Welcome to Donald Hamilton Coaching. For over four decades, I've navigated the business landscape, accumulating a wealth of experience that I've honed into three impactful services designed to produce tangible results.

I’ve had a wide ranging career, shaped by significant roles as a lawyer, negotiator, negotiations trainer, and commercial director. Following my departure from the corporate world just before the pandemic, I embarked on a path of transformation, qualifying as a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, and established a hypnotherapy practice.

Alongside this journey into the therapeutic world, my connection to the corporate world remained intact. The pandemic era highlighted a significant, yet largely unnoticed, intersection between the realms of therapy and corporate performance. It became apparent that many ambitious executives, including those in senior positions, were experiencing anxiety in ways they had never before acknowledged. The lack of personal interaction with superiors and team members, coupled with a shift towards perfunctory training, left many doubtful if they had all that is required to succeed. This uncertainty at the executive level naturally suggested potential underperformance at the organisational level.

As the world gradually adapted to post-pandemic realities, the return to office life underscored that things had fundamentally changed. The essential components of high performance—the nexus of employee wellbeing, education and performance—often fell under the purview of disparate parts of the organisation.

Through this lens, I identified recurring themes among professionals: