About Ed Harbourne

I was fortunate to land a role in corporate banking straight out of my teens. Before I knew it, I was an 18-year-old city boy working at Citi in Canary Wharf — gaining an early understanding of structure, responsibility, and how complex systems operate under pressure. I progressed quickly, earning multiple promotions, and developed a strong appreciation for professionalism, accountability, and the layers of the corporate world.

Not long after, I transitioned into frontline service within the police force. It was there that I learned first-hand about people, stress, resilience, and decision-making in real-world situations. More importantly, it’s where I began to truly understand empathy, not as a concept, but as a skill. I didn’t grow up in an especially empathetic household, and policing forced me to recognise just how essential empathy is for communication, leadership, and genuine human connection.

Ultimately, the police wasn’t the right environment for me. It was too negative, and I didn’t feel I was helping people in the way I wanted to. By that point, fitness and training had become my baseline.

Bodybuilding started as a hobby, but quickly became a foundation. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a major influence in my late teens, and bodybuilding gave me discipline, confidence, identity, and focus. More than anything, it taught me consistency and self-leadership. Over time, that passion evolved into something deeper - a fascination with how people change, how habits form, and why confidence and energy fluctuate.

By 2012, after working in gym and leisure centre management, I had built such a strong client base that I became self-employed in London’s W1, based in Carnaby Street. I worked with private clients, corporates, and individuals in high-pressure environments, supporting people across prestigious settings including Soho House, the Firmdale Group, and individuals in the public eye.

As my work evolved, so did my understanding of transformation. Physical change alone was never enough. Mindset, behaviour, identity, and environment mattered just as much. That realisation led me into further training in coaching, behavioural change, and hypnotherapy — expanding my work beyond the gym and into deeper, longer-lasting impact.

Alongside this, I entered the aesthetics space, including running a laser tattoo removal clinic on Wimpole Street. After nearly ten years living and working in London’s West End, COVID reshaped how I worked - accelerating the move into remote working and opening the door to engage with the aesthetics industry on a deeper level. I stepped into senior leadership roles at director and partner level, helping to build and run multi-site businesses with responsibility across operations, sales, recruitment, strategy, education, and growth.

Each chapter added something essential:

• Cheffing taught resilience and standards.
   
• Banking taught structure, professionalism, and progression.
   
• Bodybuilding taught discipline and self-mastery.
   
• Fitness and coaching taught human behaviour and change.
   
• Business leadership taught the importance of strategy, structure, and sales.

• Owning my own business and self employment taught me accountability, execution and self-development.
   

Nothing was accidental. Nothing was wasted. Connection and luck are key to life, and with connections you make your own luck.

My work is grounded in service, backed by experience, and powered by purpose. I understand responsibility, pressure, and reinvention — because I’ve lived them. And I work best with people who want real support from someone who doesn’t just understand the theory, but understands what it actually takes.

I have worked with some incredible people over my time, and made some life long connections.

Change your energy, change your life.

Ed Harbourne