Executive Coaching when new in Senior Leadership

Your first role with significant leadership responsibility is both exhilarating and profoundly demanding.


You want to be effective and make change, but the shift to holding organisational responsibility and understanding how the role really works is one of the biggest transitions you’ll make in your career.

Getting coaching in your first year is one of the smartest investments you can make. It reduces time, trust and momentum lost to learning everything on the job, supports your wellbeing and confidence, and helps you increase your impact in those crucial early months.

As your coach, I sit outside the organisation but understand your world. I can help you think clearly about the decisions you're making, space to process challenges in real time, and support to become conscious of how you're leading – not just what you're delivering.

What changes through coaching:

  • Maximising your impact from the start

  • Clarity on your leadership approach

  • Confidence in how you’ll create credible relationships

  • Space for strategic thinking and broad perspective

  • Reduced stress making decisions in ambiguity and crisis

  • Ability to process challenges and setbacks

  • Setting out your priorities - from business essentials to team building

  • Avoiding common pitfalls of leadership

How we might work together

Focused initiation

What it delivers: focused ad-hoc sessions to develop new thinking and initiate change plans.

Core Support: 2 × 60-minute coaching. Between sessions: follow-up summary of session, brief email contact for scheduling, sharing resources, and acknowledging progress updates.

6-month development programme

What it delivers: Structure to tackle priority challenges over a sustained period – from personal development to change-management, restructure and succession planning to board development.

Core Support: 6 × 60-minute coaching. Between sessions: follow-up summary of session, brief email contact for scheduling, sharing resources, and acknowledging progress updates.

Extended partnership

What it delivers: Deep investment in your leadership through a full year – tackling themes such as innovation, change, succession, board development, and SMT potential. Build resilience and clarity for challenges ahead.

Premium Support: 9 × 60-minute coaching sessions plus 2 x 30‑minute sprint sessions. Between sessions: priority check‑ins by email or text, follow-up summary of session, sharing resources and acknowledging progress updates.

Ready to start?

  • Step 1

    Free 40-minute discovery call
    Let's chat! No obligation, just an honest conversation.

  • Step 2

    Agree the right approach
    We'll shape the right support for you.

  • Step 3

    We'll establish a plan
    We’ll talk through what, when and how.