Leadership coaching that actually helps you achieve your goals

Professional coaching provides a confidential space to reflect, problem-solve, test ideas, learn practical tools, and grow - with support and challenge tailored specifically to you and your context. It is not just a nice chat, your thoughts being reflected back to you, or someone handing you their playbook - or at least, it shouldn't be.

Most coaches go straight to coaching. With me, coaching is structured within a clear plan. It starts with a leadership assessment to help you understand your development priorities. Then we work with your leader or Chair to co-design a plan that outlines what you're trying to achieve, what you'll do outside of coaching to get there, and how you'll measure success. Only then does coaching begin.

What you say in sessions stays between us, even though the organisation is usually paying. Your goals and your progress against them are co-designed and co-evaluated with your leader or Chair, because that is how you demonstrate that the investment is worth funding. The only exception to confidentiality is if there is a risk of serious harm to you or someone else.

After every five sessions, we review progress together with your leader or Chair, and make adjustments to the plan if needed. Because we always define clear coaching goals and measures up front, the review is objective, rather than based on opinion.

The intensive builds leadership know-how across five days in a group format, with leaders at the same level. Coaching provides one-on-one support to apply those skills while working through the challenges specific to your role and situation. They complement each other well, so you can choose to do both.

In practice the labels are interchangeable, and neither is regulated: anyone can use either title. What matters is whether the person is accountable to a professional body, works to a defined method, and measures progress. I'm a registered psychologist, which means my standards are set and enforced externally.

People often wait until something's wrong, and then have to look for a coach and develop trust with them in a rush. Coaching does its best work before that: creating space to reflect, test thinking, and make better decisions before you’re at your limit.

Usually the opposite: they're investing in you because they value you. I mainly coach CEOs, technical executives, and partners who are performing well, but know that last bit of development is impossible to achieve on their own. But if you're unsure what's behind the offer, ask directly: What shift are you hoping coaching will help me make?

Yes, I provide leadership coaching around the world.

With me, $12,000+GST for six months or $18,000+GST for twelve, all in. That includes a leadership assessment, a development plan co-designed with your leader or Chair, monthly 90-minute sessions, and formal progress reviews. This is usually funded by the organisation.

A leadership assessment helps you and I understand your development priorities, so coaching focuses on what matters most. It also helps us understand how you're wired and what's important to you, so my approach and suggestions fit with who you are, rather than making you into someone you don't want to be.

Start by scheduling a leadership assessment, or book a short call if you're unsure which assessment you'd like to do. If we decide we've got the right chemistry and one-on-one coaching works best for your situation, we'll work together over six or twelve months.