Origin Stories

Ep.10: Nick Roud, award-winning executive coach on the gift of dyslexia and why executives need a coach.

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Nick Roud runs Roud Career Coaching, an award-winning executive coaching business he started in 2016 after successful careers in accountancy, the events industry and his own recruitment business. 

In 2020, Nick was awarded Best Executive Coaching Consultancy at the Asia Pacific Business Awards. He works with CEOs, C-Suite Executives, Senior Leaders and Future Leaders and has coached over 700 leaders and professionals, including some of New Zealand's best-known business leaders.

In this episode Nick talks about...

—  being a proud Pom and falling in love with New Zealand;

— why he considers being diagnosed as dyslexic at the age of 8 a great gift;

— why numbers made sense to him and accountancy gave him such a good grounding in business;

— the importance of mentors including his father;

— the difference between coaching and mentoring;

— how his first rugby coach gave him one of his most valuable life lessons: to play what's in front of you;

— the knee injury that put paid to his promising rugby career;

— why senior executives need a coach and why Nick reckons he's got the best job in the world;

... and much more.