Personal Background

ABOUT CRAIG GALLOWAY

From the boardroom to something deeper

Founder, CG&A Coaching · CEO, Baseplate Solutions · Christchurch, New Zealand

I’ve spent more than four decades in business - as a leader, an entrepreneur, and
now as a coach. Those roles aren’t separate chapters. They’re the same thread.

The vow that changed everything

Earlier in my career I went through burnout and a redundancy that stopped me completely. In the aftermath I made a vow: I wanted to understand the principles of how things actually work at a human level - not just the strategies and metrics, but the deeper mechanics of how people think, decide, and create.

That vow sent me on a serious journey. I trained as a life coach, studied neuroscience and somatic practice, and spent a decade teaching across a wide range of industries. Gradually, I built the programme that became CG&A’s Navigator pathway.

What I’ve found

Across every industry and every level of seniority, the same pattern emerges: capable people performing well externally but running on stress. Leaders who are analytically sharp but disconnected from their values, their instincts, and the impact they’re having on others. Organisations with strong strategy and weak culture.

CG&A exists to close that gap.

The Navigator pathway draws on four pillars:

• Neuroscience - how the mind decides
• Somatics (body-based intelligence) - what the body knows
• Emotional IQ (EQ) - intelligence under pressure
• Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) - purpose, values-led leadership

A thread of lived experience

1970S – 80S

Grew up on a dairy farm in southern Hawke’s Bay. Boarder, field hockey player - eventually competing at national and international level.

1979

Bachelor of Business Studies, Massey University. Began three decades across FMCG, financial services, logistics, advertising and more - with six years in the Middle East. 

1989

Loss of a younger brother in a light plane crash in Australia. A moment that shifted perspective on life, death, and what lies beyond. 

1998

Second corporate redundancy. Instead of returning to the standard path, began an intensive study of personal development, consciousness, and the deeper mechanics of human performance. 

2000S

Trained as a life coach. Built and delivered a unique coaching programme across corporate and sports teams. From 2012, spent three years as a business development consultant in the financial planning and advice sector - applying the CG&A programme in a live commercial environment. This led directly to becoming CEO of a fintech software company serving financial advisers (now Baseplate Solutions). 

TODAY

Running CG&A Coaching and Baseplate Solutions from Christchurch - helping leaders move from reactive to conscious, one conversation at a time.

Start the conversation

If you’re a leader who senses something important is missing. If your team has the capability but isn’t quite firing. If you want to build a business with genuine purpose and the culture to match - I’d love to have a conversation.

No pitch. Just a 45-minute Lunch-Box Intro to explore whether this work is the right fit.