EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
A confidential space to think differently about leadership
Leadership brings complex relationships, competing expectations, difficult decisions and responsibility for others.
Executive coaching provides space outside the immediate demands of the role to step back, think clearly and examine what is happening.
Together, we can explore the situations that matter most, from leadership transitions and difficult relationships to questions of authority, influence, confidence, direction and change.
The work is thoughtful and challenging, with the aim of helping you see situations differently, make considered decisions and lead with greater clarity and effectiveness.
What coaching can create
Greater perspective
See the bigger picture and think more clearly.
Better judgement
Make more considered decisions.
Greater self-awareness
Understand your own thinking, triggers and impact.
More deliberate action
Move forward with clarity and intention.
How coaching works
Coaching usually takes the form of one-to-one sessions of around 90 minutes, typically once a month, held remotely or in person.
The rhythm depends on your goals and the momentum you need. Sessions can be fortnightly, or even weekly, for example during a period of intense change.
We begin by agreeing what you want from the work, and review progress along the way. There is no standard programme and no expectation that you arrive knowing exactly what you need.
For Organisations
Commissioning coaching for a leader or team?
Executive coaching can be commissioned by an organisation for individual leaders or senior teams. Where an organisation sponsors coaching, we agree the aims together at the outset in a three-way meeting with the leader and their line manager.
Where helpful, further three-way meetings at the midpoint and end review progress against those aims.
What is discussed in individual sessions remains confidential between the leader and Alanna.
Confidentiality is fundamental to the work
Everything you share is treated with the upmost confidentiality.
This is a safe, independent space where you can speak freely and think openly.
Experience from the inside
Alanna has sat in the rooms where leadership decisions are made.
She has served as a Chief People Officer, including in the property sector, worked alongside CEOs and executive boards, and chaired a People and Remuneration Committee.
She is a non-executive director and a trustee, so she also sees leadership from the board’s side of the table.
Her 15 years at the John Lewis Partnership spanned operational leadership, strategic business partnering and organisational development.
She has since worked across the NHS and charity sector.
She knows how transformation, acquisition, restructuring and governance feel from the inside, and has coached CEOs and executive teams through each of them. She is an ICF-
accredited executive coach with postgraduate training in psychology, and is completing the Institute of Board Members’ NED Accelerator Programme.
That combination means she understands both the commercial pressures of the role and the human dynamics around it.
Leaders get a thinking partner who has been there, not a
theorist.
Q&A
Who is executive coaching for?
CEOs, executives, directors and senior leaders, including those stepping into a bigger role for the first time.
What might I bring to coaching?
Whatever matters most in your role right now. That could be a high-stakes decision, a leadership transition, a difficult relationship, organisational change, or questions of direction and purpose.
How does coaching work?
Sessions usually last around 90 minutes, typically once a month. Depending on your goals and the momentum you need, they can be fortnightly or even weekly. Sessions take place remotely or in person.
Can my organisation commission coaching for me or my team?
Yes. Where an organisation sponsors coaching, the aims are agreed at the start in a three-way meeting with you and your line manager. Where helpful, further three-way meetings at the midpoint and end review progress. What you discuss in individual sessions stays
between you and Alanna.
Is coaching confidential?
Yes. Coaching is independent of your organisation, so you can think out loud about things you couldn’t raise internally.
How is supervision different from coaching?
They share an approach but have different purposes. Supervision helps lawyers reflect on how they are practising: their judgement, responsibilities and professional relationships.
Coaching helps leaders think about how they are leading: their decisions, relationships and direction.
Client Testimonials
“Alanna brings a fantastic breadth of skill and experience to her work as a coach. Commercially astute and very insightful about
people, she is exceptionally adept at cutting through complexity and confusion and getting to the heart of an issue.”
“Alanna’s coaching approach generates high performance. She brings structure, rigour and challenge to the client which enables
them to get to the heart of the issue, quickly and effectively. This turns the client into a problem solver with tangible actions to
help move themselves forward.”
“I have worked with Alanna in her capacity of providing executive coaching and have found her expertise equally outstanding…
I would recommend Alanna to all business leaders, without any hesitation.”