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Leadership Coaching for Impact-Driven Leaders 

Transform From Reactive to Intentional Leadership

You're successful on paper, but leadership is taking over your life.

Time-poor, energy-depleted, working evenings and weekends.

Sacrificing the life you're working so hard to build.

Feeling resentful about the cost of your success.

You're not a bad leader. You're a reactive leader - caught in firefighting habits and behaviours.

The success habits, mindset and behaviours that got you here are now creating inefficiency and overwhelm.

 

You're still leading with the same identity and habits that built your success, but those exact patterns are keeping you stuck at this level.

You don't have to stay stuck there.

What You Actually Want

 

You're not looking for promotion or more money. Your priority isn't advancement - you want to excel in the role you currently have without it consuming your life.

You want:

  • To finish work on time, not working evenings and weekends, and be present at home

  • To not be tied to your phone

  • To be in control of your calendar and where your time and energy go

  • A clear and in-control inbox

  • Time for strategic work, not just tactical firefighting

  • To love your work, not resent it

  • Confident decision-making without overthinking

  • Time and energy for hobbies and holidays

  • To invest in looking after yourself - sleep, activity, nutrition

  • To lead more effectively without constant overwhelm

  • Success that feels as good as it looks

You became a leader to create impact, not to sacrifice everything that matters.

That's exactly what this transformation delivers.​

The Transformation

 

From reactive leadership by default → To intentional leadership by design

Transform from reactive leadership that's overwhelming and consuming your life to intentional leadership, so that you finish work on time, take guilt-free time off, and get your time, energy and confidence back.

What This Transformation Delivers:

Finish work on time - Not working evenings and weekends, actually be present when you're home

Take The Big Week Off - Guilt-free time off with zero work, zero stress, zero guilt

Stop being the go-to problem-solver - Develop problem-solvers instead of solving everything yourself

Lead with confidence - Make decisions without overthinking or second-guessing

Create aligned success - Success that feels as good as it looks

How The Transformation Works

Most leadership development focuses on what you do - new strategies, better time management, productivity hacks.

 

But that's not your problem. You already know what to do.

 

The issue is the identity, habits, and reactive patterns that keep pulling you back into firefighting mode.

This is identity-level transformation - changing who you are as a leader, not just how you perform leadership tasks.

The transformation happens through my PIIPS Framework™  - a proven system that addresses the root cause of reactive leadership:

Plan - Get crystal clear on what success actually looks like for you

Intention - Align your daily actions with your bigger vision
Identity - Step into the leader you need to become

Performance - Build habits that protect your time and energy

Structure - Create systems that keep you in control

We use proven mechanisms:

AAA Time Framework  To audit where your time actually goes

Performance Flow Framework  To work at your highest level

The 4P Reset  To break reactive patterns

This isn't becoming someone different. We remove the layers of dysfunction and misalignment that prevent you from being your authentic leadership self.

Conscious, internal transformation that changes how you lead - so you become more effective and get your life back in the process.

Let's discuss how this transformation can work for you.

Zoe

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Ways to Work With Me

Whether you're ready for a structured programme, bespoke coaching, or an intensive breakthrough day, I'll help you transform from reactive to intentional leadership so you can become a more efficient and effective leader and get your life back.

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The 8-Week Leadership Transformation Programme
'Elevate Your Efficiency Blueprint'

The proven 8-week programme that helps leaders transform from reactive to intentional leadership. Implement the complete PIIPS Framework™ through group learning or personalised 1:1 sessions so that you finish work on time, take guilt-free time off, and lead with confidence. Perfect for leaders who want a structured approach with clear milestones.

Includes lifetime access to all resources & alumni support.

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1:1 Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

Bespoke, high-impact coaching designed specifically for you. We focus on who you need to become to create the success you want - not just what you need to do. Build unshakeable confidence, disciplined habits, and create structure that protects your time, energy, and priorities without sacrifice.

Perfect for leaders navigating complex transitions, business owners scaling their teams, or executives who need fully tailored support.

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VIP In-Person Strategy Day

An exclusive in-person full-day intensive for leaders ready to accelerate their transformation.

Walk away with a done-for-you strategic action plan, clear priorities aligned with your values, and high-performance habits tailored to your goals.

Perfect for action-takers who want accelerated results with premium, hands-on support.

Why Work With Me?

I don't just coach this transformation. I've lived it, led it, and built it.

I spent 20 years in police leadership - team leader at 21, senior manager at 30, leading teams in Major Crime Investigation. I led high-performing teams through complex, high-pressure situations where failure wasn't an option.

I know what it feels like to be trapped in reactive leadership patterns.

The guilt about not being present at home while working late again? I've felt it.

The resentment about sacrificing evenings and weekends? I've lived it.

The self-doubt question "Am I actually good at leading?" I've asked it."

While working full-time in policing, I competed internationally in strongwoman, raised my son as a single parent, and built a profitable coaching business.

I didn't read about work-life balance in a book. I had to figure out how to build it while navigating the same challenges you're facing right now.

The reactive leadership patterns I help you transform? I've broken them myself.

The transformation from working evenings to finishing on time? I've made it.

The shift from being everyone's problem-solver to developing problem-solvers? I've done it.

Since 2017, I've worked globally as a Leadership and Performance Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and Accredited Master Coach with the Association for Coaching.

 

But my real credibility isn't in my certifications, it's in my lived experience of creating the exact transformation I'm offering you.

And creating the mechanisms and frameworks that I will teach you. 

The transformation I help my clients make isn't about becoming someone different. We work together to remove the layers of dysfunction and misalignment that prevent you from being the authentic, intentional, aligned leader you already are.

You don't need another coach telling you what to do from theory.

You need someone who's already walked the path from reactive to intentional leadership - and can show you exactly how to implement it, take action, and create lasting change without sacrificing everything that matters.

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Laura, Programme Participant

I can't recommend this programme enough.  I have learnt so much abou what I can change to give myself back the gift of time.  Thank you Zoe

FREE WORKBOOK
Discover Where Your Leadership Time Actually Goes

If you're working evenings and weekends, questioning where your day disappeared, and wondering why you never have time for strategic work - this download will show you exactly what's happening.

Most overwhelmed leaders don't have a time management problem. They have a time allocation problem.

You're spending too much energy on reactive, draining tasks, instead of high-value, strategic work.

My AAA Time Framework™ helps you audit where your time actually goes vs where you think it goes.

Get the download and discover:

  • Why you're trapped in reactive patterns instead of strategic leadership

  • The 3 categories of leadership time (Ascend | Anchor | Avoid)

  • A simple process to audit your time in under 30 minutes

  • The first step to reclaiming 5+ hours weekly

This simple framework will show you exactly why you're stuck working evenings - and what to do about it.

Add your details and I will send you your free AAA Time Framework download.

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Ready to Transform From Reactive to Intentional Leadership?

The reactive habits that got you to this level of success are keeping you stuck working evenings and weekends.

If you're ready to finish work on time, take The Big Week Off with zero guilt, and create success that feels as good as it looks - let's discuss how this transformation can change everything.

 

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