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03Coaching

Every engagement starts with the same chemistry call and the same question: what would have to be different a year from now?

  • From 14 weeks
  • Company-sponsored or private
  • In person & video
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01First-time CEOs & new MDs

The First Hundred Days

Land the role before the role lands on you.

A focused engagement for the first quarter in a bigger seat: reading the board, resetting the team you inherited, and deciding what you will be known for.

Included
  • Six 90-minute sessions
  • Stakeholder map & 360 interviews
  • Board-readiness rehearsal
  • Messaging between sessions
£9,60014 weeks
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02Founders & sitting executives

The Principal Year

One hour a fortnight. Twelve months. A different room.

The core engagement. We work on the three or four behaviours that decide how your team experiences you, and we measure them — before, midway and after.

Included
  • 24 fortnightly sessions
  • Three 360 pulse surveys
  • Two shadowing days
  • Quarterly sponsor check-in
  • Unlimited short calls
£2,400 / month12 months
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03Executive teams of 5–9

The Leadership Bench

Coach the team that has to carry the strategy.

Team coaching for the layer below the CEO: how you disagree, how you decide, and what happens in the room after the CEO leaves it.

Included
  • Team diagnostic
  • Four off-site days
  • Individual sessions for each member
  • Operating-rhythm redesign
From £38,0006 months
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How the work runs

  1. 01Listen

    Before we meet I interview six to ten people around you. You get the unedited themes — what they say when you are not in the room.

  2. 02Choose

    We pick two or three behaviours that would change the most if they changed. Not ten. Not a personality transplant.

  3. 03Practise

    Fortnightly sessions built around real meetings in your diary: the board paper, the hard conversation, the offsite you are dreading.

  4. 04Measure

    Short 360 pulses at the start, midpoint and end. The people around you tell us whether it worked. We adjust until they say yes.

Questions

Anything else, ask on the chemistry call — that is what it is for.

Yes — about two thirds of engagements are sponsored. I send a one-page summary and a simple agreement, and the sponsor gets a short progress note each quarter. Never session content.

You do not need to. We work that out on the chemistry call; about a third of people end up somewhere other than where they expected.

We will both know by the midpoint pulse. If the numbers have not moved we change the approach, and if they still do not, we stop and you are not billed for the remainder.

Yes, through The Leadership Bench. I only take team work where the chief executive is in the room for every session.

Accepting three principals — Q4 2026

No deck, no pitch. You talk, I listen, and we both find out whether I am the right person for the next year of your working life.

Executive coaching for founders, first-time CEOs and the leaders behind them.

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