About Dave
Dave works with construction industry executives and teams helping them get clear on their business results, then identify barriers to progress and work out their next move.
In follow-up sessions clients appreciate their progress and refocus on their way forward – all the way to the realisation of their goals. Check out the different programmes here.
Over the last three years Dave has logged over 400 hours of executive coaching.
Dave Stitt Bsc CEng MICE FCIOB MCMI FRSA PCC
Author: Leadership Team Coach: Executive Coach:
Experience in the industry
Dave has over 40 years operational experience in the construction industry, the last 18 of which as an independent leadership team coach. This experience helps him empathise with and support his clients and to challenge them by asking the right questions at the right time. He is an Accredited BS11000 (collaborative working) Facilitator, a qualified coach to senior practitioner level and an AoEC* Certified Systemic Team Coach. He is also a Chartered Management Institute Mentor.
He is a chartered civil engineer and chartered builder and first trained as a coach in the mid nineties as a participant in an organisational transformation programme. This experience shifted his career direction towards people, team and organisational development. Since then he has been involved in and led change programmes for several UK national organisations.
Mindset and strategy
Dave believes that situations are complex and resists identifying any one thing or person as being the cause, instead he helps his clients explore their system and the patterns at play and their role in co-creating those patterns then to shift ineffective patterns in order to free up progress. Dave also believes that relationship is the foundation of results so relationship building is a fundamental part of his work.
In the face of complexity Dave adopts a future-focused and pragmatic approach to enable his clients to achieve their desired business results and to permanently operate at a higher level.
Since COVID-19, workload has increased dramatically and the leaders we deal with appreciate the head-space we offer within a structured and productive environment.
Dave's writing and books
The second edition of Dave's latest book, Coach for Results, has been available since 
June 2022. Check out the online course and learn more about the book.
"Deep and Deliberate Delegation", was published in January 2018. He is also the co-author of 21st Century People Leadership, a book specifically written for UK construction industry leaders.
His second book “We need to talk about collaboration” sets out the compelling case for joined up working, why that is so hard and a proven methodology for establishing and sustaining collaborative working. Find all of his books here.
Dave is also a frequent blogger with a growing worldwide list of executive subscribers. Check out his latest articles here.
Disciplined sportsman
Since his youth Dave has been a ‘fitness fanatic’ and keen sportsman: he competed at club and county level in golf and has raced in over one hundred triathlons, winning several and representing Great Britain in the 1991 Triathlon World Championship, Australia. He currently swims long distances in open water at a steady pace though is on an intensive coaching programme to effortlessly increase speed.
Dave in five words: Attentive, determined, inquisitive, strategic and upbeat.