Graham
Norris
Senior Executive Coach, Psychologist and Speaker
London, UK
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🇬🇧English
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🇨🇳Mandarin
Coaching Experience
- ICF Certified Coach
- Lumina Spark certification
- DiSC certification
Professional background
- Supertrends Institute – COO
- AmCham China – Senior Director of Marketing and Communications
- Dow Jones – News Editor
Education
- Doctor of Business Administration and MBA (Edinburgh Business School)
Personal commitments
- AFFCAD (Action for Fundamental Change and Development)-Former Trustee
Dr. Graham Norris is an organisational psychologist, facilitator, and speaker with extensive international leadership experience and deep expertise in the financial sector. He helps leaders and teams navigate uncertainty, make confident decisions, and align around compelling visions for the future.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Professional background
Graham spent over 20 years in senior leadership roles across Asia and Europe, including leading editorial teams for Dow Jones Newswires in Singapore and Tokyo, serving as Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, and as COO of a Swiss start-up. Today, he brings this wealth of experience into his coaching and keynote work, helping leaders translate insight into action and inspiring teams to perform at their best.
Coaching expertise
Graham specialises in stimulating people to draw on their own experience, think productively about the future, and take decisive action in the present. For teams, he applies research on collaborative imagination to create compelling, motivating visions that drive performance. Using strategic foresight techniques, he guides leaders through uncertainty so they can make sense of complex challenges and act with confidence.
What we say about Graham Norris at Turningpoint
Graham makes you think – and laugh – often at the same time. He has a gift for turning big, unsettling ideas into conversations that feel energising, grounded, and surprisingly practical.