Senior Executive Coaching
Stand out
For all the right reasons
I offer I offer psychoanalytically informed individual and team executive coaching for professional services (finance, law, consulting) and C-suite level executives and their direct reports.
My work focuses on understanding and achieving your potential, and includes subjects such as leading for high performance, managing personal and organisational change, finding meaning and purpose in work, leading in diverse environments, managing stress and overwhelm, and building emotional intelligence.
I am different from other coaches as I offer a unique perspective and insight. I combine extensive training in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking and practice with many years of experience holding very senior leadership positions in complex multinational organisations, as well as working as an educator in leadership at some of the world’s premier business schools.
What do you stand to gain?
Understanding how to step into your responsibilities and authority as a leader
Clarity about your identity as a leader: why should anyone follow you
Building emotional regulation and emotional intelligence
Enhanced relationship management and networking skills
Enhanced communication skills - for yourself and your team
Understanding team dynamics and unlocking collaboration
Breaking down us/them dynamics in teams
Helping colleagues develop a sense of empowerment, ownership and personal responsibility
Managing diverse and neurodiverse teams
Support with intergenerational leadership and management issues
Navigating promotion and role changes
Support through career change, job seeking, retirement planning and transition
Building self-confidence and executive presence
What is psychoanalytically informed executive coaching?
Psychoanalytically informed executive coaching emphasises understanding the implicit or semi-conscious and unconscious dynamics, motivations, and interpersonal patterns that influence leadership behaviour and organisational dynamics.
Unlike traditional coaching methods, psychoanalytically informed coaching delves deeper to explore how relational patterns and hidden conflicts may impact leadership behaviours and effectiveness.
This approach focuses on fostering self-awareness, insight, and emotional intelligence to help individuals and executives uncover blind spots, address underlying issues, and develop more adaptive leadership styles. Psychoanalytically informed coaching encourages reflection, introspection, and exploration of the root causes of behaviour – yours and the behaviours of those around you – enabling executives to make meaningful and sustainable changes in their leadership approach.
Ultimately, psychoanalytically informed executive coaching aims to enhance leadership effectiveness, promote personal growth, and facilitate positive organisational change by addressing the complex interplay between individual psychology, organisational dynamics, and leadership behaviour. It provides a supportive and transformative space for executives to explore their inner world, unlock their full potential, and lead with greater authenticity, empathy, and impact in today's challenging business environment.
What is Coach Mentoring?
Coach mentoring employs all the skills and techniques of psychanalytically informed coaching, however, in a coach mentoring relationship the client can draw directly on my professional expertise in finance, strategy and mergers & acquisitions to supplement and develop their own expert knowledge.
Put another way, whereas coaching is non-directive, with the client leading and the coach ‘drawing out’, coach mentoring can include a greater focus on informational content – effectively accessing the advisory expertise of a skilled senior professional but outside of the context of an employment relationship or project engagement agreement. Recent examples from my work with clients include:
For a founder/CEO working towards a medium-term exit, understanding drivers of value in the context of the landscape of potential acquirers and thinking through how to build their business to optimise exit valuations.
For a divisional CEO leading a business towards a change of ownership, understanding how to manage relationships with parent company stakeholders, advisers and counterparties in the lead up to and during the transaction process.
For a new leader, supporting them through the early years of managing strategic planning and forecasting processes.
Frequently asked questions
What does it cost?
Fees are based on economic resources (personal v institutional funding) and intensity at the following levels:
Monthly institutionally funded programmatic executive coaching is charged at £500 per hour. Packages include monthly 90 minute coaching sessions, line manager 3-way meetings at the beginning and end of the program, 360 degree feedback discussions and optional Hogan personality profiling.
Personally funded executive or wellbeing/personal coaching is £4,000 for an eight session package. Sessions are 90 minutes and best delivered approximately monthly.
Do you work for organisations / companies?
Yes, I am available to be booked by the day by organisations wishing to offer executive coaching to their employees at a fee of £3,500 per five-session day.
Where do you work? In person or remote?
I work in person in Angel and Fitzrovia and remotely via Zoom on a global basis, or for institutional clients on their premises.
Do I need to bring anything or prepare?
No. You can come as you are, at least for the initial sessions. We might agree together that you do some thinking or work between sessions, but for the first session it’s enough just to reflect before we meet on what you’d like to get out of coaching - what is your ‘from / to’, or hopes for change?
Is coaching right for me?
Almost everybody who can engage in a conversation can engage with coaching. Think of it has having an impartial, non-conflicted ally walking beside you and helping you think things through. For most clients, their coach is the only person in their lives that doesn’t want or need something from them - unlike bosses, colleagues, partners, children or parents, all of whom have (or think they have) a vested interest in the client doing or not doing certain things or behaving in certain ways.
I’m not even sure what my goals are or what I want to change, I just want things to be different, can you help?
Absolutely. An important part of the process is to help you get clarity about what’s going on (or going wrong) in your life and relationships and what it might be worthwhile to explore changing. We start with the why, before we move on to the how.
What’s the difference between coaching and mentoring?
Coaching is non-directive and is based on the assumption that the client has the answers within. Coach mentoring might include a little more knowledge or experience-sharing. In reality most clients receive a fusion of both.