About us

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Developing leaders became a deeply held passion for us during our executive careers. 

We are former MDs / CEOs with outstanding track records running significant businesses as well as being active non-executive board members, allowing us to offer a unique perspective from “all sides of the boardroom table”.

We have “been there and got the T-shirt” … seen and experienced at first hand the intellectual and emotional thrills and spills of senior executive life.

Our experience has encompassed start-ups, growth phase, large scale and multiple geographies coupled with a variety of stakeholder environments, from Government to multi-national corporate, to UK Plc, private equity and private / founder owned.

Developing leaders became a deeply held passion for us during our executive careers. Our desire to continue to help people along this journey whilst also helping them manage the emotional and professional ups and downs led us to become coaches to CEOs and senior leaders in a professional capacity today.

Our approach

  • “When I first started working with Kate, I was feeling overwhelmed and stressed in my management role. However, through our sessions, Kate listened to me, understood my challenges, and pushed me to be the best manager I could be. I now have a better understanding of the challenges our business is facing, and I am confident that my team and I can deal with them effectively thanks to my sharper leadership skills, improved communication, and more effective delegation”

    — CEO, Founder, Hedge Fund, Asset Management

  • “Thanks to Ivan, I have become a better leader and a better person. Through his ability to listen, his deep experience, and wealth of knowledge, Ivan understood quickly where to focus our time, making our sessions efficient and effective”

    — CEO, Telecoms

  • “Kate has skilfully helped me to unpack issues and challenges so that they became approachable and easier to work with/through and from there to set new goals and ways to think about the job and progression”

    — COO, Financial Services

  • “Ivan provides an unbiased view from a senior player with whom I can discuss the merits of various strategies in an open and honest manner. He helps me think more deeply and question myself more with the result that I communicate issues in an effective and concise manner”

    — Exco, Restaurant Sector

  • “I strongly recommend Kate as a professional coach. I found her easy to get along with, an excellent communicator and highly practical. She was quickly able to relate to my circumstances and provide suggestions or tools around changes that I could make to my approach. At the end I was left feeling energised, and with the belief that slight adjustments can have a significant impact. I am based outside of the UK so we did the sessions via video conference and I thought it worked well. Thanks Kate!”

    — Partner, Legal sector

Our team

Ivan Schofield

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Our insights

Insights
The Great Pretender: do I suffer from Imposter Syndrome or am I just human?
The Great Pretender: do I suffer from Imposter Syndrome or am I just human?

How elite sports can help us think about what drives board level executive performance (and underperformance)

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System – Skills – Self – to drive performance
System – Skills – Self – to drive performance

How elite sports can help us think about what drives board level executive performance (and underperformance)

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How to stop doing your team’s work for them…
How to stop doing your team’s work for them…

As we get promoted and our responsibilities grow the workload piles up unless we learn to delegate effectively. In this short article, with the help of Martin Moore’s excellent article from the HBR, we set out three steps to do this: getting over the need to be liked, learning to let go and setting up decision making processes

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How to harness the power of positive reinforcement
How to harness the power of positive reinforcement

Most of us have heard of Pavlov and his dog but the wide reaching implications of this work and other behavioural experiments with our furry friends in the early 1900s are still not widely understood even though it governs much of our daily behaviour.

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Building Personal Resilience
Building Personal Resilience

Whilst parts of the world are still in the grip of the pandemic, hopes continue to grow that countries like the UK, who have high vaccination and booster rates, are into the endemic phase.

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