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Coaching

Step 2 – Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Coaching

Coaching enables leaders to integrate insight, transform patterns, and elevate how they lead themselves, their teams and their organisations. Through reflective coaching, leaders gain clarity, uncover possibilities, and make intentional, lasting shifts.

Leadership Coaching Programmes

Our coaching is designed for leaders at critical points in their careers. Typical reasons leaders engage with us include:

  • Navigating career or life crossroads
  • Managing stress or preventing burnout
  • Resolving leadership or relationship challenges
  • Unlocking greater potential

We provide a safe, confidential space for reflection, insight and action.

Coaching Approach

  • Insight-led: We follow your journey, not a rigid process
  • High impact: Small shifts create meaningful, lasting change
  • Deep reflection: We help you see patterns and possibilities you don’t notice yourself
  • Supportive challenge: Honest, encouraging and transformative

With years of experience, we guide leaders to make decisions aligned with their values and ambitions.

Coaching Details

Duration: 50 or 90 minutes, plus half- or full-day deep dives
Format: In-person or online
Audience: Senior leaders and managers
Investment: Price on application

Why It Works

  • Practical: Focused sessions with real-time impact
  • Flexible: Fits around business priorities and schedules
  • Engaging: Experiential coaching that energises and challenges
  • Accessible: Tailored to managers and leaders at any stage of their career

Get Started

Begin with a call to explore your needs and see if our approach is right for you. Coaching works best when there is trust, connection and openness. We help leaders uncover insight, make thoughtful decisions, and move forward with confidence.

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Step 1 – Leadership Development Profile

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Discover Your Leadership Development Profile

Unlock a clear picture of how you lead, how you make meaning, and where your next growth lies.

The Leadership Development Profile (LDP) is a research-backed assessment that reveals:

  • Your current stage of leadership development
  • The next horizon of growth available to you
  • How your thinking, decisions, and actions are shaped by your meaning-making

Designed for leaders navigating complexity, the LDP gives insight that drives more effective leadership.

Why It Matters

With the LDP, you can:

  • Navigate complexity with greater agility
  • Understand your own and others’ perceptions and interactions
  • Accelerate your development as a leader

This is not a psychometric test, it’s all about insights, not labels. It shows how your meaning-making patterns influence your leadership every day.

How It Works

Meaning-Making & Action Logics
Meaning-making is how you interpret life, work, and relationships. The LDP maps your unique pattern using Action Logics, revealing your predominant Primary Action Logic and other patterns that emerge in different contexts.

Influence in Context
See how situations shape your thinking and behaviour, and how your responses shift across environments. This awareness strengthens your ability to lead in complex, dynamic settings.

Vertical Development
Beyond skills and knowledge, the LDP supports growth in how you think, helping you navigate ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity with confidence.

Your LDP Journey

  1. Complete the LDP Form – Reflect on 32 areas of your work, life, and relationships using simple prompts.
  2. Receive your LDP Report – Understand your Primary Action Logic, other patterns, and developmental insights.
  3. Coaching Debrief – Explore your results 1:1 with Danielle North, an authorised LDP coach.

The report and debrief forms the start of a longer leadership journey, individually with your coach, or as part of a leadership programme.

Who It’s For

The LDP is ideal for leaders who want to:

  • See the bigger picture of how they lead
  • Make intentional, lasting shifts in thinking and behaviour
  • Grow their capacity to lead in complex, high-stakes environments

Start Your LDP Journey Gain clarity, insight, and a roadmap for leadership growth.

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Where the New Emerges

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6/ Where the New Emerges

Not long ago, I was working with a senior executive who had just completed a significant coaching journey. The programme had been rich in insight and challenge, and as we came towards the end, he voiced a question many leaders quietly hold: “How do I ensure this doesn’t just fade into the background? How do I make reflection an ongoing practice rather than an occasional activity?”

This is where many leaders find themselves. Coaching creates breakthroughs, yet the busyness of leadership life can quickly draw them back into old habits. When space for reflection isn’t protected, fresh learning often gets squeezed out by competing demands.

Why reflection matters in coaching

We know that coaching creates shifts in awareness, but sustaining those shifts requires more than insight alone. The brain has an extraordinary capacity for change – neuroplasticity – but it needs repetition and attention to embed new pathways. Without space, we default back to the familiar: well-practised patterns of thinking and behaviour that may be efficient but can also limit perspective.

Coaching works because it interrupts this cycle. It slows down the pace, invites leaders to notice what is beneath the surface, and creates the environment for alternative responses to take root.

The science of new pathways

When leaders pause and reflect deeply in a coaching conversation, their brains move out of high alert “beta” mode into slower states associated with creativity, integration, and problem-solving. This is where genuine behavioural change becomes possible. Coaching provides a structured way of accessing these states, bringing conscious attention to what usually runs automatically.

Over time, this process builds new networks in the brain – fresh ways of perceiving, deciding, and responding. It is not about adding more techniques but reshaping the inner architecture of leadership itself.

Coaching in the context of complexity

For today’s leaders, the capacity to adapt is not optional. The challenges they face are complex, ambiguous and fast-moving. Technical skills alone are not enough. What makes the difference is the ability to step back, see wider perspectives, and make decisions that are both wise and grounded.

Coaching provides this space. It acts as a mirror, helping leaders see blind spots, test assumptions, and expand what they notice. In doing so, it strengthens presence, resilience, and the ability to lead with clarity in uncertain times.

Sustaining the impact

The real value of coaching is not just what happens in the room, but what carries forward. Leaders who commit to reflection as a rhythm – not a one-off – notice that their learning integrates more deeply. They are more intentional, less reactive, and more able to navigate the tension between action and reflection.

For many, this becomes the foundation of a new leadership practice: making space for pause, for enquiry, and for choosing responses consciously rather than by default.

A question to hold

If you are a leader considering coaching or reflecting on your own development, you might start here:

What space am I creating to allow new ways of thinking and leading to emerge – not just insights on the surface, but the kind of learning that reshapes how I show up in the world?

Because it is in that space, sustained over time, that the new truly emerges.

Lisa Rushmere

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Danielle and I worked together through a recent leadership transition; but in truth 
she helped me with every facet of my life and particularly finding my true purpose 
and finding balance which are two areas I have always struggled with. She encouraged me to use my voice more, and by connecting with myself on a much deeper level I found much needed clarity and strength. I cannot recommend her enough; she is a gift and my energy was always transformed after talking!

Lisa Rushmere, People Director Talent – PepsiCo

Geoff Radley

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This has been my first experience of professional coaching and I have found it incredibly beneficial in enabling me to explore specific aspects of my personal development in a safe and impartial environment. My coach dynamically adjusted the format and approach of sessions in response to key themes and developments throughout our 12-month programme. The opportunity for professional coaching helped to widen my perspective, enhanced my confidence and enabled me to crystalise key developmental areas to support my future career aspirations. This in turn enables me to add greater value to the organisation now and 
in the future.

Geoff Radley, Head of Engineering – Cadent Gas