Six session programme
programme, from$3,600
- A goals meeting with your sponsor, if you have one
- Short written reflections after each session
- Quick questions to your coach between sessions
- A closing review of what changed
Clearer decisions, steadier teams, one conversation at a time
Coaching programmes for managers and founders working on how they lead, decide and build a team. What you say in a session stays between you and your coach, even when your company pays the invoice.
90 minutesfor every session
6 or 12sessions in a programme
In confidencenothing shared without your consent
What is said in the room stays in the room (example reviews)
Coaching only works when you can think out loud about a difficult colleague, a decision you doubt or a fear of failing in a new role. So the content of every session is confidential, including from the manager or board that arranged it.
The narrow exceptions are agreed in writing at the start: when someone’s safety is in serious danger, or when the law obliges a coach to disclose. If either ever arose, we would talk to you first wherever we could.
- Session notes kept by the coach, never sent to your employer
- Your sponsor hears about progress from you, not from us
- No recordings unless you ask for one
- Notes deleted twelve months after the programme ends
Programmes, priced in full
Every programme opens with a chemistry call at no charge, plus a three way meeting when a company is paying. Prices are examples in US dollars and include the coach’s preparation between sessions.
Twelve session programme
programme, from$6,600
- Everything in the six session programme
- Confidential feedback interviews with up to eight colleagues
- A mid point review with your sponsor, led by you
- Two sessions held back for a hard moment
Founder sounding board
a month, from$780
- For founders and chief executives without a board to think with
- Monthly, with one month notice to stop
- Early morning or evening sessions
- Preparation before investor and board meetings
Invoices go directly to you or to your employer, half at the start of a programme and half at the mid point review.
What clients bring to the first session
Nobody arrives with a neat goal. These are the themes managers and founders most often start with, and most programmes touch two or three of them.
Leading people who were your peers
Setting expectations, holding a line and keeping friendships honest after a step up inside the same team.
Deciding with half the facts
Making a call when the data is incomplete, explaining it to others and living with the chance that it was wrong.
Building a leadership team
Hiring, reshaping roles and getting a group of strong individuals to disagree usefully, then commit.
Hard conversations
Feedback that lands, performance talks, and saying no to people you respect without damaging the relationship.
Workload and delegation
Working out what only you can do, handing over the rest and protecting time to think.
Boards and investors
Preparing for scrutiny, sharing bad news early and building trust with people who can overrule you.
When a company pays: what is shared and what is not
Many programmes are funded by an employer. These are the rules we agree with the sponsor before the first session, so everyone knows where the lines sit.
| Topic | Shared with the sponsor | Kept between you and the coach |
|---|---|---|
| Goals for the programme | Agreed together in a three way meeting at the start | How you feel about them, and any goals you keep private |
| Attendance | Whether sessions took place, for invoicing | What was discussed in them |
| Progress | What you choose to report at the mid point and closing reviews | Everything else |
| Feedback interviews | Themes you decide to share, never names | Individual comments from colleagues |
| Career plans | Nothing, unless you raise them with your sponsor yourself | Any thought of moving on, inside or outside the company |
| Safety concerns | Only when safety is in serious danger or the law requires it, and we tell you first where we can | All other personal matters |
From chemistry call to closing review (example reviews)
A chemistry call
Thirty minutes at no charge to see whether we work well together. Saying no afterwards is normal and expected.
A three way meeting
If your employer pays, you, your sponsor and your coach agree the goals and the confidentiality rules in one hour.
Sessions every two to three weeks
Ninety minutes in person, by video or walking outside, with a short written reflection afterwards.
Feedback interviews
In the longer programme, conversations with colleagues you choose, summarised for you alone.
A mid point review (example reviews)
You lead it, deciding what to tell your sponsor about progress and what to adjust.
A closing review (example reviews)
What changed, what did not, and what you will keep practising once the coaching ends.
Where the sessions happen
A quiet room in the business district, a screen when travel is impossible, and the park path for anyone who thinks better on the move.
Asked before the first session
Will coaching get me promoted?
Nobody can promise that, and we never do. Coaching can help you lead, decide and communicate better, and some clients later step into bigger roles, but promotions depend on your organisation and on much that happens outside a coaching room.
What will my employer hear about our sessions?
Only what you choose to tell them in the reviews, plus the fact that sessions took place. The full rules are in the table above and are agreed in writing with your sponsor before the first session.
Is executive coaching the same as therapy?
No. Coaching looks forward at work and leadership. If something deeper comes up, such as lasting low mood or anxiety, we will suggest speaking to your doctor or a qualified therapist. If you are ever in crisis, call your local emergency number.
Can we meet by video or walk instead?
Yes. Many clients mix the three formats. Walking sessions follow a level path in the park and move indoors if the weather turns.
Do you also coach whole leadership teams?
Yes, as a separate piece of work with its own agreement, so that individual sessions stay confidential and never blur into the team work.
Can a session be moved at short notice?
Move it with 48 hours notice and nothing is charged. Later changes count as a used session unless something urgent came up, which we judge kindly.
From managers, founders and a sponsor (example reviews)
Three months after stepping up to lead my old team, every hard conversation was being put off. The sessions gave me a way to start them, and the weekly meeting no longer feels like a performance.
With forty staff and nobody to think aloud with, the monthly sessions became the place where decisions slowed down in the right way.
We sponsored three managers. The three way meetings set clear goals, and not once were we told what was said in a session, which is exactly why the managers trusted it.
Request a chemistry call or a programme
Choose what you would like and suggest a day and a time. Your coach answers within a working day, confirming the slot, offering another or explaining if the diary is full.
There is no need to write anything confidential here. A sentence about what you would like to work on is plenty.
Find Summit
Phone and email
A coaching room in the business district, video sessions anywhere, and walking sessions in the riverside park
Session hours
| Monday to Thursday | 07:30 to 19:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 14:00 |
| Weekends | Founders’ sessions by arrangement |
Booking for someone else?
Sponsors and HR teams are welcome to call first. We explain the confidentiality rules before anyone is introduced, so the person being coached hears them from us as well.
Call +44 20 7946 0247