Welcome to Expert Practice
I’m Darin Fox - a specialist coach, organisational consultant, and founder of Expert Practice.
I help professionals who are experts in their fields - such as finance, technology, engineering, health, government policy, legal, and more. I work in both the private and public sectors.
I have helped 550 experts achieve one or more of these outcomes:
greater impact in their organisation or community
more influence with their executive team
increased career options and development
Expert Practice is not just a business to me. I firmly believe in the critical role of expertise in shaping the big decisions facing organisations and the world.
Specialised 1-on-1 Coaching for Experts
This is not leadership coaching built around generic management frameworks. It is technical expert coaching focused on the specific issues and opportunities for professionals who use their expertise to make a difference.
My one-to-one coaching is tailored to the individual needs, goals, and circumstances of each client, helping them focus on the areas that will make the greatest difference to their effectiveness, development, and career. Depending on the individual, this might include strengthening their influence without positional authority, translating complex ideas for non-experts, building stronger relationships, navigating organisational politics, or working towards entirely different personal or professional goals.
Small Group Coaching
Structured and facilitated small-group coaching programs for 3 to 5 participants, where you learn from me and each other. Participants share advice and their experience, and build the skills needed for their expertise to thrive in complex organisations. After each 90-minute session, I guarantee everyone will leave with new tools that work the next day.
This is a cost-effective way for small project teams, peers, or a mix of participants from multiple industries. A waiting list is available for individuals who are happy to join a small group of fellow experts. It is a great and easy way to network.
Development Programs for Experts and their Managers
I am fully accredited by The Expertship Institute to lead their flagship development programs Mastering Expertship™ and Leader of Experts™. These two programs involve intensive skill development through training, coaching, feedback and real-world scenarios. They are spread over 3 to 6 months to allow for guided practice of new techniques, reflection and coaching.
Both programs are considered world-class and receive overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants and their organisations. Mastering Expertship receives an average Net Promoter Score of 87.
Join the Expert Practice Forum (Free…for now)
If you are an expert in your field AND believe expertise should have a greater role in shaping the big decisions in your organisation, if not the world, AND who are willing to develop the influence capability required to make that happen, then I invite you to join the Expert Practice Forum.
The Expert Practice Forum brings together experts across disciplines and industries to not just build their own capability, but also to raise the voice and contribution of expertise in their organisations and society.
Management Consulting for Expertise-Dependent Organisations
You may already have the expertise you need. Does your organisation maximise the potential of the expertise it has?
Most organisations employ people with deep technical knowledge. But having expertise inside an organisation does not guarantee that it will shape the decisions that matter.
Experts may be brought into important conversations too late. They may become trapped in reactive work because they are busy fighting the fires. Their advice may be diluted as it moves through layers of management. Career structures may push them towards people leadership, or leave them with nowhere meaningful to progress.
None of this usually happens deliberately.
It is the cumulative result of job design, decision processes, leadership behaviour, culture, incentives, policies and unspoken ways of working.
I help leaders identify where these conditions are limiting expert contribution and make practical, targeted changes that allow more of the organisation’s existing expertise to have real impact.
Not sure how Expert Practice can help?
Leave me a message or question, and I’ll email you with an answer or an invitation to meet.