I work with inspiring leaders in their field to make a positive impact for them, their business performance and often their personal stakeholders.

I always work one-to-one with my clients. Often a senior leader will come to me directly, or through a corporate, head-hunter or private office.

The knowledge and experience that I bring into the coaching conversation from 30 years as a Senior Chair & Non-Executive Board member, Private Equity Partner, and Business Founder gives me particular empathy for the challenges faced by Board level executives and senior executives stepping up the Board.

My personal style is challenging yet supportive. I am ambitious for my clients and bring my natural pace and energy to our sessions. I love big-picture goals and the pragmatism of smaller steps to back up that dream.

My goal is for you to be more successful – on your terms. That might involve improving your own or corporate performance, building and maintaining stronger relationships or balancing the demands of life and simply having more fun.

Previous clients have talked of bringing laser-like clarity of thought to complex problems and breaking them down into their constituent parts, identifying priorities, and setting clear short-term goals with manageable courses of action.

Clients appreciate my ability to be aware of patterns emerging and present them back in a way that is helpful to them. They value that I am calm, highly empathetic and can disentangle whatever it is that is on their mind whilst handling the session with authority and focus on actions.

Coaching is different to mentoring. My experience will bring a certain calibre to the conversation, but I believe in your wisdom to find outcomes and not to tell you how I think things should be done. Our work together is to access your resourcefulness, bringing together the power of a non-directive approach with the perspective of my own business experience.

As a Non-Executive Director, I have seen first-hand just how powerful this approach can be. You are much more likely to implement a solution at pace when you have developed it yourself.

The relationship between a coach and a coachee is very important. For that reason, all my coaching relationships start with a chemistry meeting for each of us to decide if we are a good fit for the other. There is no charge for this.

During the chemistry meeting, we would begin to understand the context of what it is that has brought you to coaching and what a successful programme would look like for you.

We would also agree on how best to involve their corporate sponsor and how the business imperatives can be achieved.

The coaching programme allows for a longer first coaching session to set the overarching goals for our time together, as well as start to work on some aspects of your goals. Alongside understanding the business needs, this session gives you the chance to reflect on all areas of your life and to really explore and bring clarity to what your definition of success is.

In the subsequent hourly sessions held monthly, specific goals that support your plan are considered in more detail with related actions agreed.

The sixth session will be a combination of some elements of coaching together with a review of our work together. This often includes a check-in meeting with the sponsor.
Between sessions, I am available for short calls if there is something specific on your mind that is time-sensitive.

I build long-term relationships with clients, and at the end of our initial engagement, and following the review of our work together, my clients typically move to a regular quarterly check-in supplemented by more regular sessions during moments of business change.