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Executive coaching is one-to-one, confidential support for senior leaders, from first-time directors through to chief executives and boards. It is most often used for stepping up into a bigger role, leading through change, sharpening judgement and decision-making, and building presence and resilience.
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Executive Coaching
UK executive coaching and coach training firm (Oxford Centre for Management), founded in 1998 as a founding member of the EMCC, offering EMCC-accredited coach-mentoring qualifications and bespoke coaching programmes for organisations.
Executive Coaching
Talking Talent is a specialist coaching consultancy focused on inclusion, working parents and diverse talent, helping organisations retain and progress people through key career and life transitions. It delivers one-to-one and group coaching, parental-transition coaching, inclusive leadership programmes and consulting, through a global team of coaches, psychologists and behavioural specialists. It is a coaching-delivery firm working with organisations, not a coach training provider.
Executive Coaching
Praesta Partners is a specialist executive coaching firm working with senior leaders: board members, chief executives, senior partners and directors across the private, public and third sectors. It operates as a partnership of experienced coaches rather than a training provider, with practitioners typically accredited at senior level by bodies such as the EMCC and the Association for Coaching. Praesta has offices across the UK and a network of international partner firms.
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The David Clutterbuck Partnership is a specialist coaching and mentoring consultancy led by Professor David Clutterbuck, a co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and one of the most published authors in the field. It designs and accredits mentoring and team coaching programmes for organisations worldwide, trains and supervises coaches and mentors, and its coaching and mentoring international arm holds the EMCC Global Quality Award. Its focus is organisational mentoring and team coaching rather than volume coach training.
Executive Coaching
Robert Walters Talent Advisory is the leadership and talent consulting arm of Robert Walters, the global professional recruitment group. It offers leadership development and executive coaching, leadership and team assessment, employer branding, diversity and inclusion consulting, and career transition and outplacement support, drawing on the recruitment group's labour-market data. Its coaching and development work sits alongside a broader talent advisory offer rather than being a standalone coaching practice.
Executive Coaching
Inspirational Group is a global leadership development and human performance consultancy, originally founded as the Inspirational Development Group (IDG) in the late 1990s and rebranded as Inspirational Group in 2024. In 2023 it acquired The Forton Group, an ICF-accredited coaching training provider founded in 2002, whose Forton Coaching programmes remain accredited by the ICF and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The group now delivers leadership development, coaching, change leadership and organisational performance programmes to organisations worldwide, including bespoke and open coach training.
Executive Coaching
Boardroom Coaching is a division of Noble Manhattan Coaching, providing corporate and executive coaching to organisations and leaders worldwide. Services include executive coaching, talent coaching, team coaching, and coaching training, delivered through a hand-picked panel of Master Coaches and expert corporate and executive coaches. The practice is aimed at helping organisations and leaders develop, to support business growth.
Executive Coaching
Coaching Focus is a UK coaching consultancy of coaches, trainers and change consultants, delivering one-to-one and team executive coaching alongside coach training. As an ILM Approved Centre it offers ILM Level 3, 5 and 7 coaching qualifications, plus "Coaching Skills for Leaders" programmes and masterclasses aimed at building coaching cultures inside organisations. It is a certified B Corporation and holds ISO 27001 certification.
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Positive Momentum is a London-based leadership consultancy and executive coaching firm founded in 2003, whose consultants have all held senior operational roles with profit-and-loss responsibility. It works with organisations on executive coaching, leadership development and talent strategy alongside broader consulting on culture, strategy, sales and operations. It is a certified B Corporation and holds Cyber Essentials and FSQS certification.
The BCF Group is a UK training provider that grew out of the Business Coaching Foundation, established in 2001. As an ILM centre it delivers ILM Level 5 (Coaching and Mentoring) and Level 7 (Executive Coaching and Mentoring) qualifications, alongside leadership, management, health and safety and other corporate training, delivered publicly and in-house. It also provides executive coaching services to organisations.
Executive Coaching
Starbuck & Associates is a Lincolnshire-based coaching and leadership development firm, winner of the National Coaching Awards Coaching Business of the Year 2025 and a certified B Corp. Their team of ICF Master Certified Coaches (MCCs), placing them in the top 4% of coaches globally, delivers CEO and executive coaching, team coaching, NED coaching, and accelerating women in leadership programmes. ICF accredited coach training is delivered under The Coaching Craft brand, with ACC (ICF Level 1) and PCC (ICF Level 2) routes and an MCC route on a waiting list. ELCAS funding is available for service leavers. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot, with ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification.
Executive Coaching
Performance Consultants International was co-founded by Sir John Whitmore and is the originator of the GROW coaching model, one of the most widely used frameworks in coaching. It delivers executive and leadership coaching, coach training and leadership development programmes to organisations internationally, and its "Coaching for Performance" certification is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (Level 1 on the ICF register). Its emphasis is performance and organisational culture rather than personal-development coaching.
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