Integral Coaching
Building new ways of seeing and acting through practice, not advice. Trained with Integral Coaching Canada.
Work with me
A thinking partner for leaders at a turning point.
One-to-one coaching and leadership development for experienced leaders, whether you are growing inside an organisation or shaping a Portfolio Life beyond it.
How it works
Simple to start. Shaped around you.
A meaningful conversation
Thirty minutes, at no cost. Bring the question as it stands and leave with it sharper, whatever else happens.
We agree the shape
A few sessions around a decision, a season alongside a change, or a year as a thinking partner.
The work itself
Discover what matters, design what now, and become who it asks you to be.
Still in the role
Lead from what matters now.
“I'm still successful. The fire has dimmed. I want to lead from what matters again.”
The leaders we need now are not distinguished by having better answers. They need clarity about what matters, the capacity to stay present when things become uncertain, the judgement to hold competing truths, and the ability to create the conditions for others to do their best work.
Sometimes the question is about the organisation: a difficult decision, a knotty strategic challenge, a relationship that is getting in the way, or simply nowhere inside the system to think out loud. Sometimes it is closer to home. These questions belong together.
At a turning point
Not what's next. What now.
“I've achieved a lot. Now I want it to mean more.”
For experienced leaders deciding, leaving or already out, who want the next chapter to be shaped around what matters most rather than the next title.
Together we slow down, listen for what matters most to you, and explore who you are becoming. From there, the next step often becomes clear. It might be a new role, a new organisation, a Portfolio Life, or staying where you are and finding your way back to wholeness.
What I draw on
Rooted in practice, not a single method.
My role is not to arrive with someone else's playbook. It is to create space to think clearly, challenge assumptions and turn insight into action.
Ikigai
Discovering what makes life worth living, drawing on Mieko Kamiya's original idea rather than the Western diagram. Certified with Ikigai Tribe.
Executive coaching
Systemic executive coaching for leaders in complex roles, through the Claristrat Institute's professional certification.
Thirty years of leading change
Strategy, partnerships and organisational change across business, government, the UN and the non-profit world.
For organisations
Support for your people.
Organisations often bring me in for one person: a senior leader you want to keep, a leader stepping into something bigger, or someone leaving whom you want to leave well.
Leadership development. “Our leaders know the strategy. They don't yet know how to bring people with them.” Coaching and programmes built around how people really change.
Partnerships and systems change. “Everyone agrees we need to work together. No one knows how to make it happen.” See partnership work →
Start here
Every journey begins with a meaningful conversation.
Thirty minutes about what matters most to you, or to your organisation. Bring a question, a hunch, or simply your curiosity.
Book a meaningful conversationOr write to ian@theninthplanet.org