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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The BCF Group is a Nottingham-based provider of coaching qualifications, management training and executive coaching, with 25 years of experience.
It runs Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualifications at Level 3 in leadership and management and at Levels 5 and 7 in coaching and mentoring, alongside management, interpersonal skills and Train the Trainer courses. The Level 5 and Level 7 coaching courses start with two days of training in a classroom in Reading or over Zoom, followed by reflections, assignments and logged coaching hours, with three years to finish. Level 5 is also sold as a self-paced online course. Executive coaching for managers, directors and executives takes place in person, by phone or by video call, and courses can be designed for a single organisation.
ILM Level 5 costs £995 online, £1,595 over Zoom or £1,995 in a classroom, and Level 7 costs £2,395 over Zoom or £2,695 in a classroom, all plus VAT. Executive coaching and in-house course prices are not published. It states that its training is certified by the ILM and that it has worked in more than 40 sectors. The company behind it is BCF Group Limited.
Senior leaders, Mid-levelOrganisations and individuals
Peoplewise is a business psychology consultancy with its head office in Hammersmith, London, and is the development partner of The LCap Group.
It works with organisations in five areas: assessment, development, organisational performance, coaching and sales training informed by psychology. Assessment covers psychometric tools, 360-degree surveys and assessment centres. One-to-one and team coaching is offered to people moving into bigger roles, executives joining the C-suite for the first time, high-potential employees and board members. Development work includes leadership and team programmes, a leadership transition model and its own apps for behavioural tracking, pulse surveys and talent management. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. It states that it has more than 60 psychologists and coaches working across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia, and that its coaches are certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the British Psychological Society (BPS) or similar bodies. It says it can deliver in more than 20 languages.
All levelsOrganisationsTeam coaching
London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Full Circle Global is an Edinburgh coach training and coaching business run by Master Coach Gillian McMichael, trading through a company formed in 2011.
It runs coach training that it states is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) at Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. The Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice is a five-month virtual course with 64 hours of ICF coach-specific training, and the Diploma in Professional Coaching Practice runs for 12 months with 152 hours. The Diploma in Coach Mastery opens with a four-day in-person retreat for up to 10 people, followed by virtual sessions over nine months. Shorter certificates cover executive, career and team coaching, and an on-demand online course teaches coaching skills to people who manage teams.
Prices are published and exclude VAT. They run from £395 for Coaching Skills for Managers and £795 for the Certificate in Executive Coaching to £3,500 for the Certificate in Professional Coaching Practice and £5,995 for the Diploma. It states that it has delivered programmes to over 5,000 people in 30 countries, and its approach is built on its own TRANSFORM model. The trading company is Full Circle Development Consultancy Ltd, incorporated in Scotland in July 2011.
C-suite, Senior leadersOrganisations and individuals
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.
Praesta is a London-based executive coaching firm, run as Praesta Partners LLP, which says it has worked with clients for twenty years.
It offers executive coaching for individual leaders, including people moving into more senior roles, along with team coaching, group coaching for senior leadership groups and board effectiveness work. Group coaching combines one-to-one sessions with workshops and can be a one-off or part of a wider leadership change programme. Board work centres on a board performance review using individual interviews, surveys and observation of meetings. Clients come from technology, media, manufacturing, transport, financial and professional services, consumer goods and the public and third sectors. Session numbers, programme length and delivery format are not published.
Prices are not published. The coaches page lists 19 coaches, two of whom are described as accredited at Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Praesta belongs to Praesta Global, a network of coaching firms in France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Spain and the UK. It states that it never names the organisations or individuals it works with.
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.
Pearn Kandola is a firm of business psychologists based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, founded in 1984 by Michael Pearn and Binna Kandola.
Its work covers talent assessment, talent development and inclusive workplace cultures. Its business psychologists provide one-to-one executive coaching for senior leaders, run development centres and design programmes for emerging leaders. Assessment work includes recruitment assessment centres and executive assessments for senior hires. Inclusion training is delivered in person, live online or through self-paced learning, and live workshops last 2 to 3 hours.
Coaching prices are not published. As a guide, it states that an in-person inclusion workshop for up to 25 people may cost in the region of £3,500 to £7,500. No accreditations are listed on its website. Its People page names 45 staff across the UK, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Co-founder Professor Binna Kandola, the firm's senior partner, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 for services to diversity.
The Oxford Group is a London-based leadership development and executive coaching company, founded in 1987 and part of City & Guilds since 2015.
It works with organisations, mostly multinationals, on leadership development, talent management, management skills and coaching. Its coaching includes Accelerate, which offers coaching at scale across an organisation, and Transform, one-to-one coaching for leaders facing complexity and change. It also runs team coaching. Other products include ready-to-run one-day workshops and emotional intelligence tools developed with RocheMartin. Work is delivered face to face, virtually or blended, through more than 200 multilingual consultants and coaches on six continents. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. The website displays International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 quality certification and Cyber Essentials Plus. The business began as Oxford Training and took its current name in 1995. Alongside its London headquarters it has an office in Paris and an administrative office in New York. It states that 88% of its work comes from referrals or repeat business.
Growth Space is a Bristol-based strategy, culture and leadership consultancy founded by Polly Robinson, working with leadership teams across the UK.
It facilitates strategy off-sites, away days and workshops, runs culture change and team effectiveness work, and offers executive, leadership and systemic team coaching. Clients are mainly small businesses and scale-ups of 10 to 200 people, along with larger firms, charities and membership bodies. Workshops and off-sites last from half a day to two days, usually for 8 to 40 people, and work is delivered in person or online. Coaching usually runs as 10 to 12 sessions over six months.
Coaching is typically £300 for a one-hour online session after a briefing meeting, and other work is costed in a proposal. Polly Robinson states that she holds an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7 qualification in Executive Coaching and Mentoring and is certified in systemic team coaching with Professor Peter Hawkins and Renewal Associates. Published client work includes the Royal College of Podiatry, British Motor Heritage, the Ehlers-Danlos Society and tes. The company is registered as Growth Space Collective Ltd.
Boards, Senior leadersOrganisationsTeam coaching
Bristol, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Impact Factory is a London training company for communication and leadership skills, founded in 1991 by Jo Ellen Grzyb and Robin Chandler.
It runs open courses of one, two or five days, usually for 6 to 8 delegates, as well as in-house programmes designed with each client, executive coaching and two-hour one-to-one skills sessions held online. Topics include leadership, management, presentation, assertiveness, influencing and negotiation. Some open courses are hybrid and can be attended in person at the Business Design Centre in Islington or remotely. Two trainers work with every group, and each trainer completes a two-year in-house development programme.
Executive coaching costs £495 an hour plus VAT, with sessions usually lasting at least two hours. The five-day Communicate with Impact course is £2,750 plus VAT per person. It is accredited as a continuing professional development (CPD) provider by The CPD Standards Office (provider number 21717), and it displays Cyber Essentials certification and a Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award. It states that it has trained more than 175,000 delegates and worked in over 50 countries.
People Puzzles is a fractional human resources (HR) consultancy based in Duxford, near Cambridge, founded in 2010 by Ally Maughan.
It places experienced HR directors, which it calls People Directors, into businesses on a flexible part-time basis, working remotely or on site. Clients include owner-managed, scaling, established and investment-backed businesses, and it describes its market as mid-tier companies. Alongside fractional and interim HR it offers HR consultancy, outsourced HR support, people strategy, culture, organisational structure and talent management. Leadership development is delivered through HR mentoring and leadership coaching. Directors work in regional teams across the UK and Ireland. Typical engagement length and days per month are not published.
Prices are not published, and a first 30-minute discovery call is free. It states it has more than 80 People Directors and has supported over 1,000 businesses. It states it won the Best SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) team management initiative at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) awards for its work with the courier firm Today Team. It also states it won Diversity and Inclusion of the Year at the Elite Business 100 Awards in March 2024. The company, People Puzzles Limited, was incorporated on 1 March 2010.
Senior leaders, Mid-levelOrganisations
Duxford, Cambridge, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Lexxic is a neurodiversity consultancy based in Swindon, Wiltshire, founded in 2007 by chartered occupational psychologist Nicola James.
It helps employers support neurodivergent staff. Its psychologists carry out workplace needs assessments, remotely or in person, and it also offers diagnostic assessments and online screening through its Do-IT Profiler platform. Coaching is one to one and online, usually over six sessions, and is open to neurodivergent employees, managers and senior leaders without a diagnosis. Training includes a one-day masterclass for human resources teams, a two-hour course for line managers, a champions programme and awareness sessions for all staff, run online or in person as open or in-house courses. Its e-learning modules can be loaded into an employer's own learning system. Neurodiversity Smart is its own employer accreditation, with Bronze, Silver and Gold levels valid for 12 months.
Prices are not published. Lexxic states that it is certified to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards 27001 (information security) and 9001 (quality management), and holds Cyber Essentials and Disability Confident status. Its team includes chartered and occupational psychologists, many with lived experience of neurodivergence. It acquired Do-IT Solutions in November 2024, and Dan Ferrandino became chief executive in October 2025.
All levelsOrganisations and individuals
Swindon, Wiltshire, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
