Executive Coaching for UK CEOs and MDs – From a Leader Who's Actually Led

Executive Coaching for UK CEOs and MDs – From a Leader Who’s Actually Led.

I work with CEOs and MDs to multiply their strategic know how and operational effectiveness by translating what they know needs to happen into plans their teams can actually execute.

I’m Trevor Parker, an executive coach and operational advisor who’s actually held the CEO chair. I work with senior leaders who need support from someone who’s walked the same path.

Operational Multiplier

When you know something’s not right and you just need that nudge – that’s where I come in.

I work with you to multiply your strategic instinct and operational effectiveness by translating what you know needs to happen into plans your team can actually execute. Through structured 1-1 workshops, we work through a planning framework that explores your options, tests your assumptions, and develops scenarios your team can act on with confidence.

You maintain the vision and authority. You make the strategic decisions. You lead your team. I accelerate your planning process.

You’re not hiring me because you can’t do it yourself. You’re hiring me because your mission deserves maximum capability. I’m your operational multiplier.

A Strategic Advisor to UK CEOs and Managing Directors

I’ve scaled a listed company from £50M to £150M. I’ve led turnarounds as Executive Chair. I’ve raised tens of millions, navigated refinancing, built boards, and worked with private equity. I know what it feels like when everything rests on your shoulders, when the board, investors, and your team are all looking to you for answers.

That’s the difference.

A Strategic Advisor to UK CEOs and Managing Directors

Former Interim CEO, Executive Chair, and Operational Advisor

Turned around underperforming businesses ranging from £10M to £100M+

Successfully led a company rescue as Executive Chair, stabilising and exiting the business profitably

Raised over £80M in growth capital (£30M from private investors, £50M from institutions)

Grew an AIM-listed business from £50M to £150M

Led restructures, growth strategies, and crisis interventions across multiple sectors

Worked with family-run firms, VC/PE-backed companies, and high-growth scale-ups

Led refinancing processes and covenant negotiations with banking and lender stakeholders

Executive Coaching with Teeth – UK Based, Board-Tested

Based in the UK, I’ve supported CEOs and MDs across the length and breadth of the country and abroad.

I offer discreet 1:1 advisory support for senior leaders who don’t need more theory, they need clear thinking, real feedback, and actionable direction

Sessions are built around your reality – not off-the-shelf coaching models

More about Trevor

Trevor Parker is a board-level business leader with deep expertise in growth, turnaround, and operational performance. He has scaled an AIM-listed company from £50M to £150M, led successful rescues as Executive Chair, and supported businesses through refinancing, restructuring, and operational disruption.

Who I work with

CEOs and MDs who are:

Leading businesses through growth, change, or challenge

Scaling after investment or facing increased investor expectations

Carrying the full load of operational and team leadership

Looking for a trusted advisor who has actually done it before

Preparing for leadership succession or stabilising during transition

Whether you’re driving an ambitious growth plan or navigating a complex restructuring, I offer seasoned perspective and judgement that helps leaders keep their edge.

Executive Support Packages

When Coaching Isn’t Enough

If you’re facing challenges like:

Managing investor pressure or board expectations

Rebuilding after a poor quarter or failed initiative

Aligning a senior team after rapid growth

Chasing an ambitious growth plan

Scaling following a fundraise

Preparing for a capital raise or strategic exit

Leading a restructure, M&A, or turnaround

…then you don’t just need encouragement. You need clarity, judgement, and grounded support from someone who’s lived it.

More about Trevor

Why I Do This

I do this because I love business. The cut and thrust, the challenge, the opportunity to get stuck in with good people trying to do something difficult, I can’t live without it. But beyond that, I understand what drives most leaders at this level — you’re not just building a business, you’re securing a future. For your family, your people, the things that matter most. That responsibility adds weight to every decision, and it deserves support from someone who gets what’s really at stake.

And this is why I believe all serious business leaders should have a coach. Your goal is too important not to. Do you know any serious professional athlete or a growing number of serious amateurs who don’t have a coach? Yet in business, where the stakes are often higher, we somehow think we should figure it all out alone.

I’ve worked with coaches throughout my career and I got something from each of them, but one of the frustrating things is that most in the profession tend to come from HR, L&D, financial, or psychological backgrounds. All good people, but they didn’t truly get what it’s like to carry the full weight of leadership, people’s jobs, and operational responsibility.

Eventually, I had the benefit of being coached by John Webster, a senior and highly respected advisor. Like me, he believed in coaching. He brought real gravitas, and I got a lot from it. He’s retired now. Such experience is extremely rare in a coach.

A Few Words From a Client

“It has been a real pleasure, first of all, meeting Trevor and secondly engaging and working with him. For an ex-military man, he is surprisingly empathetic and perceptive. He is also practical and down to earth and seems to be able to get to the nub of an issue pretty quickly. He doesn’t let you off either; you have to show engagement and action, and he will hold you to account. If you can persuade him to coach you, and he is selective, then you have done yourself and your business a favour.”

— Stephen Waud, Group Chief Executive – Business Enterprise Fund

I spent a decade learning professional leadership in the Royal Marines, then thirty years applying those principles in business. That combination – formal leadership training followed by decades of commercial experience – shapes how I work with senior leaders today.

That’s why I do this now. To be the advisor I always needed, someone who brings commercial judgement and lived leadership experience, not just frameworks or financial insight from the sidelines.

Executive Support Packages

Based in the UK, Trevor provides strategic executive coaching for CEOs and MDs across the United Kingdom. His coaching is grounded in real operational experience, not theory, making him a trusted advisor to leaders facing growth, complexity, or pressure.

Executive Coaching for UK CEOs and MDs – From a Leader Who's Actually Led