John Knights

John Knights’ business life changed when in 1998 he had the serendipitous opportunity to learn to coach other Chief Executives and started to understand the real issues around leadership. "Developing Excellent Transpersonal Leaders” became and remains his passion and purpose.

Today, John is Chairman of LeaderShape Global www.leadershapeglobal.com , an organisation that provides innovative leadership development services to senior executives, teams and emerging leaders through a faculty of senior leaders who are also accredited coaches and facilitators. He is an expert in emotional intelligence, a thought leader in Transpersonal (beyond the ego) Leadership and the originator of the LEIPA ® and 8ICOL ® 360o assessment tools. He is also an authority on the relationship between neuroscience and leadership. Together with colleagues, John has developed postgraduate programmes to Master’s level in Transpersonal Leadership and Coach-mentor Training, based on work-based learning techniques.

In earlier careers John was a corporate vice president in the USA of a fortune 100 company now owned by ABB and a main board director of a FTSE 100 company in the UK – largely in the energy technology sector. During his corporate career he lived in Sweden, The Netherlands, Singapore and the USA and then returned to the UK with “four foreign women” – his Swedish / Finnish wife, one daughter born in Holland and two born the USA. At the age of 40, John became an entrepreneur and has been involved in eight start-ups in environmental technology, IT and food processing from which there have been both great successes and failures. Over the years he has done business in over 50 countries and is currently responsible for taking LeaderShape global. For a more extensive bio go to http://www.leadershapeglobal.com/john-knights-1

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