Complexity

Focused

Leadership Coaching

A confidential thinking partnership for leaders working under sustained complexity and pressure.

Support for High-Pressure Leadership

When the Stakes Are High

Develop your capacity as a senior leader operating in high-stakes, human-centred systems—including healthcare, public services, academia, clinical leadership, and professional services.

Carrying Too Much Alone

This work is for leaders who are already highly capable, yet navigating cognitive load, ambiguity, political complexity, and responsibility for others, often without sufficient reflective support.

How the coaching is structured

1. Making Sense of Pressure

Understand how you interpret strain, form leadership identity, and make decisions under sustained pressure.

2. Seeing the System

Recognise how organisational forces shape your choices, influence, and leadership impact — and where you retain agency.

3. Staying Effective

Strengthen confidence, resilience, and focus when responsibility, scrutiny, and psychological load are high.

4. Sustaining Performance

Create boundaries and recovery practices that protect energy, judgment, and long-term leadership effectiveness.

Where This Coaching Is Most Valuable

Put short, when you’re carrying too much!

You’re expected to be decisive, composed, and confident —
while absorbing tension, conflict, and responsibility from all sides.

You rarely get space to process the impact of decisions or the weight of what you’re carrying.

This coaching gives you protected thinking space
when leadership feels heavy, not theoretical.

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YOUR COACH

Dr Cordet Smart

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Deep Expertise, Applied Practically

Chartered Psychologist
Chartered Level 8 Coaching Psychologist
Executive Coaching Certificate
PhD in Social Influence and Organisations
MSc in Organisational Psychology
Additional postgraduate qualifications across psychology
Former Director across multiple organisations
International author and academic contributor

Experience

I am a Chartered Psychologist with specialist training in leadership and organisational psychology. My work focuses on discourse, communication, and meaning-making within teams and organisations, with extensive academic publications in these areas.

Alongside professional expertise, I bring lived experience of senior leadership roles within complex systems.

How I work

Reflective Space That Strengthens Leadership

High-quality reflective space is one of the most under-resourced elements of senior leadership.

Using evidence-based psychological approaches, I support leaders to:

Clarify leadership identity
Think more clearly under pressure
Act with confidence despite uncertainty
Develop a leadership approach that is authentic, credible, and sustainable

This work is collaborative, rigorous, and grounded in the realities of your context.

How to buy

You Don’t Need to Work Harder. You Need Space to Think.

If you are navigating complexity, responsibility, or transition and would benefit from a specialist reflective partnership, the next step is a confidential exploratory conversation.

our

impact

Award winning impact including;

- accelerated change

- staff retention

- leadership confidence

- stress reduction

- improved networking

- 99% satisfaction scores

Then there are the softer outcomes that people report, such as a felt sense of growth and an increased capability in managing challenge and complexity.

Chartered

Psychologists

We blend advanced understanding of Clinical, Organisational and Personal development theory and practice into bespoke designed programmes of enquiry and development.

Award winning chartered Psychologists who lead national scale enterprise and support others to do the same.

If you want to really feel change, we create the opportunity.

To explore your needs or to discuss contracting, please contact us.