Executive Coaching
Helping leaders build good businesses
For owners and leaders who want to build successful businesses, create lasting value and make a positive difference.
Building a good business
I believe good businesses can be a powerful force for growth and prosperity — creating value for their owners, opportunities for their people, and products and services that make a positive difference to their customers and communities.
Building and growing a successful business means holding many things together. There are opportunities to pursue, customers to serve, people to develop, relationships to nurture and difficult decisions to make. As businesses grow, the choices become more consequential — and how success is achieved matters alongside the results themselves.
The strongest businesses find ways to balance both. They are commercially ambitious while building good relationships with the people and systems on which they depend. They can adapt as circumstances change, address problems honestly and create the trust and resilience needed for sustainable growth.
My work gives owners and leaders space to step back, see what's really happening and work through what comes next. Together, we can explore opportunities and challenges, find practical ways forward and build the conditions for the business — and the people within it — to thrive.
How I work
My work combines executive coaching with the practical perspective of someone who has spent more than twenty years building, leading and advising businesses and organisations.
I start with what is actually happening. That might be an opportunity you want to pursue, a problem that needs resolving, a business entering its next stage of growth, or a bigger question about where you or the organisation goes next. We can look widely at the situation before identifying what really needs attention.
My style is thoughtful, candid and practical. I bring together business experience, systems thinking and a deep understanding of people and relationships to help you see the situation more clearly, explore possibilities and find effective ways forward.
I usually work through focused programmes designed around a particular objective or period of change. Following an initial conversation, I'll recommend an approach based on what you're looking to achieve, with enough structure to create momentum and enough flexibility to respond to what emerges.
Meet Vicky
I’m an executive coach, Chartered Accountant and experienced business leader, with more than twenty years spent working with owners, boards, leadership teams and organisations navigating growth and change.
My career has taken me from PwC and international media to running and ultimately selling my family business, and into senior executive, consulting and coaching roles across commercial and purpose-driven organisations. I’ve worked through periods of growth, restructuring, financial pressure, organisational transformation and profound external change.
That experience has given me a practical understanding of what it takes to build and sustain a successful business — and of the human relationships and decisions behind the numbers. I know that business can be complicated, that good people can see things differently, and that some of the most important questions don’t have simple answers.
Today, I bring that experience together with my work in executive coaching, systems thinking and transformational change. I help owners and leaders step back from the immediate demands of the business, understand what’s really happening, and find practical ways to move forward.
I believe business can be an extraordinary force for creating value, opportunity and prosperity. My work is about helping leaders build that success well — with ambition, good judgement and respect for the people and wider systems that make it possible.
Ways to work with me
I work with owners, leaders and leadership teams through focused coaching and facilitated programmes, designed around the opportunities and challenges they are navigating.
Following an initial conversation, I’ll recommend the approach that best fits what you’re looking to achieve.
Good Business
Build and grow your business well.
For owners and leaders who want to create sustainable growth, navigate complexity and build a successful business in good relationship with the people and systems on which it depends.
We can work across the business — from growth, strategy and leadership to people, ownership and relationships — focusing on what will make the greatest difference and translating insight into practical action.
Climate for Boards
Help your organisation meet climate reality.
For boards and leadership teams ready to engage seriously with what climate change means for their organisation, people and future.
Through facilitated conversations, I create space for differing opinions and perspectives, helping leaders work through complexity, build shared understanding and identify aligned ways forward — creating genuine strategic resilience and progress.
Career Alchemy
Build a working life that fits who you are now.
For experienced leaders navigating a career transition, period of change or a growing sense that the way they have been working no longer fits.
Career Alchemy creates space to understand what is changing, reconnect with your strengths and priorities, renew your energy and wellbeing, and develop your awareness of what work now inspires you to excel and thrive.
Bespoke engagements are also available for clients seeking tailored support, including leadership team programmes, in-person strategy sessions, group workshops, and selected speaking or event facilitation.
Start a conversation
If you're looking to grow or develop your business, navigate an important challenge or transition, or explore how I could support you or your leadership team, let's talk.