Unlocking potential through everyday leadership
Leadership Coaching
I help you unpack your challenges and find solutions, honing your leadership skills.
I work with individuals at all levels, helping emerging and established leaders in medium-sized organizations to develop the leadership skills they need to grow professionally and create positive change.
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My independent coaching provides a safe space for personal growth, giving you time to think, define your role and leadership style, build confidence, address complex challenges, and develop effective strategies to move forward with a clearer sense of purpose and direction.
I provide advice and practical support for those who feel stuck and need to bring about change within themselves, their team, or their organization.
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My role is to be a sounding board, to reflect what I hear – and when you need it, to act as an ally. Providing you with customized strategies and tools to find solutions to support whatever transition you are managing.
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I'm an ACC-accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation, and have a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching from Henley Business School.
Solution focused coaching - what to expect
Time to Think
My focus as a coach is on giving you time to think, allowing solutions and next steps to emerge from our conversations.
Practical Insight
I work with you to develop practical insights, and when appropriate to offer insight into other work, resources or tools, to help you find solutions to your leadership challenge.
A Way Forward
Together, we'll focus on developing practical next steps and applying practical approaches to the leadership challenges you've identified.
Coaching Packages
All coaching sessions are offered by Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams
6m
6-month Ordinary Leadership coaching package
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A 45-minute introduction conversation
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One 60-minute or two 30-minute coaching sessions per month
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Up to 6 complementary 30-minute check-in sessions to use in the 12 months following the final session
£1,500
Bespoke and on-demand coaching
Not all leadership questions or challenges need a structured coaching approach, so I also offer one-off or bespoke coaching.
£250 per hour
The Ordinary Leadership Framework
Grounded in my leadership experience and extensive research on what works to build leadership skills, I structure my approach to working with individuals and teams around four questions.
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How do I show up in this leadership role?
a. What makes me, me?
b. What is my purpose?
c. What are my default styles and techniques?
What is the current state of play?
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a. What is the current state of my team or organization?
b. What am I trying to change or improve?
What are the steps towards change?
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a. What is the end goal?
b. What needs to change to get there?
c. What is my role in creating this change?
What am I learning about myself and what comes next?
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a. What's changed in the organization?
b. What still needs to change?
c. What do i need to be accountable for?
Case Study: Nick's coaching journey
Uncertainty about his leadership style, personal brand, and desire to take on more responsibility brought Nick to Ordinary Leadership for coaching.​
​At the time, Nick was in a director-level role at a global multinational fast-moving consumer goods manufacturer. He was just below the C-suite, the company’s upper level of senior executives and managers. He had shown his leadership capabilities by successfully implementing a major IT project and other large-scale endeavors.​
But Nick felt stuck. He wanted a more senior, purpose-orientated role. He was unsure whether to leave the business to realize this ambition or try to progress in the company and how others perceived him.​
How Ordinary Leadership helped
Ben’s coaching helped Nick work through these challenges. Through their sessions, Nick better understood how he ‘shows up’ at work and how he approaches core leadership dilemmas like team alignment. Ben supported Nick to envisage what a more purpose-orientated career could look like, and the ways in which he could reposition himself to step into such a role. By listening to and reflecting back the emerging ideas issues Nick was facing, Ben supported Nick to explore these challenges with honesty and openness, and to challenge his thinking.
Ben helped Nick identify that his default approach to managing conflict was to build consensus and use humor to diffuse tension. Drawing on his extensive professional experience and grasp of conflict-resolution theory, Ben enabled Nick to understand the motivations behind this approach and how it can hinder effective team and organizational working. Ben gave Nick some practical ways to recognize when this default behavior surfaces. Together, they co-created different ways for Nick to manage conflict, aligned to his personality and ethos.
The impact
The coaching sessions have already made a significant difference to Nick’s life. “I reflected on the points we discussed in our session and have got a new role in my organization, which allows me to use my potential to do what genuinely is purposeful for me,” he says. “…[Ben] helped me think through what’s really important to me.”
Nick has now moved into a more senior role within his company – a role he has been able to shape and create. His ability to manage conflict more effectively and a stronger personal brand is also helping to position him as a potential candidate for the C-Suite in the next few years.
The name used in this case study has been changed to protect confidentiality.
Interested in knowing more about leadership coaching and how you can grow as a leader?
Let's connect
Are you trying to bring about change?
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Do you want to work with someone who looks outside the box?
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Are you looking for someone who will adapt to your needs and way of working and won’t bring in 'fix' or standard frameworks?
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Would you like to work with someone who gets the challenge of balancing the practical realities of working in a medium-sized organization with the human side of leading day to day?
Then, let’s connect.
I’m here to listen, focus on understanding your challenge, and provide practical insight on where to go next.