Additional Support
Additional Ways I Support Leaders and Teams
Leadership and team coaching is at the heart of what I do. But there are other ways I work with leaders and teams that complement the coaching, and sometimes, one of these is exactly what a situation calls for.
Each of these can be offered on its own or woven into a broader coaching engagement. I’ll always help you think through what makes sense for your specific context.
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Facilitation
Some conversations are too important to leave to chance, and too complex to run yourself when you’re also in the room as a participant.
I design and facilitate group and team engagements where the goal is for people to genuinely think together, engage honestly, and leave with shared clarity and real commitment, not just a list of action points.
This kind of facilitation is particularly valuable when teams are working through strategy, navigating significant change, addressing tensions that have been difficult to surface, or making decisions that require real alignment rather than compliance.
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Thinking Environments
We spend enormous amounts of time in meetings. Most of them are less effective than they could be, not because the people aren’t smart, but because the environment doesn’t support real thinking.
Drawing on the work of Nancy Kline and the Thinking Environment®, I help teams transform how their meetings are designed and run. The goal is simple: create the conditions where people can think clearly, listen deeply and contribute fully. Too often, meetings are dominated by the loudest voices, shaped by hierarchy, or filled with people saying what feels safe rather than what they really think. A Thinking Environment helps teams slow down, pay attention, and engage more constructively with one another.
The result is meetings that generate genuine insight, clarity and engagement – and teams that relate to one another with greater attention, respect and honesty.
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Leadership Circle Profile (LCP)
The Leadership Circle Profile is one of the most powerful leadership assessments I’ve encountered in my work. It does something most assessments don’t, it connects your inner mindset to your observable leadership behaviour. Not just what you do, but the beliefs and assumptions that drive it.
It asks a fundamental question: How do my assumptions, beliefs and lived experience shape how I lead?
Used in a coaching context, the LCP provides a powerful foundation for self-awareness. Through a structured debrief and coaching process, leaders gain clarity on the patterns that support their effectiveness, as well as those that may be limiting it.
When members of a leadership team complete the LCP together, the aggregated results provide a team-level view of leadership dynamics and can be integrated into a team coaching process to deepen collective awareness and strengthen team effectiveness.
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Mental Fitness
Here’s something I believe strongly: our mind can be our greatest ally or our greatest obstacle. For many people, the mind works against them more often than it works for them, pulling attention away from what matters, amplifying stress and anxiety, and reinforcing unhelpful patterns of thinking.
The good news is that we can train the mind to change the mind. As we build this mental fitness, we strengthen our ability to focus attention, regulate our internal state, and stay clear-headed in demanding environments. We become better able to use our capabilities well, even under pressure, even when we’re tired, and even when the situation is genuinely hard.
I draw on Positive Intelligence (Shirzad Chamine), the attention research of Dr Amishi Jha, and my own ongoing study and practice of meditation. I’m also a contributing author to the book The Wealth of Coaching, writing specifically on Mental Fitness in the chapter The Mindful Professional, where I explore what mental fitness is, how it can be cultivated, and how it shows up in real leadership situations.
Developing mental fitness helps leaders respond to complexity with presence, clarity and discernment, rather than reacting from a place of stress, overwhelm or autopilot.
All of these approaches strengthen how leaders think, relate and perform, individually and together.
Whether you’re looking for one specific service, or you’re not yet sure what your situation calls for, I’m happy to have a conversation and help you think it through.