Ralph Varcoe

Ralph Varcoe is the founder and CEO of PiViva, a subscription platform combining structured coaching tools, an AI companion called Viv, and a directory of checked human coaches. PiViva is where his focus now sits.

Alongside it, Accelerate Performance covers his consulting, executive coaching and NLP training work, and RAL.PH covers keynote speaking, event hosting and facilitation.

Before founding PiViva, Ralph was Chief Growth Officer at Connexin, where group revenue grew from £3M to £25M in under three years. In 2024 the business placed second in GP Bullhound's Northern Tech Awards Top 100, the ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in the North of the UK, up from 16th the year before and 30th before that. Earlier he held senior roles at Virgin Media Business, CenturyLink, Tata Communications, Spirit AI and Orange Business Services.

Ralph is a certified Trainer of Master NLP, Master Time Line Therapy®, Master Hypnosis and Master NLP Coaching, accredited by the ABNLP, ABH and TLTA. He got into NLP at 17, as a subject in research into memory and recall.

He trained as a singer before any of it, and performed classical and jazz around the world. He is a recording artist and the author of five books, including "Accelerate Personal Performance".