A confidential space to lead yourself, so you can lead the work

One-to-one coaching for senior leaders in not-for-profit, social enterprise and public sector organisations

You hold a lot. The role is demanding. The mission is heavy.

The people around you are looking to you for steadiness even when you don't feel steady yourself.

I am a trusted partner to leaders just like you. I will help you find your ground, reinvigorate your leadership, work through complex organisational challenges and amplify your impact.

Our work together will be confidential, relational, supportive and transformative.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

You may be a CEO, executive director, senior manager, or emerging leader in a not-for-profit, social enterprise, government department or public-sector organisation.

You are likely:

Carrying significant weight — for the mission, your team, community, or sector.
Operating in adaptive territory — where the right answer isn't obvious and the costs of being wrong are high.
Aware that your habitual leadership style is starting to cost you — relationships, sleep, clarity, joy in the work.
Wanting a private and supportive space to think and explore with someone who understands the sector, the unique challenges it presents and the inner work the role demands.

You are not looking for a productivity coach. You are looking for someone who can help you reflect, grow and thrive as a leader.

WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS COACHING

Most executive coaching approaches were built for corporate environments. They usually emphasise improving performance, changing leadership behaviours, clarifying strategy, delivering outcomes, and mastering management skills.

However leadership cannot be reduced down to a set of skills or behaviours. Performance can not be ensured simply through strategies and productivity hacks.

Leading well in an increasingly complex world requires leaders to do more than learn new skills - it requires them to think, act and relate differently.

Our work explores how the internal dimensions of who you are shapes how you show up as a leader.

Rather than reduce complex leadership challenges down to a set of one-size-fits-all strategies, we instead explore how your story, your patterns, your nervous system, and the way you make meaning of experiences is shaping your experience as a leader. When the situation calls for it we still explore skills, strategies and behaviours — but do so in a holistic way that seeks to incorporate all of who you are into the way you lead.

Of course, every leader's path and terrain is different.

While our coaching work will be bespoke and tailored to your needs, this type of work tends to gather around the four threads of my coaching methodology.

GROUND‍ ‍

RESTORE YOUR INNER GROUND

Sustainable leadership depends on a particular kind of inner steadiness.

When needed, we will work on stabilising, revitalising and self-awareness so you can meet the demands of your role without being consumed by them.

NOTICE

SEE THE SYSTEM YOU ARE IN

Effective leadership in a complex setting requires accurate diagnosis — What's actually in your way?

Our work will utilise various lenses to help you see the field you’re operating in with more accuracy.

SENSE

INCREASE THE ACCURACY OF YOUR SENSEMAKING

Complex environments don't reward decisive action; they reward accurate sensemaking.

We work directly with the live challenges in your role to help you to better read the shape of what's actually happening, hold competing truths, and resist the pull to false certainty

SHAPE

GENERATE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS

Your job is not just to do the work but to create the conditions in which the people around you can do their best work.

We will explore how you can generate greater psychological safety, innovation and capability in your team, your board, your broader organisation — so the system around you thrives.

WHAT CHANGES

Our coaching will enable you to grow your leadership across five domains: self-awareness, embodied intelligence, relational mastery, navigating complexity and change, and sustainable performance.

These five domains create the blueprint for leading well in an organisational context that is complex, relationship-centric, purpose and values driven and at times, stressful.

Become less reactive and more responsive as a leader, especially under pressure and stress.

Experience stronger, more productive relationships in the workplace.

Discover and start to live your own path for sustainable impact and resilience.

Renew your sense of purpose as a leader.

Utilising a awareness and developmental psychology lens enables us to form a shared understanding of what's happening below your words and actions — at the level of your nervous system, your behavioural patterns under pressure, and the unfinished developmental experiences that continue to unconsciously shape how you show up in everyday situations.
From this place we can focus on developing the insight, pattern recognition and skills you need to choose how you show up in everyday situations.
When leaders are unaware of their own stress levels, emotional reactivity, or are unable to regulate their nervous systems when they are activated, their ability to lead becomes significantly impaired.
Our coaching will incorporate the grounding, self-regulation and embodiment tools you need to become more aware and able to manage your emotions and nervous system when you are activated and under stress, so you can meet stressful situations in a more regulated and relational way.
By exploring issues around how you wield and yield authority and power, our coaching work will enable you to be more conscious of your rank and power as a leader.
From this place, we look at how you can generate greater psychological safety, cultural responsiveness and trauma awareness in your team, so they can perform sustainably in a safe, relational environment.
Engaging complexity and adaptive leadership tools in our coaching work enables us to properly diagnose and address complex challenges and change in your team and organisation.
Together we can craft contextually appropriate, strategic interventions that will help you lead your team with confidence, vision and impact, especially in times of uncertainty and change.
Many leaders find themselves caught up in an eternal crisis cycle — constantly pushing themselves to do more, put out fires, attend to urgent matters — all while trying to perform at a high level themselves in a state of cognitive overload.
Not only is it almost impossible to make good decisions from this place, but it’s a slippery slope to burnout.
Our coaching will integrate tools that help you to recognise and manage stress levels, and to take preemptive action to prevent burnout. The result is an improvement in your wellbeing, and more clarity, impact and efficacy in how you perform.

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“I’ve taken away so much from my sessions with Manav. Hi care, insight and cheeky brand of humility had me feeling safe, met, and respectfully challenged at every turn.”
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