Executive Coaching.

Executive Coaching harnesses practical and personalised support to help your leaders overcome challenges and lead with authority that has an impact.

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Why Do Irish Businesses Invest in Executive Coaching?

  • Have you key leaders who are struggling to manage conflict, lead change or build productive working relationships?
  • Have you the enviable problem of growth, and need to support leaders to take on next level roles?
  • Would your organisation benefit if your leaders had more clarity, confidence, and the space to think strategically?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, executive coaching is a trusted and proven leadership support that can help.

Globally companies are using this resource to help leaders grow in self-awareness, strengthen their emotional intelligence and foster better working relationships to deliver better bottom line results.

Executive Coaching for Enhanced Impact

There are two questions I ask myself when it comes to a leader’s actual leadership capability: who is following, and how are they following?

Every organisation has some level of carrot and stick, that will drive at least compliant behaviour. Skilled, emotionally intelligent leadership delivers results that go way beyond this.

executive coaching creates:

  • The space for leaders to reflect deeply
  • Challenge old patterns that don’t serve them
  • Build new ways of thinking and leading – enabling better results!

It’s about developing the kind of leadership others trust and want to follow: one that is shaped by insight, presence and integrity!

Improving Your Organisation’s Resilience

Enhance your organisation’s capacity to deal with change – support your leaders to lead resiliently and effectively. Help them to imbue this in others.
When leaders grow in self-awareness and learn to manage themselves under pressure, the impact reaches far beyond them:

  • Decisions become more intentional
  • Leadership becomes something others want to align with
  • Professional relationships are more productive
  • Teams perform better
  • You notice people rallying together and not buckling under the pressure.

Done well, executive coaching creates a ripple effect:

More confident leaders, stronger followership, and lasting change across your organisation.

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Enable Your Organisation to Scale!

Support your C-Suite to grow as the company grows and your leaders to transition well to next level roles. It can be lonely at the top, and the middle can feel pulled in all directions (from above and below).

Executive coaching provides your leaders a thinking partner, who:

  • Allows them to think out loud
  • Supports and challenges that thinking
  • Gives them the space to reflect and adapt

This delivers concrete results: the clarity and focus they gain, enables leaders to take strategic decisions that they are confident in.

How Does an Executive Coaching Engagement Work?

Every coaching journey is uniquely shaped around the leader and the system they operate in.

While no two programmes are the same, here’s how the process usually works:

1. Chemistry Call

A complimentary 30-minute call to see if we’re a good fit. You’ll get a feel for my style and approach; I’ll get a sense of your goals and context. If it’s not the right match, I’ll connect you with a trusted colleague.

2. Contracting

We clarify the outcomes that matter, both personally and organisationally and how coaching can support them. This may involve a three-way conversation with HR or a line manager to align expectations and boundaries, including confidentiality.

3. Coaching Sessions

Sessions run over 6-9 months, typically 6-8 sessions of 60-90 minutes. They’re confidential, reflective, and practical with space for deep personal work. The first session can be supported by a 360 psychometric report (focused on personality, emotional intelligence or leadership). This can help frame those areas of focus that will be of most benefit to you. In between sessions, you’re encouraged to apply insights and stay connected to the work. Additional support is available as needed, in line with the contract.

4. Wrap-Up and Future Planning

Our last session together is dedicated to:

  1. Consolidating the learning
  2. Celebrating the wins
  3. Establishing the best focus areas for your continued professional development

What to Expect When Working with Me

Grounded in Who You Are and What You Need

We start with your context: your challenges, ambitions and ways of working. Our focus is on you gaining more clarity and self-awareness to enable you to choose the best path forward. This isn’t about navel gazing or ‘fixing’ anyone. It’s about enabling the concrete change you want. And identifying the specific actions that support that change.

Working with me means creating space you rarely get to strengthen how you lead. Whether you’re operating at the executive level or growing into broader responsibility, I bring strong support and thoughtful challenge. This allows you to focus on what matters most to you and your organisation, so you can deliver what is needed.

Our coaching sessions and my approach are grounded in the latest research in coaching, neuroscience, systemic thinking and somatic awareness. As our conversation unfolds, I draw on what will be of most use for you in your context. I read the books, so you don’t have to! And provide follow-up resources as appropriate.

Real shifts happen for us, when we get all our intelligences (head, heart, gut) to work together! My approach is holistic. We will focus on your mindset, emotional patterns, leadership presence, and instincts. It is not about faking it until you make it but increasing your ability to be calm under pressure. This enables you to lead with confidence and inspire this in others – becoming the kind of leader others want to follow.

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Learn how executive coaching can support your leadership, or a leader in your organisation.