Helping leaders achieve their potential & enjoy richer lives
Leadership coaching for senior executives and CEOs
We provide 1-1 executive and leadership coaching services to senior executives and CEOs.
Common themes across all of our work relate to helping CEOs or senior leaders prepare for greater levels of responsibility and / or adapt to a changing context around them. Such changes impact us in ways that we do not expect as we get used to new ways of working, learn to handle the pressure and responsibility and adjust to using our unique strengths in different ways.
Whilst everybody’s journey into senior leadership is different, our clients value the fact that we too have been on that journey and have accompanied hundreds of others on their paths.
A holistic approach to improving your effectiveness and natural authority
Senior executive life is extraordinarily fulfilling whilst also being an intellectually and physically intense, emotional labour.
We are highly experienced executive and leadership coaches having helped 250 leaders over the last 10 years. We help leaders achieve their potential by becoming more effective and impactful in their roles, deriving greater enjoyment from their jobs and leading richer lives with reduced stress and anxiety.
The coaching process is founded upon the development of self-awareness and awareness of impact upon others. The coaching process that we follow therefore involves 360° interviews and psychometrics coupled with an appraisal of how life and career experiences are shaping the client’s leadership behaviour today.
Successful executive performance depends on effective management of three aspects of the person and the context within which they operate: System, Skills and Self. Below are some areas that typically come up in the coaching work:
System: Effective management of stakeholders (internal, external, upwards and across the organisation); articulation of and alignment upon vision and strategy; alignment upon priorities, resources and performance expectations; team effectiveness; structure and decision-making processes.
Skills: Executive vocabulary and communication skills; functional leadership skills; talent selection; coaching skills and the development of strategies for managing stakeholders.
Self: Understanding innate character strengths, developing presence and natural authority; understanding unhelpful reactions to stress; developing strategies to cope with stress and anxiety; health, wellbeing and balance.
Kate Jones
Ivan Schofield
Been there, got the T-shirt
We are former senior executives with outstanding track records as Managing Director / CEO and currently also serve as active non-executive board members. We consider this to be an important part of our coaching proposition and competence, keeping the coaching work “real” and offering a perspective from “the other side of the boardroom table”.
Years in the executive hot seat and thousands of hours around the board table and in coaching discussions gives us a unique blend of experience from a variety of scale and stakeholder environments, from Government to multi-national corporate, to UK Plc, private equity and private / founder owned.
“Ivan has deep experience and insights about what happens in a board room or at the senior echelons of a company. Combining his corporate career experience with coaching credentials allows him to be extremely impactful. Ivan is a first-class listener and cares deeply about helping his clients. He helped me in many areas but his deeply humanistic approach to coaching helping me to manage my emotions and show vulnerability as a leader and take my leadership style to the next level”
— CEO, Financial Technology
“ My coaching sessions with Kate have been transformational in helping me to step up from my peer group into to the role of CEO. Her challenging but reassuring approach enabled me to work through the issues and build confidence in a way that suited my character ”
— CEO, Private Equity Owned Technology firm
“Ivan’s coaching approach has not only enhanced my professional but also my personal life to really challenge my thinking, communication strategies and awareness of my impact and opportunity to deliver wider strategic thinking. His open, honest and challenging approach are deeply engaging and rewardingly eye opening. He has a skill to really push you on your approaches, business relationship and influence. Working with Ivan has significantly moved on my leadership style and widened my vision and opportunity to focus on the real things that matter in leadership.”
— Marketing Director, Leisure
Developing leaders
in multiple sectors
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
info@and-become.com
Phone
Ivan: +44 7804 903537
Kate: +44 7939 020061
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