Editor Profile
About Professional Leader Magazine
Learn who edits Professional Leader Magazine and how his frontline leadership experience shapes what you read. Discover how three decades of training delivery, course design, and organisational consultancy inform the editorial direction of each issue. Explore the standards, preparation, and ethical convictions brought to our unabridged exclusive interviews and original leadership principles. Review our publication’s credentials, track record, and publishing history to assess the authority behind its voice and content.
Pictured: A double-page spread published in Professional Leader Magazine.
Trusted by Leading Organizations
Three Decades of Leadership Training
International Master Trainer and Journalist
Professional Leader Magazine is edited and written by Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC, an international master trainer of leadership, management, and sales with three decades of front-line experience. While Nicholas is recognised as a published leadership journalist, he is also a practising leader who has spent his career serving organisations worldwide, helping leaders and managers deliver measurable improvements in performance, productivity, efficiency, and, ultimately, the bottom line.
Worldwide Organisational Improvements
Since 1996, Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC has designed and delivered original, results-driven, instructor-led programmes for more than 700 organisations across 80 sectors, including Fortune 500 companies, blue chip brands, major institutions, and SMEs. Clients have reported improvements of up to 234% in performance, 136% in efficiency, 104% in productivity, and 44% in net profit after attending his training courses. Those figures contribute towards the editorial choices in Professional Leader Magazine.
Original Leadership Courses
Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC is the technical author and designer of more than 90 ILM-recognised leadership, management, and sales courses and over 350 original training modules. He researches, designs, and delivers all course content himself, then stress-tests his models with real teams. The concepts explored in Professional Leader Magazine are drawn from his research, development, and experience. Nicholas often challenges the practical application of well-established models.
Recognised Thought Leader
Our editor, Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC, is a member of the Society of Authors. Since 2008, he has authored workbooks for more than 90 ILM Recognised one-day courses. From 2015 to 2020, alongside Bear Grylls, Nicholas served as the leadership columnist for Sorted Magazine. He founded Sharpen Magazine in 2012, Managerial Magazine in 2015, and Professional Leader Magazine in 2018. The latter unifies all three titles under a single umbrella brand as a biannual digital publication.
Interviews with Movers and Shakers
Each issue features Nicholas Christian Hill’s exclusive conversations with internationally recognised thought leaders and high-performing practitioners. Preparing extensively for these interviews, he reads their books, studies their track record, and crafts questions that other journalists have not yet asked. His aim is simple: to uncover the real decision-making, failures, turning points, and strategies that shaped their work, and to identify pragmatic ways to implement their ideas in the real workplace.
Charismatic Writing Style
Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC teaches and writes with the ambitious leader in mind, under the weight of everyday pressure. Professional Leader Magazine, therefore, challenges dry academic theory while avoiding management jargon and fluff! Instead, he gives you practical thinking expressed in plain English, with a firm stance on ethical leadership and psychological safety. Each interview is a human-to-human transcript, so you are reading the words exchanged by people who understand the real workplace.
Character-Centred Discipline
Nicholas Christian Hill’s editorial philosophy is grounded in principles. Leadership is a discipline determined by character. Results matter, but not at the expense of others. Diversity, equality, and respect are non-negotiable. Nicholas teaches how to work together by seeking common ground despite differences in race, religion, or politics. Nicholas edits Professional Leader Magazine to build bridges between team members and reject practices that justify humiliation, discrimination, or intimidation.
Relevant Professional Credentials
Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC holds credentials including Certified Master Coach Trainer, Certified Leadership Communications Trainer, Certified NLP Trainer, and Certified Master Executive Coach. He is also a former Dale Carnegie Management Trainer. He holds fellowships with the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Leadership, and the Institute of Consulting. He also holds a Diploma of Higher Education in Philosophy, which underpins his teaching on ethics and reasoning.
Training Room Energy
In the training room, Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC is known for an animated, highly engaging delivery that rarely uses PowerPoint, for constructive and provocative debate, and for his ability to translate complex ideas into practical tools. As editor, he brings that same energy to the page. Professional Leader Magazine is deliberately designed to be ‘therapy for your eyes and stimulation for your mind’, combining clean visual design with demanding content that expects you to think, question, and act.
Personal Engagement with You
Above all, Nicholas Christian Hill FCMI FIoL FIC treats every issue as an extension of his work as Managing Director and Principal Trainer for Nicholas Hill Academy Ltd. When you read Professional Leader Magazine, you engage with someone who writes the leadership principles, delivers the training courses, interviews the guests, and signs his name to the results. Moreover, he speaks directly to your heart and mind, drawing on his real-world experience gained through many trials and errors before achieving success.
