Phanella Fine

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Team Coaching

We coach high-performing teams to improve how they work together enabling clearer decisions, stronger alignment and greater collective accountability.

Even highly capable teams can experience slow decision-making, misalignment, unresolved tension or conversations that are avoided rather than addressed. When this happens at senior level, the effects are felt quickly across the organisation.

Our work focuses on how the team operates in practice: how leaders make decisions together, how they handle disagreement and how they align around the priorities that shape organisational performance. The aim is simple: a leadership team that functions with clarity, cohesion and confidence.

Our Approach

Our work focuses on the real dynamics within the team, including how decisions are made, how differences are addressed and how colleagues work together under pressure.

Working closely with organisational sponsors, we identify the factors limiting effectiveness and address them directly but with sensitivity. 

Engagements typically combine facilitated leadership sessions with targeted coaching. Where deeper reflection is needed, leadership retreats create space to step back from operational demands, address strategic priorities and reset how the team leads together.

Each engagement is tailored to the organisation, the context and the outcomes required.

When Organisations Engage Us

Organisations typically invite this work when the leadership team must operate with greater clarity, cohesion and discipline.

This often occurs during periods of organisational growth, structural change or increased scrutiny, when expectations on the leadership team expand and the quality of collaboration becomes more critical.

In some cases the challenges are obvious and visible. In others, leaders sense the team is not functioning as well as it should but cannot yet see why.

Our role is to help bring those dynamics into view and support the team to work through them constructively so the organisation can move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

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Leadership team coaching is always grounded in context, whether of the organisation, team or individuals involved.

When done well, this work strengthens alignment, improves decision-making and enables leadership teams to operate with greater cohesion and authority.

An initial conversation allows us to understand your environment, explore what may be limiting effectiveness and consider whether this work would be helpful at this stage.

Our proven method for success

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Clarity

We clarify how the team operates.

 

We begin by understanding the dynamics shaping the team’s effectiveness: how decisions are made, how priorities are set and where misalignment may be limiting progress. This creates a shared understanding of what needs attention and where leadership focus is required.

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Understand

We strengthen how the team works together.

 

Through facilitated sessions and structured dialogue, we help teams address difficult conversations, improve communication and align around shared priorities. This strengthens trust, accountability and the quality of decision-making at the top of the organisation.

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Implement

We reinforce shared leadership responsibility.

 

High-performing teams work best when leaders understand not only their individual roles but also their collective responsibility. We support teams to clarify what they stand for as a leadership group and how they will address challenges and lead the organisation together.

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Louisa Harrison

Louisa Harrison

Executive Coach
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Alice Bromwich

Executive Coach & HR Advisor
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Miles Pulver

Psychotherapist & Executive Coach
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Nikki Swan

Executive Coach

Where Team Coaching is most relevant

This work is designed for organisations that recognise the importance of effective leadership at the top of the business.

It is particularly valuable for:

Senior leadership teams

Teams carrying significant organisational responsibility and whose alignment, decision-making and cohesion directly influence performance.

Newly formed or evolving teams

Where leadership dynamics are still taking shape, expectations are increasing or greater clarity is required around how the team will lead together.

Teams navigating transition

Including periods of growth, structural change, senior appointments or heightened external scrutiny.

Partnership and investment-led environments

Where collective leadership, sound judgement and the ability to work through difference are essential.

Organisations preparing for what lies ahead

When leaders recognise the team must operate differently to meet future demands.

What our clients value

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Effective leadership teams rarely emerge by chance.

They are shaped through deliberate attention to how senior leaders think, work and lead together. If you are considering how best to strengthen your leadership team, we would welcome a conversation to understand your context and explore whether this work would be helpful.

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Louisa Harrison

Executive Coach

Louisa is an Accredited Coach (ICF, EMCC) and facilitator specialising in supporting emerging leaders to build their confidence and develop their leadership style through transitions. Louisa’s training includes a MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change, as well as Dare to Lead (Brene Brown). Prior to coaching, Louisa spent 15 years in senior Human Resources roles predominantly within the financial services industry. Working in partnership with executive leaders within many business areas, and having led teams herself, she has a deep understanding of the importance of organisational culture and leadership behaviours on employee engagement, wellbeing and productivity.

Louisa is passionate about the power of journaling, pilates and spending time in nature with her dog.

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Alice Bromwich

Executive Coach & HR Advisor
Alice is both an accredited coach (ICA) and a senior HR Professional, with a Masters in HRM and CIPD qualified. Alice brings a strong level of commercial focus and acumen to both HR and Coaching work. Combining her background, knowledge, and experience, Alice is adaptable to any culture or environment and has led businesses through significant transformational change. Alice is comfortable working at the Board level as well as developing effective and empowered teams. Her ethos is to listen, appreciate that each issue will have unique factors and personalities involved; then deliver a first-class and positive solution. Alice is passionate about her charity work, particularly in domestic abuse, as well as running to clear her mind, reading to expand it and reiki to balance it.
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Miles Pulver

Psychotherapist & Executive Coach

Adept at combining psychotherapeutic interventions and executive coaching modalities, Miles is a leading psychotherapist with a business background in commercial law and property. Miles’s affinity for working with business leaders on enhancing their mental wellbeing, emotional development and relational skills, derives from his own business background. Before becoming a psychotherapist and coach, Miles had a professional and commercial career. He gained a First in law at Oxford and became a corporate finance solicitor in a City law firm. He then did a stint as a government lawyer in Whitehall, before moving in-house as commercial director of a real estate developer. He understands commercial & professional environments, as well as the City and Whitehall. He trained initially in well-grounded psychodynamic and attachment-oriented psychotherapy (including having a sub-specialism in relationship work). He has gone on to add an extensive suite of contemporary, proactive, neuro-informed psychotherapy modalities.

Outside of the therapy and coaching room, Miles takes a particular interest West German fat lava pottery, discovering new podcasts and woodland walks.

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Nikki Swan

Executive Coach

Nikki is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) and trainer specialising in empowering senior professionals to lead at their best without sacrificing their personal wellbeing. Nikki’s background of almost 20 years in tax advisory (PwC & Deloitte) serving a wide range of clients across the financial services sector, means that she understands the pressures and opportunities of the corporate career. Influenced by her training in positive psychology, transformational coaching, mindfulness and resilience, Nikki empowers her clients to respond rather than react to challenges. Her coaching style is calm, intuitive, and transformational and she combines deep listening with her ability to ask incisive questions to help her clients explore blind spots and gain valuable insights.

When not coaching, Nikki can usually be found on the yoga mat.