Brian Groves
Is a DipM MCIM Chartered Marketer, CTI-trained Co-Active Coach, Freelance Trainer and Author, supplies professional and personal development to a portfolio of corporate and individual clients. Brian’s goal is to support through coaching, training and writing all who wish to live their potential, in education, work or life in general.
Since publishing his first book in 2009, Brian’s writing unites coaching, performance, and work, plus more recently, inspirational poetry.
Since 2009 Brian has collaborated with the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, as an Adjunct Professor. For the initial nine years, he taught the postgraduate interfaculty (Arts and Philosophy, Economics) course Training through drama and coaching for work. In 2012, as a Visiting Professor, he taught this course at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland.
Currently, as part of the Catholic University of Milan’s International Curriculum Business and Economics offering, he teaches the graduate course Leadership coaching: bringing potential to the stage of work. The course uses four characters taken from dramatic texts as coaching clients to examine various work-related leadership and performance matters.
Born in Brighton, England, Brian started his career in the corporate worlds of London and Brighton. Moving to Italy, initially to teach English, Brian resided in Milan for many years. He now lives in Modena, Italy, with his fiancée.
A passion for music, sport and the theatre, examples of channeling the power of preparation and practice into peak moments of performance, have accompanied him throughout his journey to now. Other pastimes include reading, jogging and managing a blog regarding professional and personal development.
Committed to living mindfully, Brian is a Mitra (‘friend’ in Sanskrit) in the Triratna Buddhist Community.