The depth partnership

The Depth Partnership is a six-month private working relationship. You are not buying a set number of coaching hours or a collection of standalone sessions. You are buying sustained access to one person who gets to know your situation in depth and works with you as it develops.
From the beginning, I build an understanding of your role, your organisation, the people around you, the decisions you are facing and the pressures you are carrying. That context stays with us throughout the six months.
At the beginning: a detailed understanding of your situation
We start with a 90-minute private diagnostic conversation.
This is more than an introductory coaching session. We take the time to understand where you are now, what has brought you here and what is making this particular period significant.
We explore your role and responsibilities, the organisation and wider system in which you operate, the important relationships around you, current challenges and decisions, pressures you are experiencing, and what you want to be different by the end of the six months.
We also look at the history behind the situation. What has happened so far? What have you already tried? What keeps recurring? What assumptions are you making? What are you finding difficult to see clearly from inside the situation?
The purpose is to establish a detailed working picture before we begin the ongoing work.
An external perspective, if useful
Where it would add value, and only with your agreement, I can also speak privately with two to four people who know your working context.
These might include a board colleague, chair, senior peer, direct report, predecessor or another person whose perspective is relevant.
Each conversation normally lasts 30–45 minutes.
This is not a formal 360-degree assessment and it is not a performance appraisal. The purpose is to gather additional perspectives on the situation you are navigating: how others experience the context, what they see as important and whether there are patterns or issues that may not be visible from your own position.
These conversations are undertaken only with your consent and are used to inform our work with you.
A written starting point
Following the initial work, I produce a Depth Partnership Baseline.
This is a written synthesis of what we have established together.
It captures the situation you are entering the partnership with, the main issues and tensions, relevant relationships and dynamics, recurring patterns and the areas that appear most important to work on.
You receive this document.
It becomes a reference point for the partnership rather than something that disappears after the first session.
Six substantial private deep-dive sessions
Over the following six months, you have six 120-minute one-to-one sessions with me.
These are the core of the partnership.
Two hours gives us enough time to work properly with an issue rather than rushing towards a conclusion. A session might focus on one significant decision, a difficult relationship, a board or stakeholder situation, a strategic problem, an organisational change or something about your own approach that is affecting the situation.
We can spend time understanding what is happening, challenge the assumptions involved, consider different ways of approaching it and work through the practical implications.
Where an issue develops between sessions, we can return to it rather than starting again from the beginning.
The sessions are confidential and private.
Six shorter check-ins between the deep dives
You also have six 30-minute pattern and progress check-ins.
These are separate from the two-hour sessions.
They provide a shorter opportunity to step back and look at what has happened since we last worked together.
We might consider:
What has changed?
What happened when you tried something different?
What surprised you?
What situations kept recurring?
What reactions or behaviours did you notice in yourself?
What are you now seeing more clearly?
Has the issue we originally identified changed?
What needs attention before our next deep-dive session?
This creates continuity between the longer conversations and allows the work to respond to what is actually happening in your working life.
Reasonable access between sessions
The partnership also includes reasonable direct access between scheduled sessions when something significant arises.
For example, you may have an important conversation coming up, receive unexpected information, encounter a difficult stakeholder situation or find yourself facing a decision that would benefit from some independent thinking before the next scheduled session.
You can contact me about matters that are genuinely significant to the work.
This is not unlimited messaging, an on-call service or a crisis service. The purpose is continuity: you do not have to hold an important development for several weeks simply because it happened between appointments.
For substantive matters, I aim to respond within one working day.
A three-month review
At approximately the halfway point, we have a dedicated 90-minute midpoint review.
This replaces the normal deep-dive session for that month.
We step out of the immediate issues and review the partnership as a whole.
We look at the baseline we established at the beginning and consider what has changed, what has remained unresolved, what has emerged that we did not anticipate and whether the focus of the work should now change.
This is particularly important because a six-month leadership situation rarely remains exactly the same as it was at the beginning.
The review allows us to adapt the work rather than continuing to work against an outdated understanding of your situation.
A final two-hour completion session
At the end of the six months, we have a 120-minute completion session.
This is not simply a final coaching conversation.
We review the journey across the partnership and consider the decisions, situations and challenges that have shaped the work.
We look at what has changed in your circumstances, what you have learned about your own leadership, which patterns have shifted, what approaches have proved useful and what remains unresolved or worth continuing to work on.
The purpose is to consolidate what you are taking forward rather than simply ending the sessions when the six-month period expires.
A written reflection at the end
Following the completion session, you receive a written end-of-partnership reflection.
This brings together the main themes and areas of movement that have emerged during the six months.
It is not a performance assessment, psychological report or formal evaluation.
It is a record of the work: where you started, what we explored, what changed and what you may want to continue considering beyond the partnership.
In total, your six months include
Before and at the beginning
90-minute private diagnostic conversation
Optional conversations with 2–4 relevant stakeholders
Written Depth Partnership Baseline
During the six months
Six 120-minute private deep-dive sessions
Six 30-minute pattern and progress check-ins
Reasonable direct access between sessions
Ongoing continuity of context across the partnership
At the midpoint
90-minute formal midpoint review
Review of progress against the original baseline
Opportunity to reshape the focus of the remaining partnership
At completion
120-minute completion session
Review of the six-month period
Written end-of-partnership reflection
What that means in practice
You have 18 hours of scheduled one-to-one conversation across the six months, consisting of the initial diagnostic, six deep dives, six check-ins, the midpoint review and the completion session.
In addition, there is the optional stakeholder perspective work, preparation and synthesis involved in establishing the baseline, the written completion reflection and reasonable access between sessions.
More importantly, you are working with the same person throughout.
You do not need to repeatedly explain your organisation, your role, the history of a difficult relationship or what happened in the previous conversation. The context accumulates.
If something we discussed in month one becomes relevant again in month four, we can go back to it.
If a decision you were considering becomes a situation you are now dealing with, we can examine what actually happened.
If the issue you came to address turns out not to be the real issue, the work can change.
That is what the six-month commitment provides: not simply more coaching sessions, but a sustained private thinking relationship in which the context, conversations and learning build over time.
£9,000 for six months.