Executive coaching
Development uniquely tailored to each personality
Develop your executive talent
We provide professional executive coaching to help transform the leadership potential of your organisation and help you navigate complex professional challenge. Our process is highly personalised and puts you control from start to finish.
Discover & Match:
Browse our network of expert coaches and select the ones whose experience and background resonate with your specific goals.
Chemistry Check:
Experience a complimentary 15-minute chemistry session with your chosen candidates to ensure a strong personal and strategic fit before committing.
Customised Contracting:
Once you choose your coach, you will establish a clear contract tailored to your exact needs, delivering a flexible session frequency that seamlessly fits your schedule and organisational demands.
Measurable Impact:
At the conclusion of your coaching engagement, we conduct a comprehensive review to evaluate the tangible impact on your personal growth, your team, and your wider organisation.
Meet our executive coaches…
Dr Ruth Smith
Ruth is a highly skilled and experienced executive coach and facilitator. She offers clients strategic business knowledge, and a demonstrable ability in building rapport and connecting with senior executives on their level. She has worked as an Azesta Associate for the past ten years and has been coaching and mentoring high-performing executives and directors since 1990.
Ruth is passionate about making a sustainable and tangible difference, inspiring clients to be an inspiration to all.
Download her profile to get to know more about Ruth!
Julie Kay
Julie combines 20 years leadership expertise with 23 years management experience. Her key coaching areas are leadership development, teamwork, emotional intelligence and resilience. She focuses on tangible, sustainable performance improvement, prioritising measuring the business impact of her teaching.
Julie is eager to support technical experts to become outstanding in their leadership and management role.
Download her profile to get to know more about Julie!
Shirley Gaston
Azesta’s founder, Shirley, inspires others to achieve individual excellence and to work as cohesive, high-performing teams. With over 23 years experience of experiential learning, Shirley has delivered her excellent coaching to market-leading companies. Beyond delivering long-term programmes to the most senior people, Shirley also coaches Level 3 and Level 5 Leadership and Management programmes.
Shirley is a trusted individual with experience delivering a wide spectrum of development coaching.
Download her profile to get to know more about Shirley!
Jeremy Lewis
Jeremy specialises in collaborative partnering and culture change, leadership team development and personal growth. He has worked with a range of clients from all leadership levels in both the private and public sector. He is highly qualified for the role, as a European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Accredited Coach and Coaching Supervisor.
Jeremy is known for transforming individuals into influential leaders.
Download his profile to get to know more about Jeremy!
Jo Shuttlewood
Jo has designed and delivered large leadership development programmes with top organisations. Her compassionate and thoughtful approach helps her facilitate her individual executive coaching to ensure that those she works with can feel a real achievement. She acts as a safe space for her clients to help them advance their thinking and consideration.
Jo takes pride in helping leaders understand their capability and achieve sustained success.
Download her profile to get to know more about Jo!
Jo Houchin
Jo has a range of expertise, from coaching individuals and teams, to how to manage stress and wellbeing. With over 20 years experience as a leadership professional, she is an expert in developing people, teams and organisations. Jo creates an exploratory, non-judgmental environment for those who work with her, providing her clients with the tools and motivation to achieve real performance improvements.
Jo draws on her psychological training to help her clients challenge their thinking.
Download her profile to get to know more about Jo!
Karen Panksztelo
Karen has over 20 years experience in management and HR positions, with extensive leadership and people development skills. Using a variety of interactive activities, psychometric tools, coaching and facilitation, Karen offers a unique approach to transforming individual and team performance. Her knowledge of maths and psychology allows her to analyse and improve the behaviour of individuals and teams in a pragmatic and structured way.
With a huge capacity to listen, Karen helps clients recognise and reach their full potential.
Download her profile to get to know more about Karen!
Kelen Beauchamp
From working with a range of clients from industries of all sectors, Kelen is commercially aware and able to effectively build excellent relationships. She combines her own experience of corporate senior leadership with her people development skills to offer a strategic and pragmatic coaching approach. She has extensive experience in learning design, facilitation and strategy, making her an excellent executive coach. She provides her clients a safe space for reflection, challenge, collaboration and planning to produce for capability to long-term change.
Kelen is passionate about helping her clients to create change and action, and increase confidence.
Download her profile to get to know more about Kelen!
Liz Dunphy
With a focus on behavioural and attitude change, Liz works with leadership teams and individuals at all levels from both the public and the private sector. She is a specialised coach with over 25 years experience in leadership development. Liz has training at a psychological level which allows her to facilitate new ways to thinking and leading. She helps leaders make new choices that are both authentic and sustainable.
Liz is a supportive presence, helping leaders celebrate their natural strengths.
Download her profile to get to know more about Liz!
All of our coaches have high level qualifications, expertise, psychological understanding and practical, commercial sense.
Our coaches are all professionally trained & supervised.
We have some amazing executive coaches who work face-to-face and by Zoom.
Interest in coaching or have anymore questions?