Topics Leaders Bring to Coaching

My Executive Coaching Specialisations

Stepping-up

Making the shift from operational to strategic.
Developing your confidence and managing self-doubt.
Enhancing your leadership reputation/brand.

Speaking-up

Building better relationships.
Influencing others.
Having uncomfortable conversations.
Giving (& receiving) feedback.
Leadership presence.

Resilience & Motivation

Responding (instead of reacting) to conflict.
Overcoming your inner critic (self-criticism).
Work-life integration.
Boundary-setting.

Decision-making

Learning to say no… and when to say yes!
Transitioning to a new role, or to retirement.
Career decisions: direction, impact & legacy.

I provide face-to-face Executive Coaching and Leadership Development for clients in Adelaide, South Australia.

I provide virtual Executive Coaching and Leadership Development for clients across Australia.

I have a special interest in working with neurodivergent leaders.

Impact of Working With Me

You should expect a return on your investment (of time and money) in executive coaching. A great executive coach will work with you to unlock potential, boost performance, and improve wellbeing.

Focus on work-life integration and boundary-setting.

Improved ability to think strategically.

Greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Greater capability for ethical decision-making.

Enhanced performance management skills.

Increased ability to build strong, trusting relationships.

Renewed motivation, increased resilience and wellbeing.

Improved communication.

In the article What do leaders really want to learn in a workplace? A study of the shifting agendas of leadership coaching, Leadership 2024, Vol. 20(4) 187–206, Tatiana Bachkirova and Peter Jackson from the Oxford Brookes Business School explain the types of leaders' developmental needs that take priority at different stages of coaching engagements.

Observations are made of the frequencies of different topics that emerge most commonly in coaching conversations at three time points in the coaching intervention: the beginning, middle and end (T1, T2, T3). The frequency of the different topics at each of the three time points are set out in Figure 2: Frequency of agenda items (Primary and Secondary aggregated) across T1, T2, T3, ordered by T1 total: