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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Mindfulness Works is a Cambridge consultancy that teaches mindfulness and compassion to people at work, trading through a company formed in 2006.
For leaders it runs one-off Mindful Leadership sessions, the Mindful Leader Programme, which it describes as research-based and includes home practice, and The Wise Leader Course. Team Mindfulness works on team awareness and psychological safety. Across a workforce, it offers one-off resilience sessions, 30-minute guided practice sessions, Mindful Conversations workshops and the multi-session Mindfulness at Work course. Individuals can have one-to-one mindfulness-based coaching, executive coaching or counselling support. Delivery is virtual, blended or in person, and programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published, and no accrediting body is named. The team of five is led by founding director Michael Chaskalson, author of The Mindful Workplace (2011) and Mindfulness in Eight Weeks (2014), with consultants Megan Reitz, Chris Nichols and Liz Hall and counsellor Annette Chaskalson. It states it has worked with 5 of the world's top ten accountancy and consultancy firms and 3 of the top ten pharmaceutical companies. Its home page displays logos including 3M, GSK, KPMG, Lloyds, the National Health Service (NHS) and Accenture.
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Cambridge, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Evolution Coaching Academy is a coach training school based in Malvern, founded by Lilith Joanna Flanagan.
It runs three courses accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), each linked to an ICF credential. The Birth of a Coach at Level 1 is for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Intuitive Coach at Level 2 for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and EcoSystem Master Coach at Level 3 for the Master Certified Coach (MCC). Courses are taught live on Zoom in small groups, in modules of two or three days held every few weeks over several months, and The Birth of a Coach is also run in Italian. The Level 1 course gives 83 ICF contact hours. It also sells one-to-one coaching, mentor coaching for coaches seeking a credential and coaching supervision.
Published prices are £2,790 to £2,990 for The Birth of a Coach, £2,990 for Intuitive Coach with early booking and £3,750 for EcoSystem Master Coach with early booking. One-to-one coaching costs £200 an hour, or £500 an hour for business coaching, and MCC mentoring costs £500 an hour. Lilith Flanagan is listed as an ICF Master Certified Coach and states that she has served as an ICF assessor for more than a decade. The academy names five other coach educators, each holding the ICF PCC or MCC credential.
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.
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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.
Edgecumbe Consulting Group is a Bristol business psychology consultancy, incorporated in 1995, that works on leadership, engagement and performance.
Its business psychologists run executive leadership assessment, one-to-one and group leadership coaching, leadership team development and leadership programmes run with business schools. It also carries out employee engagement surveys, culture and values reviews, 360-degree feedback, competency frameworks and people analytics, for staff from the C-suite to new joiners. Coaching begins with psychometrics and 360-degree feedback, and the number of sessions, format and pace are agreed with each client. Much of the work rests on its own Primary Colours Leadership Model.
Coaching and consultancy fees are not published. Practitioner accreditation in the Primary Colours toolkit and HUCAMA personality assessments costs £650 plus value added tax (VAT) per participant per day on open online courses, £1,200 plus VAT for a one-to-one online day and £2,500 plus VAT per day for in-house groups of up to six. Its co-founders, Dr Jenny King and Dr David Pendleton, are now special advisers. Several consultants state they are Chartered Psychologists with the British Psychological Society (BPS), and case studies cover BSI, BAE Systems, Bunzl, Hargreaves Lansdown and ICA Gruppen.
EZRA is a digital coaching platform set up in 2019 and now part of LHH and The Adecco Group, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago and Toronto.
It sells one-to-one coaching to employers through three programmes. EZRA Edge, for mid-level to senior leaders, gives unlimited coaching with coaches holding the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential, and runs for 6 months as standard with 3, 9 and 12-month options. Focus by EZRA is an 8-week programme of three coaching sessions for managers and individual contributors, supported between sessions by Cai, an artificial intelligence (AI) coaching assistant. EZRAx is unlimited executive coaching for senior leaders and C-suite executives with Professional Certified Coach (PCC) coaches, in sessions of 30, 60 or 90 minutes. Coaching is virtual, and progress is tracked with its EZRA Measure assessments.
Prices are not published and depend on the programme, number of participants and duration. EZRA states that it has more than 2,000 ICF-accredited coaches and that its EZRA Academy is ICF accredited for Level 1 and Level 2 coach training. Its site reports a Guinness World Records title, shared with Microsoft, for the most people to complete a business coaching programme in one year, after coaching 4,816 Microsoft employees. Published case studies include Kraft Heinz, McDonald's and Nestlé.
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London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
Shape Talent is a London gender equity consultancy founded in 2017 by Sharon Peake, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.
It works with large organisations to remove the barriers to women's progression, using its Three Barriers Model of societal, personal and organisational barriers. Consulting starts with a Three Barriers Diagnostic survey, focus groups and a review of talent processes for bias. Its talent accelerator programmes include Breaking Barriers for women and under-represented groups, Connected Leadership for technical specialists moving into people management, and Tailored to Lead for mid-level and senior leaders. Coaching ranges from three one-to-one Spotlight sessions to 12 hours of Acceleration Coaching, and Spotlight Coaching Circles bring 6 to 8 people together for five sessions.
Several of its coaches state International Coaching Federation (ICF) credentials at Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Associate Certified Coach (ACC) level. It displays a Women Owned logo, states that it has signed the Menopause Workplace Pledge and describes itself as research partner to the LEAD Network. It states that more than 1,200 people have completed its programmes, and its client logos include Microsoft, Marks & Spencer, BT Openreach and Pearson.
Mental Sea Coaching Academy is a London coach training provider that says it has operated since 2009.
Its main course is the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Level 1 Professional Expert Coach Training programme, described as 72 hours, with six training days spread over at least eight weeks plus coaching practice and mentoring days. Other courses cover mentor coaching, corporate and executive coaching, life, relationship, breath and mindfulness coaching, and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), alongside meditation and energy healing courses. Courses run live online or in person in London, with day and evening options. It also offers corporate training and coaching.
The Level 1 programme is listed at £1,499.90, mentor coaching at £599.90 and the corporate coaching course at £1,889.82. The academy states the Level 1 programme is accredited by the ICF and that it is a continuing professional development (CPD) approved provider. Its terms name the operator as Mental Sea Academy LTD and state that all sales are final and non-refundable.
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The Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC) is a coach training provider based in London, which states it was founded in 1999.
It trains people to work as executive and team coaches, and teaches coaching skills to managers. The Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching has three two-day modules about six weeks apart and an assessment day, spread over roughly five to six months, with cohorts of up to 20. It runs live online, in person in London or in a hybrid format, and partners deliver it in other countries. The Professional Practitioner Diploma follows on, with six days over six months delivered online. Other courses include a Coaching Skills Certificate, Systemic Team Coaching programmes and a Climate Coaching Certificate. For organisations it runs in-house coach training and coaching programmes for staff from emerging talent to senior executives.
The Professional Practitioner Diploma costs £4,950, or £3,850 for graduates of its Practitioner Diploma; the Practitioner Diploma price is given at booking. The AoEC states that the Practitioner Diploma is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Level 1 programme, holds the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Quality Award at Practitioner level and holds the Association for Coaching (AC) Accredited Award in Coach Training. It says the Professional Practitioner Diploma is accredited at ICF Level 2 and that more than 15,000 people have trained with it. Companies House lists Academy of Executive Coaching Limited as incorporated in 2002.
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The British School of Coaching is a coaching and mentoring training provider in St Helens, Merseyside, run by BSC Coaching Ltd.
It delivers qualifications from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). These run from Level 2 and Level 3 awards in mentoring and coaching for new managers to Level 7 qualifications for executive coaches and coaching supervisors. The Level 5 coaching and mentoring programme, aimed at middle managers and human resources staff, has five workshop days. The Level 7 executive programme has six, and each normally takes 12 to 14 months. Workshops run online, with some hybrid dates. It also offers continuing professional development (CPD) courses, coaching, coaching supervision, business mentoring and in-house training for organisations.
Prices are not published. The site displays European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) member, Association for Coaching and ILM Approved Centre logos, and states it has delivered ILM qualifications for more than 10 years. Clients named on its site include Shell, Clyde & Co, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office. It lists training centres in the UK and the Middle East. Judith Barton is named as founder.
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Positive Momentum is a management consultancy with a registered office in Shoreditch, London, which says it has worked with leaders since 2003.
Its work is grouped under the headings change, grow and lead. The lead strand covers executive teams, individual leaders and talent programmes, delivered through one-to-one coaching, group sessions and leadership development programmes designed with each client. Other work covers culture, strategy, transformation, sales and marketing, service and operations, and technology. Its partners are former business leaders, and it states that the partner a client meets is the one who does the work. Programme lengths are not published.
Prices are not published. Positive Momentum Limited is listed in the B Lab directory as a Certified B Corporation, first certified in June 2021 with a B Impact Score of 98.7, and its website says it recertified in 2024. The website also displays ISO 14001:2015, Cyber Essentials and FSQS (Financial Services Qualification System) certification, and says it takes part in the United Nations Global Compact. Its team page lists 25 UK partners and 19 partners in India.
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London, United KingdomNo Google or Trustpilot reviews
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.
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