Unlocking Leadership Effectiveness

An experienced executive leader came to coaching at a pivotal moment in their career.
Having led internationally, navigated multiple restructurings, and delivered commercial growth, they were now looking ahead at a transformation opportunity unlike any other. The vision was bold: re-shaping the orga...

During a leadership team coaching session, one executive stayed back to chat. He welcomed the confidential space to reflect and asked me what I had observed in his leadership and as a team player.

Before answering, I asked why the question mattered. His response was striking: despite being a highly...

Case Study: The Leadership Tipping Point

What is one of the biggest de-railers for a senior leader’s career?

At the most senior levels, the decisions a leader makes ripple across functions, geographies, and cultures. The pressure is immense: clarity is scarce, complexity is constant, and yet thes...

How Our Executive Coaching Programmes Strengthen Mental Fitness

In today’s fast-paced business world, executives and senior leaders face immense pressure to perform, make strategic decisions, and inspire their teams. But peak performance isn’t just about technical skills and business acumen—it requ...

Try this approach instead 

Setting career goals is common, even straightforward:

✅ I want a pay rise.
✅ I want a promotion.
✅ I want a new job.

These goals are important—they bring clarity and a plan. Many of us climb the career ladder step by step, working toward the next level.

But what happens when you...

Stay at the top of your game with this tip. 
 
Experience is your ticket to play—it gets you in the room, but it no longer defines success at a leadership level. Knowledge may start the conversation, but how leaders execute is what sets them apart. 

Leadership effectiveness is about shifting gears to t...

Leadership isn’t just about having a bold vision—it’s about translating that vision into tangible business impact. 

During a recent coaching conversation, an executive leader was energised by the future possibilities of transforming their organisation. But that excitement quickly turned into overwhel...

One of the biggest leadership challenges I’ve seen isn’t just about making decisions—it’s about clarifying how decisions should be made. 

Too often, leaders get pulled into every decision, slowing down momentum and preventing teams from moving forward with confidence. On the other hand, some decision...

As leaders, we often feel the urge to "do it all," navigating various competing priorities within complex organisational landscapes. However, as we approach the end of 2024, it's evident that trying to manage everything isn't sustainable. 

So, where should you focus your efforts to ensure your init...

Modern leadership is often lived on autopilot and blurs our sense of self. 

These questions can trigger an insightful and essential journey of self-discovery. 
 
💡 Who are you? 
💡 What do you stand for? 
💡 How do you prioritise what's most important? 
 
Impactful and fulfilling leadership requires clarity ...

Secret insights to leadership transformation that accelerate your business impact 

Lately, I’ve been deeply involved in coaching globally dispersed leadership teams to enhance their effectiveness by identifying new ways of collaborating. 

One thing I’ve learned through this work is that transformation...

Our natural tendency is to go into action and problem solving too quickly and that becomes the blocker of impactful executive coaching.

A natural response is ‘what can I say about this problem to add value, what have I experienced that helps solve this problem’ What happens in this context, by shar...

I recently watched a fascinating TED talk by Atul Gawande a surgeon who wanted to push the boundaries of coaching to see if he could improve his complication rates. He had looked at other areas of highly skilled professionals from the world of sport and music and noted the impact a good coach could ...

‘I’m coaching myself through this’

‘I’ve got a lot of experience and I’ve completed a coaching course.’

As an executive coach I hear these sorts of phrases all the time, but can you coach yourself? I’m not diluting the importance of completing courses, as leaders we need to be able to have effecti...

This week’s leadership lesson focuses on the importance of NOURISHMENT

To nourish is described as providing your body with what is necessary for life, growth and good health.

The number 1 factor is to eat well – we all know how important this is. The executive leaders I work with often find this h...

Sometimes when life turns things upside down for you in your career it can actually be a golden opportunity, if you choose to lead the way.

“The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that ...

If you haven’t found your leadership mojo yet and come racing out of the gates energised for what you want to achieve then don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Many of the leaders I’m working with have commented on how they feel they haven’t had the downtime to relax and reassess where they are and whe...

This was a statement recently made by one of my executive NewlandRock coaching clients—a senior executive leader with extensive experience who had lost confidence in her ability to persuade her stakeholders.

This moment became a tipping point in our coaching conversation. We could’ve gone down a pa...

We’ve all had them in our teams. Those outspoken, challenger leaders who want to push the boundaries, go rogue, thinking at a hundred miles an hour and wanting to drive a new initiative before anyone can digest it, leaving a disgruntled, alienated team behind.

Love or loath this, like Marmite, divi...

Are You Making Your Value Clear?
💡 How are you representing yourself?
💡 Do you sit there in meetings thinking about the context without sharing your thoughts with the room?
💡 Are you being clear on what it is you want to be known for and aligning it with what it is that you want to say?
 
One of the bigg...