James Caplin

James is a coach who is passionate about helping people, teams and organisations to transform themselves in order to create excellent and sustainable results.

After graduating from Trinity College Cambridge with a degree in English, he discovered  he had a talent for helping those in the workplace to raise their game. He became one of the UK’s most successful writers and producers of video-based training materials, working for, amongst others, Citibank, IBM and the DFES. During this time, he also co-authored a best-selling book that changed the way we garden (Instant Gardening Chatto &  Windus 1990): wrote a regular column for the Times on Saturday magazine; and led a community group that transformed where he lives from being dominated by an on-street  drugs and sex-market into one of London’s most desirable neighbourhoods.

In 2002 he discovered coaching. He’s now a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, one of only 74 in the UK at this level. He is on Coachville’s faculty (the largest provider of coach training on the internet) and has published a book that is transforming the way people think about, prepare for and do presentations (I Hate Presentations Capstone 2008). He delivers workshops on, amongst other subjects, listening, networking and influencing. His unique approach has formed the basis of two recent articles in the Financial Times.