John Binns, MBE
Trainer, Coach and Consultant
Department: Europe
John enjoyed a long and successful career in the professional services sector. He was a Partner in Deloitte from 1998 until 2014. He continues to work with Deloitte and many other businesses (law firms, media, corporates and professional services) as an independent CBT trained Coach and Mental Health /Personal Resilience Advisor. He was awarded an MBE for his services to Mental Health at Work in the 2017 Queens Birthday Honours.
Since 2007 John has led a wide range of ground-breaking mental health and wellbeing initiatives which have been nationally and internationally recognised as leading practice. He became very well known as one of the first business leaders to speak openly about his own mental health experience of overcoming stress related burnout and continuing with a successful career.
John is now a qualified CBT Coach having been awarded a Diploma from the City CBT College in June 2014. For the last 10 years he has provided advice and coaching services to over 600 individuals within Deloitte who feel they might be suffering from stress related issues. He has also provided CBT based coaching support to over 75 often senior, practitioners across the City. Mainly from legal and other professional services firms, as well as corporates in the financial services industry, media and other sectors.
The focus of his approach is to help people recognise how their learned patterns of thinking may be contributing to the stress they are experiencing. Give them tools to combat and change these patterns and critically learn how to better maintain themselves as successful, happy, top performers in a high pressure business environment.
John’s qualifications for coaching stem from his personal experience of overcoming stress-related depression and anxiety, a proven business success record, his practical experience of coaching and counselling individuals in high performance environments and an academic understanding of CBT methods.