Ken Coleman
Founder, OTP Coach
Master of Accounting
Former CEO & General Manager
Transformation Leader
About
Why I started OTP Coach
After more than two decades running businesses — as a CEO, general manager, and transformation leader across aerospace, medical devices, and communications — I kept seeing the same pattern. Smart, committed teams underperforming. Not because of strategy or skill, but because trust had quietly broken down somewhere in the system.
I started OTP Coach because the coaching I needed at 40 didn't exist. I wanted a thinking partner who had actually run a P&L under pressure — not just studied leadership. Someone who understood what it feels like to carry a decision alone at 2am, to hold a team together through a restructuring, to navigate a board that wants answers you don't yet have.
"I believe that trust is not a soft outcome — it is the operating system of every high-performing team and organisation I have ever seen. When it breaks down, everything else follows. When it's strong, almost anything is possible."
Today I work with a small number of senior leaders and leadership teams each year — deliberately. The work requires depth, honesty, and time. It is not scalable, and it is not meant to be.
Intellectual foundations
Outside the work
When not working, Ken can be found restoring antique cameras and clocks, on the water, walking the streets of cities he's never visited before, and reading history. The patience required to restore a 1960s Leica — understanding how each small mechanism relates to the whole — is not entirely different from the work of fixing a broken organisation.
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