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Areas of Work

The work meets you where you are.

The problem you arrive with and the problem we end up working on are rarely the same thing. That's true whether you come with a career challenge or a life one.

Career & Leadership

Performance under pressure, advancement, leadership capability, difficult decisions. The professional terrain where something has stalled or needs to shift.

Transition & What's Next

Career change, redundancy, post-divorce, children leaving, retirement approaching. Moments when the old structure is gone and the new one isn't clear yet.

Meaning & Purpose

When the external markers of success are in place but something is missing. The gap between what you've built and how much of yourself you recognise in it.

Stuck Without Knowing Why

You know something needs to change. You can't identify what, can't make the decision, can't take the action. The block isn't motivation or information, it's something more specific.

Values & How You Live

Clarifying what you actually want, separate from what you were told to want. The map you've been following, and whether it's still the right one.

Confidence & Imposter Syndrome

You've earned the position. The credentials are there. But something keeps whispering that you're one step away from being found out, and it hasn't quieted with more success.

What clients say

In their own words, with specific outcomes.

Revenue doubled

"I have shifted my focus in my company to my strengths and what I truly believe in. I am much happier and seem to be gaining good momentum as my revenue has doubled."

Sonya SFounder

Performance mindset

"There is nothing formulaic to Adrian's work. I learnt a great new mindset that I use in any situation that requires high performance, complexity and obstacles. This kind of encouragement and support is rare."

Daniel WSenior Learning & Capability Lead

Career from strength to strength

"Adrian's knowledge and analysis moved me forward to achieve more than I would have otherwise. His expertise helped me create winning strategies. With Adrian's coaching my career has gone from strength to strength."

Peter BHead of Operations

Immeasurable difference

"Adrian genuinely cares about the success of those he works with. He provided me with several tools to mentally reframe things and challenged me to push myself to the next level. The difference Adrian has made is immeasurable."

Soraya O

Promotion secured

"It is your ability to clarify the difference between how I make choices and the relationship to best outcomes that helps me greatly. My ability to stretch for and achieve a worthwhile promotion instead of remaining benched on the side is proof of this."

Rachel BSenior Safety & Wellbeing

Outstanding commitment

"Adrian's skills are outstanding. I always felt that he was keenly committed to helping me achieve my best result, which I did!"

Lauri K.

Only choice

"His pragmatism with expertise is what makes him stand out for me as the only choice."

Ricki H

Business growth

"Working with Adrian has accelerated my business growth dramatically. Deciding to work with him was the best decision I've made."

Emma BFounder

Clarity in transition

"Adrian helped me navigate one of the most intense professional transitions of my life with clarity, humour, and deep presence. A grounding and transformative experience."

Kat FFounder

"Adrian's work enabled those he worked with to maximise their full potential and perform at a higher level. He achieved outstanding outcomes for us. I unhesitatingly recommend him."

Dr. J.W. MSenior Lecturer, University of New South Wales

"I will not hesitate a moment to give Adrian my highest recommendation. His intuitive strength lies in his ability to customise to each situation. We achieved an excellent result in going with him."

Jothy NHead, School of English and Education, PSB Academy Singapore

About me

30 years experiencing what it actually takes to perform.

15+

Years coaching leaders, founders & executives

3×

Postgraduate qualifications in coaching psychology, counselling & dispute resolution

10 yrs

International performing career, direct grounding in elite performance psychology

My first career was as a professional international ballet dancer in Europe. Ten years working at that level gave me a direct education in what elite performance actually demands — and what it costs. It also taught me something less visible: how easily self-worth becomes entangled with output, and how the tension between personal standards and external demands can quietly erode the very qualities that made someone exceptional in the first place.

I retired in 2004 and returned to Australia, where I turned my attention to the fields I'd been living inside: human development, conflict resolution, leadership, peak performance, and psychology. I graduated with distinction in 2010 and was awarded membership to the Golden Key International Honour Society.

I lectured in the Faculty of Media and Arts at UNSW. I also trained and practised as a mediator, which gave me a rigorous grounding in conflict, power dynamics, and how competing interests operate beneath the surface of interpersonal and organisational dynamics.

Over fifteen years working with people to achieve their best outcomes, I have worked with founders, executives, and senior professionals across a wide range of industries and institutions. Clients describe navigating major career transitions with clarity, securing promotions they had talked themselves out of, and expanding their businesses and profitability. The through-line across all of it is the same: getting to what's actually producing the current result, and building from there.

How I work

Nothing formulaic. Everything specific to you.

The problems are specific. The work is too.

The work starts earlier than most, with what's actually producing the results you're currently getting, before any tools or strategies are introduced. That requires a precise identification of the belief, pattern, or dynamic generating the current outcome, not a personality type or a goal-setting exercise, but a named, specific diagnosis. Only then are tools built. And those tools are built for how you specifically think, operate, and come under pressure.

Find what's actually in the way

The step most engagements miss entirely. Before any tools or strategies, we identify the specific block: the belief, pattern, or dynamic that is producing the results you're currently getting. Named precisely, not generically.

Build tools that fit your situation

Not generic frameworks. Specific strategies and mindset tools developed for how you think, what you're dealing with, and what you're trying to build. Things you can use, and that clients describe still using years later.

Apply it under real pressure

The test of coaching isn't whether things improve when you're rested and focused. It's whether the change holds in the hard moments: the conversation you've been avoiding, the decision you keep deferring, the pattern that pulls you back under stress.

Leave with something durable

You leave with genuine self-knowledge, a specific account of what was in the way, and tools that hold when it counts.

How we can work together

What you come in with, and what you leave with.

Single session

Discovery Session

A focused 60-minute session for a specific challenge, decision, or stuck point. Best when you need to think clearly about something that's been circling.

^£290

Single session

60-minute 1:1 (video or in person, London)
Pre-session preparation to focus the work
Follow-up written summary

You leave with

A clearer picture of what's actually going on, and a specific next action.

Sustained Coaching Programme

A 3 or 6-month engagement. This is where the real work happens. Finding what's in the way, building tools to move past it, and making sure the change holds under pressure.

^£1,800 / £3,000

3-month / 6-month · fixed price

Bi-weekly 60-minute coaching sessions
Between-session support and check-ins
Structured progress tracking
Bespoke frameworks developed for your specific situation
Integration support: applying the work in real conditions

You leave with

Specific strategies and mindset tools built for how you think. Not a generic framework. The kind of things clients describe still using years after the work ends.

Payment plans available. Many clients have coaching funded through their employer's L&D budget. Full breakdown of what's included →

Questions

What you might want to know first.

What makes this different from other coaching?

This starts earlier: identifying the specific block producing your current results before any tools or strategies are introduced. The diagnosis is real and precise. The tools that follow are built for your situation.

How long does the work take?

A Discovery Session gives you a clear picture and a specific next action in a single session. The Sustained Programme runs 3 or 6 months, long enough for changes to hold under real pressure, not just in the room. Most clients describe the 3-month mark as when things genuinely shift.

Who do you typically work with?

Founders, executives, senior professionals, and leaders who are already capable and already performing. The presenting problem varies; the underlying pattern rarely does.

Is this confidential?

Yes. Professional coaching confidentiality applies. What you bring to sessions stays within the coaching relationship.

What happens on the discovery call?

30 minutes. We talk about what you're navigating and what you want to be different. I'll ask real questions, not run through a script. If working together makes sense, we'll discuss how to structure that. If it doesn't, I'll say so. Either way, you'll leave with something useful.

What's holding you back is usually invisible from where you're standing.