Leadership Coaching Programme - Individual or Group

Leadership transitions expose the real strengths and gaps in your senior team. Our coaching work is designed to give founders, CEOs and senior leaders the space, challenge and support they need to lead confidently through change. Whether you are stepping back, stepping up or reshaping your top team, coaching ensures the transition isn’t left to chance.

At Churchgate Consulting, coaching is not a stand‑alone intervention; it is integrated with your succession and leadership strategy. We work primarily with founders of mid‑sized businesses and their incoming leaders, focusing on what happens before, during and after a leadership handover.

You can expect:

• Commercially grounded conversations rooted in real succession and search experience.
• A confidential sounding board for complex decisions, people issues and board dynamics.
• Practical tools to translate insight into clear action and measurable behavioural change.
• A tailored, discreet service aligned with your culture, pace, and long‑term ambitions.

Our one‑to‑one executive coaching supports three critical leadership moments: preparing to hand over, stepping into a bigger role, and stabilising performance after change.

Typical outcomes include:

• Greater clarity on role, priorities and decision‑making.​
• Stronger leadership presence and communication with key stakeholders.​
• Improved ability to lead through uncertainty, conflict and organisational change.
• A realistic, sustainable plan for your next chapter as a founder or senior leader.

A standard engagement runs over 3–6 months and may include stakeholder input, leadership assessments and focused sessions around specific objectives such as succession, strategy execution, or team performance.

Group coaching brings your senior leaders together to work on real business challenges in a structured, facilitated environment. Unlike training alone, it combines peer learning, honest dialogue and targeted coaching to build the collective capability your strategy requires.

Group coaching is ideal when you want to:

• Align a leadership team around a new CEO, strategy or ownership structure.
• Break down silos and improve collaboration, trust and accountability.​
• Develop a pipeline of future successors for critical roles.​
• Create a safe space for leaders to test ideas, share experience and support each other.

Sessions are typically structured around anchor themes such as “leading through succession”, “owning the P&L”, or “from founder‑led to professionally managed”, blending facilitation, short inputs, reflection and peer coaching.

Every engagement is designed around your context, but our approach usually follows three steps.

1. Discovery
   We clarify your objectives, current situation and success measures, speaking with key stakeholders where helpful.
2. Design
   We agree the focus areas, format (1:1, group, or a blend), cadence and any assessments or diagnostics.
3. Delivery & Review
   Coaching sessions take place in person or virtually, with regular check‑ins to track progress and adjust as your needs evolve.

Executive and group coaching with Churchgate is especially effective if:

• You are a founder planning succession in the next 6–36 months.
• A new leader has been appointed and you want them, and the team around them, to succeed quickly.
• You can see the potential in your leaders, but capacity, confidence or alignment is holding them back.

If you would like to explore whether coaching is the right next step, we can start with a confidential conversation about your goals and context, with no obligation to proceed.