Level-up your leadership.
The most effective leaders don’t just work harder. They work with more self-awareness, more alignment, and more intention.
My aim is to create space for leaders to think deeply, to see themselves clearly and discover new possibilities. This way they can consciously shape their impact, get great results, and live more aligned, fulfilled lives.
What got you here won’t get you there.
It might be a new role, a persistent challenge, or just the nagging sense that your personal operating system needs an upgrade. You don’t need extensive classroom time. You need a thinking partner who can help you turn insight into action.
I have a background in occupational psychology and combine it with a completely practical approach. We go deep into what drives your leadership; we also stay grounded in what you’ll do differently next week. Nothing off the shelf, it’s careful listening and the solutions we build together.
Thinking, made visible
I’m a doodler. Sometimes the best way to explore something tricky is to sketch it out. I often share simple, visual models that turn a tangled problem into something you can point at, move around, and act on; a shared language for the things that can be hard to say.
Pressure & performance
Finding the performance-pressure zone that allows you to excel.
Beneath the results
Results are lagging metrics at the end of a line of important underpinning work. We find work where we can make the most difference.
Head, heart & craft
IQ, EQ and CQ. We all have our specialisms across these capabilities. Sometimes we need to lean into those strengths, and sometimes we have to exercise new muscles.
Mind the gap
Between a stimulus and your response there’s a space. The more space you can create, the more choices you can generate.
How people really learn
70% on the job, 20% from others, 10% formal learning. Coverage is key to development that sticks.
Effort alone isn’t enough
Capability and role alignment are what turn effort into performance and performance into outcomes.
When coaching helps most
Coaching tends to matter most at particular moments. I often work with leaders who are:
Stepping up, and feeling the gap between the job they did well and the one now in front of them.
Newly part of the executive team, recalibrating how they show up, influence, and hold their own.
Sitting with feedback, perhaps a 360, that has named something they can half see but haven’t fully accepted.
Leading through change or restructure, needing to stay steady, aligned and deliberate while everything moves.
Already a strong operator, but aware that kicking on isn’t about working even harder.
How we can work together
Most of my work is one to one, with directors and senior leaders, over a sustained period rather than a few sessions. I also design leadership development programmes for organisations; those are built around individual coaching rather than being too heavy on classroom time, because that’s where insight becomes action. Over 120 individual coaching relationships to date.
One-to-one coaching
Virtual or face to face. Focused, sustained work on what matters most to you.
Leadership development programmes
Designed with you for your organisation. Group work and 1:1 coaching together, for lasting behaviour change.
Team development coaching
Helping leadership teams see their dynamics clearly and work together better.
Psychometric insight
Hogan or Myers-Briggs, used inside coaching and programmes, translated into something you’ll use.
What clients say
“He challenges me in very effective, thoughtful ways. Through his coaching I’ve become much more conscious of my reactions, a better manager, and a better collaborator.”
“The personal coaching has been great, an unbiased and safe way to challenge my thinking. The pattern of regular sessions creates real progress. I wish I’d done this much earlier in my career.”
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