About James Scouller
James Scouller is an executive coach, thought leader and author. His fascination with leadership has dominated his working life over the last 45 years. It’s been the golden thread connecting his four books.
What sets his work apart? His focus on the previously ignored psychological challenges facing leaders and their teams.
His first book was The Three Levels of Leadership. You could call it a self-help manual for leaders. The payoff for readers? It offered them groundbreaking models and tools for growing their presence, knowhow and skill. Launched into a crowded leadership book space with little promotional backing, it has received five-star reviews around the world largely through word-of-mouth. It’s inspired hundreds of CEOs and business founders to seek James’s help.
His trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, came out in January 2024. James sees this as a companion series to “Three Levels”. It’s the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, principles and roadmaps behind team success and took 15 years to research, test and write. Book one in the trilogy won the 2025 Independent Press Award (Business: General).
After living and working in different countries he led three international companies as CEO for 11 years before founding his executive coaching practice, The Scouller Partnership, in 2004. Today, when he’s not writing, he coaches leaders and their teams. He has two postgraduate coaching qualifications and trained in applied psychology for four years at the UK Institute of Psychosynthesis. He also trained in Japanese martial arts for over 40 years, gaining a 4th Dan black belt in Aikido, but these days only practises the Chinese art of Tai Chi. He lives near Bedford with his wife, Tricia, and their dog, Matilda.
