Private executive coaching · Derby & worldwide
Success shouldn't cost you yourself.
Private 1:1 coaching for founders, leaders and executives who are doing brilliantly on paper and carrying too much.
Be seen. Be heard. Be who you truly are.
Connect Conversation: free, 60 minutes, no pitch. If it isn't right for you, I'll tell you.
Former COO·Co-founder of a boutique executive search firm·25 years’ commercial experience·ICF ACC·500+ coaching hours
Who it's for
You didn't sign up for this.
You signed up to play a big game. You knew it would be challenging. You didn't expect to be carrying quite so much.
From the outside, you're doing brilliantly. From the inside, everything depends on you.
The holiday spent checking your phone. Good people who still aren't stepping up. Ideas that never get implemented.
Nothing is wrong. It's just not how you thought it would be by this stage.
- Founders and business owners
- Leaders and executives
- Successful on paper, and carrying everything
You don't have to become less ambitious. You don't have to stop caring. You don't have to lower your standards.
Not everyone needs coaching, or is ready for it. If it isn't the right time, I'll tell you.
What changes
How it feels when the work lands.
Six shifts, in the order they tend to unfold. In real life, they sound like this.
- You're off autopilot.
You start noticing how you're really living, and what you actually want.
You stop firefighting and put your time where it counts.
- You've made the decision.
The thing you've been circling finally moves, and so do you.
Decisions get made faster, and the business stops waiting on you.
- You don't have to hold it all together.
You say what's really going on, and people meet the real you.
Your team hears the real picture, and starts to carry some of it.
- You're back in charge of your choices.
You see where you have a choice. Not blame. Agency.
You choose where your week goes, rather than reacting to every demand.
- You look after yourself, without the guilt.
You take time for yourself again, and everyone around you gets more of you.
More energy and clearer judgement for the work only you can do.
- You connect with people, rather than assess them.
You give capable people room to be capable, at work and at home.
Your team takes more ownership, and you get time back for growth.
You have more say than you think.
Not so you can blame yourself. So you can see how much agency you really have.
How it works
How we work together.
Every other week, for an hour.
On Zoom from anywhere in the world, or in person in Derby. Enough time between sessions to live the work, not so much that we lose momentum.
Shaped by what you need.
No set programme, no predetermined path. You bring what matters most. You are in charge of your development.
Support between sessions.
If we're working together, I'm in your corner, and I'll support you between sessions where it's needed.
Time that's entirely yours.
An hour where nobody needs anything from you. You can think out loud, say what you can't say anywhere else, and have my full attention.
What it isn't
Not consultancy. Not a fixed programme.
I bring 25 years of commercial experience, perspective and challenge, but I won't take over your decisions or hand you a strategy deck. You're not a project to be fixed. My job is to help you find your own answers.
We can talk strategy, and we can talk about what's really going on underneath it. Sometimes you'll realise you already know exactly what needs to happen.
Investment
An investment in how you lead, and how you live.
A proposal shaped around you: private, fortnightly coaching, with support in between. The longer we work together, the deeper it goes: trust builds, patterns become clear, and change has time to be lived rather than simply understood.
A proposal shaped around you
Private 1:1 coaching.
£5,000
- Private 60-minute sessions, fortnightly
- Support between sessions
- Zoom worldwide or in person in Derby
I work with a small number of private clients, around twelve at any one time. That's what gives the work its depth.
What clients say
In their words.
Terra Machado“She helped me move beyond my immediate career frustrations and see a much deeper layer of what was going on: not just team dynamics or role fit, but a need for self-trust, self-love, and a stronger sense of agency in how I was showing up for myself. What felt like a career problem was actually a self-trust problem in disguise.”
Kate Clark“Beshlie is an amazing sounding board. She listens deeply and helped me to uncover thoughts I hadn't realised were available to me. Her energy is calm and the space she creates allows me to open up. I found clarity on something specific that had been swirling around my head. Thank you, Beshlie.”
What happens next
Three clear steps.
No pitch and no pressure. If it isn't right for you, I'll tell you.
- Step 1 · Free · 60 minutes
Connect Conversation
A proper picture of what's happening: what's working, what isn't, what's weighing on you and what you want to change.
- Step 2 · By invitation
Discovery Session
If we both want to explore further, I'll invite you to a session where you experience the coaching on something real.
- Step 3
Proposal
Only if it feels right for both of us: a proposal shaped around you.
Questions
Fair questions.
I've tried coaching before and it didn't stick.
That's worth talking about. A lot of coaching works on the outside: more plans, more systems, more pushing. You can delegate something and still not really let go of it.
This work starts on the inside, with how you're experiencing your success. When that shifts, the change tends to hold, because it's coming from you.
Isn't this just talking?
We do talk. But you bring what's real, and I bring my full attention, experience, questions and challenge. Then you choose what you're going to do and take it back into your business or your life.
Things start to move. That's the point.
What if I'm not sure I'm ready?
You don't have to be. That's what the Connect Conversation is for. Not everyone needs coaching, or is ready for it, and if it isn't the right time, I'll tell you.
If you'd like to start more quietly, the quiz is an honest first look at where you are.
Do I need to know what I want to work on?
No. What's the thing that, if you could put it down, would give you the most relief? That's often where we'll start.
Who's in your corner?
Start with one honest, free conversation about where you are and what you want.
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