Axiom’s coaching and mentoring tackle leaders’ immediate, unique challenges head-on. We create psychologically safe spaces for candid conversations. This helps executives grow as effective leaders by encouraging better analytical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, and communications skills.
Contact us today >The right outcome requires the right partnership
The foundation of effective coaching lies in a strong partnership. Every leader we coach or mentor is carefully matched with one of our highly experienced practitioners.
By investing time upfront, we identify the best coaching approach tailored for individual leaders – both personally and professionally.
It is important for everyone to find the coach or mentor who is right for them, because we know only the right interpersonal relationship, partnership and coaching model will enable that leader to flourish and reach their full potential.
Meet our coaches >How our leadership coaching and mentoring works
Once matched, leaders embark on a series of one-to-one sessions, each lasting an hour or two. Tailored to each leader’s individual needs, these confidential conversations vary greatly. Whether it’s confidence-boosting ahead of a corporate conference, addressing challenging interpersonal issues, or preparing for a wide-scale change initiative, our skilled coaches provide the tools and guidance leaders need to succeed.
Key areas of development include:
- Analytical and creative thinking
- Self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and
- Communications and engagement skills.
Our leadership coaching programmes and mentoring encourage the self-discovery and development that is needed to become an effective leader.
How we help leaders grow
- Psychological safety: free your people by creating an environment where ideas are shared openly, mistakes become learning opportunities, and innovation thrives. We help you create a climate of psychological safety.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training: becoming an inclusive leader starts with deep self-awareness and tailored guidance. The most transformative step is to engage with a leadership coach. Partner with our consultant, Jiten Patel, to set your DEI direction and vision. Our DEI coaching provides a safe, non-judgmental space to address knowledge gaps, explore unconscious biases, and build inclusive practices.
- Emotional intelligence (EQ): measure and understand your levels of emotional intelligence through diagnostics tools, and get a personalised development plan to help you make progress. Improve self-awareness, empathy, and relationship-building to lead with greater impact.
- Employee wellbeing: equip yourself with actionable wellbeing strategies from our expert, Jeff Archer, to drive-up employee engagement, morale, and overall performance across your organisation.
- Mental health training: work with award-winning HR consultant and trainer Sharon Kinder, to create mentally healthy workplaces through tailored training programmes that address your organisation’s specific needs.
- Public speaking: deliver compelling presentations that leave a lasting impression. From refining your key messages to rehearsing and perfecting your performance, our bespoke public speaking coaching will help you to get the results you want.
- Interpersonal excellence: maximise your influence with effective communication strategies using our proven framework, with Miles Henson. Getting three straight A’s will minimise misunderstandings and deliver interpersonal excellence.
- Business storytelling: the best way a leader can connect with an audience and make their message memorable is by telling a story. It’s something we’ve been helping executives with for approaching three decades. Through personalised coaching, we guide you to shape your message, structure your narrative, and deliver it with lasting impact.
- Collective Ambition: Whether you’re launching a new venture or embarking on major change, our Collective Ambition process helps you align vision, strategy, and execution for long-term success.
Top-rated leadership development and training workshops
These can include one-to-one coaching relationships or mentoring:
How to become a world-class leader
We provide the tools and techniques needed to fine-tune leadership skills, so those in leadership roles become someone others want to follow. Available as a half-day’s honing or a day’s deep dive for anyone looking to elevate their leadership skills.
How to improve business performance by getting Straight A’s in Interpersonal Excellence
This workshop unlocks leadership potential by increasing the awareness and agility individual leaders need to get the best from every interaction. A masterclass for everyone.
How to create an inclusive ‘Speak Up’ culture by harnessing Psychological Safety
A must for every leader who wants to create an environment where their people can speak up without fear of consequence. A psychologically safe environment is foundational to engagement, a high performing team, and innovation.
How to develop high-performing teams
Explore what a high-performing team looks like and what is needed for an individual leader to create and sustain one. This includes developing a leadership style with a coach-like approach.
How to build a winning culture
If ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ why do leaders get so bogged down discussing strategy and operational delivery? This workshop provokes the leadership thinking and behaviours needed to shape a winning culture.
How to lead motivated teams
It’s impossible for a leader to succeed if they can’t motivate others to action. This workshop helps leaders develop the techniques for inspiring, encouraging, and enabling their teams to succeed.
”We are proud to be able to harness over 30 years of past experience in business, to help our coaching clients look forward to a better future in their organisation.
Chris Carey, Founder and Managing Director
Why choose us to help develop your leadership?
Clients tell us our coaching and mentoring programmes deliver meaningful shifts in self-awareness while enhancing leadership behaviours, skills, and style.
With firsthand leadership experience at international organisations, our coaches and mentors offer practical tools and strategies that enables executives to evolve into greater leaders.
Acting as both critical and supportive partners, they hold leaders to account and help them gain perspective, set priorities, and achieve personal development.
Beyond individual growth, coaching with Axiom has a ripple effect throughout organisations, improving performance, psychological safety, engagement, and culture, across teams. Many leaders go on to adopt a coach-like approach themselves, amplifying the impact even further.
Leadership coaching case studies
For over three decades, executives from world-leading organisations have turned to us for leadership coaching to navigate their most challenging times. With the right experience, expertise, and approach to leadership development, you can gain valuable support as you evolve and grow as a leader.
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”Truly successful companies have a higher level of Emotional Intelligence, more so I think than academic or business intelligence because it’s about how people work together. If you are looking to create a high performing team, I’d thoroughly recommend Axiom and this programme.
Craig Armstrong, President, Scan-Pac
When is the best time for a leader to work with a coach or mentor?
The only poor time to work with a coach or mentor is when someone is closed off to self- exploration, improvement, or development. For leaders with a growth mindset and curiosity about themselves and others, this personalised development approach is among the most impactful tools for personal and professional growth. That said, certain pivotal moments in a leader’s career make coaching or mentoring especially valuable. Here are some of those:
When new to leadership
Many professionals earn promotions based on their technical or functional expertise, but leadership demands a completely different skill set. New and emerging leaders often benefit greatly from coaching or mentoring to help them navigate challenges, develop people management skills, and refine their leadership style.
When leading change
Guiding an organisation through change is one of the most demanding leadership tasks, especially when the leader is personally impacted by the transition. Whether facing digital disruption, advancing diversity and inclusion, or helping teams focus on what matters most among the information deluge, resilience, adaptability, and strong communication are critical. Coaching and mentoring provide the tools leaders need to lead change effectively.
When transitioning roles
Even the most experienced leaders can feel daunted when leaving the familiar behind and stepping into a new role, team, or business. Coaching supports leaders as they adapt, build confidence, and perform to the best of their ability – particularly when all eyes are on their first 100 days.
When there is a communication or engagement challenge
Clear communication and meaningful engagement lie at the heart of just about everything Axiom has delivered for over three decades. So if you need to take an entire workforce, your team, your stakeholders or a conference audience with you on your journey, we are very well-placed to help you.
FAQs
What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?
Coaching helps a leader define and gain clarity on their challenges, with the coach serving as a guide to enable them to find their own answers.
Mentoring, on the other hand, involves the exchange of knowledge and experience. A mentor shares their insights from similar situations, helping the mentee learn from their experiences. In addition to guidance, mentors also inspire, challenge, and support.
Coaching is one of the most powerful partnerships a leader can enter to develop themselves and maximise their potential. However, it’s not always the right fit for every individual or in every situation. Those new to leadership, for example, may benefit more from mentoring or a blended programme of coaching and mentorship. One of the things our clients value most about Axiom’s services, is our flexibility – which is why we can offer mentors, coaches, or a blended approach.
What are the benefits of leadership coaching?
Coaching gives leaders the opportunity to step away from the day-to-day, focus on themselves, and discover how they might be getting in their own way of becoming the leader they aspire to be. We help leaders self-reflect, enhance their critical and creative thinking skills, and provide them with the tools and techniques to succeed.
How much time is involved in leadership coaching or mentoring?
Whether it’s coaching or mentoring, to make a meaningful difference to performance, we recommend setting aside at least two hours a month for six months – perhaps a little more during the early stages of a new partnership.
Does leadership coaching work?
In short, yes. Our clients report significant improvements in their leadership performance, enhanced confidence and wellbeing, and reduced stress levels.
How much do your coaching and mentoring services cost?
We charge for these services on an hourly basis, starting at £250. The final cost depends on the leader’s individual needs and the credentials of the coach or mentor they require.
From newly qualified coaches to those with decades of experience working with elite Olympic sports teams or FTSE CEOs, we provide professionals who have reached the top of their field and have the coaching or mentoring expertise to help a leader succeed.
