Simon Atkins is a certified professional coach with over 20 years of experience providing communications and coaching services to senior executives of leading corporations in Canada.

In 1999, Simon founded Socratic Communications, which offers a range of coaching services designed to help organizations move towards their defined goals.  Services include one-on-one executive coaching, facilitation, media communications training, and team coaching and development. 

The Socratic Communications’ method is to use thought provoking questions to help clients shape and frame their goals for performance, learning and growth, and then facilitate finding solutions through creative problem solving.

Through his coaching services, Simon provides senior executives with leadership, communications, conflict resolution, and presentation skills development.  Based on Adlerian psychological principles, Simon’s approach to coaching is to help his clients gain a deeper insight into their cognitive and behavioural schemata, and learn how this influences their strategic decision making processes and communications style.  With this new awareness, clients make significant progress towards developing leadership and communications abilities that are aligned with their organizations’ goals.

Simon is a Team Coach with the Queen’s-Cornell Universities Executive MBA program. He is also affiliated with the Mobius Executive Leadership organization based in Boston, Massachusetts.  

As a coach and consultant, Simon has worked with a diverse range of clients including Apple Computer, IBM, Dell, Phillips, Compaq, Lotus, Rogers Communications, Coveo, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Novatel, Moosehead Breweries, Gap Canada, CIBC Mellon, Nike Canada, Thomson Nelson, and Deloitte Consulting.

Simon is an Adler Certified Professional Coach (ACPC), having graduated from the Adler School of Professional Coaching in Toronto.  He has a Masters of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from the Alfred Adler Institute of Chicago, and an Honours B.A. in psychology from York University in Toronto.  He also received a certificate in Dispute Resolution from York University.

Simon is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario (ADRIO), and sits on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP).  He also sits on the Quality Committee for the Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville, and the Quality Committee for the Dufferin County Child Services. In addition, Simon has a psychotherapy and family mediation practice in Orangeville, Ontario.