Capable people who understand the pattern, and stay in it.
Most of the people I work with have already done a great deal: built companies, run teams, trained in a discipline, read the books. What they bring me is the one thing that hasn’t moved. This page is for working out which door is yours.
The same pattern, in different lives.
They arrive already successful, or already skilled at helping other people change.
They can describe the pattern precisely, where it came from and why it persists, and it is still running.
Effort and willpower built the rest of their lives. Applied to this, effort tends to keep the pattern in place.
Knowing about it isn’t always helpful in knowing how to resolve it.Debbie Fisher, developmental coach
The same work, seen from two sides.
You’re already successful, and stuck on the one thing success hasn’t fixed.
- WhoFounders, executives and doctors. My private clients include the CEO of a national gas company and an HR director at a major university.
- WhatThe launch that keeps slipping, the decision put off for years, the argument that keeps repeating.
- HowOne to one, weekly, for six to twelve months. Or a single session to start small.
Already skilled, and ready for the next level of change work, in yourself and with clients.
- WhoCoaches, therapists, psychiatrists, and anyone whose work is helping other people change.
- WhatYour own next level, new capability with clients, and the ceiling good training doesn’t reach.
- HowSmall-group programmes, or one to one. Someone has to invent the methods coaches use, and that is what I do.
Some people are both.
A therapist with a practice to grow is also a leader with a client list. A founder who mentors is also a change-worker. If you sit between the two, start with whichever page describes the thing you want to change, or write and tell me, and we’ll work it out in a conversation.
Not therapy, and not a course in understanding yourself better.
I describe the work as education and adult development. It isn’t medical or psychological treatment. And it isn’t another way of understanding the pattern: the point is demonstrable, practical change, and a struggle carried for years gone in weeks.
Whichever door, it starts with a conversation.
There’s no hurry in it. We look at what’s been stuck, whether this work is right for you, and which way of working together makes sense in your actual life.
You’ll get a personal reply, usually within a couple of days.