Executive coaching for senior leaders, founders, and small-business owners carrying high responsibility — often without a peer who can hold the conversation it actually needs.
Sustained 1:1 work. Designed for the level of decision-making your role requires.
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It assumes if you can just see the situation more clearly, hold a better mental model, or replace one belief with another, the rest will follow. For most senior leaders, that isn't the issue.
By the time you're carrying a complex executive role, a scaling business, or a leadership position with no one above you to defer to, the problem is rarely your thinking. It's the conditions inside which you're trying to think:
Coaching at this level isn't about new frameworks. It's about creating the conditions where you can see what's actually in front of you, name what needs naming, and act from somewhere clearer than the reactive default.
Executive committee members, country and regional heads, function leads, ASX-level CEOs and direct reports. People whose decisions affect hundreds or thousands of people, whose calendars are over-allocated, and whose internal monologue rarely gets time outside it. Coaching here is about cognitive clarity under sustained load, decision quality, leadership presence, and the patterns that emerge under pressure.
Founders scaling, founders integrating after acquisition, founders making step-change decisions about capital, team, or direction. The defining feature isn't company size — it's the absence of a credible peer inside the business and the weight of holding the vision against the day-to-day. Coaching here is about strategic discernment, founder-team dynamics, and the personal recalibration that scaling requires of the person, not just the business.
People carrying the leadership load alone in smaller organisations — owner-operators, senior consultants, principals of small firms, individuals with significant commercial responsibility but limited corporate scaffolding. The coaching looks similar to executive work, calibrated for the realities of running lean. No corporate-coaching jargon, no manufactured complexity — just the same depth of work, sized to your context.
The default. A 6–12 month engagement, fortnightly or monthly sessions of approximately 90 minutes, plus integration support between sessions. For leaders working through a sustained period of decision-making, transition, or recalibration. This is where most of the deepest work happens — not in single sessions but in the cumulative space created across them.
A short, concentrated engagement — typically 3–5 sessions over 4–6 weeks, sometimes including a full-day intensive. For leaders facing a specific high-stakes decision, transition, or pattern that needs to be addressed deliberately and quickly. Less open-ended than sustained engagement; more surgical in intent.
Coaching designed around an immersive retreat container — typically a private 3–5 day retreat at Aro-Hā, Happy Buddha, or a venue chosen for fit, plus integration sessions before and after. For leaders who need a genuine reset, not a long string of half-hour calls between meetings. The retreat does work the calendar can't. The integration sessions translate it back into the role.
Retreats & expeditions →My coaching practice integrates psychological depth, systemic awareness, and embodied work — the same modalities that underpin my facilitation and retreat work, calibrated for sustained 1:1 engagement.
More on the method: see the Approach →
Outcomes vary by context, but consistent themes show up across engagements:
My coaching practice grows out of the same body of work that has put me in front of UN management teams, ASX leadership groups, and Fortune 500 executives — not the other way round. Senior leaders who work with me typically encounter the practice first through facilitation or retreat work, then engage 1:1 because the depth they experienced in a group continues to be useful afterwards.
"In his capacity as Executive coach Peter provided me tangible benefits that I could apply in my work practice to help me become a more effective leader. He's a great listener, offers practical advice and suggestions and has an amazing grasp and recall of just the right evidence/author/framework to back it all up."— John Healey, Program Director, NSW Government
A Leadership Clarity Call is a structured 30-minute conversation. We'll look at where you are, what's being held, and whether sustained 1:1 work is the right next step. If it is, we'll talk about format. If it's not, you'll leave with a clearer read on what is.
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