Coaching and Workshops
Not Every Leadership Challenge Needs a 12-Month Programme
My structured programmes are designed for leaders, teams and businesses that want sustained development, accountability and measurable progress over a full year. But sometimes the issue is more immediate.
You may have a decision you need to think through, a transition to navigate, a leadership challenge that is proving difficult to unpick, or a team that needs to work differently.
That is where flexible coaching, team coaching and focused workshops come in.
There is no requirement to fit your situation into a predetermined programme. We start with what is actually happening, what needs to change and the level of support that makes sense.
1-to-1 Executive Coaching
For CEOs, managing directors, founders, partners and senior directors who want an experienced, confidential thinking partner to challenge assumptions, strengthen their judgement and make better decisions.
I draw on over 30 years in business, including senior leadership experience, alongside my accreditation as an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). I understand the commercial and organisational realities behind the conversations, from difficult leadership decisions and people challenges to strategy, performance and change.
I offer executive coaching across the UK, including London, Manchester and Leeds, and internationally.
Sessions are available online or in person by arrangement, with flexible coaching typically running across 6, 9 or 12 sessions of 60 or 90 minutes.
There is no generic coaching agenda. The work is shaped around your situation, the decisions you are facing and what you need to move forward.
You might bring:
A decision where none of the options feels straightforward.
A move into a bigger or more visible leadership role.
A team or relationship that is proving difficult to shift.
Too much time spent reacting and not enough time thinking strategically.
A knock to your confidence or judgement.
A conversation you know needs to happen.
A question about what comes next in your role or career.
Or simply the need for a confidential thinking partner with no internal agenda — someone prepared to challenge your thinking and tell you what they genuinely see.
Where useful, coaching can incorporate CliftonStrengths®, Belbin® Team Roles and the Energy Leadership Index™ to deepen self-awareness and explore how you lead, make decisions and respond under pressure.
Team and Group Coaching
When the problem sits between people rather than with one individual, coaching one person at a time will only take you so far.
A leadership team can contain highly capable people and still struggle collectively.
Priorities compete. Decisions get revisited. Accountability becomes unclear. Difficult conversations are avoided. People work hard in their own areas, but the team does not move together.
I work with leadership teams, cross-functional groups and cohorts of managers to understand what is really happening beneath the surface and strengthen how they work together.
The focus may include:
Shared direction and priorities
Roles, ownership and accountability
Decision-making
Communication and trust
Difficult conversations and constructive challenge
Cross-functional working
Leadership-team behaviours
Turning strategy into coordinated action
Engagements are tailored to the team's situation and can run across a small number of focused sessions or form part of wider development work.
CliftonStrengths® and Belbin® Team Roles can also be incorporated where they add useful insight and a shared language for the team.
Workshops and Diagnostic Tools
Sometimes a focused intervention is all that is needed to surface something important and start a different conversation.
I design and facilitate practical leadership and team workshops around the issues an organisation is actually facing. They are not generic training sessions lifted from a slide deck.
The work generally falls into two areas:
Leadership workshops. Practical sessions exploring areas such as communication, influence, decision-making, accountability, delegation, feedback, difficult conversations, coaching skills and leading under pressure.
Diagnostic and team-development workshops. Sessions using CliftonStrengths®, Belbin® Team Roles and the Energy Leadership Index™ to give individuals and teams greater insight into how they work, where their strengths lie, where friction may be occurring and what that means in practice.
A workshop can stand alone or become the starting point for deeper team or individual coaching. There is no assumption that one piece of work has to lead to another. The objective is to make the intervention useful in its own right.
How Does It Start?
You do not need to know exactly what type of support you need before getting in touch.
The first conversation is simply about understanding what is happening: what you are trying to achieve, what is getting in the way and what would need to change.
From there, we can decide whether individual coaching, team coaching, a workshop or something else is the right starting point.
The conversation is confidential, straightforward and without obligation.
