EXECUTIVE COACHING CLIENTS

Our executive coaching clients are typically CEOs, directors, senior executives and functional leaders of private and public sector organisations and partners in professional services firms. We work predominantly with clients in mid-sized or larger organisations, many of which have complex multi-national businesses.

Our clients have a responsibility for determining the future direction of their organisations, for delivering significant business results and for leading organisational change.

Typical situations where Ridler & Co works include the following:

  • CEOs and senior board directors who are looking for a confidential, business-focussed sounding board
  • Business and functional leaders who are new in role, often having just received a significant promotion
  • Leaders who are new in their organisations
  • Senior executives transitioning from a specialist or functional role to the board
  • Preparation of top talent for main board appointment
  • Leaders of major organisational transformation and change.

OUR APPROACH TO EXECUTIVE COACHING

The essence of the Ridler & Co coaching approach is about our clients understanding and being more themselves as leaders rather than constantly trying to be ‘better’ or ‘different’. We regard executive coaching as a rewarding and enjoyable element of work, for senior executives – not a remedial exercise.

We provide our clients with the opportunity and space to stand back, to reflect on their challenges and unique leadership contribution and work out how to leverage their capabilities to best effect. This results in a more powerful engagement with their work which develops beyond just being a ‘better performance’ to become a genuine and powerful expression of self at work.

The Ridler & Co approach addresses how leaders can discover and mobilise the full range of their personal motivations, talents and interests, and those of their colleagues, in the service of their individual and organisational goals.

We want our clients to be the best they can be and we work with the practical issues that our clients bring us. We work with them to look afresh at the challenges they face and act as a sounding board, helping them towards practical and relevant solutions and we support them in the implementation of changes which deliver tangible results for their organisations.

We do not ‘advise’ or ‘tell’ but we listen and consult, using our business experience to understand our clients’ context and our expertise in coaching and psychology to ask the right questions to guide our clients towards the right way to proceed. Our skill is in drawing out our clients’ strengths and in bringing to the surface issues which are holding our clients back.

Our coaching assignments usually last between 6 and 18 months – this is usually enough time to plan and implement change. Some of our senior clients do choose to work with us for a period of years, rather than months.

Ridler & Co’s coaches are trained to identify and work with client issues without themselves getting caught up in their clients’ problems and spreading destructive behaviour further.

External, independent and professionally skilled coaching supervision is intrinsic to the Ridler & Co way of working. This underpins the quality, objectivity and professionalism of our coaching.