Services
Working With Me
Tailored support for executives and leadership teams ready to realise their potential.
Executive Coaching
1:1 Partnership
Working together for 3, 6 or 12 months depending on your goals. Regular sessions of 60, 90 or 120 minutes, with availability via phone or email between sessions.
We’ll create a personalised development plan, with flexibility to adapt as your priorities evolve. Progress reviews ensure we’re always focused on what matters most.
Team & Board Development
Executive Facilitation
Facilitation for executive boards and senior leadership teams. Building cohesion, improving dynamics, and aligning around shared purpose.
From team diagnostics to strategic alignment workshops, I help leadership teams work through complexity and conflict to achieve breakthrough performance.
Leadership Programmes
Development Facilitation
Senior executive development facilitation. Designing and delivering programmes that create lasting change in leadership capability.
Bespoke programme design with action learning integration, focused on measurable outcomes and sustainable behaviour change.
The Grounding Steps Framework
From The Enlightened Organization ™ Catherine Berney 2014
I achieve impact with clients in part through The Grounding Steps Framework described in my book The Enlightened Organization. These are:
- Discovering Purpose. What is your goal and why?
- Developing Insight. What can we leverage and what is your stretch?
- Remaining Open. Being curious about your role and the broader context, partnering to notice what is emerging as opportunities and new possibilities, and
- Being Discerning. Focussing on meaningful actions towards realising your leadership potential and aspirations.
Purpose
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What is your goal? Your calling? Your intention? Your motivation for change? We begin by understanding what truly matters to you — not what others expect, but what you genuinely want for yourself and your leadership.
Insight
Cultivating Development Areas
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Where are you now in relation to that goal? Understand how to play into your natural strengths and learn to know and work with your potential areas for development. What assumptions can you release?
Openness
Spirit of Inquiry · Curiosity
“We make ourselves powerless when we choose not to know. But we give ourselves hope when we insist on looking. As all wisdom does, seeing starts with simple questions; what could I know, should I know, and that I don't know? Just what am I missing here?”
— Margaret Heffernan
Cultivate a spirit of inquiry and curiosity about yourself in role and in context. Ask yourself what best serves the purpose for both? Learn to be comfortable with not knowing, with uncertainties and doubts and become an astute observer of what challenges and opportunities are emerging? What new pathways and possibilities are opening up?
Discernment
Role · Wise Choices · Emergence
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness….the moment one definitely commits oneself, then provenance moves too… Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being courageous and taking wise steps toward your more fulfilled self. Letting go of old patterns of behaviour and assumptions that have held you back. Prototyping new and insightful ways of being, leading, and relating to those around you in order to realise your potential and purpose in role.
Ready to start your journey?
Every leader's path is unique. Let's explore what realising your potential might look like.
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