North America.
Authentic, vulnerable, "conscious leadership" frames the work, invites participation, and creates the conditions in which people connect with purpose and access their own innate motivation. This demands leaders expand their leadership range, reaching more often into areas of discomfort.
Leaders set the tone. As a practitioner of Stakeholder-Centered coaching Duncan invites you to model transparency, humility and commitment to growth by involving your stakeholders in your ongoing experimentation.