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Coaching

We provide professional executive coaching to CEOs, Boards, leaders and high potentials for performance, growth and transformation.

Our starting point is always to help coachees define success in their own terms and that of key stakeholders, and then to support them to realise their goals.

While our coaches bring the commercial credibility and rich diversity you would expect, research suggests that mindful coaches enable greater innovation and transformational change. Conscious coaches create the conditions for conscious leaders to flourish.

Some coach through a vertical lens using the Leadership Agility 360 or the Leadership Development Profile (LDP)

Teams

Our experience tells us that Google’s Project Aristotle has it right.

We use these insights to build high performing, innovative teams with a focus on psychological safety and high trust.

Our powerful team development process gathers data from key stakeholders and holds this up as a mirror so the team can see itself more clearly. From this they can make the adaptive adjustments they need to achieve higher levels of performance and flow.

We also teach teams the power of generative listening to transform their team meetings.

Leadership

We enable conscious leaders through

Leadership Agility and
Mindfulness

Leadership Agility reflects ways of thinking and behaving that can be coached and developed in their own right. However, research also suggests that the most agile leaders typically develop some kind of mindfulness practice that equips them to deal with complex, rapidly changing environments and to transform the organisations they lead (Joiner and Joseph, 2006).

You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Leadership Agility

Global leadership and organisation development experts agree that command & control, pacesetting and heroic leadership styles are no longer sufficient to navigate today’s technology driven, VUCA operating environment

Vertical leadership development helps identify post-heroic leaders with the capacities to transform the organisations they lead. It also provides simple practices to develop the capacity of all leaders to provide inclusive, inquiry-based leadership.

We draw on the Leadership Agility 360 and the Leadership Development Profile (LDP) to assess and develop leaders and use Action Inquiry to enable leadership and organisation transformation.

Mindfulness

The awareness that arises from…

paying attention to what’s happening in the present moment, in one’s self, others and the external environment with an attitude of openness, curiosity and kindness.

There are few practices that produce as many benefits on as many levels as mindfulness. What was once alternative is now coming into the mainstream. Google’s most popular program is a mindfulness process called Search Inside Yourself.
From a vertical perspective, the regular practice of turning inward and observing one’s own thoughts helps leaders observe the constant process of their own mean-making.

The How-To of Vertical Leadership Development – Part 2
Nick Petrie, Senior Faculty at The Center for Creative Leadership

This two day Mindfulness Based Emotional Intelligence programme blends mindfulness, emotional intelligence and the latest neuroscience. It has been Google’s most popular and highly rated programme for over ten years. It’s now scaling globally well beyond Google due to its impressive impact on focus, innovation, resilience, leadership trust and engagement.

This is change from the inside out.

And if you’d like us to, we can tailor mindfulness programmes specifically to your needs.

Organization

We enable conscious leaders to create conscious cultures where people flourish:

  • Unlocking intrinsic motivation (autonomy, mastery and purpose)
  • Increasing innovation and empowerment
  • High trust internally and externally
  • Accountability to customers and each other
  • Caring for all stakeholders
  • Transparency of strategic plans and financials
  • Integrity to do what’s ethically right
  • Loyalty to all stakeholders

We also enable conscious leaders to create organisational eco-systems that create sustainable value for all stakeholders:

  • Loyal, trusting customers
  • Passionate, inspired team members
  • Collaborative, innovative suppliers
  • Patient, purposeful investors
  • Flourishing, welcoming communities
  • Healthy, vibrant environment

Coach Training

We develop leaders to become transformational coaches in their day to day roles.

We also train professional internal coaches to ICF standards so they can take on coaching assignments to support talent and organisation development strategies.

In addition, Mindfulness for Coaches explores how professional executive coaches can use mindfulness to become more deeply attuned to themselves and their coachees, enabling greater innovation and transformational change.

Testimonials

Coaching
Mark worked with me as a coach and also with my leadership team on a strategic development project. His ability to create space for deep learning is extraordinary, and he uses his coaching practice to teach generative listening for leaders in a powerful way.

Rebecca Smart
Managing Director, Ebury Publishing
Penguin Random House

Team
Mark delivered a personalised programme for my senior team – based on “Search Inside Yourself” – and aimed at supporting resilience and creativity in challenging times. His work is skilful, blending detailed scientific data with practical mindfulness exercises and gently, generously encouraging exploration, helping us through vulnerability and toward real learning. This work is changing our business and sometimes changing us as individuals. We are better at listening, quicker to be kind, more patient and better able to see opportunities. We have seen value in each other – and in our teams – that we had previously overlooked.

Linda Wallace
CEO
CDS Cooperatives

Leadership
I wanted to share my gratitude for a fantastic session Mark developed and ran with me at the Group’s IT Senior Leaders Conference. We produced and delivered a session that was one of those career highlights that will live with me forever and I don’t think in 15 years of leadership development, I’ve contributed to a session that had such a deep and meaningful impact on participants.

Claire Marr
Head of Colleague, Capability & Culture, Group IT
Lloyds Banking Group

Leadership – Vertical Development
Working with Mark as a coach through a vertical lens, using the Leadership Development Framework, has been enriching, challenging and deeply insightful. As a subject matter expert on the framework itself, Mark is precise, rigorous and detailed, whilst bringing its ideas to life in an accessible and relevant way. As a coach, Mark is compassionate and generous, an exquisite listener, who intuitively understands how to work with a coachee to allow the possibilities for them to unfold.

Catherine Heritage
Capability Director
Centrica

Mindfulness for Coaches Masterclass
We invited Mark to teach at the University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre because of his pioneering work on mindfulness in workplaces and organisations. His teaching was exemplary, engaging, grounded in his experience and delivered with a rare blend of authority, authenticity and humility. I recommend him unreservedly.

Willem Kuyken
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Oxford Mindfulness Centre

Mindfulness for Coaches
The beating heart of coaching is generative attention. Silken. Serene. Seamless. Michael and Mark understand this. They embody it. And they are offering to us all, eloquently, the knowledge that inhabits it. This book is a coach’s long-needed teacher.

Nancy Kline
Founder and President
Time to Think