Leadership & Team Coaching · Consultancy · Fractional Leadership
Great things become possible when you align around what really matters
Leadership & Team Coaching · Consultancy · Fractional Leadership
What would you like to make possible?
For You
Leadership coaching & mentoring
You may be stepping into a new role, organisation or business and want to make a positive impact from the start.
Or you may look successful on the outside but on the inside feel overwhelmed by competing demands, questioning yourself or struggling to make your voice heard.
You may know that something needs to change, but feel unsure about what comes next or how to get from where you are to where you want to be.
Working 1:1, we create a safe space to explore what's most important at this stage in your leadership journey, amplify your impact, trust yourself and make deliberate choices about where to focus your time, energy and attention.
For Your Team
Team coaching
You have talented people and an important job to do together.
Perhaps the team is new, the leader is new, people have joined or left, or expectations have changed as the organisation has grown.
You may simply know the team is capable of more than it's currently achieving.
Through our Team Effectiveness programmes your team will build commitment to their shared purpose, and each other, make the most of individual and collective strengths, and agree how you'll work together to deliver on your strategic objectives.
Our bespoke team coaching is grounded in your real priorities, relationships and challenges.
For Your Organisation
For Your Organisation
Consultancy and fractional leadership
You have significant change to deliver and people are central to making it work. The agenda may be complex, politically sensitive or already under pressure.
Perhaps the strategy is clear but the people, organisation or communication implications aren't. Or you need experienced capacity alongside your leadership team to turn intention into action, delivery and engagement.
Step back, map your strategy and create a practical route through the change.
The support I offer ranges from up-front strategic diagnosis to hands-on programme support, including organisation design, people and change strategy, communications planning, stakeholder engagement and fractional leadership.
When people are aligned, brilliant things become possible.
My mission is simple: to help others shine.
Change may begin with a strategy, a new structure, a different role or an ambitious goal. But people make it happen. That's why my work can move between the organisation, the team and the individual. A major transformation may need a clear people strategy. The leadership team may need to work differently together. Individual leaders may need space to understand their own role, choices and impact. Different challenges need different interventions. The common thread is alignment around a shared direction, so people can contribute fully and move forward with purpose.
A partner guiding you through sustainable change
Lasting change has to belong to the people making it.
You bring the ambition, context and knowledge of your world. I bring perspective, questions, challenge, structure, practical tools and the wisdom gained from more than three decades of working with people, leadership and change.
I'll share what I know willingly. I'll tell you what I see, challenge your thinking when it will help and, when the work calls for it, roll up my sleeves and work alongside you.
My aim is to help you see the bigger picture, decide where to focus and take ownership of what happens next, without relying on me or anyone else outside your world for the answers.
Experience Counts
Lisa Birtles FCIPD
Lisa Birtles FCIPD is a leadership and transformation strategist, executive coach and people professional with 34 years of experience working alongside leaders, teams and organisations through growth, change and transformation.
Her work combines strategic people and organisational expertise with coaching, communications and practical implementation. She has worked inside organisations and alongside them, as an HR leader, organisation development lead, consultant, coach and programme partner.
That breadth matters because people, teams and organisations don't exist in neat boxes.
Lisa draws on her professional expertise, intuition and the wisdom of the past, present and emerging future to help you see the bigger picture and decide what most deserves your energy and attention now.
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Leadership Impact Assessment
Leadership Impact Assessment
A complimentary 60-minute assessment for leaders, business owners and experienced professionals who know something needs to change and want to work out where to focus next.