COACHING WITH ME
This one is about you. Not your job description.
Most coaching a professional gets offered was paid for by their employer, and let’s be honest about what that means: it quietly serves the employer. This is the other kind. Nobody sets your agenda but you. Nobody gets interviewed about you. We start with an honest look at where you are, and where we go from there is your call. Not your boss’s.
Three months, six months or a whole year, depending on how much you already know.
HOW THIS WORKS
Here is exactly what happens, from hello to done.
I run this with the same discipline I bring to coaching a chief executive, because you deserve that much. There’s one big difference, and it changes everything: the assessment measures YOU. Not how well you perform for somebody else.
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FIT
We talk first. No pressure, no pitch.
Before anything gets signed. I want to hear what you’re actually trying to change, and you get to find out whether you can say the real thing in front of me. If we’re not a fit, I’ll tell you kindly and quickly. Neither of us needs to spend three months discovering that the hard way.
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YOUR PLAN
Two to four priorities. That’s it.
We turn your results into something written down: your priorities, what we’re covering each session, the exercises, the resources. I draft it, you have the final say. A handful of commitments you actually keep will beat a beautiful long list every single time.
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ASSESSMENT
You tell me where you are, before we ever meet.
These are your words, start to finish. No manager weighing in, no colleagues rating you, no company competency wheel. What YOU say about your own life is the whole data set. Twenty minutes or so, and I show up to session one already holding it, so we’re not spending our first hour on introductions. How wide it reads, one pillar or all six, depends on the program you pick.
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THE WORK
One hour, every two weeks, and yes, homework.
Between sessions you keep a commitment tracker and do a short weekly review, so your progress stops depending on how motivated you happen to feel on a given Tuesday. And in session, you’ll be doing most of the talking. That’s not me being lazy. That’s the whole point.
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THE READ
We go through it out loud, together.
I’m never just going to email you a document and wish you luck. We start with what’s already working, because nobody deserves to meet their own results as a list of everything wrong with them. Then we name the one or two things that are genuinely live for you right now.
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MEASUREMENT
We check the receipts.
Growth around here gets measured, not assumed. How often we come back to that assessment depends on how long you sign up for, and I’ve laid all of that out right below.
HOW LONG
3, 6, or 12 months. It depends how much you already know.
The right length isn’t about budget, and it isn’t about how serious you are. It’s about how much of the finding out you’ve already done on your own. All three open with a full assessment. What changes is how wide it looks, and how many times we come back to it.
MONTH 0
Full assessment
MONTH 6
Pulse Check
MONTH 12
Full assessment
3 month program ends
6 month program ends
The measurement rhythm across a full year. The shorter programs get off earlier.
YOU ALREADY KNOW
3 months
6 sessions:
One hour, every two weeks.
One pillar. The one you name.
MEASUREMENT
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Full assessment on that pillar at the start
You’ve already done some of this work on yourself. You know which pillar you’re standing in, you can say it out loud, and you don’t need me to help you find it. So we skip the map and go straight down into the one thing. Three months on a single pillar is deep, not thin.
YOU'VE NARROWED IT DOWN
6 months
12 sessions:
One hour, every two weeks.
1-2 pillars. You name them on day one.
MEASUREMENT
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Full assessment on your one or two pillars at the start
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Pulse check at month six
You’ve got it narrowed down to one or two, and you want the time to do both properly instead of rushing one. You name them on day one, which means every session for six months belongs to what you chose, not to what a curriculum thinks you need. The pulse check at the end shows you what actually moved.
YOU WANT THE WHOLE MAP
12 months
18 sessions: Every two weeks through the first half, monthly through the second.
All six pillars. You want the whole map.
MEASUREMENT
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Full assessment at the start
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Pulse check at month six
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Full assessment at month twelve
You don’t have to arrive knowing. The assessment reads all six and tells us where to begin, and a year is long enough that the thing sitting underneath your presenting problem gets worked too. Two complete readings twelve months apart is how a pattern shift becomes something you can see.
Not sure which pillar is yours? Take the free assessment. It’s twelve questions, it’s free, and it will name the one that’s live for you right now.
Real talk about time
Shorter isn’t lesser. It’s narrower. If you already know which pillar you’re standing in, three months pointed straight at it will do far more for you than a year spent wandering politely through the other five.
So can you change a habit in three months? You can change one. You can make the decision, prep for the conversation, get yourself through the transition, and walk out different. Those are real wins and I’m not about to pretend they’re not.
But be honest with yourself about which one you are. Some of what you’re carrying has been running for ten, fifteen, twenty years. Being the one who never asks. Saying yes before your brain catches up with your mouth. Waiting around to get noticed instead of getting known. Baby, that’s not turning around in a quarter, and anybody who tells you it will is selling you a quarter.
That is what the year is for. It gives the deep stuff room to breathe, and two full readings twelve months apart, with a pulse check in between, give you something a whole lot better than me telling you I think you have changed.
Plenty of people renew, some of them for years, and I love that. Every new year opens with a fresh assessment, because what you need next year won’t be what you needed this one. That’s not year one failing you. That’s what growth looks like on a person.
Installment options on every program, always. Ask me about investment levels and when the next start dates open up.
WHAT WE WORK ON
Your career is where it shows up. It’s not where we start.
No two of these look the same, because no two assessments do. But here is where the work tends to land.
SELF DISCOVERY
Who you are with no role attached.
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What you actually want, separated from what you were told to want.
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What you’re still carrying that was never yours to carry.
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The story you tell about yourself, and whether it’s still true.
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Being the first in your family to stand in rooms like this.
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Perfectionism, and what it’s really protecting.
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The voice that says they’re going to find you out.
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What you do differently after a public failure.
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Forgiveness, of yourself and of the people who counted you out.
SELF REALIZATION
Getting an honest look at what you are worth.
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Talking about your own work without shrinking or overselling.
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Knowing your number, and saying it out loud without flinching.
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Negotiating a title, a scope or a budget you have already earned.
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Saying no, and not paying for it afterward.
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Boundaries that hold when the pressure comes back.
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Making sense of hard feedback without spiralling.
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Asking for the thing rather than hoping it’s noticed.
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Deciding how much of yourself you bring to work.
SELF ACTUALIZATION
The long arc, and what the rest of it was for.
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Your definition of success instead of the one you inherited.
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What you want the next ten years to be for.
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Getting everything you set out to get and not feeling it.
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Whether your values and your employer’s still overlap.
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What you’re building, what you’re leaving, what your name will mean.
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What you won’t trade for the next step up.
LEADERSHIP
Authority before the title arrives.
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Carrying weight without a business card that grants it.
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Holding your ground in a room built on seniority.
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Going from doing the work to leading the people who do it.
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Managing people who are older than you, or used to be your peers.
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Leading a team you inherited and didn’t choose.
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Delegating when you believe you’re the only one who will do it right.
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Managing up to someone who doesn’t get you.
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Rehearsing the one conversation you keep avoiding.
VISIBILITY AND ADVOCACY
Being known by the people who decide.
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Getting seen by the people two levels above you.
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Finding a sponsor, not another mentor.
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The unwritten rules nobody ever sat you down and explained.
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Building a network on purpose when nobody handed you one.
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Turning a professor, a fellowship or one good meeting into a real advocate.
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Being the only one in the room, and what you do with that.
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Doing the work of three people and being thanked instead of promoted.
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The unpaid work you keep getting asked to do.
CAREER STRATEGY
The move, and whether to make it.
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Planning the next move instead of waiting to be moved.
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Choosing between two offers that don’t lead to the same place.
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Choosing between the prestigious role and the one that matters.
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Whether to build at home or take the posting abroad.
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Repositioning when your whole sector shifts underneath you.
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Influencing from inside the institution, or from outside it.
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Being indispensable where you’re and stuck because of it.
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Being passed over again, and what you do about it.
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Whether you still want the thing you have been denied.
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A decision you have been circling for a year.
BUILDING YOUR OWN
Building your own, and whether that’s really the answer.
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Turning an idea for your country or your community into something you start.
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Deciding whether it’s a business or a season.
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Pricing your work, and holding the price.
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What to have in place before you leave.
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Leaving well, if leaving turns out to be the answer.
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Going independent without going it alone.
SUSTAINING YOURSELF
Doing this at a pace you can actually keep.
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Being tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix.
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Being on guard all day, and what it’s costing you.
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Coming back from burnout without walking away from everything.
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Getting your time back from other people’s priorities.
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Career choices when your income supports more than one household.
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Whether you’re genuinely too busy, or avoiding something.
This isn’t a syllabus, and it’s nowhere near the whole list.
These are just the themes that come up most. Everybody walks in carrying something a little different, and plenty of people arrive with something that’s not written anywhere on this page. That’s completely fine. Honestly, that’s the normal case.
I don’t run anybody through a fixed program. Your work gets built from your own assessment, in your own words, around whatever is actually live for you right now. The six pillars all of this sits on are over on the home page.
So bring me the thing you’re actually carrying. We’ll start right there.
FORMATS
Three ways in. Every one of them is me.
I trained and certified other coaches to deliver this once upon a time. Not anymore. You get me.
ONE TO ONE
Private Coaching
Everything above, just the two of us. Every session comes straight out of your assessment, and not one word of it goes anywhere else.
IN A GROUP
Coaching Cohort
Same structure, same assessment, worked through live with a small capped group. This gives you the one thing private coaching simply cannot: a room full of people building what you’re building. For a lot of you, that room turns into the first advocacy network you ever built on purpose.
ALL AT ONCE
Accelerated Mastermind
I see you, action taker. You don’t want a calendar, you want to get to work. One intensive with me, in person or wherever in the world you happen to be, straight through your assessment and into a plan you walk out holding.
Not sure which one is you? Take the assessment and we’ll work it out together.
WHEN SOMEONE ELSE IS PAYING
Somebody can buy you the seat. They can’t buy what happens in it.
Employers, institutions and programme funders can sponsor one person or a whole cohort, and I think that’s a wonderful thing. But if you have been coached before through your employer, you were in a very different arrangement than this one. Read this part closely.
A SPONSOR SEAT HERE
You.
What you say about your own life.
Nobody. Just you, in your own words.
You, wherever you go next.
Confirmation that you participated.
Who sets the agenda
COACHING YOUR EMPLOYER BUYS
The organization, informed by feedback about you.
What the assessment measures
How your colleagues experience you at work.
Who gets interviewed
Peers, direct reports and senior managers.
Who the work serves
The organization, through you.
What the buyer gets at the end
A high level report on the engagement and your development.
There’s no report at the end of this one. No themes, no summary, no quiet phone call. What you say in here stays in here.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
So. Where are you right now?
Start with the free assessment. Twelve questions, about three minutes, and it will name the pillar that’s live for you right now. That is a useful thing to know whether you end up working with me or not.
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Or if you would rather just talk to a human first, say hello. Tell me what you’re carrying and I’ll tell you straight whether I’m the right person for it.
No cost, no call required, and nobody is going to chase you.
