Ken Coleman
Founder, OTP Coach
Master in Accounting
Former CEO & General Manager
Transformation Leader
About
Why I started OTP Coach
After more than four decades running businesses, as a CEO, general manager, and transformation leader across aerospace, medical devices, and communications, I kept seeing the same pattern, smart and committed teams underperforming. Not because of effort or skill, but because trust had quietly broken down somewhere in the system.
I have also experienced too many consulting firms who create and deliver their content without real world experience of actually managing a business, and who don't live with the consequences from the solutions working on paper.
I started OTP Coach because I believe leadership challenges require systematic solutions, and trust is the cornerstone of optimal team performance. I believe senior leaders want a trusted thinking partner who has actually run a P&L under pressure, not just studied leadership in theory. Someone who understood what it feels like to carry the burden of making a decision alone at 2am, to hold a team together through a restructuring, or to influence a board that wants answers you don't yet have.
Today I work with a small number of carefully selected senior leaders and leadership teams. The work requires depth, candor, and time.
"I believe that trust is the foundation of every high-performing team and organization I have ever seen. When it breaks down, everything else follows. When it's strong, almost anything is possible."
Intellectual foundations
Outside the work
When not working, Ken can be found restoring antique cameras and clocks, boating, walking the streets of cities he's never visited before, and reading history. The patience required to restore a 1890 Ingraham Gingerbread clock, understanding how each small mechanism relates to the whole, is not entirely different from the work of fixing a broken organization.
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