Executive Coaching
The Next Chapter
Discover what you want next and create it on your own terms.
Welcome
You may have built a successful career, business or life and know that something is beginning to shift. Perhaps what has brought you this far no longer feels quite enough, or you’re becoming curious about what else might be possible.
You may already have an idea you want to pursue. Or you may simply know that you’ve reached the end of a chapter, without being at all sure what comes after it.
Sometimes we choose these moments. Sometimes they choose us. A change in role, a business succession, redundancy, an ending or an unexpected turn can leave us facing questions we hadn’t expected to be asking.
And somewhere underneath all the sensible possibilities, you may be wondering whether you actually want something completely different.
Whatever has brought you here, a transition can be more than a problem to solve. It can be a chance to think more deeply about who you are now, what you really want, and what you might choose to create from here.
How I work
I work through spacious, curious conversations that give you room to think differently about where you are and what you want to create.
We’ll explore the stories you tell about yourself, your work and what’s possible. Some will still fit. Others may belong to an earlier chapter of your life. Becoming more conscious of those stories can create space for something new to emerge.
Along the way, we might uncover an old assumption, fear or loyalty. A role you’ve become used to playing. A version of yourself you’ve outgrown. Or we might stumble across an idea that suddenly opens up a completely different possibility.
The aim isn’t to replace one story with another that sounds better. It’s to help you get closer to your own deeper sense of who you are, what matters to you and what you genuinely want. From there, you can begin to create with much greater freedom and agency.
I work with individuals, families, teams and groups. When more than one person is involved, we can explore the stories you’ve inherited or created together, the different characters you each think you’re playing, and the story you might want to write from here.
There’s no fixed formula. I bring deep coaching experience, commercial understanding, creativity and perspective. You bring your own experience, imagination and knowledge of your life. Together, we create the space for something new to become possible.
Meet Vicky
I’m an executive coach, writer and former senior business leader. I’ve always been fascinated by people, stories and what makes change possible.
I studied English at Oxford University before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with PwC, which perhaps tells you something about the range of things that interest me. Over the last twenty years, I’ve worked as a Finance Director, COO, consultant and coach across businesses, charities and the public sector. I’ve helped lead a family business through succession and sale, worked with boards and leadership teams, and spent a lot of time around the complicated reality of organisations and the people who make them work.
Alongside that, I’ve never stopped reading, writing and thinking about the bigger questions. I’m interested in creativity, psychology, spirituality, relationships, money, power, family, culture and the stories we inherit and create about who we are and what our lives can be.
These days, those different strands of my life feel much less separate. My business experience means I understand the practical world in which decisions have to be made and consequences lived with. My creative life gives me another way of seeing: through story, imagination, possibility and the surprising connections that can change how we understand something.
I trained as an executive coach at Henley Business School, but I bring much more than a coaching model to our conversations. I bring curiosity, warmth, humour, commercial experience and a genuine enjoyment of thinking with people as they work out what they want to create next.
When I’m not coaching, you’ll usually find me reading or writing. I write fiction and poetry, and I’m always adding to my TBR pile.
Start a conversation
If something on this page has got you thinking, I’d love to hear from you.
We can start with a conversation about where you are, what’s beginning to emerge and how we might work together.