Leadership coaching and leadership skill development sessions are confidential, skilled and focused conversations that challenge and support you and your business leaders to succeed. It can help improve a leader’s ability to accomplish tasks efficiently, influence others to perform well, accelerate personal development, improve business results and engagement levels, as well as develop strong leadership presence and impact in the organisation.
Transformative Executive Coaching for Managers and Leaders
How I Work
My executive coaching approach is grounded in evidence-based practices, enabling transformational learning across beliefs and behaviours. By uncovering the barriers holding an individual back and identifying the habits they wish to develop, we work together to create meaningful and lasting change. Each session is designed to help a leader to discover new perspectives and empower them to embrace these changes in impactful ways.
I believe in being bold and sometimes provocative, challenging individuals safely to confront complexities and uncertainties. This is where transformative growth occurs, enabling someone to shift their thinking and achieve their goals.
Who I Work With
I work with business leaders from all disciplines and industry sectors. My focus is on supporting leaders who want to achieve lasting change in any aspect of their personal or professional lives (some examples are detailed below). For coaching to be successful, the individual needs to be ready to explore new ways of thinking and behaving.
Please note that I do not cater to private/self-funding clients, except for specific arrangements with HR professionals. If you’re considering executive coaching with me but you aren’t the budget holder or an HR leader, let’s connect to discuss how to approach securing the company’s support for your leadership coaching.
Tailored Leadership skill development for every stage
EXECUTIVE COACHING
Ideal for C-Suite & Executive Leaders, Directors, and Senior Leaders seeking to enhance their strategic impact.
Key focus areas for this population might include:
Strategic Planning: Enhance your ability to shape and execute business strategies for sustainable success.
Strategic Delivery: Implement robust business plans that align with organisational goals and drive results.
Inspiring Others: Cultivate a culture of growth, empowerment, and innovation within your organisation.
Commercial Acumen: Develop a big-picture mindset, making informed decisions that promote business growth and profitability.
External Awareness: Stay ahead of industry trends, generate fresh ideas, and maintain a competitive edge.
Ideal for leaders at all levels (C-Suite Executives through to High-Potential Managers/New Leaders) wanting to develop and refine their leadership style and influence.
Key focus areas for this population might include:
Operating Strategically: Establishing ways to shift from an operational to a strategic focus.
Building Trust and Relationships: Foster strong connections with your team to create a collaborative and thriving work environment.
Leading Top Talent: Identify, develop, and retain high performers, ensuring your team remains dynamic and resilient.
Effective Delegation: Master the art of delegating tasks, empowering your team while focusing on strategic priorities.
Building Accountability: Establish a culture of accountability where team members take ownership and consistently deliver results.
This coaching empowers leaders to overcome self-doubt and operate with confidence, gravitas and impact.
What is Confidence & Imposter Syndrome Coaching?
Confidence & Imposter Syndrome Coaching is dedicated to helping leaders conquer self-limiting beliefs and tame their inner critic. Coachees will gain the tools and strategies needed to overcome imposter syndrome and step into their true leadership potential with confidence.
A series of tailored sessions aimed at addressing the root causes of self-doubt, low confidence and imposter syndrome, identifying negative thought patterns, challenging limiting beliefs, and developing practical strategies to boost confidence and authenticity in their leadership role.
Key Focus Areas:
Understanding Imposter Syndrome – the underlying causes and how it shows up.
Building Self-Awareness of own confidence and gaps
Develop techniques to build self-confidence and assertiveness.
How to silence the inner critic and embrace self-belief.
Explore your authentic leadership style and how to lead with integrity.
Strategies to maintain confidence and resilience over time.
Perfect for:
Leaders at all levels who struggle with self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or a lack of confidence in their abilities. Whether you’re navigating a new leadership role, facing challenges in your current position, or seeking to maximise your leadership potential, this Confidence & Imposter Syndrome Coaching is tailored to support your growth journey.
“Gemma’s input has given me a great insight into my strengths as a leader, and how I could use them in ‘real world’ situations, which gave me confidence to apply them.”
Senior Leader, British Academy
Coaching to Operate More Strategically
This coaching empowers leaders to operate with gravitas, strategic impact and execution.
What is Coaching to Operate More Strategically?
Coaching to Operate More Strategically is a bespoke program tailored to equip leaders with the mindset and tools needed to navigate complex challenges and seize opportunities with strategic clarity. Through 1-2-1 coaching sessions, participants will gain the insights and strategies necessary to elevate their thinking and decision-making to drive long-term success. It is designed to enhance strategic thinking skills and elevate strategic impact.
A series of tailored sessions aimed at enhancing strategic capabilities and leadership effectiveness. Participants will assess current practices, identify areas for improvement, and develop actionable strategies to operate more strategically in their respective roles.
Key Focus Areas:
Build Self-Awareness of own leadership style, and when are you at your most effective
Explore what gets in the way of operating more strategically
Create a compelling vision for the future
Explore ways to inspire others
Build strong working relationships to get the best outcomes
Perfect for:
This coaching package is ideal for leaders seeking to enhance their strategic impact and gravitas, inspire others and drive organisational change, growth and innovation. Whether you’re a seasoned executive looking to refine your strategic approach or an emerging leader aspiring to operate more strategically, this coaching is tailored to support your professional development journey.
“We started by exploring my strategic impact in the business. I particularly enjoyed exploring the strategic mindset required and the opportunity to bounce ideas off Gemma.”
Donna Hitchcock, Executive HR Director, Colas Limited
Coaching for Work-Life Balance and Resilience
This coaching enables leaders to achieve harmony between their professional and personal lives while building resilience and positive wellbeing.
What is Coaching for Work-Life Balance and Resilience?
Coaching for Work-Life Balance and Resilience is a tailored program dedicated to supporting leaders in managing the demands of their professional roles while fostering a healthy balance with their personal lives. Leaders will be equipped to enhance resilience, manage stress, and achieve work-life balance to operate more effectively.
Our Coaching for Work-Life Balance and Resilience program consists of a series of bespoke sessions focused on addressing the unique challenges and priorities of each leader. I will work collaboratively to identify sources of stress, establish boundaries, and develop practical strategies to promote work-life balance and build resilience.
Key Focus Areas:
Explore habits and routines needed to improve self-care and well-being.
Establish clear boundaries to protect personal time and energy.
Learn techniques to effectively manage stress and prevent burnout.
Create a personal wellbeing contract – bespoke strategies to manage time and energy effectively.
Strengthen resilience to bounce back from setbacks and navigate challenges with ease.
Perfect for:
This coaching package is ideal for leaders who struggle to maintain balance between their professional and personal lives and seek to enhance their resilience in the face of adversity. Whether you’re experiencing burnout, juggling multiple responsibilities, or striving to achieve greater fulfilment, productivity and wellbeing.
“My work had become full-on and I needed to get a better work/life balance. Gemma nurtured a desire to address this and suggested practical ways to achieve it.”
Angus Craig, Head of Procurement, AECOM
First 90 Days Coaching
By establishing a clear, relevant roadmap for your first 90-180 days in a new leadership role, you can achieve credibility and traction from day 1. You can quickly leverage your own strengths, determine any gaps to address, and establish a roadmap of activity and milestones to create a strong and lasting impression in your new role.
What is First 90 Day Coaching?
A coaching programme designed to walk you through a detailed approach to gather the key information you need to start a new leadership role with impact and credibility.
This is typically a 6 session programme, ideally starting before you have started the new role (though this isn’t essential).
The following areas are typically covered:
Defining your leadership style
Defining your vision, aims and objectives of the role
Establishing your key priorities
Securing quick wins to make an early impact
Creating and nurturing key stakeholder relationships
Transitioning to 6 month plan and beyond
Perfect for:
Anyone starting a new leadership role, whether the first role at this level or already experienced at leadership. Applicable when joining a new organisation or newly promoted within the same organisation.
“Thanks to Gemma’s guidance, I’ve transitioned from being a teammate to a true leader. She helped me refine delegation within my team, guided me in organising my time better and bringing out the best in myself during challenging moments.”
Chief Legal Counsel, Global Technology Company
Core Strengths – Your Leadership Blueprint
Integral to leadership effectiveness is excellent self-awareness.
You can add a Core Strengths profile to any of the coaching programmes to give you valuable insight into your own unique leadership blueprint.
A Core Strengths profile helps to identify your typical approach to key working relationships, and builds your awareness of your strengths and overdone strengths. It reveals your own unique filter on the world, how you operate instinctively, your typical response to conflict (and indeed, what typically triggers you to feel conflict).
How it works
The profile is created via an online questionnaire. The strengths based coaching questions explore how you do things, rather than what you’re doing, helping you to understand why you behave the way you do, and how we relate to each other.
I then take you through a feedback session and you get access to your results via an online platform of multi-media resources to explain the profile in more detail.
The profile covers 4 key areas:
MOTIVES – the 3 core motives behind our behaviour – people, performance & process
CONFLICT – your unique conflict sequence showing how you change as conflict escalates
STRENGTHS – your preferred strengths, from the 28 strengths we most commonly use at work and
WHY (the reasons we use these strengths – these reasons differ for each of us)
OVERDONE STRENGTHS – we all some of our strengths too far, and this can become a derailing behaviour (or weakness)
Relationship building is more than a soft skill. The core strengths profile questionnaire can help you relate better to others, communicate and build the ability to improve dialogue.
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