Making work better
In an age of AI: bringing people to the fore
About Us
Goldcrest Advisors is a global advisory and coaching firm that draws on decades of experience to create lasting impact for clients.
We advise clients on change, culture and leadership, and coach executives in personal development and presentation skills.
We have worked with many of the world’s best-known and most iconic firms across diverse sectors and regions.
We are committed to delivering meaningful impact for clients and making Work better for everyone within an organisation.
Our Team
Stephen Duncan
Stephen has been advising clients for over 35 years in different aspects of organisational transformation, culture and design. Throughout this time, he has worked with leaders individually and their teams to create alignment with strategies and commitment to action.
Stephen has worked with many of the world’s leading businesses including Novartis, Mars, Microsoft and Olympus. He has extensive experience working in the UK, EU, USA, Asia and Latin America and has developed a strong feel for the different business cultures that exist around the world.
Prior to founding Goldcrest Advisors, Stephen led United Minds (now part of Omnicom) in EMEA for eleven years and has worked for several other international advisory firms in Europe and the USA.
Stephen is a Chartered Management Consultant and is accredited as a PROSCI practitioner, Team Management System practitioner and is currently studying at Henley Business School for a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching.
What's in a name?
Why Goldcrest Advisors?
There is a beautiful story from Ancient Greece retold by Aristotle where all the birds decide they need to appoint a king. The birds agree to make the one that can fly highest their king.
All the birds start to climb into the air and the Eagle soon ends up flying higher than all the others. The just as the Eagle starts to tire and return to the ground the Goldcrest, the smallest of all the birds appears from under the Eagle’s tail feathers and flies higher than all the others and becomes the King of the Birds and acquires its golden crown.
We are not called Goldcrest because we think we are the “king of the advisory firms” but we admire the smartness, agility and resilience the Goldcrest showed. In an industry that has been dominated by eagles we believe there is something to be said for being smart, agile and creative. You want to pay for the people that have the experience and knowledge you want not for layers of management, overheads, and back offices.
This is particularly true as we evolve into a world that we share with artificial intelligences: human interactions with people that understand others and have real world experience of what our advice means in practice have never been more important.