Executive coaching is one-to-one, confidential support for senior leaders, from first-time directors through to chief executives and boards. It is most often used for stepping up into a bigger role, leading through change, sharpening judgement and decision-making, and building presence and resilience.
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London Business School Executive Education is the executive education arm of London Business School, founded in London in 1964.
It runs open programmes for individuals and customised programmes for organisations, which can include executive coaching. Topics include general management, leadership, strategy, finance, human resources, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, marketing and environmental, social and governance issues. Courses are taught in London, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, and online through live sessions, short courses with live faculty and self-paced study. Audiences range from emerging leaders in their first leadership role to senior executives with 15 to 20 years of management experience. Participants can also build a Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance by completing four programmes.
Published open programme fees include £8,900 for Leading Teams for Emerging Leaders, excluding accommodation, and £41,900 for the Senior Executive Programme, including accommodation. The school is listed on the register of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and displays accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) under its EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). It states that it ranked first in the world for open programmes and second for custom programmes in the Financial Times 2026 executive education ranking. It says it has worked with 1,388 companies and averages more than 12,000 participants a year. Its Dubai campus opened in 2007.
C-suite, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Working Transitions is a UK outplacement and career transition provider based in Northampton, and part of the Empowering People Group.
Its outplacement programmes combine one-to-one coaching, digital learning, financial guidance and virtual workshops, chosen to suit each employee's goals, length of service or seniority. Participants have unlimited access to its SnapDragon career platform for the length of the programme, and can contact a Programme Manager for 100 days after starting a new role. Senior executives are offered a separate programme, ARC, led by an executive coach with no fixed session structure.
It also provides redeployment, onboarding, later-life career and retirement planning, and leadership coaching. Employers can refer any number of staff, and support outside the UK is delivered through the Career Partners International network.
All levelsOrganisationsTeam coaching
Northampton, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Renewal Associates is a coaching and leadership development firm in Bath, incorporated in 2010 and chaired by Professor Peter Hawkins.
It trains coaches in Systemic Team Coaching at Foundation, Certificate (Practitioner) and Diploma (Senior Practitioner) levels, online or in a hybrid format. The hybrid Certificate combines pre-work, a half-day webinar, a three-day in-person intensive and four group supervision sessions over six months. The online Certificate runs as eight monthly modules, and Diploma programmes last between 10 months and a year. It also runs coaching supervision training and retreats, and works with organisations on leadership, strategy and team development.
Prices are not published. Its website displays European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation logos for its programmes, along with an ISO 9001 quality badge. Several faculty members, including Dr Hilary Lines and Dr Catherine Carr, hold the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential. The website states that Renewal Associates Ltd is moving its work, intellectual property and client relationships to a new company, Renewal International Ltd.
C-suite, Boards, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Bath, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
The OCM is a UK executive coaching, coach training and apprenticeship provider, founded in Oxford in 1998.
For organisations, it provides executive coaching, team coaching and programmes to build internal coaching capability. Executive coaching contracts usually run to 12 hours over six to eight months, one-to-one in person or virtually, through a coach pool that includes coaches outside the UK.
It also runs coach-mentoring qualifications that it states are accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), from a 50-hour Certificate to a 150-hour Diploma and a course in coaching senior teams. It is an apprenticeship provider for the Coaching Professional Level 5 standard, rated Good by Ofsted in May 2023.
Senior leaders, Mid-levelOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
t-three is a leadership and culture change consultancy with offices in Birmingham, London and Manchester, incorporated as a company in 2000.
It designs leadership, management and team development and culture change programmes for organisations, built around its Provoke, Plant, Practise method for behaviour change. Programmes are co-designed with each client and delivered in person or virtually, for audiences from senior leaders to aspiring managers. Its tools include the Facet5 personality profile, 360-degree feedback and Truth Teller, its own named feedback tool that can be completed in about 4 minutes. A typical coaching programme has a chemistry session, a Facet5 assessment, objective setting, four coaching sessions and a final review. For organisations building in-house coaching, it runs Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualifications at Level 3 or Level 5.
Prices are not published. t-three states that it is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and its site displays an ISO/IEC 27001 information security certificate from SGS. Client stories include Transport for London, Jaguar Land Rover, Sainsbury's, the BBC and EDF. It states it is part of Gateley, and t-three Consulting Limited (company number 03959623) is registered in Birmingham.
Beckett McInroy Consultancy (BMC) is a coach training and coaching firm with a registered address in Manchester, run by founder Dr Clare Beckett-McInroy.
Its CoachME coach training runs from Level 1 to Level 7. The levels cover core coaching skills, then executive, team, board and systems coaching, mentor coaching and coaching supervision, with a separate Team Coaching Certificate. The Levels 1 to 6 programme gives 127.5 hours of blended learning, taught live online in groups of up to 12, and sessions are recorded. Some training also runs face to face. BMC provides executive, team, board and career coaching, coaching for educators and law partnerships, and diagnostic tools. Training is offered in several languages, including English and Arabic.
The CoachME Levels 1 to 6 programme is priced from $2,995 to $5,950 in United States dollars, depending on the package chosen. BMC states that its programmes are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) at Levels 1, 2 and 3 and approved by the Association for Coaching (AC). Its team page lists eight coaches holding the ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential. Dr Beckett-McInroy is also listed as a European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Master Practitioner. Named clients include LEGO, Citi, DHL and Saudi Aramco.
C-suite, Boards, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Leadership Trust is a leadership development organisation based at Chelsea Parkfields near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, founded in 1975.
Its programmes aim to change how leaders behave, using residential courses, outdoor challenges, peer feedback and coaching. Cultivate, for emerging leaders, runs for 12 months with five residential days, four virtual half-day workshops and four one-to-one coaching sessions. Leadership in Management, for experienced leaders, centres on a five-and-a-half-day residential, with coaching before and after across six months. It also designs programmes for senior leaders, executive teams and whole organisations, and offers one-to-one and three-way coaching that includes the leader's sponsor.
Prices are not published, and the website lists no accreditations. The organisation was set up by David Gilbert-Smith, who had commanded the Special Air Service (SAS) Training Wing, and behavioural psychologist Janet Richardson. It is now the trading name of Leadership Trust Training and Development Limited and is part of Chelsea Group. Its case studies include WashCo, which reports turnover rising from £12m to £18m.
All levelsOrganisationsTeam coaching
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom 4.9 (322)
EQworks is a London-based executive coaching and emotional intelligence (EQ) training firm, trading through Red E4 Consulting Limited, set up in 2004.
It offers executive and leadership coaching, EQ testing for individuals and teams, EQ training webinars and workshops, team programmes and short-notice coaching for workplace problems such as improvement plans or communication breakdowns. Coaching is aimed mainly at senior executives, C-suite leaders and senior leadership teams. Sessions usually last 90 to 120 minutes and take place face to face, often at the client's office, or remotely on Microsoft Teams. Programmes start with at least 3 to 4 sessions over 4 to 10 weeks and typically run to 6 to 10 sessions, while its EQ mastery programmes run for at least 8 to 12.
Its own fees are not published; the fees page quotes general market ranges and offers a free trial. It uses the EQ-i 2.0 assessment and the Advanced Relationship Test, and displays a Certified EQ-i Assessor badge. Founder Philip Gimmack, a former management consultant for Oracle, KPMG, Cap Gemini and Accenture, states 25 years of coaching experience. Clients listed on the site include Deutsche Bank, Chevron, Nationwide and HM Revenue and Customs.
C-suite, Senior leaders, Mid-levelOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Starbuck & Associates is a Lincolnshire-based coaching and leadership development firm, winner of the National Coaching Awards Coaching Business of the Year 2025 and a certified B Corp.
Their team of ICF Master Certified Coaches (MCCs), placing them in the top 4% of coaches globally, delivers CEO and executive coaching, team coaching, NED coaching, and accelerating women in leadership programmes.
ICF accredited coach training is delivered under The Coaching Craft brand, with ACC (ICF Level 1) and PCC (ICF Level 2) routes and an MCC route on a waiting list. ELCAS funding is available for service leavers.
Rated Excellent on Trustpilot, with ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification.
C-suite, Boards, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Coaching Focus is a coaching and coach training consultancy trading as Coaching Focus Group, through a company registered in Honiton, Devon, in 2009.
It offers one-to-one executive coaching for senior and board-level leaders, management coaching for middle managers and team coaching for leadership teams. Coaching skills programmes for managers run from the one-day Coaching Fundamentals to Leader as a Coach, which takes three days or nine two-hour modules over four to six weeks. As an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Approved Centre, it also runs ILM coaching qualifications at Levels 3, 5 and 7. On its open programme these take 4, 5 and 7 workshop days. Delivery can be face to face, virtual or blended, and each client has a Client Partner and a Programme Director.
Coaching fees are not published. The 2025/2026 ILM open programme fees are currently listed at £1,516 for Level 3, £1,836 for Level 5 and £2,396 for Level 7, after a 20% discount, each plus value added tax (VAT) and an ILM registration fee. The website displays B Corporation and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 information security certification, which could not be checked against the registers. Its team page names 55 coaches and trainers and states that every coach is qualified through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), the Association for Coaching or the ILM. Founder and chief executive Trayton Vance and Pippa Vance have been its directors since the company was incorporated.
C-suite, Boards, Senior leadersOrganisations and individualsTeam coaching
Moving Ahead is a London-based organisation, set up in 2014, that designs and runs mentoring, sponsorship and development programmes for employers.
Its cross-company programmes pair mentees with more senior mentors from different organisations and sectors over nine months. They include Mission Gender Equity, which supports the 30% Club campaign, Mission Include, The Executive Accelerator for women in the executive pipeline and Generation Valuable for disabled talent. Sector programmes cover actuarial work, defence, rail, platinum group metals and early-career researchers. Employers can also commission in-house mentoring, coaching, sponsorship and inclusive leadership programmes. Participants receive a digital toolkit of filmed sessions, masterclasses and written guides, alongside learning events.
Prices are not published. Moving Ahead states that since 2014 it has matched and supported more than 41,000 mentors and mentees across 477 organisations and 70 countries. Its founder and chief executive, Liz Dimmock, was recognised in the 2019 Queen's honours for services to gender equality. Moving Ahead Limited was incorporated on 23 October 2014 (company number 09276768) and was owned by Ricoh for three years before the founder bought it back.
Talking Talent is a coaching consultancy based in London, founded in 2005, with a second office in New York.
It works with organisations, providing individual and group coaching alongside leadership programmes. Services include executive coaching for senior leaders, inclusive and women's leadership development, coaching skills training for managers, sponsorship schemes and programmes for high-potential staff. A separate strand supports employees through life changes such as parental leave and return to work, caring, menopause and burnout. It also runs an online coaching platform, which it says is built on the Centre for Humane Technology's design principles.
Prices and programme lengths are not published. Talking Talent Limited was incorporated in November 2005 and has its registered office at 41 Lothbury in the City of London. Its website lists 59 team profiles, including executive coaches and a chartered psychologist, and states that its work has reached over 400,000 people.
