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Sometimes you don’t need someone to tell you what to do.
You need someone who can help you think better about what you’re dealing with.
This isn’t consultancy. We don’t arrive with a predetermined answer.
And it isn’t conventional executive coaching. The focus isn’t primarily on your personal development or performance.
The focus is the live issue you’re dealing with.
We use questioning, critical challenge, systems thinking and relevant evidence to examine the problem from different angles, surface assumptions and explore possibilities.
How a problem is framed determines what we notice — and what we don’t.
We’ll test the assumptions behind your current understanding and explore whether there are other ways of seeing the issue.
Difficult decisions rarely exist in isolation.
We’ll explore relationships, interests, incentives, history, consequences and other parts of the system that may be shaping what is happening.
Sometimes the most valuable thing an independent person can do is disagree with you.
We’ll challenge reasoning, test options and identify assumptions or uncertainties that deserve closer examination.
The purpose isn’t endless reflection.
We’ll help turn clearer thinking into practical choices about what you might do, test, investigate or discuss next.
There is no report to commission and no programme to join.
Bring the issue you’re dealing with.
We provide the time, structure and independent challenge to help you think it through.
Sessions can be used individually for a particular issue or as an ongoing thinking partnership where that is useful.
Start with a short conversation about what you’re dealing with and whether Executive Thinking or Coaching would be useful.
Senior leaders rarely lack meetings, advice or opinions.
What can be much harder to find is protected space to think properly about a difficult issue — with someone independent enough to challenge your assumptions, experienced enough to understand the context, and with no organisational agenda of their own.
Executive Thinking provides that space.
A confidential, structured thinking partnership for leaders dealing with complexity, uncertainty or difficult decisions.
DESIGN > EXECUTIVE THINKING & COACHING
Coaching creates protected space to think about how you lead, the challenges you are facing and what you want to do differently. Rather than providing ready-made answers, coaching uses reflection, challenge and questioning to help you develop your own thinking, choices and practice.
Our coaching is particularly suited to people working in complex environments — where there may be competing priorities, difficult relationships, uncertainty, organisational change or no obvious right answer.
Individual coaching provides confidential, focused space to work on your leadership and development over time.
You might use coaching to explore a transition or new role, develop your leadership approach, work through recurring challenges, understand your impact on others, navigate organisational complexity, or create space for reflection that is difficult to find in day-to-day work.
Sessions are shaped around what you want to achieve rather than a predetermined programme.
Some challenges are better explored collectively.
Group coaching brings people together to reflect on their practice, challenge assumptions and learn from different perspectives. It can be used with leadership teams, groups of peers, people working across organisational boundaries, or members of a partnership.
Unlike facilitated problem-solving, the emphasis is on developing the thinking and capability of the people involved — not simply producing an answer to the immediate problem.
Complex environments place particular demands on leaders. Authority is often distributed, outcomes depend on other people and organisations, and progress cannot simply be instructed.
Our coaching draws on experience and thinking from leadership, management, systems thinking, organisational development and collaborative working, while keeping the coaching conversation centred on you, your context and what you want to achieve.
Our coaching combines a Master’s degree in coaching with extensive senior leadership experience and specialist training as a Wicked Problem Solving Practitioner.
This combination is particularly suited to individuals and groups leading through complexity, uncertainty, change and challenges that cross organisational boundaries.
£180 + VAT / 60 mins
£200 + VAT / 60 mins
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