Leadership style development
Executive coaching facilitates new insights and perspectives and a wholly unbiased view, enabling coachees to bring greater self-awareness, confidence and balance to their leadership style.
Executive Coaching
Our world-class executive coaching practice offers professionals of all levels the time and space to reflect, share their concerns and bounce-off ideas with a trusted external expert to become better and more resilient leaders. Delivered face-to-face or online.
Why coaching
Improved relationships
77% of our coachees reported improved relationships with some of their key stakeholders including direct reports, management team, colleagues and customers.
Real impact on business
Our accredited coaches come from a range of successful business backgrounds. They can support leaders’ thinking processes by giving them a range of proven frameworks, helping them find solutions that will have a real impact on business results.
Our approach
Relational coaching: Supported by our research, we know that the relationship between coach and client is at the heart of effective coaching. We see this as a mutual and co-created relationship, rather than a remedial contract to solve a problem.
Experience as organizational consultants: Our extensive experience as consultants gives us a robust perspective on the nature of organizational change and development. We can effectively support leaders on their wider work-related agenda, notably on changes in organizational culture and teamwork.
Creating a coaching culture: We are experts in helping organizations embed a coaching culture, where the skills of listening, inquiry and exploration are fundamental.
Shadow coaching: Silently or discreetly, a coach observes the coachee and a team in action to see how they interact. We know how to provide timely observations, to ask pertinent questions at key moments so teams can reflect on and explore solutions.
Our Executive Coaching Packages
Delivered face-to-face and online.
For Senior Executives
High Performance & Resilience Coaching
To excel in a leadership position and elevate performance of self and others.
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16-20 hours of 1:1 coaching specifically tailored to C-suite context and goals
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Hand-selected coach to maximize impact
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Unlimited free chemistry-check calls or meetings with coaches
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Ashridge Resilience Questionnaire or other psychometric test to identify areas of development
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Direct access to personal Executive coach via unlimited emails & WhatsApps
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Personalized end of coaching report to evaluate impact and learning
Team Coaching for Board Effectiveness
To maximize the impact and efficiency of your board.
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6 x 2-hour team coaching and observation in situ
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1 x team observation
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1 x 1:1 inquiry
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Personalized end of coaching report to evaluate impact and learning
For Managers & Directors
Transition Coaching
To support leaders moving out of a role, into a new one, across or up an organization and need to ramp up capabilities to adapt to future responsibilities.
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12-16 hours of 1:1 coaching focusing on adapting to new role and responsibilities
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Online portal to select coach and book session
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Up to 3 free chemistry-check calls with coaches
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Personalized end of coaching report to evaluate impact and learning
Coaching for Growth
To support managers and directors in achieving their full potential, becoming the best version of themselves and developing strategies to grow their business.
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12-16 hours of 1:1 coaching connecting personal objectives with business goals
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Online portal to select coach and book session
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Up to 3 free chemistry-check call with coaches
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Access to Hult Ashridge Development Mapper assessment tool to identify priority areas of development
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1x learning conversation between the coach, coachee and coachee’s manager – timing at client’s discretion
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Personalized end of coaching report to evaluate impact and learning
For High Potentials
Coaching for High Potentials
To develop leadership capabilities and accelerate career growth.
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10-12 hours of 1:1 coaching capitalizing on individual development
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Up to 3 free chemistry-check calls with coaches
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Access to Hult Ashridge Development Mapper assessment tool to identify priority areas of development
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Interactive and intuitive online portal to select coach and book session
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1x learning conversation between the coach, coachee and coachee’s manager - timing at client’s discretion
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Personalized end of coaching report to evaluate impact and learning
Specialist mentoring from Subject-Matter experts
For high potentials wishing to dive deeper into their specific area of work, and accelerate their development.
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10-12 hours of 1:1 mentoring focused on specific industry sector
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Individually selected mentor who has specific knowledge of the coachee’s sector of work
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Free chemistry-check call with mentor
Looking for qualifications in coaching?
Our Coaching Skills for Leaders open enrollment program makes coaching accessible to all – so that your leaders can learn to hold a coaching conversation in any situation, and help to build a coaching culture in their team and organization.
We also offer a number of higher qualifications in coaching. Whether it’s to begin the journey towards becoming an executive coach, gain accreditation in coaching supervision or improve team coaching and organizational consulting skills, we have a qualification to suit your needs. Explore our qualifications in coaching here.
Our coaches
We have a network of 240+ coaches located all over the world. They are multi-lingual with senior-level experience and have worked in a broad range of industries and sectors, ensuring we are able to deliver coaching sessions that are tailored to each leader’s needs and level of experience. Our coaches are also available across multiple time zones, and undergo regular supervision, to ensure that our high standards and code of ethics are always met.
All our coaches are accredited by the Ashridge Center for Executive Coaching (ACC), or the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ACC is an internationally recognized Center of Excellence and provider of standards of the profession. Its aim has been to build bridges between science and practice, and to promote rigorous, academically sound, and ethical foundations for the executive coaching field. Research from the ACC informs our executive coaching practice as well as our qualifications in coaching.
Meet some of our coaches
Paul Watkins BSc (Hons), MSc, MIET, MIoD
Location: London, UK
Languages: English
Paul's story
Paul has over 25 years’ experience of working internationally in technology companies. He is an active company Director and has built successful teams in commercial and business development departments, managed large P&L and delivered ambitious commercial objectives.
Paul combines psychologically informed coaching with his commercial and technology experience. He helps clients to recognise the elementary ingredients that contribute to disorienting situations. He works relationally, making explicit use of the changing nature of the relationship between the coach and the client.
Marionela Bojkova MSc, PCC
Location: Cologne, Germany
Languages: English, German, Bulgarian, Russian
Marionela's story
With over 10 years of experience as an HR Management Consultant, Maronela has worked on People development projects in more than 20 countries. Her former clients include: UNICEF, AES, Mondy, Italcimenti, EON, E&Y and Dundee Precious metals Titan Cement.
When coached by Marionela, clients leave each session full of positive energy, motivation, inspiring ideas and desire for action. She keeps in focus what is most important to her client, his or her team and organisation. Marionela prides herself in being an understanding, honest and trustworthy listening partner.
Our clients say
“During my work with Ashridge, my coach has encouraged me to develop my own personal brand and leadership style with confidence. He has also been a true sounding board for me, with a 5-year strategy that I have created and presented to Senior Executives and Board Members. His insights and experience have been highly beneficial with the right level of support and challenge to push my boundaries outside of my comfort zone. I highly respect his passion for coaching and strongly advocate his approach”
Head of HR, HSBC plc
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