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Private executive coaching · Derby & Zoom

Private coaching for leaders who carry everything.

You're a founder or business owner who's built something real, with people, ambition and a lot resting on you. You might come about recruitment, cash flow, a big decision or pressure that's following you home. We start there, and work on how you see yourself and how you show up, because that's what changes how you lead, work and live.

Connect Conversation: free, 60 minutes, no pitch. If it isn't right for you, I'll tell you.

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Former COO·Co-founder of a boutique executive search firm·25 years’ commercial experience·ICF ACC·500+ coaching hours

Sound familiar?

From the outside, you're doing brilliantly. From the inside, you're carrying all of it.

  • You've built something that works, and it all runs through you.
  • Everyone leans on you. There's no one you really lean on.
  • You hit the goal, and the relief lasts about a day.
  • And at some point, it comes home with you.

The cost of success

Success that arrives and feels like nothing.

A client had wanted a Maserati for years. He'd worked for it, and promised himself it would be the moment he finally felt he'd made it.

He got the keys, climbed in and waited to feel something. Nothing happened.

Nothing was wrong with the car, or with him. He was looking outside for something that was never going to come from there.

I see versions of this with some of the leaders I work with. Success on the outside doesn't settle what's going on inside.

The next level isn't more.
It's coming back to who you are.

How you see yourself shapes how you lead. That's not blame. It's power: if it's coming from you, you can change it.

What changes

How it feels when the work lands.

Not overnight, and not by trying harder. You come off autopilot, make the decision you've been circling, stop holding it all together, and give capable people room to be capable.

See the six shifts →

Not ready to talk yet?

Where are you, honestly?

A free, five-minute quiz to take an honest look at where you are and where you might be stuck. No right answers, just honest ones.

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Working together

Private coaching, one to one.

Private 1:1 coaching

Six or twelve months of sustained work with the whole person: how you think, lead and live. You're not a project to be fixed. My job is to help you find your own answers.

Fortnightly private sessions · Support between sessions · Zoom or in person in Derby

Investment

Packages start from £5,000

How private 1:1 coaching begins

  1. 01
    Connect ConversationFree, 60 minutes. An honest look at where you are. No pitch.
  2. 02
    Discovery SessionIf we both want to explore further, I'll invite you to a session where you experience the coaching on something real.
  3. 03
    ProposalOnly if it's right for both of us. If it isn't, I'll tell you.
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Beshlie is excellent. I am very difficult to coach, yet she was somehow able to get me to engage with her process properly and, most impressively of all, she was bold enough to challenge me when I was being a hypocrite.
Phil Tyreman
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About Beshlie

I understand success from the inside.

For 20 years in recruitment, executive search and business leadership, I sat across from very successful people. I saw what sat behind the success, and how often everything depended on them.

Now I coach founders, leaders and executives to do the deeper work.

More about me →
It was a timely gift to work with Beshlie. Each coaching session, she brought a remarkable blend of wisdom, keen listening skills, and a deep enthusiasm for me and my vision. Notably, my vision became much clearer after working with her - she has a real gift for helping uncover what matters most.
Bobby Hulme-Lippert

Start with one honest conversation.

Sixty minutes, free, about you and where you are. No pitch and no pressure. If coaching with me isn't right for you, I'll tell you.

Free · 60 minutes · Zoom or in person in Derby · Places are limited

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