Leadership
Coaching
Helping senior and emerging leaders hone their own leadership style, build the skills a bigger role demands, and grow into it without losing themselves in the process.
Leadership gets heavier as you progress and it can be isolating without the right support.
So I work with leaders who want a trusted thinking partner, someone outside the politics, outside the noise, and solely focused on helping them lead well.
As an accredited leadership coach with the Australian Institute of Professional Coaches, and with over 16 years of leadership experience, I help people build their own leadership style and navigate growth into bigger roles with clarity and confidence, without burning out or burning through who they are.
What’s involved in Leadership Coaching?
My purpose throughout our partnership is to support you as you grow into more responsibility, helping you build a leadership style that's genuinely yours, not one borrowed from whoever you're reporting to or trying to impress.
This isn't generic leadership theory. It's a space built around the specific challenges of stepping into more weight and pressure, managing competing priorities, leading through uncertainty, and building the confidence to lead sustainably without burning out. We work through what you're actually navigating as your role grows, not a hypothetical version of leadership.
Sessions are built around where you are in that growth, not a fixed curriculum. Some conversations are practical, working through a specific challenge or decision you're facing right now. Others are more developmental, stepping back to think about who you want to be as a leader as the role asks more of you.
Typically I work with:
Senior leaders stepping into bigger, more challenging roles
Senior leaders looking for sustainable ways to lead in a complex environment
High performers carrying significant responsibility
Emerging leaders building their own leadership style and identity
Thank you, Sam, for being such a strong, insightful, and supportive coach. I would recommend Sam to anyone looking to make meaningful changes in their life. And as a bonus, she’s also a lot of fun to work with.
— Managing Director 
Coaching sessions
focus on:
Managing competing priorities
Leading through uncertainty
Building confidence in your leadership style
Leading sustainably without burning out
Building greater self awareness and understanding of who you are
Building deeper skills in negotiation, communication, conflict management and presenting
Learning how to advocate for yourself, and your team
Becoming more strategically and commercially minded in your role
Engage with me
Flexible Coaching Packages
3, 6 or 10 Sessions
Sometimes you need focused support for a specific challenge. Sometimes you're in the middle of something bigger and need someone in your corner for the long haul. Coaching packages are designed to flex around both.
Each package gives you a set number of sessions to use as the work requires, without locking you into an ongoing commitment. Some clients use them to work through one clear decision or transition. Others spread them out over a few months, coming back to sessions as new challenges surface.
All sessions are 60 minutes, held fortnightly or monthly to suit your rhythm. Each one is yours: no fixed agenda, no prescribed framework. Just focused, responsive coaching built around what matters most to you right now.
Packages are a good fit if you want the flexibility to pace the work yourself, without the ongoing structure of a retainer.
Ongoing Coaching Retainers
Fortnightly or Monthly
A coaching retainer is for an executive or owner who is consistently navigating complexity: roles with competing pressures, organisations in change, or the kind of work where the challenges keep evolving and you need someone who can keep pace with you.
With a retainer, we're not starting from scratch each time. I hold the thread of your work, including the goals, the dynamics, the decisions in progress, so our sessions can move quickly and go deep. Over time, this kind of continuity builds something a package can't: a coaching relationship that compounds.
Retainers run fortnightly or monthly, and includes access between sessions for those moments when something lands and you want to think it through before our next conversation.
This is the engagement type that tends to suit executives who've already done some coaching work and know its value; or those in roles where the stakes are high enough that having a consistent, trusted outside perspective isn't a luxury, it's part of how they operate well.
Leaders say coaching helps them:
Feel more confident in their judgement
Reduce the mental load they carry
Step out of reactive mode and into a strategic mindset
Lead with greater intention and alignment
Think more clearly and calmly under pressure
Hold onto their own leadership style under pressure
Grow into bigger roles without losing themselves
Sam is an excellent coach.
She guides the discovery process with insight and warmth, and the sessions with her have clarified a path forward.
She is able to distill what I share with her, and then focus in on the essential elements, uncovering actionable items. I would absolutely recommend her as a coach: she is compassionate, clear-headed, and highly experienced.
— Senior Researcher
Let’s chat
Let's chat CTAIf the weight of leading is starting to feel isolating, you don't have to carry it without support.
Get in touch to chat about how I can help.