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After a 25-year career as a senior banker, Alex Hayes-Griffin now works as an independent trusted adviser and executive coach to CEOs, founders and senior leaders. He is obsessed with the potential for Augmented Intelligence to combine timeless wisdom with frontier technologies such as AI to catalyse human flourishing.
After a 25-year career as a senior banker, Alex Hayes-Griffin now works as an independent trusted adviser and executive coach to CEOs, founders and senior leaders. He is obsessed with the potential for Augmented Intelligence to combine timeless wisdom with frontier technologies such as AI to catalyse human flourishing.
Trusted Advisers deliver expert knowledge to help empower clients with specific advice in the context of their industry and company domain. Executive Coaches deliver expert listening and empathy skills paired with their general knowledge as a seasoned thinking partner to help clients arrive at better answers and solutions based on their own specific domain expertise.
I offer a unique combination and hybrid of both, allowing me to flex my muscles as a Trusted Adviser and Executive Coach to act a trusted thinking partner and empower clients to conquer their biggest challenges in their work and life. My ability to operate in both roles paired with deep macro, markets and frontier technology fluency gives me powerful tools to help leaders navigate an increasingly complex world and co-create visionary strategies for growth.
As a post-graduate student in AI and frontier technology evangelist I am obsessed with helping leaders leverage exponential age technologies to augment and accelerate their path to personal and professional growth.
Disruptive Growth is achieved through innovative, paradigm-shifting approaches and is a constant feature of this rapidly emerging Exponential Age. I work to augment leaders who are navigating this path with a particular focus on challenging their mindset as a trusted thinking partner and adviser while helping them source off-radar intelligence as they design a path for disruptive growth.
I work with clients on a range of domains including Strategy, Frontier Technologies, Personal Development, and Financial Markets
I’m a post-grad student in AI For Business at SBS Oxford and currently advise multiple clients on AI strategy and business application. I deliver highly impactful AI Readiness audits for clients to help design actionable and tailored AI business plans.
I’ve repeatedly used frontier technologies to augment my own growth path and believe all humans can embrace technology to accelerate personal growth. I help leaders leverage tools such as AI to deepen and enhance their self-discovery and exploration of growth opportunities.
I’ve invested in blockchain protocols for over 7 years with deep experience across multiple chains and Web3 projects. I currently act as Board Advisor and Coach to the senior leadership of a rapidly growing crypto exchange.
I’ve pivoted multiple times in my banking career across companies, functions and regions while achieving MD promotion at 33. I’ve transitioned recently to a very different more fulfilling path outside a corporate career.
In the last 5 years I’ve made many major changes in my life and personal growth investments to reinvent my life and work to carve a non-conventional path away from the “rat race”.
I have 25 years of investment banking experience where I worked with large public and private companies plus large institutional investors on capital raising, mergers & acquisitions and investor relations.
I spent 25 years looking at global macro and markets trends on my 4 Bloomberg screens and distilling complex markets into actionable and clear advice to help C-suite clients navigate execution of their most strategic transactions.
I’ve advised hundreds of companies and institutions across every sector on balance sheet & capital structure optimization to help them create roadmaps to maximise shareholder returns while managing key risks.
I have 25 years of real estate sector experience across 4 global regions, in my last banking role I headed Real Estate Capital Markets in EMEA at Citigroup. I am currently Senior Advisor to one of Europe's largest listed real estate companies.
I have 25 years of deep financial institutions experience gained across 4 global regions, in my last banking role I headed the UK & Ireland Financial Institutions Group Debt Financing business at Citigroup.
Leading through accelerating uncertainty and disruption requires not just resilience superpowers but the ability to rethink, reinvent and future-proof strategy while leveraging off the wisdom and intelligence of your most trusted advisers.
On a 1×1 basis I will typically work with a client on either a) a set period for 6-8 intense sessions on a weekly or fortnightly basis to address nearer term finite challenge; or b) on a retained monthly rolling basis for longer-term more strategic challenges & projects.
Where needed I can work with a small team of C-suite/board leaders in a combination of 1×1 and group work to help them reach their goals. This type of work is typically done on a retained monthly rolling basis to help deliver longer term enduring impact to my client group.
I am an experienced event organiser & facilitator who can work with clients to co-create and design high impact strategy days for their leadership team in an on-site setting or retreats offsite. This work is typically done on a multi-event basis to maximise accountability and impact while also being paired with structured 1×1 work with the leadership team both before and in-between events.
Advisory & Coaching work both have an amazing ecosystem of talented individuals and teams with complementary skills and domain expertise both outside and within large organisations, I welcome opportunities to explore collaborate and co-creation on exciting projects and engagements with others.
I’ve always been intellectually curious, seeking better answers to life and new paths to personal growth. This curiosity inspired me to pursue a career in finance living in four continents culminating in over a decade as an investment banking Managing Director at Citigroup in Sydney then London.
After an exciting twenty year journey in banking I started to invest in building a new independent path and dive deeply into philosophy and meditation while finding inspiration at business school and playing with new technologies such as AI and Blockchain.
After retiring from banking in 2023, I now work independently as a trusted adviser and coach with a particular focus on Augmented Intelligence and how leaders can help rethink and empower growth strategies through new technology. I am a certified business coach with Meyler Campbell, blockchain expert and post-graduate student in AI For Business at SBS Oxford.
I now live by the ocean in Cornwall with my wife and our two dachshunds. I’m a proud father to an amazing son and daughter who are now embarking on their own independent adventures.
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As a banker I spent 23 years as a regulated person in each of Hong Kong, Australia, UK and the US – including my last 8 years a Citi classified as a Material Risk Taker. I am very comfortable and well practiced in working with clients confidentially on their largest most strategic transactions, including share price sensitive projects for listed companies.
As a coach I spent most of my banking career delivering impactful coaching to high performing bankers across cultures and all levels of seniority. I have completed training as a business coach with Meyler Campbell and also with The Portfolio Collective on their Start-up Mentor Programme.
An investment in a programme of advisory or coaching work with me will be thoughtfully tailored and delivered to ensure a minimum 10-100x return on your investment in terms of impact and results. I intentionally focus on helping clients with their very biggest challenges, this is some of the most difficult work to partner with clients on but also the most fulfilling given the game-changing business and life results that are possible through a strong and trusted partnership.
I help clients rethink and reinvent growth strategies to unlock their hidden potential. To do this I work with clients on their level exactly where I find them on their own unique personal/organisational journey. I always aim to deeply understand their realities and biggest challenges while helping them envision their hidden potential together with challenging their thinking to co-create better answers and paths to growth.
No two humans, clients or assignments are the same – so every project I take on is delivered in a unique and bespoke way specifically tailored to my client(s) on a human and business level. While work with clients is typically anchored around a specific business challenge I am always conscious that life is about much more than what happens in the office and work context and thus I stand ready to help clients on any life challenge they are facing.
Every advisory project is unique, thus advisory engagements are always undertaken with bespoke fee arrangements. For individual coaching typical 6-month corporate packages start at £10,000, for self-funded clients Alex works at discretionary discounted rates on a case by case basis.
I am acutely focused on delivering the highest quality advice and impact for clients so I deliberately limit myself to working with no more than 3-4 advisory clients simultaneously, this allows me to retain the mental bandwidth and calendar availability to be able to help my retained clients 24/7 with short lead-times.
Similarly with individual coaching I am acutely focused on results and impact so typically limit myself to a maximum number of 4-5 live coaching engagements at any one time.
The cadence, frequency and duration of my work with clients is designed on a bespoke basis to fit client requirements and align with the desired impact. Some clients may need to speak daily during a time of crisis, while others may better align with weekly, fortnight or monthly meetings. Assignments typically require at least 6 to 8 sessions together of 1 to 2 hours each in order to make tangible and clear results towards the objective of our work together.
For advisory work I will typically work to quickly become fluent in the business and dive deeply into all available data and background on the business and through detailed briefing discussions with my client and their senior team. For coaching work I typically start by discussing a clients psychometric profile and any 360 feedback from colleagues and close peers while also seeking a detailed understanding of the clients personal and professional background and current realities. For all clients I will seek to co-create a clear roadmap and timeline towards their goals while focusing on accountability and tangible results as an outcome from our work together.
The 30 minute discovery call is designed to assess two-way fit and chemistry between myself and a client. For the important work and challenges we will focus on the alignment of learning and communication styles together with professional alignment is critical to provide the best chance of a working relationship that quickly delivers results. The no-commitment discovery call is designed to assess working together formally.
Most discovery calls will be done on video. With regard to formal work together I take a hybrid approach, subject to logistics and location I will always aim to meet a client in-person for some of our meetings during our work together. I am UK based and travel to London often while also traveling to other major global business hubs throughout a typical year.
All work will be subject to a mutual non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement to be executed after a discovery call and before we begin working together formally. As a former banker I am extremely well versed on the importance of confidentiality including careful handling of any potentially price-sensitive information on private and public companies.
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