Coaching

I work mostly with senior people who want to feel more confident and clear in the work they do. Sometimes the focus is career direction; sometimes it’s leader identity, performance, or team dynamics. Often, it’s all of those things at once.

My job is to help you make sense of what’s going on in your work, your behaviour, and the systems around you, and to support you in experimenting with new ways of doing things. I bring structure when things feel unclear not by oversimplifying, but by helping you look at things from a new angle so you can decide how to move forward.

I won’t give you a formula or tell you what to do, but I will ask good questions, help you reflect, challenge you when it’s useful, and keep everything we do anchored in your goals and context.

My approach

I always design coaching programmes around the person I’m working with, drawing on a wide range of evidence-based, psychologically informed approaches. (The longer I do this, the more I’m convinced that there really isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.)

The first step is a free, confidential, 45-minute chat to explore what you’re looking for, how I can help, what a programme might look like, and how much it would cost.

Book a free discovery call. ︎︎︎

If we find that I’m not the right coach for you (or if you’d like to shop around a bit, which I always recommend), I’m very happy to recommend other coaches, too.

Leadership Coaching

Leadership (or executive) coaching is about becoming a better leader through improved self-awareness. It matters because a happier, more confident, self-aware leader will have a positive impact on everyone around them which, in turn, will be good for business.

One client described me as their “back-up brain.” In practice, I’m a thinking partner to senior people who rarely have the time and space to think beyond the day-to-day, let alone consider their own development.

I’ve worked with most of my clients for a couple of years: we always keep the idea of who they are as a leader (and how they want to evolve) in mind, using our sessions to tackle live issues and experiment with different ways of “doing leadership”.

Career Coaching

Career coaching helps people at all stages of their career work out what they’d really like to do all day, and provides practical support on how to make it happen. Typically, we’d cover:

−      Your relationship with work
−      Who you are at work (values, strengths and motivations)
−      Possible futures (obvious and less obvious)
−      How you’re going to get there.

I encourage equal amounts of reflection and action: self-knowledge is important, but you’ll learn by doing and will feel better for having started. Throughout the process, I draw on my experience as a head-hunter to advise on practical things like personal branding and statements, CVs, LinkedIn, and how to frame your story, skills and competencies.

How it works:
Most people have between 3 and 6 sessions. I combine one-to-one coaching with work between sessions, and often use psychometric testing and personality assessments to give extra insight into strengths, derailers, values and drivers at work.

Team Coaching & Development

Team coaching focuses on getting better shared awareness of your team drivers and values, which can drive all kinds of benefits: improved communication and trust, increased cohesion around goals and objectives, and clarity around organisational and team cultures. Crucially, it can also help harness and amplify cognitive diversity in the team, increasing understanding of shared blind spots, biases and groupthink.