Leadership doesn’t usually fall apart because someone lacks skill or ambition.
It becomes difficult when responsibility grows faster than clarity, when decisions feel heavier, relationships more complex, and the way you’re leading no longer quite fits who you are or what the organisation needs next.
My 1:1 leadership coaching is designed for leaders who are thoughtful, capable, and serious about doing their work well, and who want a space to slow down their thinking, understand what’s really happening beneath the surface, and move forward with intention rather than pressure.
This is not performance polishing.
It’s depth work for leaders operating in real systems, with real consequences.
My 1:1 leadership coaching is offered as a long-form engagement, usually over 6 months, with sessions held regularly to support continuity and depth.
Each engagement is shaped by the leader’s role, context, and goals, but commonly includes:
a structured contracting and direction-setting phase
regular coaching sessions focused on live leadership challenges
reflective tools to support insight between sessions
space to integrate learning back into day-to-day work
This work is confidential, thoughtful, and tailored, not formulaic.
My work is grounded in coaching psychology and draws on evidence-based approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC), cognitive and behavioural coaching, systems thinking, and values-based leadership.
In practice, this means we work with:
how you think and decide under pressure
the patterns you’ve learned in leadership roles
how values, identity, and responsibility interact
the psychological conditions that support clarity, courage, and follow-through
Where helpful, tools such as DISC profiling or reflective mapping are used to support insight, not to label or simplify complex human behaviour.
The focus is always on increasing choice, agency, and psychological flexibility, so that leadership actions are deliberate rather than reactive.
Leadership challenges rarely arrive as neat, single problems. They unfold over time, through decisions, relationships, pressure, and change.
Short-term or solution-focused interventions can be useful, but they often skim the surface. Long-form coaching creates the conditions for deeper, more sustainable change by allowing patterns to be noticed, tested, and reshaped in real time.
Working together over several months allows us to:
track how leadership challenges evolve, not just how they present
notice recurring patterns rather than isolated moments
experiment with new ways of leading and review what actually works
build internal capacity rather than reliance on external support
This is where insight turns into practice and where leadership development genuinely embeds.