Andrew Pain
Personal profile
Andrew is a Wellbeing and TEDx speaker, podcaster and award-winning campaigner, leading in his work on men’s mental health, burnout, GRIT/resilience and work-life balance.
He’s also an accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation and has a secondary speaking niche, as a lived experience survivor of domestic abuse talking about things like: gaslighting, coercive control and how to support those experiencing abuse.
Andrew has over 20 years’ post graduate HR experience, the last 12 of which have been focused on learning and development, coaching and public speaking. Working with leading corporate and public sector organisations (from Specsavers, HSBC and NFU Mutual, to National Highways and Birmingham City University)
Andrew delivers workshops and talks on key aspects of wellbeing and leadership, including; burnout, GRIT/resilience in times of uncertainty, men’s mental health, work-life balance through the mastery of time, critical decision making and difficult conversations.
Key areas of experience / achievements
Key areas of experience
- Leadership development: critical decision making, resilient teams and how to develop GRIT in difficult times, time management, personal performance, difficult conversations, speaking skills and how to delegate
- Wellbeing: burnout, men’s mental health, community building, loneliness prevention and community building.
Achievements
- In-demand public speaker, working with diverse groups from National Highways to Specsavers, HSBC, NFU Mutual.
- Successful TEDx speaker, whose talk on domestic abuse and men has 140k views.
- Successful podcaster, whose podcast Men on Show, saw him win the Campaigner of the Year award in 2023, nominated and decided by Men and Boys Coalition, the main umbrella group for men and boys work in the UK.
- Fundraiser, whose most recent moment of madness, saw him face his fears of flying and heights by jumping out of a plan for Mankind Initiative, a UK charity which supports male victims of domestic abuse.
Summary of Key Career Experience
After graduating from University of Warwick in 1997, Andrew worked initially in recruitment, sourcing and selecting high level technical staff for the worlds’ largest engineering consultants, including Jacobs, Arup, Atkins. After progressing to team leader level, managing a team of 5 consultants, Andrew set up his own recruitment practice in 2002, working as an independent headhunter, based initially in London and then in France.
Following the banking crisis and consequences for the construction industry through 2008-2009, Andrew retrained in 2009 and 2010 as a coach, securing his Certificate in Coaching Practise and Diploma in Youth Impact Coaching, before establishing a successful training company, delivering to the NHS, Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, as well as schools, colleges and small businesses.
In 2012, Andrew also started working closely with a local midlands charity which alleviates poverty through its innovative and entrepreneurial work, taking on their coaching, HR and business development lead, expanding the work of the charity, developing new services and helping to create stability in what had been a previously turbulent organisation.
Andrew is now a full time speaker but continues his links with various charities.
Qualifications
- Educational & Professional BA Hons (2:1) University of Warwick, 1997
- The Coaching Academy Diploma in Youth Impact Coaching (2010)
- Certificate in Coaching Practice (2009) (Accredited by the International Coaching Federation
- Mental Health First Aider (MHFA) 2021
- Member of the International Coaching Federation
- Member of the Professional Speaker’s Association
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Member of the International Stress Management Association
