Executive Coaching
Supporting Leaders at Critical Transitions
Executive coaching has become one of the most effective leadership development interventions as organisations prepare leaders for larger roles, greater complexity, and increased ambiguity. It focuses on enhancing leaders' capabilities and helping them rediscover their purpose. At Cohere, executive coaching is an individualised, context-anchored development partnership. We focus on supporting leaders at critical inflection points, whether stepping into a new role, navigating increased complexity, or redefining their leadership agenda.
The coaching process is non-directive and non-judgemental. It helps leaders examine and reshape:
Mindsets, beliefs, and assumptions
Leadership behaviours and impact
Interpersonal effectiveness and decision-making
Alignment between personal purpose and organisational expectations
The outcome is not just improved performance, but stronger leadership presence and clarity of action.
Team Coaching
From Capable Groups to Effective Leadership Teams
It is common to see teams composed of capable, intelligent individuals that nevertheless fall short of their collective potential. Typical symptoms include:
- Meetings where issues are discussed but decisions are delayed or not implemented
- Apparent harmony masking unspoken tensions or misalignment
- Limited mutual support during pressure situations
- Team leaders sensing underlying issues without being able to surface them clearly
Team coaching addresses these deeper dynamics.
It supports teams to build their own capacity for effectiveness, rather than relying on external fixes. It helps teams:
- Understand how they function as a system
- Address both task and relationship dynamics
- Take collective ownership of challenges and outcomes
Beyond resolving immediate issues, team coaching prepares teams to:
- Collaborate more effectively across boundaries
- Engage constructively with stakeholders and partner teams
- Share leadership responsibility rather than over-relying on the formal leader
The aim is to help teams operate at a higher level of maturity and impact.
Leadership Assessments
Insightful Assessments to Support Leadership Growth
Leadership assessments provide a structured and evidence-based understanding of leadership strengths, potential, and development areas. We bring a comprehensive suite of evaluation processes covering self-assessments and 360-degree feedback.
These assessments are often used:
- As a starting point for executive or team coaching
- To support leadership development or succession planning
- To provide leaders with structured, objective insight into their impact
The emphasis is not on labelling leaders, but on enabling meaningful reflection and informed development.
Self-Assessments
Psychometric self-assessments provide powerful insights into how leaders think, feel, and behave—especially under pressure.
We are certified to administer the EQ-i 2.0 suite of assessments, which measure Emotional Intelligence: a set of emotional and social competencies that influence how effectively leaders:
- Understand and manage themselves
- Build and sustain relationships
- Respond to challenges and complexity
- Use emotional information in decision-making.
- Identify and leverage their core strengths
- Understand sources of motivation, meaning, and well-being
- Adopt a development approach that is strength-based and sustainable
Together, these tools offer a balanced view of both capability and potential.
360-Degree Feedback Interviews
We conduct interview-based 360-degree feedback assessments, tailored to the organisation’s context and leadership expectations.
Key features of our approach include:
- Custom-designed interview questions aligned to organisational priorities
- Integration with EQ-i insights where applicable, ensuring coherence between data sources
- Thematic synthesis of feedback rather than raw data reporting
Each assessment concludes with an in-depth, confidential debrief with the leader, focused on:
- Interpreting feedback constructively
- Identifying development themes
- Linking insight to coaching or leadership development goals
The intent is to support leaders in building self-awareness, ownership, and purposeful action.