Dave Buffham
UpAGear Team Coach
Exec & Leadership Coach
Locations: United Kingdom & Europe
Executive team coach strengthening performance, cohesion and strategic alignment for senior leaders.
Executive Summary
Dave Buffham is a UK-based executive team coach with deep experience in building cohesion, effectiveness and aligned purpose across senior leadership teams.
Drawing on a career spanning commercial leadership roles in major retail and FMCG organisations, he brings pragmatic insight into the real-world tensions leaders face.
Dave has supported executives and teams across sectors, including financial services, retail, manufacturing and elite sport, including high-performance coaching assignments with the RFU and Premiership Rugby clubs.
His approach blends behavioural insight, commercial acumen and a focus on measurable performance shifts, enabling leaders to navigate complexity while delivering both strategic and operational results.
Focus Areas:
• Senior team cohesion and high-performance culture
• Leadership effectiveness and behavioural insight
• Strategic alignment and clarity of purpose
• Navigating organisational complexity and change
• Executive decision-making and communication
• Team diagnostics and personality profiling (Insights Discovery, Lumina Spark)
Coaching Approach
Dave’s coaching approach combines supportive challenge, behavioural awareness and structured development pathways. He leverages diagnostic tools such as Insights Discovery and Lumina Spark to help leaders understand themselves and others, while creating clarity and alignment around key priorities.
His methodology centres on building trust, enabling honest dialogue and translating insight into practical action. Dave focuses on measurable performance shifts and tangible business outcomes, ensuring coaching interventions strengthen both capability and cohesion across senior teams.
Proven Impact
Dave has helped senior leaders deliver stronger strategic focus, improved team cohesion and enhanced cross-functional collaboration.
His facilitation has supported leadership teams in embedding high-performance habits, aligning behaviour with organisational goals and developing robust business plans.
Clients consistently highlight his perceptiveness, ability to constructively challenge, and talent for raising the quality of discussion and decision-making.
Credentials
BSc (Hons) Business Administration specialising in Team Development and Change Leadership.
Accredited Executive Coach (Middlesex University).
Licensed Practitioner in Insights Discovery, Discovery Full Circle (360°), The Thrive & Grow Index and Lumina Spark.
Based in the UK; working nationally and internationally both in-person and virtually.
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