Services
Coaching
Coaching is at the heart of how we work.
Our executive coaches provide reflective space for leaders to explore challenges, clarify direction and unlock potential.
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Reach out to discuss your individual or team needs.
Try Before You Buy
We'll arrange complimentary chemistry sessions with qualified coaches to ensure the right fit.
Start Your Journey
Begin your coaching experience tailored to your agreed-upon number of sessions and frequency.
Our Coaches
Our coaches are all International Coaching Federation qualified and bring deep sector experience from across research, education and professional services. We partner each client with a coach who understands their world and can stretch their thinking within it.
From career transitions to executive presence, our coaching creates space for honest reflection and meaningful progress. It’s about helping you build the clarity and confidence to take the next step, whatever that looks like for you.
Our Coaching Offering
Executive Coaching
Our executive coaching supports leaders at all levels in higher education – from those stepping into leadership roles to senior executives navigating complex institutional change. In a confidential, supportive environment, you'll take charge of your development, establish or strengthen your leadership identity, and build confidence in adapting your style to different contexts. Whether you're facing a personal transition or responding to organisational change, coaching equips you to lead with clarity and purpose.
The benefits extend beyond you. As you grow, your team, colleagues, and institution feel the impact – driving growth and transformation across your team, department, and institution.
Transformation coaching
Our transformation coaching provides senior leaders in higher education with confidential space for deep introspection and strategic thinking - often impossible to find amid institutional demands.
Unlike traditional coaching, our approach goes beyond goal-setting to explore your identity, inner narrative, and values. This profound developmental process helps you redefine who you are as a leader, naturally reshaping your focus and approach to your work.
Relationship roundtable: facilitated coaching
A Relationship Roundtable strengthens or repairs team relationships through structured, facilitated coaching conversations. In a safe, confidential space, team members share their perspectives, challenge assumptions, and build shared understanding. Together, you co-create commitments for working together more effectively.
The process includes preparation with stakeholders, individual reflection sessions, facilitated team conversations, and follow-up coaching to ensure commitments translate into lasting change in your team's dynamics and ways of working.
Performance Coaching
Our performance coaching helps staff at all levels build confidence and strengthen their performance through greater clarity and support.
In supportive coaching conversations, you'll gain clear understanding of your role expectations and key objectives, develop the capabilities you need to succeed, and build confidence in your contribution.
As you grow, your organisation benefits too – creating stronger, more effective teams capable of navigating higher education's increasing complexity and accountability demands.
Onboarding Coaching
Our onboarding coaching supports staff new to their roles – whether joining from within the sector or outside – to transition confidently and establish themselves quickly.
Through targeted coaching conversations, new staff build cultural understanding, gain clarity on expectations, and develop the capability and confidence to perform effectively from day one.
The result? New colleagues who adapt smoothly, contribute meaningfully to your institution's mission, and hit the ground running in their roles.
Transitions Coaching
Our transitions coaching supports academic and professional services staff through organisational restructuring and significant role changes.
In focused coaching conversations, you'll build self-awareness, strengthen resilience, and develop the mindset and tools to respond to change proactively. The process creates space to reflect, process transitions, and maintain your performance during periods of uncertainty.
Transitions coaching helps you adapt successfully, maintain your wellbeing, and continue contributing effectively, even as your role, responsibilities, or environment shifts around you.
"My Strive Higher coaching experience was incredible and hugely beneficial. My coach created a safe space to explore situations I found challenging and the chance to unpack the root cause of problems."
"The respectful challenge to my outlook and the presentation of other viewpoints guided me to think more broadly, to navigate my approach and to realise my power in scenarios where I had previously felt less comfortable. As a result, my confidence grew in my new role and I was happier with the challenges I faced."
-Ian, Executive Director at a higher education institution
