Executive Directions:
Executive Career Coaching
Support your SLT/C-suite executives navigate change with executive career coaching. We help your leaders navigate complexity, lead with confidence, and stay focused through business transformation.
Invest in your people’s future, today.
Executive career coaching.
Change management support.
Tech-enabled.
Career coaching can save businesses 1.5 times an employee’s salary as ROI. (IoD)
Organisations with strong coaching cultures report a median return of seven times the initial investment. (ICF)
Our NPS score of +57 is a testament to our successful career coaching services.
What’s included in our Executive Directions programme?
Your Senior Leaders are continuously navigating change.
Whether it’s planned, such as restructures, or reactive to external factors, like market shifts or leadership changes.
For your Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and C-suite executives, Executive Directions is designed to guide them through transition, helping them adjust, lead effectively, and maintain focus during times of uncertainty.
This programme is invaluable when navigating restructures, leadership changes, evolving teams, and new roles, ensuring your leaders remain resilient and effective, no matter the change.
Delivered via our Career Navigator app, Executive Directions empowers your people to manage change with confidence, protecting both their career trajectory and your organisation’s stability.
Here’s what’s included…
1 : 1 Strategic Executive Career Coaching
Designed for Senior Leaders
Executive Directions supports SLTs and senior executives managing change, whether stepping into a new team, navigating a restructure, or preparing for a broader role. Our executive career coaching equips them to stay focused, adaptable, and impactful in dynamic environments, all while maintaining your company culture.
Flexible Executive Career Coaching
Leaders book 45-minute sessions at their convenience, focusing on transition priorities. It’s not “nice to have” coaching, it’s targeted guidance designed to ensure executive support, retention and performance.
Executive Support, Digital Coaching
The Power of Digital Coaching
Executive Directions is hosted using our Career Navigator career coaching app. This offers tools to align agreed objectives with their executive coach, helping them make a strong impact in their first 90 days.
The Best Executive Career Coaches
Our Career Concierge team draws on decades of experience to match each participant with their perfect coach; someone who understands the stakes, the context, and the complexity of leading change.
Trackable Progress, Confidential Career Coaching
Confidential Coaching Conversations
While coaching sessions are strictly confidential, you’ll receive a high-level dashboard of progress: session counts, agreed coaching objectives, and outcomes, ensuring alignment without compromise.
Executive Career Coaching with a Curated Learning Curriculum
Curated Content Library
Executives access curated content on leading through complexity, from “Developing Resilience” to “Understanding and Managing Change”. Always accessible, always relevant, and ensures engagement throughout the executive coaching programme.
Pyschometrics to Accelerate Executive Success
MQ, MBTI and More
We use pyschometric assessments to help new leaders understand how they show up and where they’ll have the biggest impact early on. These insights directly inform executive coaching plans that fast-track trust, alignment, and performance.
Executive Directions FAQ
Q: What is executive career coaching?
A:Executive career coaching is a personalised, one-to-one support programme for senior leaders looking to navigate career transitions, enhance performance, or plan future moves. Our coaches work as strategic thinking partners—providing clarity, challenge, and confidential guidance.
Q: When should HR consider offering executive coaching to a leader?
A: Executive coaching is most valuable during moments of change—such as role transitions, leadership challenges, organisational restructuring, or succession planning. It’s a proactive way to retain talent, reduce risk, and increase leadership impact.
Q: How does executive coaching support succession or internal moves?
A:Coaching helps high-potential leaders prepare for bigger roles by building confidence, sharpening strategic thinking, and aligning with evolving expectations. It accelerates readiness and reduces failure risk in critical transitions.
Q: What's the ROI of executive career coaching for the organisation?
A: Well-coached executives typically demonstrate stronger leadership, better decision-making, improved team dynamics, and higher engagement. HR leaders often see reduced churn, faster transitions, and better alignment with business goals.
Q: How is executive career coaching different than standard career coaching?
A: Our Executive Directions programme is designed exclusively for senior-level leaders. It includes strategic support, expert insight, and access to coaches with real commercial and board-level experience—not just theoretical models.
Q: Can the coaching be customised to specific business objectives or challenges?
A: Absolutely. Whether the focus is on influencing at board level, navigating complex change, or planning next steps post-restructure, our coaching is aligned with both individual goals and organisational context.
Q: Who delivers your executive career coaching, and what are their credentials?
A:Our coaches are seasoned professionals with boardroom experience and accredited coaching qualifications. They’ve worked across industries and understand the pressures and nuances of executive life.
Q: How long does a typical executive career coaching programme last?
A: Programmes can range from a few focused sessions to ongoing coaching over several months. We work with HR to personalise the structure and duration based on individual needs and business timelines.
Q: Can career coaching help an executive explore internal opportunities or transitions?
A:Yes. Our career-focused executive coaching helps leaders assess options, clarify their value proposition, and prepare for internal moves—discreetly and strategically. If you are looking for a programme to support executives transitioning out of your organisation, we reccommend taking a look at our Executive Outplacement offering.
Q: How do you ensure coaching outcomes are measurable and aligned with HR goals?
A: We use goal-setting frameworks and regular progress reviews to ensure accountability and alignment. While personal details from sessions remain confidential, we share themes and progress with HR to demonstrate value and alignment.
Why choose Executive Directions?
Executive Support for Complex Change
Executive Directions equips your leaders to stay engaged, committed and impactful, whether stepping into a new role, restructuring, or navigating uncertainty.
Expert Executive Career Coach
Our Executive Coaches support leaders as they integrate into new teams, reset expectations, and build trust quickly, turning disruption into alignment, all while keeping your calendar free.
Outcomes Focused Career Coaching
Sessions sharpen strategic decision-making, communication, and resilience:
essential skills when stakes are high and scrutiny is intense.