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Ollivier People & Development is a leadership coaching and training business that helps recruitment agencies and scaling businesses build the leadership capability they need to grow—sustainably and confidently.

We specialise in developing managers and leaders who take ownership of performance, lead with impact, and create the conditions for teams to succeed.

Through a mix of strategic coaching, structured leadership development, and long-term partnerships, we support Founders, senior leaders and people managers across the UK, Europe, US, and Australia.

We work virtually, embedding ourselves into the businesses we support—often as a flexible, retained leadership partner. When needed, we collaborate with trusted associate coaches and facilitators to deliver the most effective experience for our clients.

What sets us apart is our real-world experience. We’ve built and led teams ourselves. We know what good leadership looks like day-to-day—and we know how to help others build it too. Our coaching expertise is backed by ICF-accredited training and deep experience across fast-paced, high-growth industries.

While our roots are in the recruitment industry, we also work with clients in tech, media, legal, retail, education, and other sectors—wherever leadership is the lever for growth.

At the heart of what we do is a simple belief:

When managers lead well, everything works better.

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Rob Smith – Founder & Coach

Built in recruitment. Backed by coaching. Focused on impact.

Rob is a leadership coach and facilitator who helps recruitment agencies and scaling businesses build confident managers and strong leadership that drives performance.

With over 20 years’ experience—including senior leadership roles in recruitment, HR consulting and digital advertising—Rob’s been in the trenches. He’s run desks, built teams, and felt the pressure of delivering results while leading people well. That real-world experience shapes everything he does.

For the past decade, Rob has coached and trained thousands of managers across the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. His approach is straight-talking, human and always practical—focused on helping people lead with clarity, confidence, and impact.

Rob is a Certified Organisational Coach (IECL), NLP Practitioner, DISC and Strengthscope® Practitioner, and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Through his partnership with B1G1, every coaching program or workshop Rob delivers helps provide education for children in the parts of the world that need it most—because leadership should make a difference, in and out of work.

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