Graham Ward
Director

Graham Ward specializes in coaching executives at board level and managing change programs in London’s financial center. He spent most of his 22-year career in finance at Goldman Sachs, where for seven years he co-headed the European equity business. Previously, he worked in commodities as a pit trader and spent two years on the floor of the London Stock Exchange as a stockjobber.

In 2000, Graham Ward spearheaded an initiative to introduce an internal coaching and development office at Goldman Sachs. His initiative spread over three continents and deepened to include diversity, mentoring, recruitment, and succession planning up to senior management level.

He received his MSc and diploma from HEC/INSEAD (2002) in Consulting and Coaching for Change, which focuses on the psychodynamics within organizations, with his thesis “Deconstructing the Termite Mound: Inside the Mind of an Investment Bank.” In 1994 he received a diploma of Investment Manage¬ment from London Business School.

Graham Ward was an invited speaker on “Mentoring for Change” at the Professional Coaches Convention in Brussels in 2001, is an affiliate member of the American Psychological Association (APA), a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) and a member of the newly created International Clinical Coaching Organization (ICCO).

Graham Ward has undertaken individual training at the Tavistock Center in London from a specialist in group dynamics and regularly coachesin a number of executive programs at INSEAD, including the Young Managers Program (YMP), Advanced Management Program (AMP), and Executive MBA (EMBA). He has also been INSEAD Global Leadership Center (IGLC) program director on a number of company-specific programs, including Borsa Italiana, Manpower, TNK/BP, HSBC, and the NHS. He has also worked as visiting faculty at ESMT in Berlin.