1:1 Coaching Partnership
Leading well shouldn't mean carrying it all alone.
For high-performing leaders delivering results, carrying responsibility and holding more than most people see. A confidential coaching partnership to help you understand what drives you, stay steady under pressure and lead with clarity, compassion and impact.
When responsibility grows, the pressure changes.
As responsibility grows, the work changes. You may still be performing and trusted, while quietly carrying it alone, snapping or finding it harder to switch off.
The Compassionate Leader partnership helps you understand what is happening beneath the surface, stay steady under pressure and lead with healthier impact.
Trusted by Leaders Under Pressure
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
“Matt coached our group during the IMD High Performance Leadership programme. He helped us process and apply what we were learning, challenged us when needed and quickly identified patterns that helped us see ourselves and our leadership more clearly.”
Ailene Brown - People-First Leader
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
“I worked with Matt through a period of change, balance and leadership challenge. He helped me feel heard while also challenging me to think differently, reconnect with what gives me energy and find more inspiration in both work and life.”
Maria Henderson-Protsik FCIPD
Annette Gevaert - Global Business Leader
Maria Henderson-Protsik FCIPD
“Matt creates the kind of coaching space where you can think clearly, reflect honestly and feel safe enough to explore what is really going on. His calm presence, deep listening and expertise in mental health and wellbeing helped create the conditions for meaningful reflection.”
Why Work with Matt?
IMD Executive Coach
Specialist Mental Health Consultant
Compassionate Inquiry-Informed
Regularly coaches leaders through IMD’s High Performance Leadership and Inspirational Leadership programmes. ICF accredited Coach.
Compassionate Inquiry-Informed
Specialist Mental Health Consultant
Compassionate Inquiry-Informed
Completed Dr Gabor Maté’s year-long professional Compassionate Inquiry training.
Specialist Mental Health Consultant
Specialist Mental Health Consultant
Specialist Mental Health Consultant
Experience across suicide prevention, postvention, leadership pressure and psychologically safer cultures.
The cost of carrying it alone
Many capable leaders learn to push through. They deliver, solve, hold things together and keep moving.
But over time, the cost can show up in energy, relationships, confidence, decision-making and the culture around them.
This work is about helping you stay steady under pressure, lead with clearer intent and stop carrying everything in a way that quietly drains you.
This may be for you if...
- You are carrying responsibility that is difficult to speak about elsewhere.
- You are performing externally but running on fumes internally.
- You are always firefighting and rarely getting space to lead properly.
- You have noticed yourself snapping, withdrawing, over-controlling or avoiding conversations.
- You want to lead with more clarity, courage and compassion.
What We Work On
Understand what is driving you
Understand what is driving you
Understand what is driving you
Notice the patterns, triggers, and protective strategies that shape how you lead under pressure.
Stay steady under pressure
Understand what is driving you
Understand what is driving you
Build tools to regulate your response before pressure spills into your decisions, conversations or team.
Lead the conversations you avoid
Build trust without losing accountability
Build trust without losing accountability
Strengthen your ability to challenge, listen, repair, give feedback and hold brave conversations.
Build trust without losing accountability
Build trust without losing accountability
Build trust without losing accountability
Lead with care and courage, without rescuing, avoiding, over-functioning or becoming overly controlling.
Choose Your Partnership
Foundation
Foundation
Foundation
3 months
Focused support for a specific leadership challenge, pressure point or transition.
Best for: clarity, momentum and a defined next step.
Growth
Foundation
Foundation
6 months
Deeper coaching for leaders who want to change how they respond, communicate and lead under pressure.
Best for: sustained behavioural change.
Strategic
Foundation
Strategic
12 months
Long-term executive coaching for senior leaders carrying complexity, responsibility and sustained pressure.
Best for: ongoing leadership growth with a trusted thinking partner.
How it works
1. Confidential consultation
We begin with a conversation to understand your context and whether the partnership is the right fit.
2. Coaching rhythm
If we decide to work together, we agree the focus, session rhythm and boundaries of the work.
3. Regular coaching and review
Sessions take place online, with space to reflect, act, review and apply the work to real leadership situations.
Start leading differently.
If you recognise yourself in this page, the next step is a confidential conversation.
Investment
This is a serious coaching partnership for leaders carrying serious responsibility. The investment reflects the depth of the work, the level of support and the impact stronger leadership can have on performance, relationships and long-term sustainability.
Partnerships start from £2,400 + VAT.
Bespoke senior executive and organisational partnerships are available on request.
About Matt
I'm an ICF-accredited Executive Coach, Compassionate Inquiry-trained, working with senior leaders and executives across the UK and internationally.
I coach on IMD's High Performance Leadership programme, consult on mental health and suicide postvention, and have spent over a decade in this work.
A few important notes
This is not therapy
This is executive coaching, not therapy, counselling, clinical treatment or crisis support.
The work is confidential
The coaching space is private, with professional boundaries agreed clearly from the start.
We decide fit together
The first conversation is to understand your context and decide whether this partnership is the right next step.