Top 10 Executive Coaches — Global

An editorial ranking of practising executive coaches, curated on published evidence.

Ranked #5 in the Q3 2026 edition of Top 10 Executive Coaches — Global. Assessed against the published methodology.

Professor Peter Hawkins

Bath, England, UK

Chairman, Renewal Associates; Emeritus Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School

Chairman of Renewal Associates, Emeritus Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, and joint founder and Dean of the Global Team Coaching Institute.

Why this placement

Systemic team coaching is a genuine original contribution rather than a repackaging, and he has built a substantial corpus around it — Leadership Team Coaching (Kogan Page, 4th ed. 2021), Leadership Team Coaching in Practice (3rd ed. 2022), Systemic Coaching (2020, with Eve Turner), and Supervision in the Helping Professions (5th ed. 2020), which is standard reference material for supervisors rather than a book about his own practice.

Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Coaching & Mentoring Award 2025 with Catherine Carr. He ranks fifth rather than higher because publication strength is not matched by verifiable independent recognition.

Editorial notes and exclusions

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