Executive Coaching
From Day One Through To Exit: Coaching for Every Critical Moment
The Coaching Challenge
Portfolio company success isn't determined by capital alone, it’s determined by leadership quality and execution speed.
Leadership teams transitioning through venture capital or private equity funding cycles regularly need to navigate rapid organisational expansion and learning new roles, while still delivering on the investment thesis.
High growth companies operate under distinctive pressures that traditional executive coaching doesn’t address. We work with founders, boards and leadership teams to help navigate the dual accountability conundrum - ambitious targets and board expectations.
We work with:
Portfolio company CEOs managing operational performance while satisfying PE board expectations.
Functional executives scaling critical capabilities (CFO, COO, Chief Commercial Officer) during transformational growth.
Newly appointed leaders in their critical first 100 days post-investment or promotion.
Founder-CEOs evolving their leadership as their companies scale.
Executive teams aligning around strategic priorities and building collaborative capability.
PE sponsors & boards who recognise leadership quality as a core value driver.
Our Coaching Process
Phase 1: Discovery & Assessment
Establish context, diagnose challenges, and align on success criteria through initial meetings and feedback collection.
Phase 2: Strategy & Planning
Create a joint roadmap with portfolio leader and PE sponsor that connects coaching objectives to value creation priorities and defines measurable milestones.
Phase 3: Active Coaching
Deliver intensive, real-time coaching support through regular sessions that build capabilities, address challenges, and track progress against agreed metrics.
Phase 4: Impact & Integration
Transition to strategic touchpoints as behavioural change becomes sustainable, measure return on investment, and embed coaching benefits across the organisation.
Without scaling the leader first, business growth often creates bottlenecks, misalignment, and burnout
Coaching For Your Pace of Growth
Most executive coaches work with legacy organisations where change happens in quarters. High-Growth businesses operate in months. Our Executive Coaching is designed specifically for scale-ups and high-growth businesses facing a unique set of “growing pains”.
The pressure to simultaneously scale operations, culture, and revenue often breaks the existing leadership structures.
These are often the friction points that trigger the need for external intervention:
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Founders often struggle to shift from "builder" (hands-on, involved in everything) to "architect" (designing systems, delegating). This leads to bottlenecks where the founder can become the constraint on growth.
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As a company scales (e.g. Series B/C), it needs professional C-suite talent (CFOs, CROs) who bring process and rigour. Early employees (the "Old Guard") often feel sidelined when onboarding new hires.
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Private Equity and VC backers demand aggressive growth targets (EBITDA, ARR). Technical or product-focused founders often struggle to speak the "language of value creation" that investors require.
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In high growth, the volume of decisions increases exponentially. Leadership teams without clear decision-making frameworks often fall into "fire-fighting" mode, losing sight of the 12-24 month strategic horizon.
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What worked at 20 people rarely works at 150. Without a deliberate approach to structure, management capability, and succession, organisations become slow, political, and confusing as they grow. This costs time, talent, and ultimately valuation.
We recognise that every leadership challenge is distinct. Our executive coaching programmes are custom-designed around your unique obstacles and strategic priorities, delivering bespoke solutions that drive measurable results and real transformation.
