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Practical coaching for real-world challenges, change and complexity

If there is an opportunity you want to grasp, a challenge you are grappling with, or you’re feeling overwhelmed and stuck, Harriet can help you see things in a radically fresh light. She’ll help you remove roadblocks and take action. She’ll support you every step of the way whilst holding you to account.

Who would benefit from Harriet’s coaching?

  • Chief Execs wanting to keep sharpening the saw
  • ELT members facing pressure from above and below
  • Newly promoted leaders needing to rise to the challenge
  • High potentials needing to be match-fit for leadership

Why Harriet?

Warm

Coachees consistently feedback that Harriet is funny, friendly and relaxed. She won’t let you off the hook, but she holds you to account with empathy and motivation.

Straightforward

Harriet’s style is down-to-earth. She’ll encourage you to explore real-world examples and take pragmatic action.

Practical

Harriet has a bulging toolkit of exercises and strategies to share. She draws on her bestselling book, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Her MSc in Neuroscience and Psychology, the many leadership courses she’s designed and run… and much more…

Business Savvy

Harriet has a twenty-year track record in the corporate world. She understands the messy realities of board meetings, performance appraisals, challenging KPIs and everything in between.

 

"A real step change…helped me to move up to the next level effectively."

Sue Harries, Kingfisher ecommerce Director

“Harriet is a great listener and effective in quickly building rapport and trust. After every session, I felt energised, inspired and fully committed to develop as a leader.”

Przemek Milewicz, Head of Strategy SSE

“Working with Harriet has been helpful and enjoyable. Harriet is great at challenging you, your thoughts and behaviour, while also guiding you to arrive at positive ways forward. I always come out of my sessions feeling heard, understood and energised."

“Harriet listens to the jumble of competing thoughts in my head and then somehow manages to distil into one or two things and then hand out assignments for handling them! What a skill! All with the right balance of sensitivity and good humour.”

“Harriet consistently provided a great balance of support, challenge and reflection. I hugely valued our time together, always looking forward to our conversations and always leaving with new insight and a renewed energy and commitment to me and my business. The best coaches can immediately create a space where you feel safe to be completely yourself, both honest and at times vulnerable, and Harriet absolutely did that.”

“Harriet has been a fantastic coach for me - easy to talk to (and open up to), honest, pragmatic and no-nonsense. She always approaches areas with good humour and offers invaluable perspectives.”

“Harriet has been a fantastic coach for me - easy to talk to (and open up to), honest, pragmatic and no-nonsense. She always approaches areas with good humour and offers invaluable perspectives.”

“… so beneficial for me, smoothing this massive life transition and empowering me to tackle my own fears holding me back…Your energy, holistic approach, humour and warmth are a fantastic combination of elements which make for real progress, achievable goals, bespoke strategies and confidence-building in exponential steps.”

“Harriet is a pleasure to work with: she's structured, supportive, really good at picking difficult issues apart, and enabling you to find strategies which are right for your own work stage and situation. She picks up on throw-away comments which are really the heart of the matter, and her meticulous attention to the whole picture means that topics can be ranked and addressed in order of priority. Utterly brilliant.”

“I'm incredibly grateful for the support and coaching from Harriet. Each of my sessions with Harriet helped me to work through the challenges I'd been facing - including any recent things which had popped up since our last session. Our sessions were always informal and flexible, which made tackling/discussing things as they came up very easy. Our sessions flowed, as did our conversations, always with a bit of humour and ending with practical tips to help me conquer my challenges should they ever arise again. I recommend Harriet to anyone looking for coaching - a funny, compassionate and highly knowledgeable coach with whom I'll always stay in touch.”

Topics of Expertise

Prioritisation

Close the gap between what’s really important and how you focus your time and energy.

Resilience

Tame imposter syndrome and perfectionism. Master practical strategies for building confidence (without becoming an arrogant jerk).

Leadership

Delegating, cajoling, inspiring, motivating… Everything you need to bring your team with you and achieve results.

Performance under pressure

Bounce back when fate vomits on your duvet. Build habits so you thrive automatically.

Effective relationships

Build strong networks. Say what needs to be said in a way that’s heard. Manage tricky stakeholders.

Progression

Plan what’s next. Manage the transition from one role to another – or make a career switch.

Make it happen

Turn crazy goals into reality. Stick to habits. Take action.

Stop kidding yourself that overwhelm and hassle are unavoidable.

Get Harriet in your corner and unlock better performance, better resilience and better results – for you and your business.

✔️ You’ll be clear on what’s important

✔️ Your diary will reflect your priorities

✔️ You’ll have energy for both work and home

✔️ You’ll have habits in place that make great results happen automatically

✔️ Your team will be aligned and taking action

How does executive coaching work?

Coaching is entirely confidential.

It’s a chance for you to press ‘pause’ and reflect. Harriet’s not there to tell you what to do. She’s there to ask you searching questions to help you get clear on what’s important and what actions to take. She’s also there to hold you to account – to support you 100% to follow through on what you commit to doing.

The first step is a free chemistry call.

You and Harriet can decide if you’ll work well together and start to explore your coaching goals. If you decide to go ahead you’ll both commit to a ‘coaching contract’ outlining how you’ll get the best out of each other and to a maximum of three or four goals to work on

Next, it might be useful to get input from other people.

Is there a sponsor or manager who needs to know what you’re working on in the coaching? Would it be useful to get feedback from colleagues or clients? 

Next come the (typically 90-minute) coaching sessions. 

There are a minimum of six sessions and they are often spaced roughly a month apart – but the spacing depends entirely on what you are working on. Harriet will share supporting materials throughout the process: she has a suite of videos, exercises and pdfs to accelerate your progress.

Keep in touch with others throughout

Throughout the coaching period, you’ll be checking back in with other stakeholders if that’s relevant, including a celebratory catch-up after the final session to reflect on all you’ve learnt and congratulate yourself on the massive progress you’ve made. 

Interested?

Tell us a bit more about what you’d like to get from the coaching and have a no-strings-attached call with Harriet