Craig McDowell

Craig McDowell

Coach/Consultant/Facilitator, Canterbury

Craig McDowell is a leadership coach who has previously been a Leadership and Management Adviser at the University of Canterbury.

Craig has developed a specialisation and high level of knowledge in coaching and mentoring in a variety of sectors, eg Viticulture, Fire and Emergency, Education, Federated Farmers, Project Management. His strength-based approach to coaching enables him to effectively work with clients who need support or are focusing on their growth and development. Contexts include organisational and team development, performance management, adaptive leadership, reflective practice, collaboration and emotional intelligence.

Craig particularly likes working with a new leadership team profile that has been developed by Team Management Services: High Performing Teams, which assesses how a team collectively is performing in various areas.

With ODI, Craig has individually coached business and emerging leaders and been involved as a leadership coach in two programmes - the Advanced Leaders Programme and Federated Farmers: Advocacy, Influence and Outcomes. He has also presented a Masterclass on Reflective Practice.

Qualifications and Accreditations

  • Master of Teaching and Learning (Distinction in thesis)
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
  • Diploma of Educational Management
  • Diploma of Teaching (Distinction)
  • The Leadership Circle
  • Gallup Clifton Strengths
  • Team Management Services: Leadership Behaviours, High Performing Teams, and Emotional and Social Intelligence
  • Genos (Talogy) Emotional Intelligence

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Craig was a great coach. It was good to sit down and talk out my role and different aspects that I wanted to improve. He talked things through with me and we came up with some good goals and tasks for me to work on. Craig quickly picked up what my role involves which was super helpful.

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