Listed and PLC

In Listed and PLC organisations, leaders operate in environments where scrutiny is constant, expectations are public, and the balance between investor demands, political and regulatory pressures, and organisational priorities is rarely straightforward.

Trusted in Listed and PLC

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Ivan Schofield and Kate Jones

Where leadership meets public scrutiny

Leadership requires more than technical excellence. It demands the ability to guide strategy and culture in full view of the markets. Leaders must exercise sound judgement under pressure and maintain alignment across stakeholders whose agendas and time horizons often diverge.

The pace is relentless, and the requirement to deliver results while navigating ambiguity is ever present.

A strategic partner for CEOs and senior executives

We support CEOs and senior executives leading in these demanding environments. We help them maintain clarity, build resilience, and lead decisively amid competing interests, constrained resources, and the political realities of listed organisations.

Experience that spans the entire boardroom

Our focus is on enabling leaders to deliver results in the “right” way – ethically, responsibly, and in line with the organisation’s values and expectations.

As former CEOs and Managing Directors, we have led significant businesses in complex environments. We also serve as non‑executive directors in publicly listed companies. This combination gives us a perspective shaped from all sides of the boardroom table.

Trusted partners in public‑market leadership

It enables us to serve as strategic partners to leaders navigating the pressures, risks, and responsibilities of public‑market leadership.

CEO Coaching

Whether experienced or inexperienced, all CEOs need confidential support and a sounding board to work through specific business / stakeholder issues or manage the emotional pressures of this, the most complex and important of roles.

Developing Senior Leaders

We provide targeted support for executives preparing for, or adapting to, new responsibilities or struggling with some aspects of their role and in need of a performance boost.

Typical assignments

  • Translating high‑level direction into clear priorities, aligned teams and a lived sense of purpose across the organisation.

  • Navigating competing interests, building alignment, and maintaining trust in high-stakes, politically nuanced contexts.

  • Enhancing executive presence, strategic communication and influencing capability to inspire trust across senior stakeholders and prepare future leaders.

  • Creating bandwidth while accelerating capability, ownership and succession strength through intentional delegation and stretch opportunities.

  • Balancing high expectations with an environment that supports learning, innovation, and trust.

  • Strengthening emotional intelligence to lead diverse teams and navigate politically sensitive conversations with agility and strategic foresight

  • “Ivan’s experience working as CEO and NED in a variety of stakeholder environments offers valuable breadth of perspective. His transferrable knowledge and measured personal and coaching style has been invaluable to me. He has helped me build resilience, manage stress and negotiate conflict. I would wholeheartedly recommend him to a new or experienced CEO / executive looking to level-up”

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  • “Kate is an amazing listener, and simultaneously provides challenge and support, which has helped me develop as a leader. Kate has helped me identify my blind spots and own my weaknesses, and learned how to amplify my strengths. I now find myself using a lot of her techniques with my team, which is a testament in and of itself.”

    — CEO, Financial Services

  • “Working with Ivan has made a huge difference to how I approach not only my work but also many other areas of my life. His outstanding knowledge of the business world, combined with a real understanding and curiosity about why people behave as they do, makes him unique in his approach. With his calm and constant support, and his astute observations, Ivan has helped me tackle some lingering issues that I would never have tackled alone. My sessions with him have been transformative”

    — Communications Director, Energy 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 virtually and I thought it worked well. Thanks Kate!”

    — Partner, Legal sector