Executive Coaching
Senior. Capable. Quietly stuck.
Confidential one-to-one coaching for senior leaders. Three months minimum. Built around the shift you're actually trying to make — not the curriculum someone else picked.
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In recent years, we've engaged Ronan to help a couple of our people successfully navigate meaningful change in their lives. He earned instant professional credibility with me, but, more importantly, he built instant rapport and trust with them, providing them with concrete actions they could take to shift their thinking and equip themselves to find and take the right next step in their career. He has a professional and calm way of doing things, but blends this with friendliness and informality — a perfect blend for us.
If any of this sounds familiar.
Four situations that account for almost every retained engagement.
Succession-Readiness
"I'm the obvious next step. So why don't I feel ready?"
You're being talked about as the next CEO, MD, or department head. Capable, experienced, technically excellent. But the next role is made of different stuff — decision-making under pressure, executive presence, the communication range to carry a bigger room — and you can sense it before anyone names it.
Executive Transition
"I just got the role. I have ninety days to make this work."
First-time exec, expanded remit, or external hire. The patterns that got you here will not be enough. The cost of an unsupported transition is high — and you can already feel where the friction is going to land.
Performance Plateau
"I'm capable. I've been at this level for years. Something needs to shift."
You've done strong work. You're respected. But the next move isn't coming, and the patterns that worked at the last level have become your ceiling. You need to see the move before you can make it.
Targeted Development
"The 360 surfaced something specific. I'd rather work on it now than have it follow me."
A defined gap — executive presence, decision-making, or communication most often. You don't need a course. You need a confidential space to work on it, off the record, until it stops being a thing.
How this works without compromising confidentiality.
If you're self-funding, skip steps 1, 3 and 5. Everything else stays the same.
A relationship built on results.
Every retained client gets Ronan's direct involvement — not a junior associate, not a template. If after the first month it isn't working, the engagement ends. No questions, no charge for the remainder.
Three Coaching Programmes
One standard of work. Scope and depth tailored to where you are.
Lead with Confidence
8 sessions · 3 months
A focused three-month programme to build momentum on a specific leadership challenge — structured, scoped, and built to deliver.
- 8 × 60-minute sessions over 3 months
- Scheduled calls & emails between sessions
- 90-day leadership plan
- Sponsor goal alignment + end-of-engagement read
- Session notes and action summary
Leading at the Top
12 sessions · 6 months
A six-month partnership for senior executives — with on-demand access and documented sponsor checkpoints to make behaviour change visible, not just felt.
- 12 × 60-minute sessions over 6 months
- On-demand calls & emails throughout
- Board & C-suite navigation
- Strategic stakeholder influence
- Mid-point and end-of-engagement sponsor read
- Board, investor & presentation preparation
Executive Partnership
Scoped to your engagement
For multi-person engagements across a leadership team, ongoing retainer relationships, and high-stakes board or investor work that needs custom scoping.
- Ongoing retainer — scoped quarterly
- Multi-person engagements across leadership teams
- Direct line — calls & emails, 7 days a week
- Full diagnostic suite — 360 feedback, values, stakeholder map
- Stakeholder strategy and influence mapping
- Board, investor & media preparation
Sessions run over Google Meet, with optional in-person meetings each quarter.
Self-funded or company-sponsored — same proposal. If your company is sponsoring multiple leaders at once, ask about consolidated contracts.
Tell us where you're at.
A tailored proposal within 24 hours — direct from Ronan.
From the leaders themselves.
95 reviews on Google. Three from leaders in your kind of position.
"Before working with Ronan, I felt like a ship lost at sea. He helped me land not just one, but two jobs within just a few weeks — and rebuilt my confidence to back myself again."
"Ronan's combination of knowledge, empathy and perspective provides for a very enlightening and insightful journey. The process was productive, refreshing, and empowering."
"I came to Ronan dispirited — 22 years in the one company and in dire need of a change. He helped me determine what I wanted, build my brand, and develop a killer CV. Inside 4 weeks I landed two good job offers."
Common questions
The ones that come up most often before someone books the call.
What stays confidential if my company is sponsoring this?
Everything you discuss in session. If a sponsor is involved (HR, your boss, or whoever's funding the work), you both agree the broad goals together at the start — usually three or four specific behavioural outcomes. Those goals are the only thing Ronan ever reports back on. The content of any conversation stays between you and Ronan. Always. This separation is what makes the work possible at this seniority.
How is this different from a leadership course?
Courses give you frameworks. Coaching gives you reps. Most clients here have already done the courses — what they need is a confidential space to apply the thinking to their actual situation, week after week, until the new behaviour holds. This is one-to-one, built around you, not a curriculum.
Is three months enough time for real change?
Three months is the floor, not the ceiling. It's long enough to identify the patterns that need to shift, run real-world experiments between sessions, and see whether new behaviour holds under pressure. Most retained clients renew — sustained change typically takes longer than a quarter. The minimum exists so we have the runway to do meaningful work, not because the work ends there.
What if I'm paying for this myself?
The same engagement works either way. If you're self-funding, there's no sponsor conversation and no sponsor check-ins — the goals are between you and Ronan, the content is between you and Ronan, and you decide what (if anything) to bring back to your company. Roughly half of retained clients are self-funded.
For HR & People teams: invoicing in EUR with VAT, 30-day terms, Stripe links, PO numbers, and multi-engagement contracts all handled. Mention any of this in your enquiry.
Meet Ronan
"My job is to be the one person in your week who doesn't have an agenda about your career."
I've spent the last decade doing one specific thing: sitting opposite senior leaders and helping them figure out what's actually going on — not what should be going on, not what the framework says. Then we work on it.
Over that time I've coached CFOs through CEO transitions, scale-up founders through board exits, first-time MDs through their first 90 days, and long-tenured directors weighing whether the next role is actually what they want. The patterns are different. The work is the same.
I don't give advice unless asked. I push back when something doesn't add up. I'll remember what you said three weeks ago and ask why this week is different. Sessions are 60 minutes, you set the agenda, and I bring the questions you didn't think to ask yourself.
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