Executive Coaching

Mid-career can be a pivotal moment—a time when you find yourself facing new or complex leadership challenges, seeking renewed clarity, or questioning your life and career direction. This is also a time of life when there are increased pressures, changes, and competing priorities which can leave even the most accomplished professionals feeling stuck or stretched thin.

This is where my Executive Growth Coaching comes in. I offer a confidential space for you to pause, reflect, and work through knotty leadership and life issues. As your trusted guide, I’ll help you regain clarity, reframe perspectives, and realign your focus so you can lead with greater impact, purpose, and fulfillment.

What is different about working with me? I draw on real-world, high-stakes leadership experience. This includes being a senior diplomat, leading a multi-million dollar international expansion project, building and leading teams across cultures and countries, and gleaning insight by working with innumerable CEOs as they navigate international risk.

My journey across 25 countries as an international diplomat was not just an external, adventurous career but also an inner odyssey of growth and reinvention. I’ve navigated uncertainty, worked through dark times, and found a way forward through struggle and self-reflection. My coaching approach stems from the same proven techniques and processes that enabled professional milestones and personal transformation.

I coach from authenticity and experience, not from theoretical knowledge or certifications. This means I draw the best out of you rather than impart knowledge or expertise. I come alongside you as a trusted friend and guide, offering a unique combination of insight, encouragement, and practical tools to help you reframe perspectives, overcome barriers, and achieve clarity.

This isn’t a one-size-fits-all program. Our work together will be a customized roadmap designed specifically for your journey, considering your challenges, strengths, aspirations, and context. If you’re ready to reignite your career and life, regain purpose, and move forward with confidence, I’m here to help you unlock your potential.

Executive Coaching Components

1. Welcome Survey

You will complete an online reflection survey to help me understand your goals, challenges and context. We’ll also have a initial welcome session to dig deeper into the survey and get comfortable with each other.

2. Plan Development

I analyze your survey responses and welcome session reflections to develop a custom coaching plan that aligns with your unique needs and aspirations. We’ll review and refine it together to ensure it’s the right fit.

3. Session Preparation

Before each session, you’ll receive curated readings and exercises to help you reflect deeply and prepare the coaching session.

4. Coaching Sessions

Through 6–8 sessions, 1-hour in length, I’ll take you through a topical journey using guided reflection, thoughtful questions, discussion, and practical insights. The topics for each session will have been identified in your Welcome Survey and tailored to your priorities.

5. Session Follow-Up

After each session, you’ll receive actionable assignments to apply what you’ve learned in real-life situations—ensuring tangible progress and lasting impact.

6. Action

Together, we’ll create a holistic action plan to implement your insights and strategies in both your professional and personal life. When our formal coaching is complete, we’ll schedule brief “check-ins” for motivation and action plan adjustments.

What Clients Have Said

  • Provincial Government Manager

    Over the past number of years, I'd been striving to achieve two specific professional advancements. I'd engaged a number of coaches but wasn't able to accomplish my goals. I connected with Aaron and, with his sage advice, experience and process, I accomplished those goals as well as another key breakthrough. At the mid-career stage and working within a context that has undergone a significant paradigm shift that created sensitive career challenges, Aaron was the trustworthy person I needed to navigate those challenges. I felt very comfortable and supported by him.

  • CEO, UK Economic Development Agency

    I have enjoyed working with Aaron over recent months on both strategic organisational development and personal leadership. Aaron’s consultative approach has been invaluable as I refine my priorities for Manchester’s future inward investment activity. He has also helped me think about my own personal growth and style during my first year in post as Managing Director. Alongside productive structured discussions I have also appreciated Aaron’s approach to follow up and feedback as it has allowed us to track progress and build thinking.