Ben Edwards Email & Phone Number

A former senior operating executive with IBM, PayPal and The Economist Group, I bring a wealth of real-world experience to my coaching and consulting practices. In my corporate practice, I coach CEOs, executives and teams on leadership, careers, organizational performance and agility. In my private practice, I coach my clients through career and life changes. I am a trained and certified Co-Active coach, certified with the International Coaching Federation, trained in Positive Intelligence coaching, a certified agile coach, and am currently undertaking a two-year certification in Gestalt Psychotherapy.

Sunnyvale , Ca, Us

Better Faster Further helps leaders, teams, and organizations accelerate peak performance by offering customized consulting and advisory services, leadership coaching, and technology delivery. The secret to building great companies comes from focusing on both process and people. By building high performing organizations and supporting leaders to become the best they can be, we help make the world a better place.

New York, Ny, Us

Gather assembles independent executives, creators, and practitioners, with deep experience navigating and transforming large organizations to make progress happen. Gather proudly lists a diverse set of clients from IBM to The Economist, to Citibank, MetLife, Humana and The Actor's Studio.www.gather.co

London, England, Gb

We enable individuals, teams and cultures to realise potential. We harness clarity of thought and positive behavioural shifts through world-class executive coaching. We deliver performance through transformation, with customised solutions that embed self-awareness, self-learning, new habits, competencies and core confidence.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Innovation consultancy that helps companies see their way forward by delivering a uniquely powerful combination of breakthrough strategy, compelling design and exceptional team-building. Helps companies reimagine businesses, unlock brands, and orient teams in support of bold visions of the future. www.edwardssender.com

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for designing, scaling and optimizing PayPal's global web presence to accelerate new customer acquisition, deepen customer engagement and deliver superior customer service across both consumer and merchant businesses. Also responsible for developing PayPal UI, a shared design language, user-interface guidelines and software development framework for building PayPal-branded product, marketing and customer-service experiences.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Vice President of Global Digital Marketing at IBM, a $100 billion diversified enterprise-technology company. Oversaw IBM’s Demand Generation function, Global Advertising, Media, Content Marketing and Brand Strategy and Experience Design. Provided functional leadership to IBM’s 2000 Demand Generation professionals and management oversight of IBM's consolidated advertising and content-marketing budget.Was responsible for designing, building and scaling the adoption of IBM’s enterprise digital marketing capabilities, delivered as shared services and APIs. In this role, founded and led IBM’s global network of Marketing Experience Labs - agile design and development facilities that incubate and scale the deployment of marketing, sales and employee applications and services, all built on top of enterprise data and technologies.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led Digital Marketing, global advertising and media, brand strategy and design, IBM Marketing Labs and IBM's global communications function. Served as IBM’s Chief Communications Officer, providing strategic counsel to the company’s CEO and top executives, and direct management of IBM’s 400 Brand & Communications professionals, spanning external, internal and executive communications.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led the design and development of branded IBM experiences across digital media to connect and mobilize clients, partners, employees and the communities in which IBM does business. These experiences span websites, web applications, mobile applications, social media and cloud computing interfaces. In May 2012, we opened the IBM Design Lab in Manhattan. Design Lab introduces a unique model for convening and activating a new generation of IBM designers, information architects, strategists and web developers through agile methods.

London, London, Gb

Ran The Economist's online publishing business. Was responsible for setting online strategy and developing the online product. Managed a global leadership team which designed the customer experience, developed the product, built the technology platform and the advertising network, acquired the customers and fulfilled client orders.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Was responsible for driving the development and adoption of a wide range of new communications technologies, from blogs and podcasts to wikis, social-networking software and interactive web tools and techniques to reach customers and for internal enterprise transformation within IBM.

London, London, Gb

In nine years at The Economist, I held three different jobs:Finance correspondent in London, covering investment banking (1996-1998).Japan Correspondent and Tokyo Bureau Chief in Tokyo, covering Japanese business, finance and politics (1998-2001).American Business Editor in New York, covering American business (2001-2005).

London, Gb

Reported on investment banking and the capital markets. Researched and wrote in-depth investigative financial journalism from London, Moscow, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bangkok, Budapest and many other cities.

Ba, English Language & Literature, English Literature, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Linguistics

Pgce, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Econometrics

Gestalt Psychotherapy