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Thomas Edison
"If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves."
leadership mastery pathway
"How do I bring clarity in constant
DISRUPTION & Leave
a legacy through purposeful presence?"
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.
Coaching offers a confidential space to slow the mental whirl, to refine the presence that calms others, and to evolve from being the heroic problem-solver to the grounded architect of the organisation’s next horizon.

Coaching can help you to:
✓ Cultivate calm and clear presence under pressure
✓ Expand systemic awareness and sense into networks and horizons
✓ Master paradox navigation, embracing both/and thinking
✓ Empower through trust, releasing you to be strategic
✓ Reconnect with your purpose, defining success beyond achievement
✓ Build intentional alliances to counter the isolation of seniority
✓ Ego softening - release identity attachments, unlocking range
✓ Lead from emergence, holding conflict as a generative force
✓ Grow a coaching mindset, developing the next generation of leaders
✓ Build a culture of trust and empowerment
✓ Integrate meaning into strategy, unleashing authentic engagement
✓ Sustain your own energy through strategic self care
✓ Learn to lead from clarity and service rather than fear of being outpaced
STEP-UP ACCELERATOR PATHWAY
"How do I TAKE MY SEAT, Fast, WHEN
my ROLE OR REMIT EXPANDS DRAMATICALLY?"
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 and resist the urge to get sucked into operational distraction.
This pathway is designed for senior leaders—newly minted VPs, SVPs or first-time C-suite executives who need to take their seat, fast. Coaching provides a confidential, structured space to upgrade your leadership operating system, build board-level confidence, craft a compelling leadership narrative and establish the strategic presence that earns trust quickly, without sacrificing authenticity or burning out.
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Coaching can help you to:
✓ Refocus from functional depth to enterprise breadth
✓ Define your signature leadership narrative and presence to instil trust
✓ Develop a board-level communication style
✓ Grow authentic executive presence
✓ Establish prioritisation practices to ruthlessly focus
✓ Design delegation and decision structures to free you from firefighting
✓ Conduct a stakeholder mapping exercise to align to new expectations
✓ Boost cultural intelligence to speak the language of your followers
✓ Create practices and set boundaries to preserve your energy
✓ Release beliefs & identity structures that serve your old remit
✓ Manage self-doubt and imposter syndrome
✓ Explore greater range in your leadership, beyond the comfort zone
✓ Develop influencing strategies where you have less control
LEADERSHIP RESET PATHWAY
"I'm stuck firefighting. relationships are frayed. respect is slipping.
how do I turn it around?
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 and lead from steadiness and purpose rather than fear and ego.

Coaching can help you to:
✓ Release patterns of control and micromanagement, inspiring with vision
✓ Stop hiding behind intellectual superiority and arrogance
✓ Reclaim the power you give away by constantly seeking approval
✓ Conduct a reputational audit and repair
✓ Process difficult feedback or a setback from a place of learning
✓ Challenge beliefs that tie self-worth to performance, approval or certainty
✓ Rebuild a team that has been pushed too hard
✓ Exit isolation and distrust by building bridges
✓ Reset relationships that have become overly political
✓ Establish self-care habits to avoid burnout
✓ Rebuild self-esteem after failure
✓ Move from firefighting to strategic leadership
✓ Redefine success beyond feeling safe and worthy in the eyes of others
leadership launchpad
"I thought I'd love this, but I'm feeling out of my depth.
what is leadership anyway?"
The world is crying out for better leaders. It's a shame, then, that leading leadership scholars can't agree what leadership actually is. So it's ok if you, as a first time leader, are feeling confused.
Modern leadership is, at the very least, about delivering results by inspiring others towards clear objectives, building high performing teams and making difficult decisions with courage and authenticity.
This pathway is designed for newly appointed leaders who have excelled as managers or functional experts and are now stepping up for the first time. Coaching can help you to navigate the steep learning curve ahead of you, embrace the creative competencies known to produce positive outcomes and avoid the many pitfalls that are known to cause leadership derailment. Are you ready?

Coaching can help you to:
✓ Understand what comprises good and bad leadership
✓ Explore your innate leadership strengths and uncover personal pitfalls
✓ Develop a learning plan to upgrade your leadership skills fast
✓ Avoid slipping back into doing, technical expertise or functional focus
✓ Curate a leadership persona and brand
✓ Understand power networks and politics beyond the org chart
✓ Balance confidence and humility
✓ Avoid burnout in the first year
✓ Broaden your fluency in strategy, finance and governance
✓ Create clarity and belonging
✓ Create self-care rhythms to sustain your leadership journey
Life Coaching
"I'm successful but I'm unfulfilled.
Is there more?"
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. Or it might mean conscious upheaval. Either way, there is no prize more worth fighting for: a life truly worth living.

LIFE Coaching can help you to:
✓ Develop a powerful vision for a more fulfilled life
✓ Identify your core values and choose how best to honour them
✓ Identify your life purpose and consider how to live and breathe it
✓ Explore your psyche, harnessing superpowers and befriending saboteurs
✓ Meet your 'leader within' - the wisest, kindest, most potent version of you
✓ Stop being in states or doing things that limit your brilliance and wholeness (e.g. worry, procrastination, compulsiveness, competitiveness, perfectionism)
✓ Develop more calm and mental clarity so you can be in choice vs reactivity
✓ Identify limiting views and consciously choose more empowering ones
✓ Identify limiting stories you tell yourself - and re-author them
✓ Become more awake to your embodied emotions and feel more authentic
✓ Recover from setbacks, transmuting them into learnings and opportunities
✓ Create more accountability around taking steps towards what you want
✓ Feel truly seen, heard and supported on the topics that matter most
✓ Flush out the bullshit (and bullshitters) in your life with confidence
✓ Ensure the soil and climate of your life is one in which you can truly flourish
RATES & PACKAGES
I have no one way of working with clients and no single rate. I charge more to organisations than I do to individuals who're self-funding and more to Executives than to others. Some clients like highly structured journeys and others prefer things lighter and looser.
The best option is to get in touch with me for a free chemistry conversation. I can understand more about your situation and recommend something tailored to you. I do however understand it might be helpful to get a sense for what some typical packages are. You can see some below:

A Tactical Support package comprises 3x 60 minute coaching sessions and is suitable for you if you need support with something critical, urgent and discrete e.g. a pitch, interview, meeting or difficult conversation.
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TACTICAL SUPPORT
✓ 3x 60 minute virtual coaching sessions
✓ Clarification of goals
✓ Identification of limiting attitudes and habits
✓ Exercises to broaden perspectives, options and actions
✓ Accountability holding
✓ Recommendations for reflection, action or learning
WHAT YOU GET:
A Strategic Support package comprises 6x 60 minute coaching sessions with simple digital enablement and is suitable for you if you need support with a stubborn bad habit, unhelpful pattern, or with acquiring a new skill, relationship or job.
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STRATEGIC SUPPORT
✓ 6x 60 minute virtual or in person coaching sessions
✓ A life satisfaction audit
✓ Identification and assessment of Values and Saboteurs
✓ Identification of your 'Leader Within'
✓ Exercises to broaden perspectives, options and actions
✓ Accountability holding
✓ Limited ad hoc coaching by WhatsApp
✓ Recommendations for reflection, action or learning
✓ Digital portal with prompts, nudges and reminders
WHAT YOU GET:

A Transformation package comprises 10x 90 minute coaching sessions supported by a digital platform and is suitable for you if you need deep and sustained support with a major shift e.g. changing career, unlearning a damaging behaviour, repairing an important relationship or accelerating deep personal or professional development.
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TRANSFORMATION
✓ The same as a Strategic Support Package but 10x 90 minute live or virtual sessions, plus:
✓ A custom digitally enabled journey with your own milestones, progress tracking tools, accountability structures, nudges, resources and tools
✓ Unlimited ad hoc coaching through the portal or WhatsApp
✓ Optional Self & 360 degree assessment to measure baselines & progress (I am certified to use Hogan, Leadership Circle & Complete's Values for Leaders Assessments)
WHAT YOU GET:
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.
WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?
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TESTIMONIALS
“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 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

“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
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"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

"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 career without his guidance and support!"
Zehra Odunayo - Growth, People Strategy & Change Lead

"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

"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

"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

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