Leadership Coaching
Executive Leadership and Career Coach
Maureen Adams provides executive coaching and services that give leaders the space to think, reflect, and lead.
Executive Leadership Coaching for Ambitious Professionals
I'm Maureen Adams, an ICF-accredited executive career coach with over 20 years of experience in senior management and director roles. I am based on the Berkshire/Oxfordshire border and coach managers, directors, and aspiring executives across the UK, Europe, and the US.
I also prepare leaders for promotion by helping them to perform strongly in executive interviews and to navigate major career and leadership transitions.
Executive Coaching
Coaching for directors means recognising the scope and scale of this level and the pressures that come with it. It requires a coaching process that supports strategic abilities and personal vision alongside performance. The main challenges often lie in capacity, connections with others, and ongoing personal and professional development.
Increasingly, senior professionals are required to work across wider remits and responsibilities, which in turn requires adaptable thinking skills. This is highly personalised work that requires trust, confidentiality, and a drive to grow and develop.
Leadership Development
I work with mid-career change clients who have more to achieve but need a strategic yet practical approach to the next iteration of their career, and to show effective leadership.
Clients often describe feeling clear about their goals and the pathways to achieve them; calmer and more confident in high-stakes meetings and interviews; credible and visible with senior stakeholders; and re-energised about their career path. Developing themselves and their teams can go hand in hand.
Interview Coaching
Whether you're preparing for a senior interview, stepping into a leadership role, accelerating your performance, or repositioning your career, you'll benefit from a high-quality, personalised interview coaching programme tailored.
If you want to articulate your unique achievements, interview coaching can help, not by giving you answers, but by strengthening your responses in a way that feels entirely authentic to you. Prepare for senior interviews with a coach who understands leadership expectaions.
Career and Transition Coaching
If you're looking for a career coach to make a stronger impact, develop your leadership skills, or expand your breadth with a board position, now is the perfect time to start the conversation. Refresh your motivation and leadership style in a confidential setting. Change direction without dismissing the experience you have built and make any pivot or promotion a success.
Leaders can benefit from developing new behaviours that improve communcation, recognise blindspots, and drive results. In an established role, it is important to evolve and stay fresh as challenges emerge, even in mid-stage or later careers.
Themes on which I work are:
- Director-Level Interview Coaching
- Coaching for Executive Presence
- Coaching for Senior-Level Promotion
- First 100 Days in a new role
- The Path to the C-Suite
- Transition Coaching for a C-Suite role
In the words of a valued client:
"At the end of the programme, I was delighted to achieve a significant internal promotion into the C-Suite that had seemed out of reach. Coaching brought out my capabilities, and I began believing in myself."
CL, Programme Leader
I am an ICF-qualified executive and leadership coach working across all sectors, including Finance, IT, Marketing, PM, Retail, and Operations. I offer tailored coaching to ensure you become a well-positioned leader.
When managers and leaders face pressure, decision-making can become rushed and reactive. Coaching can play a crucial role by providing a framework to assess both your personal and professional life, helping you identify what truly matters. This focused approach is essential for leadership development and your leadership reputation.
Instead of risking overwhelm, you can transform your career, regain control, lead with vision, and manage uncertainty more effectively.
We pinpoint your needs and guide you toward success with a clear career narrative. Results matter; you're looking at the Return on Investment (ROI) of coaching or aiming to achieve better results at work.
The difference between executive coaching services and career coaching lies in the focus of our sessions. We explore your thinking patterns and problem-solving strategies as they relate to your current role and aspirations.
Conversely, career coaching focuses on your future vision, positioning you for your desired role, organisation, or life change and increasing your vsibility for key skills and attributes. This might involve reviewing your LinkedIn profile or public speaking opportunities.
For example, if you're contemplating a career change after 40 or 50, we use your extensive experience and strong reputation to help you transition smoothly into a new role. Investing in coaching at any age is truly an investment in your future.
As a successful client put it:
"The impact was real; I secured a promotion and continued career coaching afterwards to navigate workplace conflict with confidence."
LT Marketing Manager, UK
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