Leadership
Executive Coaching
Confidential, commercially grounded support for senior leaders carrying significant responsibility.
The challenge
What we usually find
- A senior leader is stepping into a larger role, a new organisation or a period of significant change.
- The demands of the role have outgrown the habits that made someone successful so far.
- There is nobody inside the organisation with whom it is safe to think out loud.
What good looks like
Where organisations want to get to
- Leaders make better decisions, faster, with clearer judgement about people and priorities.
- Coaching connects to real organisational outcomes, not only personal reflection.
- The leader's team feels the difference.
In practice
Executive coaching in the context of the business
The senior leaders we coach are usually dealing with much more than a personal development objective. They may have taken on a bigger role, be leading significant change, dealing with a difficult commercial situation or trying to work through an issue within their leadership team. Sometimes they simply need somewhere they can think properly, challenge their own assumptions and talk openly about decisions they cannot easily discuss elsewhere.
Our coaching reflects that reality. Conversations can move between strategy, people, commercial performance, stakeholders, leadership and the individual's own effectiveness because those issues rarely arrive neatly separated in senior roles. Stuart and Andy bring their own experience of leading, building and advising organisations to the conversation, while recognising that the purpose of coaching is to help the leader reach better decisions rather than to make those decisions for them.
How Clemorton helps
The way we work
- Coaching from practitioners who have led, built and advised organisations themselves.
- A focus on the leader's actual agenda: strategy, team, stakeholders, performance.
- Clear contracting with the leader and, where appropriate, the organisation.
Related insights
Thinking on this topic
Practitioner-led
Work directly with Stuart & Andy
Clemorton is led by Stuart Maddocks and Andy Clemson, who have worked together for more than 25 years. The people you speak to at the beginning remain involved in the work, bringing their own experience of leadership, strategy, transformation and growth to the challenges you are dealing with.