Darren heads up the Coaching Faculty at NHS Elect. He is a qualified, experienced coach and has helped many clinicians, managers and executives. He also facilitates team coaching and has worked on the delivery of a number of key leadership development programmes. Darren’s professional background was in pharmacy. He then worked in general management and, for over a decade, at board level at three different acute hospital trusts. Working on personal and team development, Darren retains an active academic interest too - regularly publishing work related to leadership development and coaching. His other areas of work at NHS Elect include helping members with - ambulatory care, planned care (RTT) and quality improvement for clinical services. Darren is currently studying for a post-grad certificate in Psychology.