A seasoned leadership coach, Sian has been working at senior levels for many years. She relishes the challenges of working with issues such as system change, power, relational politics, conflict and resistance, impact and influence. Whether teams or individuals, Sian supports her clients to focus on areas on which they can have impact, holding them to make the progress that is meaningful to them and necessary for their organisations.
This can be anything that senior leadership requires: effective handling of key stakeholders, negotiating tricky partnership or colleague relationships or working through cultural or system change which might involve delicate negotiation of people issues combined with steely strategic decision making. It could be helping teams to have the conversations that they have been avoiding but which are necessary. It could be tackling intra-personal challenges such as confidence or imposter syndrome which are holding a person back. Sometimes it is simply being the one person that a senior leader can safely unload onto.
She is regarded as a deeply compassionate and supportive coach, always mindful of the human condition we all share, but at the same time perceptive and challenging. She believes in the judicious the use of candour but is always kind with her directness. She draws on a range of coaching approaches, adapting her work in the moment to ensure the right results are achieved. This includes working with real-time feedback in session as she gets to know you, and acting as a strategic adviser, which many of her most senior clients value.
One of her clients recently said to her that coaching is not quite the right word for what she does as much of what she works with is the deeper stuff of what it is to be human. Leadership, especially at very senior levels, can be both tough-going and lonely. It can bring us face-to-face with our deepest vulnerabilities and fears, for instance when having to live with the consequences of hard decisions or holding tough conversations or learning to let go of the need for control when that feels like jumping off the edge of a precipice.
Sian can be a sounding board, a trusted friend and a reliable travel companion as you walk your personal and professional leadership path. She will also be your greatest cheerleader. She is wonderfully pragmatic and wants her clients to find every session useful, but she is not afraid of the deeper stuff of human experience. She has enough leadership and life experience of her own to know how it feels and how to support her clients in working productively through the difficult times. Ultimately the work will be focused on honing leadership skill, talent and energy so you can have greater impact, but hopefully along the way you can enjoy the scenery together – and you might even have some fun.
Sian has studied with the School of Coaching attaining a Certificate of Professional Development in Coaching; Strathclyde University, the Academy of Executive Coaching, NTL and The Centre of Systemic Constellations.
