Who we are
Unlock Your Potential with Simply Coaching
Are you a small to medium-sized business looking to elevate your team’s performance and drive your organization to new heights?
Or a new, mid-career professional looking to grow further in the workplace?
Simply Coaching is dedicated to making a positive impact in your life by helping you reach your full potential in both professional and personal journeys.
Our mission is to inspire potential and empower growth through coaching. We aim to help transform individuals and teams, create a positive work environment, and deliver better performance.
Our coaching is designed around you—whether as an individual, colleague, or business—offering a supportive environment that empowers growth, tackles challenges, and turns goals into achievements.
Why Choose Simply Coaching?
Personalized Coaching Approach: Tailored sessions to meet individual client needs, ensuring relevant and impactful coaching.
Comprehensive Service Offering: A wide range of services including one-to-one, team, leadership, and workplace coaching.
Experienced and Certified Coaching: Highly experienced and certified professionals with a proven track record.
Innovative Coaching Techniques: Utilization of the latest coaching tools and methodologies.
Focus on Measurable Results: Clear goals and Key Performance Indictors with regular progress tracking.
Supportive and Collaborative Environment: A safe space for open communication and growth, fostering strong client-coach relationships
Next Steps:
Ready to Transform? Contact us today to schedule a consultation and discover how Simply Coaching can help you achieve your goals and improve performance.
The turning point in life came when I realised something powerful: I was accountable for myself. By reflecting deeply on my values, behaviours, and choices, I discovered that growth begins within. I had, in effect, coached myself—overcoming doubts, building resilience, and finding clarity of purpose.
That realisation ignited a passion for leadership and service. I saw that the real challenge for leaders isn’t just hitting targets—it’s inspiring people to become the best version of themselves. And when individuals grow, teams thrive, and organisations transform.
Today, through Simply Coaching, I bring that belief to life. I work with individuals, leaders, and organisations to:
Build confidence and capability
Strengthen collaboration and culture
Unlock potential and empower growth
I’ve seen first‑hand how coaching can change workplaces and lives. It creates talented employees, grows leaders, creates healthier teams, and builds organisations that perform with purpose.
This is why Simply Coaching exists: to collaborate with you, to inspire potential, and to empower growth—so that together, we can achieve more talented people, influential leaders, stronger teams, and better results.
Hello, I’m Colin, Founder of Simply Coaching
I thought it would be great to explain the essence of Simply Coaching and why it was established. Simply Coaching was born from my own journey of growth, reflection, and transformation.
From the very start, I was ambitious and driven. My career began in the Royal Air Force, where I developed discipline, leadership, and a hunger for broader horizons. That drive took me into the global energy sector, where I led complex supply chain operations, managed international projects, working across several continents with diverse people and cultures. It was a career that fulfilled many of my early ambitions—but it also brought challenges: mergers, career crossroads, and the constant pressure to perform.
Simply Coaching - The Beginning
BIOGRAPHIES…………………………………………
Colin Donald MSc, MIOL
Founder & Coach
Simply Coaching
Education
Aberdeen University, Institute of Leadership Level 5 in Effective Coaching & Leadership
Post Graduate Certificate in Occupational Psychology
Arizona State University, Post Graduate, Supply Chain Management
Aberdeen University, MSc in Project Management
Member of the Institute of Leadership
Career
Founder and Coach, Simply Coaching, Aberdeen
SCM Operations Manager, Chevron, Kazakhstan
Mayor, Chevron, Angola
SCM Ops Procurement Mgr, Chevron, Aberdeen
Operations Director, First Point Assessment/Achilles, Aberdeen
Planning Mgr, BP, Aberdeen
Project Mgr, Amoco, Aberdeen
ROV Pilot, Subsea 7, Aberdeen
Communications Engineer RAF, UK
Experience
30 plus years of Coaching, Mentoring and Leading
Certified Coach, specializes in Workplace, Leadership and Life coaching
Values - Progress, Caring, Curiosity, Adventures, Life-Long learning and enabling others to be best self
Skilled in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis and visualization
SCM Professional and Manager
International experience
8 Years Military experience in RAF
Do you have Coaching Experience? Interested in becoming a Coaching Associate with Simply Coaching? Then please contact us below to discuss further opportunities.
What Our International Customers Are Saying……………….
I wanted to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude for the transformative coaching sessions I’ve had with you! Your guidance and insights have been invaluable in helping me overcome barriers, boost my confidence, and enhance my problem-solving abilities
Thanks to your expertise, I’ve also significantly improved my skills and learned to identify and remove obstacles that were holding me back. Your support in clarifying my mission and refining my leadership and facilitation skills have been instrumental in my personal and professional growth.
Moreover, your guidance on overcoming procrastination has been particularly impactful. I now approach challenges with renewed vigour and have developed a fearlessness towards judgment allowing me to aim higher and achieve more than I thought possible.
Once again, thank you Colin for all that you have done for me. Your coaching has made a profound difference in my life, and I am truly grateful for your dedication and wisdom.
Botagoz Amrayeva, Kazakhstan
The session was very productive and the best one so far. A lot of must have and useful tips were shared and discussed. Now it is more clear what practical steps I could take to further improve my leadership as well as communication skills going forward. I think I also finally understood why asking the right questions and listening to others are the key characteristics of a true leader and started seeing how I could influence others through this skill. What I truly enjoyed was that it was not the coach who forced the idea down to me, but I arrived at this insight on my own with the help of the coach who was able to ask the right questions and managed to make me think and see things from a different angle.
Bakhyt Daurizhan, Team Leader
I started working with Colin when I was going through a very stressful period in my life - so much so that I had actually been signed off work by my Doctor. Before my first session with Colin, I had just assumed the stress was due to my high-pressure job and the fact I had recently handed in my notice to start a business.
With Colin's coaching I had a HUGE breakthrough in the very first session and identified not only the root cause of the stress (which was not at all what I expected), but something that's been consistently holding me back in life since a young age. He then helped me identify ways in which I could deal with this, and actions to take going forward.
I got so much personal development value from the first session (and the most significant breakthrough was yet to come!) that I had a further 4 sessions with Colin, where he helped me identify and remedy some significant limiting beliefs that were holding me back from achieving my goals, and areas of my life that were out of balance and affecting my happiness and fulfilment.
Colin is very personable, relaxed and authentic, which really helped me to feel at ease in our sessions, build trust, and give me complete confidence to share my burdens. He gave me the option to try hypnosis, which I was open to trying and found very effective for self-reflection and learning more about myself.
From the 2 months I worked with Colin, I have no doubt he helped me achieve more personal development than I had in the previous 2 years (probably a lot longer). I would have no hesitation about working with Colin again in future when I need some help to work through the many trials and tribulations of life!
Rob Hercus, Senior Manager, PKF International, Bogota, Columbia
Next Steps
Ready to Transform? Contact us today to schedule a free, no obligation consultation and discover how Simply Coaching can help you reach your potential, achieve your goals and improve performance.