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Executive Connexions

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Executive Connexions is a London-based career coaching and outplacement firm for senior executives, set up in 2014 by Steve Nicholls. For individuals it offers one-to-one career coaching, executive interview coaching, executive leadership coaching and career change support, mainly for senior people earning or approaching a six-figure salary. For employers it runs outplacement programmes in which each departing employee has an individual plan and a named specialist, delivered face to face or virtually. Support ranges from a few sessions to programmes over a few months. It lists coaching teams for Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, the USA and Canada, and the Middle East and Africa, and says it is not a recruitment agency. Fees are not published, and a 30-minute first consultation is free. Steve Nicholls is a member of the Career Development Institute (CDI) and holds a postgraduate diploma in career guidance. The website displays logos of the CDI's Register of Career Development Professionals (RCDP) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The trading company, Executive Connexions Ltd, was incorporated in February 2014.

Ezra Learning

Executive Coaching

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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.

Hult Ashridge Executive Education

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Hult Ashridge Executive Education is part of Hult International Business School, based at Ashridge House, Hertfordshire, with roots going back to 1959. It works with organisations on leadership and organisational development, co-designing programmes that range from a single skill to a full leadership academy. Services include experiential programmes led by Hult faculty, assessments and psychometrics, on-demand digital learning and organisational development consulting. Coaching covers one-to-one work for all levels, team coaching and help building an internal coaching culture, delivered face to face or virtually through a network of more than 300 coaches working in over 40 languages. It also trains coaches. The Postgraduate Certificate in Executive Coaching takes 10 to 12 months part-time, at Ashridge or online, and leads to a Postgraduate Diploma of 8 months and an optional 12-month Master's, about two and a half years in total. Prices for organisational work are not published. The coaching qualifications cost £9,950 for the certificate, £13,600 for the diploma and £26,650 for the Master's, excluding value added tax (VAT). Hult states that its executive coach pathway holds the European Quality Award (EQA) from EMCC Global, formerly the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and EMCC Global confirmed a Team Coaching Quality Award for one of its team coaching programmes in January 2025. Its coaches are accredited by the Hult Ashridge Center for Coaching or the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The website states that it ranked 17th in the Financial Times 2026 ranking for custom executive education. The registered learning provider is The Ashridge (Bonar Law Memorial) Trust.

Inspirational Group

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Inspirational Group is a leadership development consultancy based in Camberley, Surrey, with offices in Dubai and Pune, India. It works with organisations on leadership programmes, coaching, change leadership, graduate and early career development, team events and performance diagnostics. Its programmes include IGNITE, a 12-month women's leadership programme for middle managers, and Manager Grand Prix, a five-month modular programme for people managers. Coaching covers one-to-one executive coaching, team coaching and coach training, and most coaching engagements run for three to nine months. It also lists Chartered Management Institute (CMI) qualifications at levels 5, 6 and 7, and a Leader as Coach module described as an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Level 1 pathway. Prices are not published. It states that it is a certified B Corporation, and the B Lab directory lists it under its former name, Inspirational Development Group. The company, Be Inspirational Group Limited, was incorporated in 2000 and took its current name in May 2024, according to The Gazette. Its founder, Stephen Bennett, is chairman. It states that it has more than 26 years of experience and has worked with over 100,000 leaders.