Performance Coaching
Transform Your Leadership Presence with Expert Performance Coaching
Are you a senior executive struggling to get your point across? Do presentations and board meetings leave you feeling anxious rather than confident? You're not alone. As a Harley Street performance coach, I help ambitious leaders like you develop unshakeable professional presence and achieve peak performance when it matters most.
What Makes Coaching for Performance Different?
Traditional coaching focuses on surface-level skills, but real transformation happens when we work together and address the psychological and physiological aspects of performance. My coaching sessions combine advanced therapeutic techniques with a deep understanding of the nervous system to create lasting change.
Coaching for Performance: The Process
My coaching process follows a structured yet flexible framework that adapts to your unique performance needs. Unlike generic coaching models, this approach targets the root causes of performance anxiety and builds sustainable confidence from the ground up. Most conventional performance coaching is “top-down”; it tries to install ‘mental toughness’, ‘unshakeable confidence’ (insert the buzzword of the moment), without addressing the root causes of serious performance blocks like insecurity and anxiety. You've probably tried that top-down approach and found it didn't produce the desired results. “Just tell yourself you're powerful, confident, fearless”.: It’s not that simple. My approach works with the reality of how humans are wired psychologically and physiologically. Not an idealised but unrealistic model that treats you like a computer that can just have a new program installed. Humans are not machines. And we need to work with the body, the nervous system and the brain before we can optimise your performance. All of you has to be on board
Phase 1: Performance Assessment & Goal Setting
We start by identifying your specific performance challenges through a detailed analysis of your current leadership skills and communication skills. Clear goal setting with defined objectives ensures we're aligned on what ultimate success looks like for you. This goal clarity forms the foundation of our coaching relationship.
Phase 2: Nervous System Reset
Using proven techniques and coaching methods, we reset your body's stress response. This isn't just about mindset—it's about rewiring your physiological reactions to pressure. The methodology behind this approach addresses performance issues at their source. If you want to demonstrate your professional expertise optimally, your brain and body need to be on board. You need to feel safe in the arena.
Phase 3: Skill Development & Practice
Through targeted skills training and practice, you'll develop authentic leadership presence. We focus on skill development that enhances your natural abilities rather than forcing artificial behaviours.
Phase 4: Real-World Application
Every session includes action planning and accountability measures. You'll receive ongoing support and fine-tuning to ensure continuous performance improvement in real situations.
Is This Transformative Performance Coaching for You?
My performance coaching programme is particularly well-suited to the following scenarios:
C-Suite Leaders and Senior Executives
If you're facing high-pressure board presentations, investor meetings, or media interviews, my performance coaching programme will help you command any room with natural authority. Past clients have successfully delivered keynotes, boardroom presentations, panels, town halls, fireside chats and radio and TV appearances.
Emerging Leaders in Transition
Moving into more visible roles? My leadership development approach builds the embodied confidence and performance you need to succeed. We'll work on your communication skills and develop the powerful leadership skills that make others want to follow you.
Teams Preparing for Major Presentations
Whether it's a crucial pitch or company-wide keynote, teams benefit from understanding performance principles and developing real resilience. This creates a supportive culture that drives collective success.
The Science Behind Peak Performance
My methods are grounded in coaching psychology and neuroscience. When you understand how your nervous system responds to pressure, you can learn to work with it rather than against it. This creates performance improvement, and you can make the most of opportunities so you don't stay stuck or fall behind.
Key Performance Areas We Address:
Executive Presence & Authority
Natural confidence that doesn't require "fake it till you make it"
Authentic leadership that feels good to you and those you work with
Employee engagement through crystal clear and compelling communication
Self-awareness that allows you to adapt your approach to any situatio
High-Stakes Performance
Clear and nimble thinking under pressure
Productivity that doesn't suffer when the stakes are high
Tangible results that speak for themselves
Communication Mastery
Communication skills that connect and persuade
Feedback delivery that motivates rather than deflates
Mentorship abilities that develop others
Coaching engagement that brings out the best in your team
Proven Coaching Models & Frameworks
My approach integrates intelligent coaching models tailored to executive needs:
The Nervous System Performance Model This foundational framework addresses the physiological aspects of performance anxiety. By understanding your unique stress patterns, we can create targeted interventions that deliver rapid results.
The Authentic Leadership Framework Rather than forcing you into a predetermined mould, this model helps you discover and amplify your natural leadership style. This builds genuine personal and professional confidence that others can sense immediately. Our nervous systems respond well to naturally confident and competent people. We want to be around them, follow them and do business with them. Inversely, if someone doesn’t feel safe, confident or congruent, it puts us on edge, we may not even consciously know why.
The Pressure Performance Protocol Specifically designed for high-stakes situations, this model teaches you to expand your safe zone and feel you belong in the room. You'll learn to maintain peak performance regardless of external pressures.
The Sustainable Success SystemLong-term performance improvement requires systems that support ongoing growth. I aim to support you as long as you need to achieve your goals, but no longer. The ultimate result is to create true independence for you.
Real Results from Real Leaders
From severe anxiety to peak performance and confidence.
“I nail the presentation. Like utterly nail it. So much so I’m being asked to present in front of 1,000’s on behalf of my company because I was “so good”.
nail this too, with zero clue where my nerves, the puking, the miserable worried person walking the house at night for weeks prior, the obsessive preparer has gone!!!
This kind, gentle, skilful lady works utter magic.
A world of possibilities and potential has opened up thanks to her. “
– Global VP, Financial Services
performance improvement plan
The performance improvement plan we develop together is based on your specific objectives and performance needs. Every element is designed to create measurable results that compound over time.
What You'll Achieve:
Performance and confidence that feels natural and authentic
Leadership skills that inspire others to follow
Communication skills that connect and persuade
Self-awareness and self-mastery that allow you to adapt to any situation
Productivity that doesn't suffer under pressure
Employee growth mindset that develops others
Motivation that comes from internal alignment rather than external pressure
The Coaching Environment
Our sessions take place in a supportive coaching environment designed to accelerate learning and transformation. Whether we work together in person on Harley Street or virtually*, you'll have my complete attention and expertise focused on your professional development. *I can also travel to your offices by special arrangement.
The accountability built into our process ensures you continue making progress between sessions. This isn't just about our time together – it's about creating lasting change in how you show up as a leader.
Ready to Transform Your Leadership Presence?
If you're ready to stop letting anxiety limit your career progression and start commanding rooms with natural authority, let's talk. My performance coaching strategies have helped executives worldwide deliver lasting results.
The investment in yourself pays dividends across every area of your professional and personal life. When you develop unshakeable confidence and authentic presence, opportunities that seemed impossible suddenly become achievable.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A: Most clients notice significant performance improvement within the first three sessions. The nervous system responds quickly to the right interventions, and you should start feeling more confident and relaxed early on in the process. Long-term skill development and leadership development continue to build over our work together.
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A: Unlike traditional coaching skills training that focuses only on surface behaviours and “mindset”, I address the root causes of visceral performance anxiety. This creates results that last because we're changing how your nervous system responds to pressure.
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A: I can work with both. Individual coaching practice creates deep personal transformation, while team coaching develops team culture, performance and employee engagement. Teams often have challenges with outside stressors as well as internal factors. Self-regulation is key to peak performance and resilience. I have worked with teams in sectors ranging from medicine to politics.
Most clients start individually and then discreetly recommend me to their colleagues
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A: Success is measured through both objective performance data and subjective confidence levels. We track specific objectives you set during our goal-setting process, and I provide regular feedback on your progress.
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A: Most transformational work happens over 2-6 months, with sessions ideally every 1 or 2 weeks. This allows time for integration and practice between sessions while maintaining momentum. The exact timeline depends on your performance needs and objectives, and availability.
Ready to transform how you show up as a leader?
Let's discuss how my performance coaching programme can help you achieve the confidence and presence you've always wanted.
Book your confidential consultation today and discover what's possible when anxiety transforms into authentic authority and optimal performance.
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Performance Equals Potential Minus Interference.
I invite you to consider, without the interference, without the anxiety…
What would be possible for you?
Let’s realise your true potential.