The basics
The questions people ask most often before they get in touch.
Coaching is unregulated, and anyone can call themselves a coach, the field spans a vast range of approaches and training routes, with no single standard behind it. Chartered Psychologist is a protected title, awarded only on completion of accredited, doctoral-level training.
As a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, that shapes my approach itself: working with the psychology driving your behaviour, not just the behaviour. And because I’m registered with the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council, I work to their code of conduct and ethics, with real accountability behind everything I do.
Senior leaders and C-suite executives, business owners, partnerships, entrepreneurs, leadership teams and organisations. Over 25 years, that’s taken me across finance and banking, technology and media, advertising and creative, retail, art and culture, sport and entertainment, professional services, hospitality, industrial and manufacturing, and entrepreneurial and scale-up businesses.
It’s coaching, but coaching with clinical depth behind it. I’m qualified as both a Coaching and a Counselling Psychologist, and while the two are distinct, that dual training means I bring the full range of clinical and therapeutic understanding into the coaching room, without ever blurring what coaching is. In practice, that makes the work safer, not more complicated: I know exactly where the edges of coaching sit, so the work stays coaching. And if something in front of me ever calls for different or longer-term support, I’ll recognise it and say so.
No. Most of the people I work with are already delivering, already respected. They come because something isn’t quite right underneath — or because at their level, honest feedback has become hard to find.
How it works
With an initial conversation, no obligation, no standard script. It’s a chance to understand what you’re navigating, and to work out together whether working with me makes sense.
In person, at my private consulting room in the City of London, or remotely by video. Organisational work, workshops and speaking take place at your offices or venue, in the UK and internationally.
It depends on the objectives. Individual clients most often work with me on a retained basis rather than a fixed number of sessions. Team coaching programmes typically run three to six months. Workshops run from half a day to two days.
Yes. What’s said in the room stays in the room, including when an organisation is paying for the work. My practice is governed by the ethical codes of the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council, and I’m clear at the outset about exactly what is and isn’t shared.
This is discussed and agreed before work begins. Sometimes that’s limited to dates of sessions held; where there’s a line manager or sponsor involved, it may extend to broad themes. Content is never shared. My independence is part of the value, I’m an external expert, not an extension of the HR function.
Fees depend on the scope of the work, so there’s no standard price list. Once I understand what you want to achieve, I’ll set out a clear plan and fee, you’ll know exactly what’s involved and what it costs before anything is agreed.
The work
We work above and below the surface, not just behaviour, communication and strategy, but the psychological patterns determining how you lead, decide and perform under sustained pressure. Typical themes include performance under pressure, leadership impact, board and stakeholder dynamics, significant transitions, and the personal cost of operating at the top.
A team-building day is an event. Team coaching is sustained work on the team as a system, its dynamics, relationships and patterns, usually starting with a diagnostic phase and running three to six months, so the change holds.
Yes. Alongside 1:1 coaching, I work with Boards, leadership teams and HR functions on team coaching, workshops and consultancy, covering culture, psychological safety, leadership selection and assessment, succession planning, and the human side of significant change.
Yes. I speak on the psychology of performance, leadership and human behaviour at conferences, leadership events, away days and internal programmes, keynotes of 45 to 60 minutes, shorter guest slots, or extended masterclasses with audience interaction.
If your question is not here, get in touch. The first conversation is always confidential and without obligation.
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