Leadership Coaching

Who Works With a Leadership Coach?

I work as an executive leadership coach with CEOs of small, medium and large organisations. I provide leadership development coaching to senior managers and directors and members of the leadership team.

I also provide face to face leadership coaching and online leadership coaching to people in any profession or function who have ambition and talent and aspire to leadership roles.

Why Work With a Leadership Coach?

All the old certainties of business and organisational life have gone. Our world changes rapidly and unpredictably in response to the complex interaction of economic, technological, social, political, environmental and legal (PESTLE factors).

Against this backdrop how can you lead? The stakes seem high and making decisions often feels extremely risky.

The model of Adaptive Leadership* has much to offer current and aspiring leaders in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. However, sometimes aspects of other models of leadership may also help you be an effective and authentic leader and therefore I also include them in my leadership coaching and training.

If You Experience any of the Following,
​Leadership Coaching Will be Invaluable​
  • ​You need to lead continuous or near continuous change in your organisation.
  • You feel the loneliness of your role at the top of your organisation. You'd like to have a sounding board and get honest feedback for your initiatives, strategies and change interventions.
  • You are new in a leadership post, need to develop your leadership skills further and make an impact in your first 100 days.
  • You'd like to become better at moving between 'observing the action' in your organisation so you can be aware of your responses, and being 'in the middle of the action' so you can relate and respond to those around you.
  • You'd like to build deeper and more effective relationships with your senior team and across your organisation.
  • You want to work 'below the surface' and identify your hidden patterns and blindspots. These are the areas that can inadvertently trip you up as a leader and even harm your reputation​​.

Adaptive Leadership Coaching Can Help You To :-

  • Determine whether your challenges are technical problems or adaptive challenges. Technical problems are simpler - you're typically dealing with change in a single part of the system and people generally accept the solution. By contrast an adaptive challenge can be hard to define, may relate to a system changing in multiple places and people may feel loss or resistance in relation to the change. Being able to diagnose an adaptive challenge will help you apply the measures that are most likely to deliver a good outcome.
  • Connect to your authentic self or essential core including your sense of purpose and deepest values. This will help ground you when you are dealing with volatile change so you will not be buffeted by the turbulence of change situations.
  • Develop a deep understanding of psychological change and how loss and the prospect of loss impacts people in organisations, so that you can keep people engaged and contributing to the future development of the organisation.
  • Work constructively with the conflict that arises in volatile, complex and uncertain situations so that you can harness that conflict to spark creativity and imaginative solutions.
  • Develop your own personal 'leadership practise’ so that you can tap into more of your mental, emotional and spiritual potential, work sustainably and avoid burnout.

If you feel it’s time to step up to effective leadership, let’s have a chat about your situation and how leadership coaching with me can support you as your leadership qualities emerge and grow and how I might help you fill any gaps in your practical leadership skills.

How Does Leadership Coaching Work?

We’ll have an exploratory session of TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership coaching – which is FREE. You’ll experience the leadership coaching relationship for yourself, so you’ll know how coaching with me feels for you.

Depending on your leadership development goals you can choose whether you would like your leadership coaching to help you over the short (6+ sessions) medium(12+ sessions) or longer term (40+sessions). 

My leadership coaching is highly bespoke. I hold a space for you, where you can increase your self-awareness and              self-knowledge, and allow your unique and authentic leader to emerge.

A flaw of some in-company leadership development programmes comes from the way in which they champion a prescribed list of ‘leadership behaviours’ that the organisation has identified as ‘desirable’. Such an approach may give would-be leaders a flavour of various qualities that have been identified in some successful leaders. However, that approach ignores the gifts of individual leaders; what is emerging for them in terms of their purpose and mission? What is authentic for them? And what is an authentic way for them to relate to the people around them?

I help leaders to gain clarity on their own purpose. I also help leaders hold ‘trifocal vision’; this means that at one and the same time they can be aware of three things: their long term vision for their organisation, the path they are constructing towards that vision, and the very next step that they need to take.

As your leadership coach I will never tell you what to do.  Leadership coaching provides a creative space where you can gain insight, identify areas of resistance, and work with that resistance in a creative way. I will help you by:-
  • Listening to you with empathy and without judgment so you feel supported.
  • Helping you to tap into more of your experience – mind, feelings and body which helps builds your   self-awareness
  • Asking you powerful questions which will help you gain insight.
  • Challenging you to self-reflect honestly and openly so you can become aware of old patterns that may not serve you in your leadership role.
  • Helping you tap in to your creativity and imagination so that you can access those resources when you desire and also model creative thinking for those around you.

What are the Additional Benefits of
​ Leadership Coaching?

Working with a executive leadership coach like me you'll gain :-
  • Leadership skills and the leadership mindset you need to tackle the complex challenges of the 21st century and position you for even more senior leadership roles.
  • Leadership skills required for you to steer your organisation through fast-changing markets and a landscape of disruptive technologies so that it survives and thrives.
  • Improved communication and relationship skills that will enable you to connect more empathically and deeply with others so you can co-create a successful future for your organisation. 
  • Greater self-knowledge and self-awareness which will make you a more confident and resilient leader.
  • Deeper connection to your authentic self and your purpose that will make your work more meaningful and fulfilling.

Don't Settle for Your Default Future ​- CREATE the One
​ You Want!​ 

Why Choose Trudy Lloyd as Your Leadership Coach?

  • I am trained in psychodynamic coaching which means I can help you work at depth and tackle the hard to reach issues that limit your performance and block you from tapping into your full potential. Specifically psychodynamic coaching can help you to uncover the area that is ‘unknown to self’ and ‘unknown to others’. By doing this you will increase your self-awareness and choices.
  • As a psychodynamic coach I work with the metaphor of the iceberg. I am particularly interested in working “below the surface” to help you increase your awareness of any blind spots – the areas that might trip you up if you don’t pay attention to them. 
  • Adaptive leadership requires creative thinking and creative problem-solving skills and adaptive leaders need to be able to facilitate a climate and culture in their organisation that supports creative thinking and innovation. As part of my MBA (Masters Degree in Business Administration) I undertook original research into enabling creativity, innovation and change in organisations. As the founder, managing director and lead trainer in an innovation consultancy I’ve helped many client companies increase the creative capability of their teams. As part of the leadership coaching process I can help you to build creativity and innovation capability in your organisation.
  • I have trained in psychosynthesis coaching. Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychotherapy and its models are particularly effective in helping people get in touch with their authentic values, authentic self and purpose which will help you liberate the adaptive leader in you. More about Trudy

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