Executive coaching for leaders in challenging times Manchester

Compassionately supporting, coaching, and enabling senior executives and leaders through face-to-face executive coaching at our offices in Manchester. For those navigating challenging times in their professional and personal lives, our executive coaching and leadership support goes beyond traditional coaching to help you handle, work through and learn from difficult times.

Chartered Psychologists
Accredited executive coaches
Deep coaching experience
Confidential, face to face coaching support

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The help and support was outstanding.

Engaging, thought-provoking and personable employee assistance.

I have experienced real transformational benefits.

Improved my confidence, resilience & helped me make some fundamental decisions.

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Why might you need executive coaching?

We all encounter major events or setbacks in our lives that are so tough that we can find them hard to handle. They can leave us feeling overwhelmed, lost and struggling to carry out our roles to our usual high standards.

Where you once thrived, you now feel as though you’re stuck in a storm and can’t see a clear path ahead. The situation is starting to impact on your professional wellbeing and performance levels. You know you simply aren’t carrying out your role to the best of your abilities, even if your colleagues or stakeholders haven’t noticed - or commented yet.

If you – or one of your colleagues – is in this position, then you may find our Manchester-based employee assistance would be timely and useful.

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Safe Place

A confidential online session to find out more about the issue that is causing you distress, your wellbeing and to decide if Act 5 is right for you.

Your Space

We work closely with you to explore the context and situation and the impact that it is having on you, and how we can offer assistance to you as an employee and outside of work.

This Space

Whilst still supporting you to handle the current situation, we start to gently consider what the future might look like.

New Space

Together we start to generate, explore, plan and experiment with different options and alternatives for the future.

Better Place

As you step towards your future, we help you to reflect, learn and move into a happier, healthier and more productive place.

Executive coaching psychologists.

We are specialist occupational and executive coaching psychologists who listen, guide, assist, support and coach leaders and employees to understand and navigate intensely challenging periods and reach a Better Place at home and in work.

With compassion, respect and empathy, we help you to come to terms with the trauma or challenge you’re facing, and understand how the situation may be impacting you, your colleagues, team and family, and effecting your work performance and outcomes.

We equip you with self-insight, tools and techniques so you can gradually move through your storm and into a better, healthier and more productive place.

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What do our clients say?

The help and support was outstanding. Professional at all times but personally very challenging, not allowing the difficulty of the context of conversation to prevent progression. I feel I benefited greatly from the support and guidance offered… allowing me to make life changing decisions with increased confidence and awareness.

Business Unit Director

Defence Sector

Our coach worked with our business over an 18-month period whilst we went through significant change. His work was invaluable in helping our management team navigate through this… a great listener, very flexible and customer focussed.

CEO

Chemical Sector

Paul is an engaging, thought provoking and personable coach with whom I very much enjoy working. He takes a forensic approach which serves to identify meaningful improvement actions, and is then rigorous in keeping me honest in sticking to the plan.

CFO

High Tech Manufacturing

I was really impressed by my coach Darren. I had coaches in the past and Darren stands out from all of them for being extremely well attuned to the individual and as a result providing very relevant and impactful coaching. He brings together the wealth of knowledge and coaching skill with his unique intuition of being connected with the individual.

Managing Director

Financial Services

I have experienced real transformational benefits that have positively impacted on my work performance, happiness and my relationships both at work and at home. Rachael has enabled me to find my true self again and overcome significant personal and professional challenges in a constructive, supportive way.

HR Director

NHS

Paul has mentored and coached me over the past 18 months and assisted me to enhance my leadership, strategic and interpersonal skills which I have found invaluable in my new role.

Commercial Director

Construction

It is fair to say that coaching with Rachael over 6 months has improved my confidence, resilience and helped me make some fundamental decisions... Rachael inspires trust and openness and I would recommend her wholeheartedly.

Deputy CEO

Local Authority

The coaching has helped me change my way of thinking, like a guide, and helped me not get overwhelmed and go down the plughole. It's been grounding. It's also helped me overcome my imposter syndrome and recognise the opportunities in the next 6 to 12 months.

Operations & Logistics Director

Retail

Thought provoking, inspiring, restorative - Thought provoking because the questions asked made me think and analyse something to think through situations differently … inspiring because it made me believe in myself more and gave me the confidence to overcome fears …. restorative because it restored my belief in what I can do and accomplish.

Facilities Manager

Education

Rebecca was an amazing coach! Her insightful guidance has helped me analyse and apply feedback, navigate real-world challenges, and develop skills that have helped me grow both professionally and personally.

Senior Leader

Education

I found my time with Darren truly healing - it was a time of deep reflection… Our time allowed healing, validation, and consolidation. I have used the tools I have learnt and at times I continue go to my inner child to learn more about myself.

Thank you for taking me on my journey, thank you for supporting and helping me to overcome its obstacles to get me back on track.

Senior Manager

NHS England

Coaching raised my awareness and helped me work out how to be visible in a useful way. It helped me see that not all disagreements are confrontation. The coaching broke my mental blocks in my head and helped me clear those.

Finance Director

Technology

My first encounter was raw it was at a time where my whole professional integrity was being interrogated, I was emotionally busy (and) caught in a cycle of questioning my inner self…

I found my time with Darren truly healing. It was a time of deep reflection. Our time allowed healing, validation, and consolidation.

Thank you for taking me on my journey, thank you for supporting and helping me to overcome its obstacles to get me back on track…. to take me in a new direction where I am thriving.