Specialist Coaching
What Is Specialist coaching?
Specialist coaching addresses specific situations, populations, or development themes requiring coaches with particular expertise, lived experience, or deep understanding of unique contexts. This goes beyond general development to provide targeted support for complex or sensitive situations.
Our specialist coaching offering recognises that certain development needs benefit from coaches who bring specific backgrounds, expertise, or personal experience enabling deeper understanding and more effective support.
Who This Serves
- Individual Contributors
- Emerging Leaders
- Middle Leaders
Specialist coaching areas
Career & Life Transitions
Parental Leave Transitions. Supporting people through maternity, paternity, or adoption leave with coaching before, during, and after leave. Addresses career planning, identity shifts, work-life integration, and confident return to work.
Retirement Planning & Transition. Helping senior people prepare for and navigate retirement, addressing identity, purpose, legacy, and life structure beyond corporate roles.
Menopause Support. Confidential coaching for people navigating menopause, addressing symptom management, workplace challenges, confidence, and career planning during this significant life transition.
Career Pivots & Changes. Supporting people considering or making significant career changes, whether moving functions, industries, or questioning career direction entirely.
Function-Specific Expertise
Sales Development. Coaching from former sales executives addressing sales strategy, team performance, pipeline management, client relationships, and transitioning from individual contributor to sales leader.
Product Development. Coaching from experienced product leaders addressing product strategy, stakeholder management, prioritisation, team development, and navigating product organisation dynamics.
Technology Development. Coaching from senior technology leaders addressing technical strategy, team building, business partnership, and transitioning from technical individual contributor to technology executive.
Finance Development. Coaching from CFOs and finance executives addressing strategic finance, business partnership, commercial acumen, and finance leadership development.
Performance & Wellbeing
Performance Improvement Coaching. Structured coaching addressing performance challenges with clear goals, accountability, progress tracking, and development planning. Often involves three-way contracting with manager.
Resilience & Stress Management.Coaching helping people manage pressure, prevent burnout, build sustainable work practices, and develop emotional regulation and mental health awareness.
Executive Presence & Impact. Intensive coaching on presence, gravitas, communication impact, and senior stakeholder engagement for people preparing for more senior roles.
Confidence Building. Coaching specifically addressing imposter syndrome, self-doubt, assertiveness, and building authentic confidence in capabilities.
Organisational Context
Merger & Acquisition Integration. Coaching for people navigating M&A complexity, addressing cultural integration, managing ambiguity, leading through change, and building new stakeholder relationships.
Restructure & Redundancy. Coaching supporting people through restructures, whether leading redundancy processes, personally at risk, or navigating survivor syndrome.
Crisis & Change Navigation. Intensive coaching for people managing significant crises or transformation initiatives requiring rapid capability building and ongoing support.
Delivery approaches
Individual Specialist Coaching
One-to-one coaching matching individuals with coaches who have specific relevant expertise or experience.
Specialist Group Coaching
Small groups (6-12 participants) with shared context coached together, enabling both expert input and powerful peer support and shared learning.
Blended Programmes
Combining individual coaching with group sessions for specialist populations, providing both personalised support and peer community building.
Just-in-Time Support
Intensive short-term coaching (1-6 sessions) addressing immediate challenges or transitions requiring rapid expert support.
The Specialist Coaching difference
Depth of Understanding
Coaches who genuinely understand specific contexts through lived experience or deep expertise create psychological safety and accelerate progress.
Targeted Development
Focused programmes addressing specific needs rather than generic development enable more efficient capability building.
Peer Community
For group delivery, connecting individuals with shared experiences creates powerful support networks often lacking in organisations.
Sensitive Handling
Coaches experienced in sensitive topics handle complex situations with appropriate care, professionalism, and confidentiality.