Unlock the leader you already know you can be.
A six-month executive coaching experience for Founders, CEOs and Executive Leaders who want the space, challenge and perspective to think differently and lead what comes next.
At senior levels, you don’t necessarily need more answers.
Sometimes you need somewhere you can ask better questions.
Small confidential cohorts
1:1 Executive Coaching
Executive Peer Group
Six Months
The higher you go, the fewer people you can really talk to.
People look to you for answers.
Your decisions carry greater consequences.
You’re expected to see what others don’t, stay calm when things aren’t, make decisions with incomplete information and still find the time to think about what comes next.
Yet the more senior you become, the fewer genuinely independent places you have to think out loud.
Your team has a view.
Your board has a view.
Your colleagues have a view.
Sometimes you need somewhere that doesn’t.
Somewhere confidential.
Somewhere you can think out loud, question your assumptions and say the things you can’t necessarily say anywhere else.
A place where you can be challenged rather than simply agreed with.
That’s why we created RISE Exec.
We asked executive leaders what they actually needed.
We didn’t assume we knew. We spoke to executive leaders about what it really feels like to operate at the top.
Again and again, the same needs emerged.
SPACE
Somewhere confidential and away from the organisation where you can think openly.
PERSPECTIVE
People who see things differently and aren’t caught up in your organisation or its politics.
CHALLENGE
Someone prepared to question your thinking rather than simply agree with it.
CLARITY
Time to step away from operational noise and think strategically.
CONFIDENCE
A stronger sense of yourself when the decisions aren’t straightforward.
RISE Exec was created from those conversations. Not to give senior leaders another model.
To give them somewhere to think.
Who you learn alongside matters.
RISE Exec brings together a small confidential group of senior leaders from different organisations and sectors.
People with different experiences.
Different perspectives.
Different challenges.
But people who understand what it feels like when the decisions eventually land with you.
This isn’t networking.
And it isn’t a room full of people pretending to have everything sorted.
It’s a trusted space for intelligent, honest conversations about what is actually happening. Including the things that may be difficult to discuss anywhere else.
You can bring a real situation into the room. Hear how someone outside your organisation sees it.
Have your assumptions challenged. Learn from the experiences of others.
And leave thinking differently.
Different businesses. Similar responsibility. Better conversations.
Six months. Six conversations that matter.
RISE Exec creates a structured six-month journey around some of the biggest challenges of executive leadership.
Leading Yourself at the Top
Understanding the leader you are now and the one you want to become.
Explore your leadership identity, self-awareness and the impact you have on the people around you.
Strategic Thinking in Complex Systems
Creating enough distance from the noise to see what really matters.
Step away from constant operational demands and strengthen your ability to see patterns, priorities and the bigger picture.
Building High-Trust Leadership Teams
Creating the conditions for honest conversations, challenge and accountability.
Explore how you create trust around the executive table and build relationships where people can challenge one another constructively.
Leading Organisational Change
Helping people move through uncertainty without losing momentum.
Think about your role in change and how you create clarity, confidence and direction when the answers aren’t straightforward.
Building High-Performance, Healthy Cultures
Creating performance that doesn’t come at the expense of people.
Explore the culture you’re creating through your decisions, behaviours and expectations.
Legacy, Succession & Leading the Future
Thinking beyond today’s pressures to the leader and organisation you’re creating.
Step away from the immediate and consider what comes next for you, your people and the organisation you lead.
More than a leadership programme.
An executive coaching experience.
RISE Exec combines structured development with something senior leaders often struggle to find: Protected thinking space.
Every month brings together three connected experiences.
Fresh thinking and practical challenge around the realities of senior leadership.Each workshop provides the starting point for deeper reflection and conversation.
A completely confidential conversation focused entirely on you. No organisational agenda. No need to have the answer. Just dedicated time with an executive coach to think, question, reflect and work through what you’re facing.
Bring real situations into a confidential group of senior peers. Hear different perspectives. Challenge your thinking. Learn from what others are experiencing. And realise that some of the challenges that feel uniquely yours aren’t unique at all.
RISE Exec isn’t about having an interesting conversation and then returning to business as usual.Between sessions, you have space to reflect, experiment and turn your thinking into changes in how you actually lead.You don’t leave RISE Exec with another folder of leadership theory.
You leave thinking differently about yourself, your decisions and the organisation you’re leading.
The six keys to executive leadership
Throughout the journey, RISE Exec develops six interconnected areas:
Self-Awareness
Understand yourself, your impact and how you show up when the pressure increases.
Strategic Clarity
Create enough distance from operational noise to see what really matters.
Better Decision Making
Strengthen how you approach complex decisions where there may be no obvious right answer.
Adaptability
Respond effectively when circumstances, priorities and expectations change.
Trust & Influence
Build relationships that allow challenge, honesty and accountability.
Sustainable Leadership
Lead effectively without allowing responsibility for everyone else to continually come at your own expense.
Think Better. Lead Better.
The most successful leaders don’t simply learn more. They think differently. RISE Exec creates the conditions for that to happen.
Make difficult decisions with greater clarity
Create space around the decision rather than constantly reacting to it.
See the bigger picture
Step away from operational complexity and think more strategically about what matters.
Build stronger executive relationships
Create greater trust, challenge and accountability around the executive table.
Lead change with greater confidence
Navigate uncertainty while helping others understand where they are going.
Protect your own capacity
Think about how you sustain yourself while carrying responsibility for other people and the organisation.
Not a new leadership persona. A better version of you.
Is this you?
RISE Exec may feel familiar if...
You’ve reached a level where there aren’t many people you can talk completely openly with.
You’re surrounded by people but there are still conversations you don’t really have anywhere to take.
You’re spending too much time reacting operationally and not enough time thinking strategically.
The important thinking keeps getting pushed aside by the urgent.
You’re facing decisions where there is no obvious right answer.
Different people want different things and ultimately the decision sits with you.
You’ve achieved a lot but sense there’s another level in you.
You know you’re capable of more, even if you haven’t completely defined what that looks like yet.
Nothing is particularly wrong.
You simply don’t want to stop growing because you’ve reached the top.
If any of those sound familiar, RISE Exec gives you somewhere to explore them.
When was the last time you had space to think about you?
Not the next board meeting. Not the business plan. Not your team’s problems.
You.
The leader you’re becoming. The decisions you’re carrying. What’s working. What isn’t. And what you want the next stage of your leadership to look like.
That is what RISE Exec gives you.
A small confidential group. Independent challenge. One-to-one executive coaching. Six months of protected thinking space.
