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Leadership Development, Executive Coaching & Training Services

My Approach

Discovery → Design → Deliver → Evolve

Every engagement begins with understanding your organisation's specific challenges, culture, and goals. I don't bring predetermined solutions - I co-create approaches that work for how your organisation actually operates.

Discovery: We explore together where you are, where you want to be, and what's getting in the way.

Design: Together, we create a tailored solution - whether that's a leadership programme, coaching engagement, or a combination approach.

Deliver: I bring 20 years of leadership experience and proven frameworks to create transformation, not just training.

Evolve: As your organisation changes, my work adapts. This isn't a fixed programme - it's an ongoing partnership.

Reactive leadership cultures don't develop by accident - and neither do intentional ones.

Your team has the capability.

 

What they need is the right development at the right time, tailored to the specific challenges your organisation faces right now.

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Leadership Development & Training

I design and deliver leadership training and workshops that go beyond theory and tick-box exercises.

 

This is transformation work - addressing the patterns, behaviours, and mindsets that keep teams stuck in reactive mode.

Workshop topics span:

  • Mindset and performance - Building resilience, confidence, and strategic thinking

  • Leadership and management - Communication, decision-making, and coaching skills for managers

  • Team culture - Creating psychological safety, high performance, and intentional team dynamics

  • Wellbeing and sustainable performance - Preventing burnout, managing boundaries, and work-life integration

  • Self-development - Motivation, accountability, and personal effectiveness

Every session is tailored to your organisation's needs, not pulled from a standard curriculum.

 

We address what's actually getting in the way of performance, not what generically appears on a training menu.

Formats include half-day workshops, full-day intensives, multi-session programmes, lunch & learn sessions, and cohort-based leadership development - delivered in-person or online.

Ready to discuss what your team needs?​​​

Executive & Team Coaching

What Coaching Addresses

Coaching focuses on transformation, not just performance improvement. We work on the identity, mindset, and patterns that shape how leaders lead.

For individuals:

  • Transitioning to senior leadership roles

  • Leading through growth, change, and complexity

  • Developing authentic leadership presence

  • Breaking reactive patterns and building intentional leadership

  • Strategic thinking and decision-making

  • Building confidence and overcoming imposter syndrome

 

For teams:

  • Shifting from reactive to intentional team culture

  • Building high-performance team dynamics

  • Navigating conflict and building psychological safety

  • Aligning around shared goals and values

  • Developing collective leadership capability

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Coaching & Wellbeing

Wellbeing is woven throughout all coaching work.

 

Coaching provides early intervention for stress, overwhelm, and inner conflict that impact both performance and wellbeing.

Happy, fulfilled leaders create thriving teams. Coaching creates the space for leaders to develop sustainable approaches to performance - achieving results without burning out.

Research shows that the top reasons for employee turnover include lack of development opportunities, poor management, lack of work-life balance, and heavy workload.

 

Coaching directly addresses these factors by developing leaders who can create better experiences for their teams.

My Coaching Approach

I work as a thinking partner, helping leaders explore different perspectives, shift unhelpful patterns, and recognise their existing capabilities while building new ones.

I combine coaching with practical frameworks and tools. We explore the resources leaders already have and add what's needed to move forward effectively.

Through the PIIPS Framework™ (Plan | Intention | Identity | Performance | Structure), we address:

  • What success looks like for you

  • Aligning daily actions with a bigger vision

  • The leader you need to become

  • Habits that protect time and energy

  • Systems that keep you in control

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

Formats Available
  • 1:1 Executive Coaching (typically 6-12 sessions)

  • Team Coaching (6-12 sessions with intact teams)

  • Group Coaching Programmes (cohorts of 8-12 leaders)

  • Leadership Coaching for Management Teams (ongoing support)

  • In-person or online delivery

Speaker & Industry Expert

Bring me in as a keynote speaker or panel expert who speaks from lived experience, not theory.

I've led teams in high-pressure environments for 20 years, competed internationally in strongwoman, built a business, and coached leaders globally.

 

I don't teach concepts I've read about - I share what I've actually done, the mistakes I've made, and the frameworks that I've developed and teach my clients.

Popular topics include:

  • Leadership development and high-performance culture

  • Burnout prevention and workplace resilience

  • Imposter syndrome and confidence in the workplace

  • Building high-performing teams

  • Leadership under pressure

  • Work-life integration for leaders

Available for keynote presentations, conference talks, panel discussions, and interactive workshops - delivered in-person or virtually.

Every talk is tailored to your audience and objectives - I deliver engaging, practical content that creates action, not just inspiration.

Ready to discuss your event needs?

Book a call or send an email.

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~  Corporate Client, Senior Leader

Zoe helped me to get control of my workload, working hours and prioritisation.

 

Almost 12 months on I now have a much greater balance, sense of achievement and doing a good job.

 

Zoe also helped me to see that leadership comes in lots of different forms and that I don’t have to fit a ‘traditional’ model to be effective.

 

I feel more confident in my abilities as the individual that I am.​

Why Work With Me

I don't just teach leadership. I've lived it, led it, and transformed it.

 

I spent 20 years in police leadership - team leader at 21, senior manager at 30, leading high-performing teams in Major Crime Investigation. I've led in high-pressure, high-stakes environments where failure wasn't an option and reactive leadership costs lives.

I know what it takes to build high-performance teams, navigate complex challenges under pressure, and create cultures where people perform at their best. I've experienced the cost of reactive leadership patterns and done the work to transform them.

While working full-time, 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 books - I had to figure out how to build sustainable high performance while managing multiple demanding roles.

Since 2017, I've worked globally as a Leadership & Performance Coach, supporting organisations and leaders across sectors to transform from reactive patterns to intentional systems.

My Credentials

  • Accredited Master Coach with Association for Coaching

  • NLP Master Practitioner (INLPTA)

  • ACE (Accelerated Coach Excellence) Certified Coach with WBECs (World Business and Executive Coaching)

  • 15+ years of coaching and mentoring experience

  • Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England)

  • Additional training in CBT, DBT, ACT, sports psychology

  • 20 years in the Police Service in public-facing, operational, and senior management roles

  • CMI Level 6 Certificate in Management and Leadership

  • Former Springboard Consultancy self-development trainer

  • Licensed Level 3 AEaT trainer

  • DBS clearance

But my real credibility isn't in my certifications - it's in having lived, led, and transformed the exact patterns I help organisations address.

I don't teach leadership from theory. I teach from two decades of building high-performance teams, navigating complexity under pressure, and creating intentional systems in environments that default to reactive firefighting.

Ready to Explore How We Can Work Together?

Whether you need to transform your leadership culture, develop your team's capabilities, or bring in an expert speaker, let's discuss how we can work together.

Delivering leadership development across the UK and globally

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