Structure

A typical 9-month engagement looks something like this:

We begin with the Harthill Leadership Development Framework — a developmental psychometric that takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete, followed by a 2-hour debrief. This forms the foundation of the work that follows.

Thereafter, we meet monthly for eight sessions of 1.5 hours each.

Total commitment: 15.5 hours over 9 months.

Bespoke packages are available for those who want more regular contact between sessions.

Key aspects of the work

Working alliance

Central to effective outcomes is the creation of a container of psychological support between coach and client — a space in which honesty, risk and challenge are not just permitted but actively encouraged. Time spent building this is the single most important contributor to work that is truly transformational.

Harthill Leadership Development Framework

A developmental psychometric designed to surface and explore what drives your decision-making — both when you are at ease and when you are under pressure — and how you make meaning of your experience across different situations.

Themes that tend to emerge include: how equipped you are to deal with complex problems with adaptive rather than default solutions; how attached you are to being right; your tolerance for ambiguity; your relationship with outcomes; and the stories you tell yourself about your role in the world.

Gestalt and psychodynamic work

Geared towards surfacing elements of your unconscious and aspects of your shadow — the parts of ourselves that quietly shape how we think, lead and respond under pressure, often without our awareness. This will involve some or all of: analysis of strengths and limitations, exploring what triggers you and how you react, incorporating practices for self-regulation, and allowing space for emotion — learning to harness it rather than trying to block it out.

Neuroscience

Consideration of the involuntary physiological processes that occur under pressure, and how to notice and begin to work with them.

Systemic exploration

Looking at the forces and constraints inherent in the many systems within which you are embedded — organisational, relational, cultural — all of which will impact your work and your sense of yourself within it.

Experimentation

Incorporating new awareness into working life through iterative loops of feedback, review and adjustment. The emphasis throughout is on process rather than outcome.

In more detail

In practice, my work involves partnering with clients to bring into awareness the unconscious patterns and shadow elements that quietly shape how we think, lead and respond — often most visibly under pressure.

Through the Harthill framework, we explore the lens through which you see the world: how you make meaning of it, the narratives you carry about your role within it, and your capacity for adaptive problem-solving. This becomes the foundation for integrating new awareness into your work and life — with an emphasis on process rather than outcome.

The role of emotion is integral throughout. Over time, clients often evolve from seeking to suppress emotion towards a stance of harnessing and embodying it.

Working with me will involve the creation of a genuine container of psychological safety — built on a shared commitment to honesty, vulnerability and challenge. Alongside Gestalt, psychodynamics and a systemic lens, I also draw on ideas from neuroscience, sports psychology, the practice of mastery, and flow.

This is work I am passionate about, and that I have trained specifically to do.