Inspiring Dads specialises in supporting new dads to solve the challenge of “How to be a great dad, without sacrificing a great career?” At all stages of the “dad journey,” we help reduce relationship tension and improve equality at home and in work.

It’s Time to Make a real difference for new parents at home AND at work.

✅ Improve the mental health of new dads and their partners.

✅ Support high performing individuals facing the stress of parental transition.

✅ Create diverse working cultures where dads have a genuine choice about how to organise their working life.

✅ Narrow the gender pay gap by creating new role models for what successful masculinity looks like at work.

✅ Retain female staff by changing the assumptions about gender in the workplace.

✅ Enhance gender equality at work and at home.

“For the busy working dad, Ian’s coaching is the perfect fit. We wear many masks in life; the Professional, the Dad, the Husband, the Brother, the Friend, the decent guy on the street, but so often we are so busy trying to be the right person in the moment that we neglect real self.

Ian helped me to examine who actually lay under my various masks and to explore what I needed to set straight in my life to ensure that the balance was right.

I can’t recommend him enough, he totally gets where you are coming from, and walks the talk in his own life. I really appreciated his empathetic and considered approach in challenging me in our coaching sessions.

I have now reset my goals for the next five years and feel both empowered and excited in achieving them. Thanks Ian”

James Edmondson

What my Clients Say

"Becoming a parent is such a special time, but, however prepared you are, or may think you are, parenthood is always going to be an ongoing and uphill challenge.

When I first started working with Ian, I was attempting to juggle life at work and home, with the distinction between each being blurred.

I felt like I was never quite fully meeting my role in each or making much needed time for myself.

Ian helped me to recognise that there are only so many hours in each day and each week and to focus on how to manage my time, energy and responsibilities."

Luke Vallins

"I got so caught up in just the survival of having 3 under 3s, supporting my wife and starting a new job that I neglected myself and my own mental well being.

So taking that time out to speak to someone completely independent who has the experience has really made a difference.

I am extremely grateful for Ian's support and advice and would recommend him to anyone."

Lee Head

"When I started working with Ian I had just returned to work after having my first child, most of my team had been made redundant and I’d recently moved house and was living out of boxes - the ensuing Covid 19 lockdown didn’t make things any easier either!

I found the regular chats with Ian, an impartial third-party, helped me make sense of it all. I really wasn’t sure what I’d get out of the mentor process before we started, my attitude is usually to just keep your head down and get on with things rather than seek outside help.

However I found during our conversations that just saying things that are in your head out loud to be beneficial and valuable. Working with a coach or mentor really can help, I’d definitely do it again."

Adrian Babb