Performance - Executive Coaching

There are times when you know you are capable of greater performance, but there is something holding you back. Or perhaps you have a strong drive and ambition to progress in your career but lack the confidence. Executive and performance coaching can help you become the best version of yourself as a leader, executive and individual. We will work together to help you gain perspective and the focus enabling you to speak and act with conviction, eliminate self-doubt and build your existing interpersonal and leadership skills. Learn about yourself and become more productive, self-assured and emotionally intelligent, so others can look to you for advice and support. For both the individual and the organisation, this can be transformative.

Stepping into a leadership role

Daunting, yet exciting, when you step into a new leadership role you are accepting a demanding new challenge. There are the expectations and pressure that to succeed you must shape and set the direction of the team, and ultimately your organisation. You may feel overwhelmed by the daily operational tasks and lose your strategic focus. Confidence crises and feeling like an imposter are not unusual. You can overcome these challenges and develop your leadership style, enabling you to confidently lead and motivate others, through a coaching programme. My coaching approach and experience ensure you retain focus and can manage and change any negative feelings before and during the early weeks or months, of your new leadership role. Investing in coaching provides you with the skills to flourish and confidently lead your team to achieve its objectives.

Imposter Syndrome

Feeling that you don’t belong in your position at work, that you need to constantly improve and that you’ve come by achievements through luck, is a common phenomenon known as imposter syndrome. Many high achievers feel like frauds or imposters in their fields and that can be unsettling and leave you feeling agitated that you will be ‘found out’. I will work with you to break the syndrome and develop your self-assurance. I can enable you to become confident in your own expertise and abilities and flourish at work, avoiding stress and working towards feeling content in your position.

I have a specialised expertise in working with socially mobile lawyers who are experiencing imposter syndrome.

Break through the glass ceiling

As a high performing professional in The City of London, you might find your frustration building at the often invisible or unacknowledged inequalities you face. My break the glass ceiling programme is designed to empower you to have the confidence to act assertively to achieve goals that may have previously seemed unattainable. Together we will explore ways we can build a positive cycle of thoughts and behaviours to progress to where you deserve to be. I will work with you to tailor a strategy that enables you to break through your personal glass ceiling.

Adult ADHD

ADHD is different in males and females. I understand that difference. I have developed coaching strategies that are sensitive to the needs of both females and males who have ADHD.

It is a common misconception that people with adult ADHD or ADD are underperformers. I know that this is totally untrue. Some of the best entrepreneurs and leaders have adult ADHD or ADD. High performing professionals can benefit from ongoing coaching to help take charge of the challenges that adult ADHD or ADD presents such as impulsiveness, procrastination, overfocus, irritability or being stuck in loops of negative thoughts. Ultimately, I will be able to work with you to reduce the negative impacts your ADHD may be having so you can change the way you feel and function.

You can try my brain health assessment technology here with a free assessment of your mental concentration and focus abilities.

Positive public speaking

Your career success depends on effective communication and public speaking is a core element. Your concerns about appearing nervous, or even unenthusiastic, because of your fear of public speaking, will impact on your performance. You may be avoiding presentations and opportunities that could progress your career. Alternatively, you could be an experienced speaker but feel you are not engaging your audience, so wish to improve. I have coached many successful professionals and can work with you to identify the source of the fear so you can begin to enjoy sharing your experience and expertise in presentations. We will create personalised techniques to improve your public speaking impact and captivate your audience.

Resilience in the workplace

As a place where you devote much, perhaps most, of your time, your workplace environment is one of the greatest influences of your performance and wellbeing. We gain a large part of our sense of worth from others. Therefore, workplace and industry culture can have a huge impact on how we feel. In your high-pressure role, you must rely on your own sense of worth to remain resilient in the face of perceived failures or rejections, or to have a support system in place. If you have felt overworked and unappreciated, I can work with you to build, or rediscover, your resilience so you can regain and remain in control, comfortable and high performing.

Gain social acceptance

Work may be a professional environment, but your social interactions and negotiations play a large role in how a team or company function. The balance between camaraderie and professionalism, as well as each company’s specific brand of socialising, can make it difficult to know how to act and what is seen as acceptable. If you feel that you have not been accepted socially at work, it can add unnecessary pressure and leave you feeling isolated. I will help you make a positive change to gain social acceptance, so you are able to feel confident with your colleagues.

Positive return to work after an illness

Time away from work can leave you feeling conflicted, isolated, and out of the loop. It is very common to worry about the reaction of clients and colleagues, as well as re-establishing yourself in a company. You may have concerns over readjusting with changes to your routine and many feel an unusual loss of self-assurance in this situation. I can support you to return to work with confidence and help the transition back be a positive one.

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Transform your family life

It can be easy to allow your work-life balance to tip towards your professional life. This is particularly common with high performing professionals and the expectations that come with high profile and leadership roles. We will work together to identify those factors of your life that enable you to regain a balance, prioritise correctly and create a consistent family life. We will identify what is important for you and then work towards assertively redefining the boundaries between work and family.

Personal Branding Confidence

Your personal brand becomes increasingly important as you become more established in your career. This is how you are viewed by colleagues, employers and clients, making it vital that you leave a positive impression emphasised by your unique capabilities. You can elevate your standing through professional perception. If presenting the correct professional persona for your role is challenging, I can help you identify exactly what you want your brand to be and how you can change so it can be best portrayed.

I can help you identify your psychological blockers and unhelpful success rules to enable you to identify exactly what makes sense for your brand to be and support you through the necessary steps and changes.

Going through this process, can help you to gain extra confidence and help you to target your networking and marketing efforts when it comes to gaining new clients.

Leadership in a crisis

As a leader in a crisis, your peers and colleagues will have expectations, with many turning to you for answers. They may, often acting out of panic, undermine your leadership. In turn, this may leave you feeling overwhelmed and out of control. Together, in real time as a crisis unfolds, we can regain your composure and authority. Then through examining your responses to events, we can identify practical strategies and methods then ensure you remain calm and decisive and so support your team during a challenging time.

Confidence at work

Perhaps you have started to fear meetings or have become trapped in negative cycles of comparing yourself to colleagues. A lack of confidence negatively impacts on your professional effectiveness, career progression and personal well-being. With my support, you will restore that confidence to reach your full potential and eliminate these feelings of frustration, fear and dread that arise. I am experienced in coaching professionals to develop key aspects of confidence and practical skills for building self-assurance.