Mike Pounsford

Mike set up his business Couravel in 2001 to help clients improve the way they communicate with and lead the people in their organisations. He works internationally with clients in the private, public and third sectors.

He designs and leads conversations for change using rich pictures and other participative tools, and helps people explore the challenges in changing established ways of working and how to address them using insights from behavioural science and neuroscience.

In the mid-1990’s Mike set up Banner McBride for WPP Group to help build stronger brands from within by listening to and engaging with employees. He rapidly built a highly motivated and successful team that was one of the Group’s fastest growing organic start-ups working closely with colleagues across the group, with offices in London and New York.

In the 1980’s Mike pioneered employee listening for Willis Towers Watson and applied insights from listening to help improve performance in retailing and banking while at Alexander Consulting Group.

Mike is accredited under the NTL International Organisation Development programme and is the Past President (2019-2020) of the UK Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. He is an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator.

Mike is lucky enough to have been married to Holly for 35 years, has three amazing daughters in Poppy, Emily and Georgia, and loves playing the guitar.