Coaching

Executive and leadership coaching is a professional relationship that helps you achieve your personal and professional goals through guided reflection, feedback, and action. It benefits you by challenging beliefs, reframing perspectives, and redefining situations, leading to new insights and greater clarity. This enhanced clarity can improve your leadership skills, decision-making, and work-life balance. Coaching helps you overcome obstacles, leverage your strengths, and navigate career development and change. Additionally, it can improve your communication skills, build stronger relationships, and drive personal growth, ultimately leading to greater success and fulfillment in all areas of your life.

Coaching focuses on helping you find your own solutions and develop your skills through questioning and reflection. Mentoring typically involves guidance from someone with more experience in a specific field, while consulting provides expert advice to solve specific problems. Coaching empowers you to discover your potential and create sustainable change through a collaborative process.

Therapy typically focuses on healing and resolving past issues and emotional difficulties, often dealing with trauma, mental health concerns, and personal problems. Coaching, on the other hand, is forward-focused and aims to help you set and achieve personal and professional goals through guidance, support, and action.

Even highly experienced professionals can benefit from coaching. It provides a fresh perspective, helps you identify blind spots, and supports continuous growth. Coaching can help in navigating complex challenges, improving leadership effectiveness, inspiring greater team collaboration and performance, and achieving a better work-life balance, ensuring you continue to evolve and excel in your career.

Yes, coaching is a confidential process. Anything discussed during coaching sessions remains private and is not shared without your consent. This creates a safe space for you to explore your thoughts and challenges openly.

Coaching typically involves regular weekly sessions lasting 60 minutes each. The overall duration of the coaching engagement can range from a few months to a year or more, depending on your specific needs and objectives. I offer high-value, customised coaching packages tailored to your unique requirements, with a minimum commitment of three months to achieve meaningful and lasting transformation.

It's common not to have specific goals at the start. A coach can help you clarify your objectives by exploring your values, strengths, and aspirations. Together, you’ll identify areas for growth and set actionable goals to achieve meaningful progress.

Choosing the right coach is important for a successful coaching relationship. Consider factors such as the coach’s experience, qualifications, coaching style, and your personal comfort level with them.

The results of coaching vary depending on your goals and commitment. Common outcomes include improved leadership skills, enhanced decision-making, better work-life balance, increased self-awareness, and greater overall life satisfaction. A coach will work with you to measure progress and achieve your desired outcomes, but it is important to acknowledge that the coach cannot guarantee results. Enter into coaching with the understanding that you are ultimately responsible for creating your own results, and your active participation and dedication are crucial to the success of the coaching process.

Coaching is an investment in your development and can lead to significant returns for your organisation. Improved leadership, better decision-making, and enhanced team collaboration and performance can positively impact the organisation’s success. Many organisations recognise the value of coaching and may support or sponsor coaching engagements for their leaders.

Yes, coaching takes a holistic approach, addressing both personal and professional challenges. Personal growth, wellbeing, and fulfillment are interconnected with professional success. Coaching helps you achieve balance and harmony across all areas of your life.

Yes, I am a trained coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), having completed both the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level programs. This rigorous training is recognised as the gold standard in coaching, ensuring that I bring a comprehensive suite of competencies, skills, tools, and methodologies to facilitate real change in my clients’ personal and professional lives. My ICF training and membership reflects my commitment to maintaining the highest standards of coaching excellence, ethics, and continuous professional development.

Absolutely. During my two decades at Dell Technologies, I held senior global roles in strategy, leadership, and communications. As Senior Director and Chief of Staff, I provided counsel on a $40 billion business that spanned over 170 countries. Additionally, I have board-level experience and have been involved in entrepreneurial ventures, such as co-owning an arts-themed bar and restaurant in the UK, and founding Deep Life Journey. These roles have given me a deep understanding of the business world's environment, culture, and nuances. My extensive experience equips me with the insights and expertise to guide executives and leaders through complex challenges and drive meaningful transformation.

Yes, I utilise a proven strengths-based coaching methodology—the Gallup CliftonStrengths framework. This powerful scientifically-backed assessment tool identifies an individual’s unique strengths across 34 distinct themes. Early in the coaching process, we identify and understand your top 5 natural talents, the areas where you have the greatest potential for excellence. By leveraging these strengths, we can achieve immediate impact, creating breakthroughs in your thinking and decision-making. This approach sets the stage for new insights and sustained growth. My coaching process is designed to produce tangible, actionable steps that lead to meaningful and lasting change.

Yes, I created the DEEP Coaching Model, which is structured around four key phases: Discovery, Exploration, Empowerment, and Performance. This comprehensive framework facilitates transformative growth and sustained change by understanding your strengths and goals (Discovery), encouraging self-awareness and new solutions (Exploration), developing actionable steps (Empowerment), and achieving lasting transformation (Performance). The DEEP coaching model is closely aligned with the Gallup CliftonStrengths framework, ensuring a strengths-based approach throughout the coaching process.

Selecting the right client is as important as choosing the right coach for a successful coaching relationship. I typically work with a small number of clients at any given time to ensure a strong fit and personalised attention. I specialise in one-on-one coaching with senior professionals who recognise the importance of investing in themselves, are reflective, open to learning, and ready to take action.

My ideal clients are professional, punctual, and committed to personal growth and new perspectives. I expect clients to be engaged and proactive in their coaching journey, including switching off mobile devices, securing a quiet space, and preparing for each coaching session. This mirrors the environment I create for myself for every coaching session. I know I’m bringing value to the partnership when I see my clients moving forward, taking action, and making significant changes toward a more well-rounded, fulfilling, and balanced life.

A typical coaching session with me is a partnership focused on your growth and development. We start with a check-in and review of progress and actions since our last session, establishing trust and understanding. Together, we then set and agree on the agenda and desired outcomes for our session.

The core of our session involves discovering and exploring new insights and opportunities by challenging beliefs, reframing perspectives, redefining situations, and identifying where your strengths can play a critical role. This creates self-awareness and facilitates your growth by uncovering new solutions and fostering long-term behavioural changes. We then agree on actions and next steps to ensure continued progress toward your goals

I create a supportive, confidential environment where we work together. I act as your thinking partner, using reflective enquiry and a strong presence to guide you toward achieving your goals. This approach is aligned with the principles of my DEEP Coaching Model, ensuring an environment to facilitate comprehensive and transformative growth.