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Tavistock Consulting

Executive Coaching

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Tavistock Consulting is an organisational consultancy and coaching provider in Belsize Lane, London, set up in 1994 by Jon Stokes. It works with boards, executive teams and senior leaders on team effectiveness, organisational change and leadership development, using a systems-psychodynamic approach drawn from group relations and psychoanalytic thinking. Executive coaching is for chief executives, directors, board members and senior leaders taking on more responsibility. It is offered online or in person, with the pattern of sessions agreed with each client. Other services include team coaching, action learning sets, board consultancy and supervision for coaches and consultants. Fees for consultancy and coaching are not published. Its 18-month Executive Coaching Programme, which it states is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) at senior practitioner level, costs £10,840 for October 2026 entry and takes up to 12 participants. The firm was part of the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, which merged into North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April 2026. Director Charlotte Williams leads a core team of six, alongside 19 associate consultants.

The Coaching House

Executive Coaching

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The Coaching House is a UK coaching practice set up in 2020 by Gilly Rutherford and Cath Harries, with a network of over 40 coaches. It provides executive coaching, systemic team and group coaching, career coaching and transitional coaching for leaders changing roles. It also offers coaching supervision for independent and in-house coaches, and workshops to build a coaching culture. Coaching is one to one, in teams or in groups, in person or virtual, with coaches in the UK and overseas. One executive coaching case study describes about 6 hours of coaching taken over 6 months. Prices are not published. The firm states that all its coaches hold formal coaching qualifications and follow the Global Coaching Code of Ethics. Individual profiles list credentials including International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach, European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Senior Practitioner and Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7. Named clients include Cisco, British Airways, Shell, Cancer Research UK and EY.

The Executive Coaching Consultancy

Executive Coaching

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The Executive Coaching Consultancy (ECC) is a London-based executive coaching firm, founded in 1994, with coaches in the UK and overseas. It coaches senior leaders, women in leadership and working parents, and runs inclusive leadership programmes for organisations. A standard executive coaching programme runs over 6 to 9 months, with about 10 hours of one-to-one coaching in sessions of 60 to 90 minutes and three-way meetings with the leader's manager at the start and end. Its parental transition coaching supports employees before, during and after parental leave, with options for long and short leave. Coaching is delivered in person or virtually, and group coaching is also offered. Prices are not published and are quoted after an initial conversation. ECC states that its coaches are certified by coaching bodies, naming the Association for Coaching (AC), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and it reports more than 90 coaches worldwide. It has been a certified B Corporation (B Corp) since 2021. Founder Geraldine Gallacher is chair, and the firm is run by co-chief executives Emma Spitz and Michelle Weston.

The OCM

Executive Coaching

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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.