Leadership Coaching
Coaching for mid-career/tier professionals aspiring to,
transitioning into, or expanding a Senior Leader position.
You’re ready to take on greater responsibility and influence.
Or stepping up to lead a larger team, a department or region.
Why Coaching is vital for mid-career/tier Professionals
Mid-career/tier professionals are frequently the people responsible for implementation, delivery and the realisation of an organisation’s strategic goals.
Many are often already leading something: a project, an initiative, a function.
Those who excel in their discipline are often promoted into formal leadership positions. This transition, when scaffolded by training, mentoring and coaching, creates impactful leaders who are adept at juggling the trifecta of organisational, people and client needs.
And these are exactly the Leaders that Executives and Directors need around them.
Outcomes & Benefits of Leadership Coaching
Honed communication, negotiating & influencing skills to effect positive change
Strengthened confidence, gravitas & impact to become an inspiring Leader
Ability to navigate challenging dynamics & interpersonal relationships
An understanding of how life experiences impact Leadership style
Competence in balancing organisational, people & client needs
Clarity on the alignment between work, purpose and values
Insights into working with Executives, Directors & Boards
Dynamic & responsive (not reactive) leadership skills
A roadmap for career and future learning
Leaders thrive when they are coached and mentored.
Organisations flourish when they invest in their Leaders.
Coaching Programme Details
Options available for both self-funding and employer-funded professionals.
Programmes are business- and psychologically-informed, and structured to ensure Coachees
benefit from the cumulative growth and change that a sustained period of coaching provides.
Employer-funded Coaching Programme
4 month Leadership Coaching Programme
For
Organisations investing in mid-tier leadership development
Includes
+ 1x Kick-off meeting (with employer)
+ Pre-Coaching Questionnaire
+ Coachee Metrics (start + end)
+ Eight fortnightly Coaching sessions (60min each)
+ 1x mid-point Check-in Meeting (with employer)
+ Takeaway Resources tailored to the Coachee
+ Ad-hoc Coachee support in-between sessions
+ 1x post-Coaching Review Meeting (with employer)
£2,175
Payment in advance. Excludes VAT.
15% discount for charities & social ventures.
Employer-Funded Programme RoadMap
Sessions 1-2: Discovery
Conceptualise organisational & leadership context, professional experience, personal strengths, skills gaps & growing edges.
Sessions 3-5: Self-Understanding
Understand leadership & communication styles when under pressure, learn techniques to manage stress & avoid burnout, tackle imposter syndrome, strengthen self-belief & confidence.
Sessions 6-7: Becoming an Effective Leader
Develop leadership presence and gravitas, know your audience, hone communication skills, feedback & delegation skills.
Session 8: Integration
Embed the change for sustained momentum. Define next steps.
In line with ICF and EMCC Codes of Ethics, the content of coaching sessions is not shared with the Coachee’s employer.
Self-funded Coaching Programme
3 month Leadership Coaching Programme
For
Newly promoted or aspiring Senior/Executive Leaders
Includes
+ Pre-Coaching Questionnaire
+ Coachee Metrics (start + end)
+ Six fortnightly Coaching Sessions (60min each)
+ Takeaway Resources tailored to the Coachee
For individuals wishing to explore coaching via their employer, see the Funding Assistance note below.
£1,195
Payment in advance. Can be split into two instalments.
No VAT charged. 15% discount for returning clients.
Self-Funded Coaching RoadMap
Sessions 1: Discovery
Intensive Mapping
(baseline metrics, focus areas)
Sessions 2-3: Self-Understanding
Leadership Identity & Resilience
(stress, imposter syndrome, leadership style under pressure)
Sessions 4-5: Becoming an Effective Leader
Presence & Execution
(gravitas, influencing upward, feedback, delegation)
Session 6: Integration
Integration & Roadmap
(embed changes, map out medium-term development plan)
Funding Assistance
The benefits of Coaching at an individual, team and organisational level are clear and proven. And, encouragingly, many employers now include coaching as part of an employee's training or L&D budget. Understandably, to justify this investment, they do need to see a clear connection between coaching objectives and organisational goals.
If you're an employee interested in Coaching and would like help thinking through how to raise this as a training/L&D request with your employer, please get in touch.
All Coaching Programmes are intentionally neurodivergent-inclusive, anti-oppressive and psychologically-informed by design.
Coaching Effectiveness - Client Feedback
Organisations/Clients who have invested in Leadership Coaching for their People
Employer-Funded Coaching : Return-on-Investment (ROI)
82% of UK managers are "accidental managers", promoted with no formal leadership training.
Even at senior level, over a quarter of leaders report never having had proper management training.
(Source: Chartered Management Institute, CMI)
Half of employees with a poor manager plan to leave within the year.
Untrained leadership increases workforce attrition, pushing people, knowledge and money out the door.
(Source: CMI, 2023)
Replacing an employee costs UK employers an average of 6–9 months' salary.
For a mid-career professional on £50,000, that's £25,000–£37,500, on top of the disruption.
Coaching is a fraction of that cost, and helps keep the person you already trained, engaged and contributing.
(Source: CIPD)
Self-Knowledge is Power
Hogan Assessment
Comprehensive, data-driven, science-backed assessment to help you understand your strengths, potential derailers under stress, and values that drive your decisions.
Benefits:
+ Build leadership capability and readiness.
+ Prepare mid-career professionals for leadership roles.
+ Guide senior leaders towards maximising effectiveness.
Optional Extra (charged separately)
Programme Lead: Donna Burgess
Coaching with me is centred around growth, identity and sustainable leadership. My approach is informed by real world, international, multi-sector, senior and executive leadership experience. Backed up by training and accreditation in a breadth of business practices, coaching and psychological modalities. Having become effective at balancing an organisation’s needs, with that of its people; I am keen to help others do the same.
This Coaching programme is rooted in ethical and anti-oppressive practice, and is neurodivergent inclusive.
I often coach at the intersection of work/career/leadership and mental wellbeing.
Why? Because we cannot separate what we do (work + purpose) from who we are (living + being).
Competent:
Board experienced (Charity and Technology sectors).
10+ years of Executive/Senior leadership
20+ years of leading teams
Former Head of People & Business Operations > Portfolio/Programme Lead > Delivery/Project Manager > Technologist > Engineer
Professional experience spans start-ups/scale-ups, SMEs, CICs, charities, agencies, local and central government, technical consultancies and global entities.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor for two charities.
Qualified & Accredited
Accredited with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Senior Practitioner)
Accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ACC)
MSc Integrative Psychotherapy (in progress).
Certified Neurodivergent Inclusive Coach.
CMI-trained Business Manager & Leader.
ILM-certified Diversity Champion.
CIPD Member.