About me
Performing at Your Best
Leadership, high-performance sport, and high-stakes roles bring incredible opportunities alongside challenges. Aspirations, overcoming challenges and complex transitions are part of growth and success. You may be thinking:
"I want to perform at my peak when it matters most."
"I’m facing change and want to navigate it confidently."
"I want to lead with clarity and make the right decisions to overcome challenges."
"I want to unlock my full potential and achieve my goals."
Even the most capable leaders and athletes benefit from support, guidance, and a structured approach. Reaching out for coaching is a mark of strength, self-awareness, and commitment to growth.
How I Can Help
Many people invest in coaching to achieve their best, navigate change, and overcome challenges. I work with C-suite executives, directors, senior leaders and elite athletes supporting them to:
- Optimise performance under pressure
- Navigate complex transitions and change management
- Turn challenges into breakthroughs
- Build clarity, confidence, resilience, and self-belief
- Align actions with personal, professional and organisational aspirations
Together, we focus on what matters most to you. You are the expert in your own life, I provide guidance, tools, and strategies, while you take the lead. We co-create solutions that fit your goals, context, and values.
Approach
Sessions are tailored to your needs and are delivered by video calls but can on request be via phone or in person. The focus is on developing leadership, performance, and strategic mindset, while creating a safe space to explore challenges and opportunities.
Whether we’re working on executive leadership, team performance, or elite athlete mental conditioning, the process is collaborative, empowering, and results-driven.
Outcome
Clients gain clarity, confidence, and actionable strategies to perform at their best, overcome challenges, manage change and achieve their aspirations.
Your growth. Your performance. Your transformation.
The next level is waiting, together, we unlock it.
Training, qualifications & experience
- ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching
- Certified in Integrative Counselling
- NLP Sports Psychology
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Education
- Member of Association for Coaching
- 20+ years across performance sport, business, education, and leadership development
- Extensive experience in multiple sectors guiding leaders and athletes, including Paralympians, through high-stakes performance, transitions, and change management
Member organisations
The Association for Coaching is one of the leading professional bodies for Coaches and Organisations.
The Association is made up of a number of different membership categories, e.g. Associate Member (AMAC), Member (MAC), Accredited Member (AC Accred), with the different categories standing for different levels of training and experience. Accredited Members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.
The Association has a Code of Ethics & Good Practice and a Complaints Procedure.
Areas of coaching I deal with
Other areas of coaching I deal with
Change management & times of transition
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Fees
Free initial online session
Additional information
It would be great to meet you during a complimentary fact-find session where we can explore your goals and discuss further details! I look forward to meeting you!
Coaching sessions typically last for 60-90 minutes and many clients find it beneficial to meet monthly or fortnightly but this can be more regularly If you wish.
Rates are dependent on if you are in the private, public, or third sector but I also believe that finance should not be a barrier to access to coaching, so please contact me to discuss further.
I also offer a monthly retainer for senior executives and Corporate rates are available on request.
When I work
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Further information
What some of my clients say:
"Richard is excellent in his role as Executive Coach. His experience in high performance sport psychology, mixed with his deep desire to understand the root of issues, makes him someone who is uniquely placed to help encourage you to your limits and reach your potential."- CEO, Third Sector
“Our sessions have ranged from big-picture career planning to navigating day-to-day leadership challenges…What I’ve appreciated most is how Rich brings together structure and intuition, helping me zoom out when needed, then drill into the detail in a way that always feels constructive….If you’re looking for a coach who’s not only skilled and insightful, but also warm, grounded, and genuinely empowering to talk to, I’d highly recommend working with Rich."- Chief of Staff, E-Commerce and Circular Economy
"Richard is a fantastic coach and highly skilled at helping someone move to the next level. I worked with Richard during a time of stress and transition and he was incredibly helpful to my development and to my future. "- CEO & Senior Leader, Music industry
"Richard is an exceptional coach. I worked with him through a very challenging time in my career and he really helped me rebuild my confidence as well as develop actionable and practical plans to overcome future challenges. "- CEO, Third Sector
