Coaching Services
Professional coaching pathways
tailored to your needs
Leadership Reset
Leadership involves solving problems, dealing with threats and putting out fires. But much like if you drive a car only looking only in the rear view mirror, reactive leadership covers less distance, crashes into things and terrifies your passengers.
This pathway speaks to leaders who're still delivering results but at a mounting personal and relational cost. It's also for leaders who've stumbled and are picking themselves up. The very reflexes that once built their careers — tight control, heroic rescues, political manoeuvring — are now threatening reputation, trust and health. It's time to be more creative and intentional.
Coaching in this context offers a confidential space to break the cycle:
→ To rebuild relationships.
→ Restore credibility.
→ Lead from steadiness and purpose rather than fear and ego.
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Life Coaching
How satisfied with your life are you?
If your answer to this question is anything less than "very" then it might be time to re-evaluate. It might surprise you to learn that nearly 50% of people would repeat the Coronavirus pandemic and it wasn't the absence of a commute that they miss. What people learned was what truly mattered to them - be it family time, taking health more seriously or leaning even more strongly into work that was purposeful, in spite of the constraints. Adversity has a way of showing us who we really are and forcing us to honour it. Coaching can do the same thing.
Life Coaching is all about you doing you to the absolute
best of your ability.
→ It might mean holding the course.
→ It might mean conscious upheaval.
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→ Either way, there is no prize more worth fighting for: a life truly worth living.
Leadership mastery
This pathway is for experienced VPs, SVPs and C-suite leaders who have already proven their capability but find themselves leading in an environment of relentless complexity and noise.
The very habits that once signalled mastery — control, quick judgment, unshakeable confidence — can now become liabilities.
True mastery begins when you shift from performance to wise and caring presence,
→ From achievement to sustainable system stewardship.
→ From chasing certainty to embracing possibility.
→ From leading with ego to leading with selflessness.
Step-up Accelerator
Being invited take the helm of a new venture or to top table is cause for celebration, but many leaders struggle with the increased complexity, heightened scrutiny and the short runway to deliver. The risk of being seen as "not quite ready" is high.
A new, expanded remit demands that you instantly think and act at an enterprise level,
→ Increase your cultural intelligence.
→ communicate with greater big picture orientation,
precision and impact
→ Resist the urge to get sucked into operational distraction.
Leadership Reset
Leadership involves solving problems, dealing with threats and putting out fires. But much like if you drive a car only looking only in the rear view mirror, reactive leadership covers less distance, crashes into things and terrifies your passengers.
This pathway speaks to leaders who're still delivering results but at a mounting personal and relational cost. It's also for leaders who've stumbled and are picking themselves up. The very reflexes that once built their careers — tight control, heroic rescues, political manoeuvring — are now threatening reputation, trust and health. It's time to be more creative and intentional.
Coaching in this context offers a confidential space to break the cycle:
→ To rebuild relationships.
→ Restore credibility.
→ Lead from steadiness and purpose rather
than fear and ego.
Life Coaching
How satisfied with your life are you?
If your answer to this question is anything less than "very" then it might be time to re-evaluate. It might surprise you to learn that nearly 50% of people would repeat the Coronavirus pandemic and it wasn't the absence of a commute that they miss. What people learned was what truly mattered to them - be it family time, taking health more seriously or leaning even more strongly into work that was purposeful, in spite of the constraints. Adversity has a way of showing us who we really are and forcing us to honour it. Coaching can do the same thing.
Life Coaching is all about you doing you to the absolute
best of your ability.
→ It might mean holding the course.
→ It might mean conscious upheaval.
→ Either way, there is no prize more worth fighting for:
a life truly worth living.
What’s included
A typical Engagement
Every Holonance engagement includes:
01
10 × 60-minute coaching sessions (3–6 months,
agreed In chemistry call).
02
World-class diagnostics: Leadership Circle Profile 360,
Hogan, Complete Values.
03
Weekly Minimum Effective Leadership Practice
(2-min & 10-min versions).
04
Baselining Exercise + Holonance Dashboard, tracked monthly to prove progress.
05
Agreed-hours WhatsApp access between sessions for
real-time decision support.
06
Guarantee: Refund after session 3 if not confident in plan
(diagnostics excluded).
07
Premium Digital Coaching Platform, dashboard,
practices, experiments, notes.
Bespoke Packages
What do you really want?
Are you looking for something bespoke? Maybe what you need is not listed above. If so, please get in touch. I work with clients flexibly and I'd be delighted to create
a bespoke package for you.
You can also download my Leadership Pathway Diagnostic Quiz to help you decide what kind of coaching you need.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Is this confidential?
Yes. This is a discreet space. Nothing is shared without your explicit permission. If you ever want stakeholder involvement, we agree in advance exactly what’s in - and what’s out.
Yes. This is a discreet space. Nothing is shared without your explicit permission. If you ever want stakeholder involvement, we agree in advance exactly what’s in - and what’s out.
Neither. It’s coaching: practical leadership development. We won’t pathologise you, and I won’t "fix" things for you. We work on how you lead - then translate that into real decisions, conversations, and action.
Most coaching works on behaviour, communication, or strategy. Holonance works on the operating system underneath - body, mind, identity and system together. The surface fixes itself when the operating system upgrades. The method is grounded in 18 years of senior leadership work, world-class diagnostics, and proven developmental science.
You’ll be on one or a blend of three: Mastery (for senior leaders at the top of their game, sensing a deeper shift is required), Step-Up (for newly elevated leaders taking a dramatically bigger seat), or Reset (for leaders still delivering but feeling the cost rising). We identify the right pathway in your chemistry call. The method is the same but the application is precise to your season.
Less than you think. On busy weeks it’s 2 minutes. When you have space it’s 10. The real work happens in the meetings and decisions you’re already having - just with more choice.
Testimonials
What client say
I feel very blessed to have had Nikolai as my thinking partner and coach over the past 6 months. He has a very unique skill of being able to hold space for you to think and reflect and has an almost magical way of evoking awareness. He challenges you to stretch and grow, often forcing you to question assumptions and self limiting beliefs. Nikolai continues to help me work through sticky challenges, figure things out and become more aware of who I really am to live a more energised, balanced and fulfilled life.
Nicola Amiss
Senior Vice President of Sales
I came to Nikolai looking to level up at work as I started a new role, but I got way more than I expected! He’s great at quickly reading my behaviours and noticing blind spots I didn’t even see. He’s helped me get unstuck in areas of life I wasn’t even planning to work on. Nikolai’s approach is very down-to-earth, and he’s really pushed me in all the right ways these past few months. I love that he’s direct, speaks his mind, but also manages to balance being professional and friendly. I can honestly say this experience has brought a whole new perspective, it’s totally elevated my thinking in and out of work.
Rachel Conroy
Client Director
Nikolai has helped me enormously on a wide range of topics starting with helping me to determine my values, selecting my next career move and land a job, right through to helping me overcome significant personal issues. Nikolai draws on his vast experience, wisdom and use of appropriate, powerful tools and techniques – including many which are quite unconventional and new to me, but very effective.
Paul Ruggier
FTSE 100 Co-Founder
Working with Nikolai is a game changer. His approach to coaching is considered, personal and exceptionally professional. He cares not only about understanding your goals and priorities, but also your values. In doing so, he has supported me on a journey of aligning my values to my growth approach. I wouldn't be in this next phase of my
Zehra Odunayo
Growth, People Strategy & Change Lead
Lucky is the person on whom Nikolai shines his brilliance, humour, and ability to reframe—unlocking fresh ways of thinking and being. If you're looking for someone to simply mirror your words, go elsewhere. But if you want a partner who dives deep, unearthing and refining the gold with you, Nikolai is a true gem.
Eileen Laillier
COO
Nikolai is a naturally gifted coach, very empathetic and inquisitive and yet also results driven. During our sessions, his patient yet no-nonsense approach expedited a critical decision in my life and I felt clearer and more empowered as a result. I highly recommend his services.
Laura Bridge
Celebrity and Private Chef
Nikolai has helped me train my focus, identify my saboteurs, find my leader within and hone my personal brand storybook. Crucially, his coaching approach has held me to account and helped me to avoid distraction from other business pressures. The outcome of the coaching has been outstanding.
Rob Bloor
Senior Principal, Professional Service Firm, Switzerland
I'm very happy with my coaching journey and Nikolai personally. His support has changed the way the revenue organisation at Nasdaq produced results and has equally helped me in my current role at a sales leader in the venture capital industry. Nikolai is experienced not only in enterprise sales but also in corporate psychology, stress management, career planning, and many other areas. I'm looking forward to many more sessions of fruitful professional exchange.
Daniel Scheiferdecker
Head of Institutional Business Development
Nikolai is a naturally talented coach with wisdom way beyond his years. His unique approach blends a variety of techniques drawing from the sciences, logic, emotion, and spirituality. Our coaching sessions focus on the ‘whole self’ and I find our sessions deeply valuable and insightful. In an increasingly complex and demanding world Nikolai has helped me focus on what is important and work out how to generate immediate impact against my ambitions.
Yasha Vojdani
Co-Founder
Nikolai holds a safe place to help you explore options or to get comfortable in the fog. His encouragement and challenge have crystalised new perspectives, opened more ideas whilst cheerleading me towards successful outcomes. He has helped me get ‘unstuck’, held me to account and celebrated with me during a very important chapter in my career. He’s a trusted voice in a rapidly moving world and I couldn’t recommend his support more.
Jacqueline Corbett
Head of Commercial Training
I have done coaching before and always benefited from it. But Nikolai’s approach is different: the way he is able to explain how body and mind are connected is an eye-opener. I fully trust him and the no-nonsense approach he brings to our sessions. I feel I am getting closer to self-actualization through exploring how to fully live my values – in work and my private life.
Pieter Meulendijk-de Mol
Co-Founder
The Holonance Method™
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