As an executive, your role is exhilarating, rewarding and, often, overwhelmingly demanding. You are guiding people, steering strategy, navigating board pressures and planning the future of your organisation in a constantly changing environment - all while balancing the competing priorities of your personal life. It should not surprise us that even the most capable leaders can feel stuck, overwhelmed, or in need of support.

My clients are CEOs, Founders, and startup Executives typically in their first or second leadership roles, at startup and innovative growth businesses ranging from 10-500 people. As a coach and thinking partner who knows the growing pains and pressures of scaling a business, I help clients to build confidence and competence, strengthening your mindset while sharpening your skills to deliver results where it matters most. Your initial goals for coaching often change as we create clarity on what is important, ensuring we focus on the right areas. We will work to make tangible progress on immediate issues while addressing deeper, more complex change where required.

Clients often experience significant improvements in:

• Mindset: resolving doubts, increased awareness of blind spots, creating clarity and broadening perspective, reducing unhelpful patterns of thinking, reduced stress, increased confidence and ability to lead with clarity and purpose.

• Leadership competencies: better understanding of self and others, ability to navigate team dynamics, improved conflict resolution skills, promoting constructive accountability, dealing with organisational challenges in a more strategic and less reactive manner, setting clearer direction and a general focus on developing executive skills and reducing impact of blind spots.

• Priorities: sharpened thinking on what’s important, greater commitment and ability to focus on the high-impact work that drives results, better alignment between professional goals and personal priorities, reduction in ‘busy’ work that adds little value and drains energy.

For elaboration on results you can read testimonials from former coaching clients here.

Why Work With Me?

I blend psychological insight with real-world executive experience to provide a coaching process that’s strategic, grounded, and impactful. I approach our work together as a partnership which helps clients to thrive in the high-pressure and often lonely world of senior leadership.

• A proven partner in leadership growth: I’ve been in the trenches: helping scale a startup to a unicorn exit, being the internal partner to first-time executives and CEO’s in multiple growth businesses, and working alongside world-class VC and PE investors. I’ve also been through failures and missed opportunities, which all inform my coaching work.

• The right blend of soft & hard skills: My training in executive coaching and psychotherapeutic counselling ensures our sessions are a safe, insightful space, while my career experience in HR and leadership means we stay practical, focused, and results-oriented.

• Chemistry matters: Coaching is personal and the right partnership is key to success. I’m here to grow you - both as a person and a leader - without fluff or vague platitudes. Our sessions are not a space to vent or complain, they are a space for the hard work of change which when committed to generates a high return - if you’re only interested in one part of that equation or that sounds too hard-nosed, we may not be the best fit.

Next steps: In an intro call we can discuss your goals for coaching and how we might work together, and I can answer any questions you have about the process. If we proceed, I typically meet coaching clients for a 90-minute session every three weeks. Based on your needs, I usually recommend six sessions to achieve your goals.