“To come to ground is to find a home in circumstances and in the very physical body we inhabit in the midst of those circumstances and above all to face the truth, no matter how difficult that truth may be; to come to ground is to begin the courageous conversation.”
​David Whyte, Author and Poet
Professional partnership
in service to your development.
PresentSense Coaching is so effective because of how we contract with both our clients and internal coaches. There is no such thing as one size fits all and we are sensitive to the evolving requirements of our clients on an individual basis. Regardless of whether tools form part of a programme, our professional coaches all have training with accredited coaching bodies such as EMCC, ICF, AC, APECS, AoEC.
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Be the still point in a turning world
Leaders today are feeling increasingly overwhelmed by the relentless volume and complexity of their work. From ensuring the survival of their organisation to paving a sustainable path into an unpredictable future, leaders are facing many storms at once. It can feel a lonely, isolating and disappointing space to occupy from which it is common to want control and dish out reactive solutions. It does not need to be this way.
Instead of seeking to control or rush to quick solutions, we develop leaders to be with complexity, to learn about themselves with it and to respond adaptively. PresentSense leaders emerge more agile, effective with power, emotionally intelligent and more comfortable with the latent discomfort of paradox, complexity and uncertainty.
PresentSense co-creates and delivers effective leadership development programmes that address specific and evolving needs of our clients. Our Leadership programmes are based on core, well-documented research and principles into how and why people change. Core concepts include awareness, compassion and reflective capability. The following themes may be present in our work also:
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Navigating Uncertainty with Presence: Developing emotional resilience and groundedness, staying centred under pressure, moving from reactivity to responsive leadership​
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Complexity Thinking & Systems Awareness: Seeing interconnections across people, processes, and systems, leading with “both/and” thinking rather than binary solutions, embracing paradox and ambiguity as a natural part of leadership, embracing diversity and inclusion as systemic practices​
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Relational Intelligence: Building trust and psychological safety in teams, deepening trust, empathy, and active listening, managing power dynamics and boundaries with care​
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Self-as-Instrument: Using personal insight, intuition and awareness as a leadership tool, noticing patterns, triggers, and habitual responses, cultivating reflective practices and self-inquiry, avoiding burnout through energy awareness and self-care, supporting balance across life domains​
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Adaptive Leadership: Letting go of control and embracing emergence, leading change without certainty, creating conditions for others to lead and thrive​
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Values-Based and Purpose-Led Leadership: Clarifying personal and organisational purpose, making decisions from values, not fear, holding integrity in challenging conditions
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PresentSense also offers team leadership development programmes for organisations seeking to relate with more courage, trust and capability in these uncertain times. You can find out more about this here.
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A commonality between PresentSense leadership clients is a desire to adapt, to process or to enquire into alternative ways of relating, with self, other and wider systems. Like us, our clients recognise that we are all responsible for the world we bring into being and so self-responsibility is a guiding feature of the process.
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Our work is to be alongside you as you enquire into patterns and behaviours that serve you and those that no longer fit. It is our belief that we are all working to the best of our abilities within our present awareness.
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PresentSense’s approach to executive coaching is unique in that it is deliberately developmental and transformative. Our high quality leadership coaching, focuses on supporting the more fundamental development that leaders need, in order to deal with the complexity of our time. This is not for the faint hearted and we're with you for the ride.
Systemic, strategic, somatic.
PresentSense's leadership coaches go beyond the performance and results focused agenda. Sure, there's a place for this in sections of life but the sum of the parts truly is other than the whole in this process.
In enabling the development of our clients' present awareness and insight, we support more sustainable, profound shifts in capacity to relate well and transform self, the people they lead and the wider systems they're a part of. ​
