Executive
Coaching
Executive coaching provides a trusted partnership for senior leaders to strengthen their leadership capability, address potential blind spots and maximise their impact.
With a confidential and independent perspective, coaching gives leaders the space to step back from the demands of the role, think more strategically and work through complex challenges. It builds greater self-awareness, confidence and clarity – enabling leaders to make better decisions and lead with greater impact.
When is coaching proven to be most valuable to your business?
Coaching helps your leaders develop themselves and their teams.
Being external, our one-to-one coaching services are a critical unbiased outlet for your leaders as they navigate significant complexity and change in a confidential, supportive and solution-oriented environment.
Leadership has become multi-faceted, with your leaders needing a more sophisticated style of adaptive, emotionally intelligent leadership to help your people remain engaged, motivated and connected to organisational objectives. Coaching helps your leaders develop themselves and their teams.
Key Areas
of coaching
Our one-to-one coaching typically supports leaders in these key areas:
How you show up
How you think
How you communicate
How you develop others
What the Research Says
Tailored Executive
one-to-one coaching
We typically work with your executive leader(s) 1:1 and for a minimum of 8 months. Engagements are tailored to each coachee. However, common areas for coaching include:
Executive presence & influence
Strengthening how they communicate, influence stakeholders, command the room and operate with greater impact at the executive level.
Strategic thinking & decision-making
Moving beyond operational demands to think longer-term, navigate ambiguity, make complex decisions and balance competing priorities.
Leading through change & complexity
Building resilience, adaptability and confidence while leading the organisation through uncertainty, transformation or significant change.
Stakeholder management & relationships
Navigating Boards, peers, senior stakeholders and challenging relationships while building alignment and advocacy.
Self-awareness & blind spots
Identifying patterns, assumptions or behaviours that may be limiting their effectiveness – and developing greater flexibility in how they lead.
Leading high-performing teams
Creating accountability, cohesion and trust within the executive team; managing performance and developing the capability of direct reports.
Leadership impact & legacy
Clarifying the kind of leader they want to be, maximising their organisational impact and preparing for their next stage of leadership.
Ready to Explore
the fit?
Executive coaching is a highly individual partnership, so the best place to start is with a conversation.
First, we will discuss the organisation’s priorities for this leader: areas of strengths, areas for growth, the challenges they’re navigating, and the outcomes you want to achieve through coaching. Any recent 360-degree assessments can be discussed also.
Second, we will arrange a chemistry call with the Executive Leader – a critical step to discuss their interest in coaching, their priorities, challenges and areas for development as well as a topline plan of what a successful coaching partnership would produce.
Finally, we will shape an approach that is structured enough to create momentum, yet flexible enough to respond to what emerges during the coaching.
Whether the focus is executive presence, strategic decision-making, leading through change, stakeholder influence, team performance or a specific leadership challenge, coaching is tailored to the individual and the organisation’s needs.
Let’s start with a conversation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Client
testimonials
I am stepping up into the authority my COO role requires
I have just been promoted to COO for our APAC region. The work I am doing with Rebecca is helping me align my authentic leadrship objectives with my desire to step up into the authority that this role requires. My boss is really happy with how I have transitioned into the role and for the positive strategic and leadership changes I am making. I am getting so much from my coaching with Rebecca. I highly recommend you speak with her.
Taking back control of my career direction
When you make the time for self-reflection and do the activities, you will soon gain fresh insights to help you be strategic and intentional about where you want to take your career. Rebecca is a consummate professional who will expertly coach you at every step, to build your momentum. I found it a wonderfully reaffirming process for taking back control of my career direction.
My staff now feel better engaged and motivated
I would highly recommend Rebecca Allen, Illuminate Personal Growth to leaders looking to improve their communication skills and credibility of employees as they engage with both colleagues and clients alike. Rebecca helped me dig much deeper to understand the implications these issues were having on my ‘brand’. It became clear that my staff were not always experiencing the ‘brand’ that I wanted them to. I left each session with practical strategies to address this issue and as a result my staff now feel better engaged and motivated. I’ve found practical solutions that I have been able to apply straight away.
Influence behaviour, leading to genuine and lasting change
Working with Rebecca Allen as an executive coach has been one of the most valuable professional development experiences of my career. Rebecca created a trusted, supportive environment while also challenging my thinking in all the right ways. Through her coaching and the online educational courses, I developed greater self-awareness, strengthened my leadership confidence, and gained practical strategies to navigate complexity, difficult conversations and competing priorities. One of Rebecca’s greatest strengths is her ability to help uncover the deeper beliefs and habits that influence behaviour, leading to genuine and lasting change. Her thoughtful questions and insights prompted a number of significant “light bulb” moments that have fundamentally shifted how I approach leadership. As a result of our work together, I am more intentional, more resilient, and better equipped to lead both myself and others. Rebecca’s impact extends well beyond individual coaching sessions, and I would highly recommend her to any leader looking to grow their effectiveness, confidence and leadership presence.
