Neil Pill, founder of ManKind 360°
Hello! I’m Neil, I specialise in helping professionals seeking deep personal transformation, supporting them to refocus and realign their lives with purpose to thrive both personally and professionally. I’m an empathic, down-to-earth coach with a natural ability to understand and connect with people.
1. From High Performance to Breaking Point
For most of my life, I pushed to always do my best.
Driven, analytical and committed to solving problems, I built a career leading businesses and managing complex transformations under pressure. Like many high-performing men, I thrived on responsibility, long hours and pushing through limits.
But it caught up with me.
At 43, my mind and body stopped. I was diagnosed with insomnia, anxiety, depression and PTSD. What followed was burnout, isolation and relying on alcohol to cope.
Within nine months, I went from peak performance to complete breakdown.
At my lowest point, I was seconds away from ending my life.
‘I can’t believe you’re about to end me”
A single thought reply stopped me:
“I’m not, I’m trying to protect you from the pain.”
That moment became the turning point.
Who is operating me?
2. The ManKind360 Approach
What followed wasn’t theory — it was survival.
I applied the same structured thinking I used in business to understand what had happened — breaking it down through root cause analysis and 360° thinking.
I studied:
- Stress, trauma and behavioural patterns
- Psychology and emotional regulation
- The connection between mind, body and stored experience
Alongside this, I rebuilt through yoga movement, breathwork, nutrition and holistic practice.
This became the ManKind360 method — a practical system to understand how men operate under pressure, how they break down, and how they rebuild.
Over the past 7+ years, I’ve worked with clients globally through private coaching and immersive retreats, guiding deep personal and professional transformation.
3. Who I Work With & Why
I work with high-performing men — leaders, business owners and professionals — who:
- Carry significant responsibility
- Are experiencing burnout, pressure or emotional overload
- Feel stuck, disconnected or off track
My work is delivered through VIP 1-to-1 retreats, designed to:
- Rebuild clarity and direction
- Regulate the mind and body
- Address underlying patterns
- Create lasting change
I do this because I’ve been there.
I understand the pressure, the isolation and the internal conflict most men don’t talk about — and I know it doesn’t need to go as far as it did for me.
4. Professional Background
- 25+ years in business leadership
- Managed multi-million-pound operations
- Led transformation across 50+ locations
- Coached leaders from management to C-suite
I work at both levels:
- People — wellbeing, identity, life direction
- Professional — leadership, performance, clarity
“Proactive and empathic, Neil is a proven game changer.”
Contact Neil Direct
📧 neil@mankind360.com
📞 0033 (0)643 18 89 83
Neil, the full story
Professional
Neil has been managing businesses, coaching teams and supporting transformation management for over 25 years.
From a humble grassroots career start and dedicating 50,000+ practical working hours to sales, people, stock, logistics and operational business systems he rose through the ranks to senior management.
He’s been headhunted to manage and improve multi-million-pound businesses, performed turn around trouble shooting roles in over 50 locations, merged companies and became a subject matter expert for one of the UK’s largest I.T projects.
He has first-hand experience of the impact of change, leadership challenges, management restructures, centralization and de-centralized policies. He’s been on the frontline of strategy success and failure and shared in the people and teams’ emotional highs and lows of business.
Personal
Neil is an honest, down-to-earth person with a natural affiliation to people. He would have described himself as a self-confessed happy workaholic, very curious and a highly creative problem solver.
He has a type A personality and a focused mindset. Switching off isn’t natural. This means working without breaks, burning the candle at both ends and dedicating 60 hours a week to work was normal. This went on for decades.
At 43, he suffered burnout and was diagnosed with insomnia, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress.
Worried about prescription medication, he incorrectly chose alcohol and substitutes to numb the pain and silence the mind and thoughts.
He couldn’t understand what had happened. From successful, outgoing and confident, he sought isolation and soon became too anxious to even leave the house.
9-months of inner turmoil, shame and guilt, he couldn’t fix his mental health problems on his own. Exhausted; he believed the only logical solution was to end it all.
His journey
From rock bottom, Neil embarked on a total mental and physical health recovery plan. To apply his same logic of business process mapping, root cause analysis and 360 thinking with the emotional intelligence for the personal, loving and human side of life.
How can we self-sabotage, feel such personal failure and sometimes contemplate life is not worth living?
Studying the mind, stress, psychology, addictive mindset, neuro chemicals, relationships, emotions, past trauma, neuro linguistic programming and traditional medical treatments. He combined this with a yoga qualification, health and wellbeing practices, meditation, nutrition and holistic therapies to support and reconnect the mind, body and spirit.
He has applied this knowledge to heal, grow and transform life.
Neil is a proven and experienced life and business coach. Proactive, empathic, he is a real game changer.
Follow Your Gut Feeling
The link between our second brain, our gut, is scientifically proven. Our health, physically and mentally is affected by what we eat. There’s also over 40,000 brain like neurons found within our heart. When the body say’s ‘No’, is it more than just about food? Could it also be ‘feeling’ good about life choices too?
With me, my appendix burst and sent my body into shock. This life threatening condition required immediate surgery to clean and remove the poisonous infection. Physically I was in a bad way for a while fighting to get back to normal. Looking back and listening to my gut; I also believe this significantly changed my mental health too.
Think after a major health upheaval, is the body saying No based on life style too?
Yes, learn about the benefits of gut flora, the acid and alkaline states and what helps and hinders our bodies. Yes, removing excess sugars and re-thinking your diet could literally help you get your belly laugh back. Follow your gut feeling, it may be about life style choices too.
Join us to kick start your personal health and wellbeing journey.
Neil
Sometimes we look after our cars and computers more than ourselves?
360 Mind and Body service, upgrade and reboot.
We are more than machines.
The 360 system is all about you. Understanding honestly where you are on the journey and offers you a safe place to pull over and refuel. For the body think like a car. We need to allocate time for an annual mot, 10,000-mile service to cover things like oil changes, emission checks, spark plug changes etc. Obviously, for more specialist vehicles we’ll be booking them in more frequently. If you owned a Ferrari would you put on cheap tyres, use cheap oil or ignore warning signs on the dash? No. Remind yourself you are way more complex and valuable than a Ferrari. We need to allocate time to know our own operating and service intervals and be thinking longevity. We need to know the mechanics of what makes us tick and sick. Don’t wait until you’re broken down before you call for roadside assistance. Book in, take charge and let those around you know you’ll be more reliable for the longer-term journey.
Software for the mind
Computers, phones and technology help us so much yet frustratingly may slow down and have gremlins in the system. This is normal as they’re expected to complete many tasks at once, across many different platforms. Normally, once they seem to stop, we allocate time for updates. Control-alt-delete may help in the short term. In our career, business and personal lives, we have so much going on too. New and changing relationships, expectations and task demands upon ourselves may identify our own operating glitches. Creatives may stop being creative and carers stop the passion for caring. It’s ok to admit we need help and support for the mind isn’t it? It’s ok to ask for time to process change and update? Time may be the problem and this is more of a luxury commodity than we think. People rely on us to run even though we suspect a system reboot is needed.
Defrag and system analyse?
In computer terms, every time we open a file, a cache or new version is created. The system stores another copy or fragment of the same item ready for quick access. The same as a memory or a worry, always open with many different versions at once. Defrag brings all the open and modified versions back to one. To store it properly without taking up valuable resources for other tasks. We are all human and our brain also needs to defrag too. Those who say, ‘just switch off, it’s the past, forget about it’ do not understand human software. As a human we can’t open the task manager and see clearly where the CPU is allocating its resources. We have emotions, fears, pasts, responsibilities and concerns which cannot be seen in a data file. Applying this to our own real lives is the key. Taking time out to learn about ourselves so we may also help others must be the right way.
The 360 support is a very simple way, with no code or techie training stuff needed, to quickly hack into you. To know what human software version you are running on, how to navigate and update your operating system. You’ll be your own tech support with a heart, mind and spirit to live not operate. Identify who in your team or relationships may benefit from our 360-update support and allocate the gift of time to learn.
The 360 system is for anyone who pro-actively wants to reboot and master the art of upgrading.