Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders
Unlock your potential - Lead with clarity and confidence and achieve extraordinary results.
In elite sport, no high performer competes without a coach. Yet in business, leaders are often expected to excel in high-pressure environments without that crucial one-to-one support – leading to missed opportunities for improvements to performance, resilience, and growth.
Whether you’re looking to drive performance, retain talent, manage change, or lead a high-performing hybrid team, our coaching equips your leaders to navigate today’s complexity with clarity and confidence. As the expectations on leadership continue to evolve, we help them balance tactical delivery with empathy and emotional intelligence – building the capability to achieve their goals and propel your organisation forward.
Just as Ben Hunt-Davis’s Olympic coach helped them to forensically analyse their crew’s performance to uncover blind spots and unlock potential gains, our coaches take the same rigorous approach – helping leaders uncover hidden potential and transform performance. Inspired by the same Olympic principles that turned an underperforming crew into gold medallists, our coaching is practical, challenging, and transformational.
We have supported over
1,000
Individuals
Achieving an average
9.4/10
‘Quality of Coaching’ score
93%
of individuals state their Coaching sessions will make a ‘significant different to my performance‘
What coaching challenges do senior executives commonly come to us with?
- Leaders feel they have limited influence – there is a general feeling that your leaders are capable of more. They may be hindered by a perceived lack of confidence or authority and want to make a step up to lead with more gravitas.
- Talent retention and attrition risk – Your high performers are becoming disengaged, some may have left already
- Key moments in time, such as career pivots – You might be succession planning, preparing for specific role transitions or readying people to join and build your executive team.
- New to leadership – Leaders who were successful as “doers” are now struggling to lead through others as their organizations grow
Our coaching helps leaders make lasting, measurable shifts in how they think, act, and lead. This can be delivered as standalone coaching for one coachee or integrated into broader leadership or high-performance programmes. No matter the context, our coaching always aligns individual progress with team and organisational success.
What our Executive Coaching achieves for you:
- Accelerated Leadership Growth
Develop the self-awareness, confidence, and presence to lead more effectively and authentically. - Greater Resilience and Focus
Handle pressure, setbacks, and uncertainty with clarity and composure – building the mindset of a gold-medal performer. - Improved Decision-Making and Strategic Thinking
Cut through complexity to focus on what truly drives boatspeed and strategic success. - Lasting Impact on Teams and Culture
Translate your individual growth into collective performance improvements across your organisation.
Meet Our Coaches
Our world-class coaching team blends Olympic performance expertise with deep business experience. Each brings a unique perspective – but all share one goal: to help you perform at your best. All our coaches have extensive experience not just in coaching, but in building and sustaining high-performing teams across industries. Having worked with hundreds of leaders and organisations, they bring the insight of those who’ve truly “seen it all” – and know what it takes to achieve world-class results. Each of our coaches has 20+ years of coaching experience behind them whether in high performance sport, business or a blend of both.
Executive Coach
About
Co-author of Will It Make the Boat Go Faster?, 20+ years as executive coach and keynote speaker. Warm, insightful, and unflinchingly honest.
One of the world’s leading performance scientists; coach to over 200 Olympic medallists and senior business leaders.
Leadership psychologist and coach with 20 years’ experience helping executives translate insight into action.
Commonwealth gold medallist turned leadership consultant; expert in executive performance and organisational culture.
Dynamic coach who brings Olympic-level energy to developing leaders and shaping high-performing teams.
Our Executive Coaching consistently delivers tangible improvements in leadership performance, engagement, and wellbeing. We know what world-class teams look like – and how to create them. It’s the same Olympic-winning principles that transformed Ben’s crew, now applied to leadership and organisational performance.
Ready to Unlock Your Potential?
Whether you’re looking to sharpen your leadership impact, navigate change, or simply perform at your best, our coaching will help you achieve meaningful, lasting results.
Let’s talk if you’d like to find out more about finding the right coach for you.
The Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? team really helped us make the most of this series of sessions. From the very start of planning the coaching calls, the team were keen to get under the skin of our members, understanding their unique challenges, strength and opportunities, and ensuring that the content delivered was 100% relevant to them. Our members haven't stopped raving about the sessions ever since.
FAQ
We’d love to discuss how we can make your boat go faster,
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We’d love to discuss how we can make your boat go faster,
get in touch so we can help you find the right solution
We’d love to discuss how we can make your boat go faster,
get in touch so we can help you find the right solution
We’d love to discuss how we can make your boat go faster,
get in touch so we can help you find the right solution
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?’s Executive Coaching provides leaders with dedicated, expert support to unlock their full potential. It’s a structured one-to-one partnership between you and one of our highly experienced coaches – combining performance psychology, leadership development, and real-world business insight.
In today’s fast-changing world, leaders face relentless pressure to deliver results, navigate uncertainty, and inspire others. Our coaching gives you the time and space to reflect, challenge your thinking, and identify what truly drives your success – both professionally and personally.
Our coaching sessions focus on helping you:
- Build clarity around goals and priorities
- Strengthen decision-making under pressure
- Develop the resilience and mindset to perform at your best, more often, more easily
- Translate our Olympic winning principles into tangible actions that move you and your business forward
Whether you’re stepping into a new role, leading through change, or aiming to elevate your leadership impact, our coaching creates measurable results – for you, your team, and your organisation.
Every leader’s context is different. That’s why our coaching is tailored to you and your goals. Typically, over a 6-9 month period, you’ll work with your coach through a mix of:
- Initial discovery sessions – to clarify goals, priorities, and measures of success
- Regular one-to-one coaching sessions – focused on reflection, challenge, and action
- Progress reviews – tracking what’s working and what needs refining
- Integration – applying learning back into your team and organisational context
Our coaches strike the perfect balance between high challenge and high support – asking the tough questions that spark growth while creating a safe space to think, reflect, and experiment.
Everything links back to your Crazy Goal and your team’s ways of working – ensuring your personal development directly supports your organisation’s long-term success.
Traditional executive coaching often focuses narrowly on leadership skills or behavioural feedback. Our approach goes deeper.
We combine decades of business experience, performance psychology, and Olympic-level insight to help leaders unlock potential they didn’t know they had.
At the heart of our methodology is one powerful question:
“Will it make the boat go faster?”
It’s a principle that helped an ordinary rowing team achieve the extraordinary – and it now helps our clients achieve breakthrough results in business.
We challenge leaders to focus on what matters most, align actions with ambition, and consistently perform at their best.
That’s why we’re trusted by CEOs, executives, and senior teams across industries – from FTSE-listed companies to high-growth scale-ups – all seeking a partner who can unlock their potential in pursuit of their gold medal.
