Background and Experience
DAVID CLIVE PRICE Ph.D. is a Global Leadership Expert, Author, Life Coach and International Speaker on Resilience and Leadership.
David is passionate about leadership and personal development, talent and engagement and brings 30+ years of experience of senior leadership coaching, strategic advisory and change management roles to his delivery of global leadership, mental resilience and personal development programmes. Building on his own learning as chief speechwriter for HSBC for the return of Hong Kong to China, David has coached and advised leadership teams for many global organisations including AIA, Standard Chartered, Credit Suisse, Santander, Shangri La and Morgan Stanley as well as political and trade leaders in locations across the globe.
Speaking several languages, and having lived and worked in numerous countries, David’s multicultural experience informs all his executive coaching and mentoring, as well as his bestselling book Bamboo Strong with Foreword by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, one the world’s top leadership thinkers, and his most recent book Hidden Demons: How to Overcome Fear, Anxiety and Addictions to Thrive in Uncertain Times.
He is an engaging and entertaining motivational speaker, an author of fifteen books, and holds a Ph.D. in History from Cambridge University. His Bamboo Strong program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation, and he is a Marshall Goldsmith Global Leadership Assessment Coach and a John Mattone Intelligent Leadership Master Coach.
Approach & Benefits
David believes that leadership, teamwork and managing complexity are best developed by encouraging leaders and teams to use their own lives and businesses as examples in order to enhance their process of self-discovery. He does not begin with theory but instead asks executives to go beyond their daily assumptions and habits in activities that disrupt their normal ways of thinking, their emotions and behavior.
The benefits of David’s unique Bamboo Strong™ and Ascend the Mountain Programs (based on the Hidden Demons Book and Method™) include:
• Helping leaders leverage cultural, generational, social and personal diversity in their organizations and workplaces, across borders and in new markets.
• Providing scientifically proven frameworks to encourage strong leadership resilience and agility
• Using Global DISC assessment and profiling to strengthen emotional and cultural intelligence
• Encouraging diversity, creativity and innovation, to elevate leaders’ self-awareness, self-confidence and sustained performance.
• Addressing self-doubt, stress and anxiety so that leaders can achieve a fulfilled life and abundant business based on their true selves
Selected Testimonials
“Terrific and creative guy to work with!” – As Strategic Communications Adviser for IPO of the AIA Group , Head of Corporate Communications at Fidelity Worldwide Investment
“Thank you so much for being our guest speaker at the Hong Kong conference and for entertaining our delegates in such a thought provoking way. Many delegates have commented how much they enjoyed your presentation and all the cross-cultural challenges.” As International Conference Keynote SpeakerIAPA International Conference, Hong Kong
“Many thanks again for speaking at the Global China Business Meeting in The Hague. I would be delighted to welcome you back!” Global Visions Community
“David has acquired an immensely broad range of experience as a speaker, coach and author of numerous published works. His speeches are always a delight, colourful and full of inspiration for people who need to know Asia, its business world and its many cultures in more detail.” – ex-Director of Government Information Services, Hong Kong
“David is a prolific writer, leadership and life coach and persuasive speaker with an extremely wide field of interests, a great sense of humour and a lively, entertaining approach.” –Managing Director, Gurkha International
“David breathes leadership in everything he says and does. You can tell that his presentations and speeches are based on deep experience of the way international business works. Above all they’re conveyed with dry wit and humour.” Producer, TVB’s ‘The Money Programme’, Hong Kong
“Bamboo Strong is a beautiful creation for the times we live in today and a guide for the world we would like to live in tomorrow.” —CEO, Inspired Leaders Network
“If you want to succeed in the global marketplace, and to lead more effective, high performing teams at home, Bamboo Strong is the book for you.“ —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 Leadership Thinker in the World (Global Gurus 30)
“Hidden Demons is a flashlight we all need on our journey to awaken our true greatness.” —Tony J Selimi, Human Behaviour Expert & #1 Bestselling Author
“In his work with senior leaders and in his powerful books, David shows us that the vulnerable future is already upon us: more open and connected societies, more outreach and more resilient leaders.“ —John Mattone, Global Gurus Org World’s #1 Executive Coach