Executive Coaching

Our coaching helps leaders to not only perform at their peak, but to thrive. We helps you navigate challenges, develop and flex your leadership skills and enhance your performance. 

We are a small team of Association for Coaching accredited executive coaches, each with over 15 years’ experience of coaching.

Because we know every person is unique, our coaching approach is individual and bespoke, based around creating a safe and positive space for clients to develop, move forward and grow. 

We specialise in supporting clients the following key areas:

At Thrive, we specialise in supporting clients in the following key areas:

  • Succeeding in new leadership roles

  • Career development and interview support

  • Leading significant change projects

  • Dealing with challenging situations

  • Developing your personal leadership approach, style and behaviours

  • Resilience and wellbeing

  • Team coaching

Initial Meeting

All our coaching begins with an initial free introductory meeting, to chat through your goals for coaching and check that we are a good fit. We’ll then agree your bespoke coaching programme, depending on your situation and needs. When appropriate, this conversation can also include the commissioning manager or HR. 

Coaching

Typically, we meet with clients on a monthly basis, for 90 minutes, for 4-6 sessions, either in person or online.  This will vary depending on client need, so for example, a leader in a new senior role may prefer a 12 month coaching programme to help them transition and succeed in their first year, or we may work with someone who is facing a specific challenging situation and needs only 2-3 sessions.

Evaluation

Feedback and evaluation helps us to review that we are meeting your needs and delivering results.  So as part of contracting, we’ll agree how to measure the impact of coaching for you.  In organisations, we’ll clarify the role of HR or the commissioning manager in this process.  We review each coaching assignment mid-way, as well as at the end of the contract.

What people are saying

  • Coaching with Marie has transformed my working life. It has helped me identify a clear mission for my working life and ways to meet my mission, particularly with respect to developing and being able to articulate my leadership role. I have found the coaching sessions both supportive and challenging. Marie has helped me in coaching with respect to individual goals (e.g. increase my grant income which has substantially increased since I started coaching) and making much more effective use of my time; as well as helping me develop my leadership skills by supporting me in challenging situations with staff. Coaching has had a very positive effect on my overall health and that feel of ‘burn out’ that can be common; I sleep much better, am less anxious, and much better able to cope with the stress of work.

    Head of School

  • Marie’s coaching helped me to transition to a new and challenging leadership role. She helped me to create a vision for my future career, and then have the courage to make a significant leap. I wouldn’t have done it without her coaching and I wouldn’t be enjoying my current role so much without her support in the first year

    Head of Department

  • Marie is an excellent coach. She quickly gains an in-depth understanding of each individual and brings out the best in them. Her approach is always flexible as she adapts swiftly to the varying situations that her coachee brings to her. However, she always brings the meeting to a close having listened and skillfully guided you to feeling empowered, assured and motivated

    Director