Executive and leadership coaching · Manchester and UK
Executive coaching for leaders who carry the weight.
Confidential one-to-one leadership coaching for CEOs, founders and senior leaders. In person across Greater Manchester and the North West, or online across the UK.
Leadership is lonely at the top. It shouldn’t be.
The more senior you become, the fewer people will tell you the truth. Pressure builds, decisions stack up and there is rarely anywhere to think out loud without consequence.
Our one-to-one coaching, The Anvil, gives senior leaders that space. Each session is honest reflection on how you lead, decide and behave under pressure, grounded in what is happening in your organisation that week, not in abstract models.
Because coaching runs inside a FORGE programme, it doesn’t sit in isolation. What you work on one-to-one connects to sessions with your team and to a community of leaders facing similar pressure.
What executive coaching works on
The themes senior leaders bring to us most.
- 01
Clarity and decision-making
Cutting through noise to the few priorities that matter, and deciding well when the information is incomplete.
- 02
Composure under pressure
Staying steady when stakes are high, so your team takes its lead from your calm rather than your stress.
- 03
Leading the senior team
Building alignment and trust at the top, handling conflict well and holding people to account without damaging relationships.
- 04
Identity and sustainability
Leading in a way that is true to you and that you can sustain for years, not months, without burning out.
Every engagement is built on The ART of Leadership
Alignment. Clarity on values, roles and direction, so leaders and teams pull the same way.
Resilience. The emotional, mental and physical capacity to stay composed and decide well under pressure.
Trust. Relationships where people feel safe to challenge, take ownership and belong. Miss one and performance fractures. Build all three and it compounds.
Where we work
Rooted in Greater Manchester. Working across the UK.
Coaching takes place in person across Greater Manchester and the North West, at your offices or a neutral space, or online for leaders anywhere in the UK.
Greater Manchester
- Manchester
- Salford
- Trafford
- Stockport
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Bury
- Bolton
- Wigan
- Tameside
The North West and beyond
- Warrington
- Cheshire
- Liverpool
- Leeds
- Preston
- Lancashire
- Yorkshire
- Nationwide
Questions, answered
Straight answers. Anything else, just ask.
What is executive coaching?
Executive coaching is confidential one-to-one work with a senior leader to improve how they think, decide and lead. At FORGE it is called The Anvil: honest reflection on how you lead, decide and behave under pressure, tied to what is actually happening in your organisation.
Who is executive coaching for?
CEOs, founders, managing directors and senior leaders who carry responsibility that can’t be delegated, and who want a trusted, challenging space to think.
How is it delivered?
One-to-one sessions in person across Greater Manchester and the North West, or online anywhere in the UK. Coaching runs inside each six-week cycle of a FORGE programme, alongside team sessions and a leaders’ community.
Is executive coaching confidential?
Yes. What you bring to a one-to-one stays there. That confidentiality is what makes honest reflection possible.
How is FORGE different from other executive coaches?
Our coaches have led under real pressure themselves, in professional sport, school leadership and business ownership. We don’t run a model at you. We work on the decisions and behaviours in front of you, and we connect your development to your team’s.
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