Your business needs a leader, not just an operator.
Coaching for chief executives who are still doing the work of the person they were three years ago, and know it.
Book my spot nowYou have the title. The job has quietly become something else.
- Your calendar is full of work someone else should be doing.
- You are the escalation point for problems you should never hear about.
- Your leadership team defers rather than decides.
- You have not thought properly about the next three years in months.
Gerry on CEO coaching, in his own words
Two minutes on the difference between operating a business and leading one, and what CEO coaching does about the gap.
What CEO coaching has done for the chief executives who took it
Drawn from the chief executives Gerry has coached, in businesses from twenty people to FTSE-listed.
Average reduction in meetings the chief executive personally attends
Typical increase in decisions resolved by the leadership team without escalation
Time it usually takes before a full week away stops being a risk
The week a chief executive stops firefighting
Six chief executives on what CEO coaching with Gerry actually changed. Hover to pause and read.
I came to CEO coaching with Gerry convinced the problem was my sales numbers. It was not. Within a quarter I had handed over three things I had never let go of, and the numbers fixed themselves.
What I got from CEO coaching with Gerry was permission to stop being the answer to everything. My leadership team is unrecognisable, and I took a two week holiday without checking in once.
Gerry is the first person who told me the truth about my business rather than what I wanted to hear. CEO coaching with Gerry was uncomfortable for a fortnight and worth every penny since.
We had grown for six years and stopped dead. CEO coaching with Gerry found the constraint in the first session. It was not the one any of us had been arguing about.
I had used two other coaches before. The difference with CEO coaching with Gerry is that we built things. Actual systems, written down, that my team still runs today.
Revenue is up, but the thing I would tell anyone considering CEO coaching with Gerry is that I got my weekends back. That is what I actually wanted and did not know how to ask for.
How CEO coaching with Gerry works
The skills that got you here are operational. The job you hold now is not. This is the work of making that transition deliberately rather than hoping it happens.
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We audit where your time actually goes
Not where you think it goes. Two weeks of honest tracking usually reveals that half the chief executive is doing work worth a fraction of what the role is worth.
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We rebuild the leadership layer beneath you
Most chief executives are trapped by a team that was never given real ownership. We fix the seats, the authority and the accountability, so decisions stop travelling upward.
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We reinstall the strategic work
Protected time for the thinking only you can do, with structure around it so it survives contact with a busy week.
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We hold the line
The pull back into operations is constant. Regular sessions exist to catch the drift early, while it is still a habit rather than a pattern.
What CEO coaching changes about your week
Your week looks different
Fewer meetings that did not need you. More room for the decisions that actually move the business.
Your team steps up
Given real ownership, people rise to it. Most leadership teams are underperforming because nobody let them lead.
The business can survive you
A holiday stops being a risk. That is the practical test of whether the transition worked.
Is CEO coaching the right fit for you?
This is for you if
- You hold the chief executive role in a business with a team beneath you.
- You suspect you are the constraint and you are willing to look at that honestly.
- You have the authority to change how the leadership layer works.
This is not for you if
- You are a solo operator with nobody to delegate to yet.
- You are looking for someone to validate the way things already run.
Gerry helped us remove me from the weeds of the business. I finally work on it, not in it.
What your CEO coaching includes
- Fortnightly coaching sessions built around live decisions
- A full review of how your time and attention are spent
- Leadership team assessment and a plan for the gaps
- Decision-making structures your team can run without you
- Quarterly strategic sessions away from the day to day
- Direct access between sessions when something significant lands
Delivered online, or in person across London and Hertfordshire.
Step into CEO coaching.
Gerry publishes his prices. You should not have to sit through a call to find out whether something is within reach.
CEO Coaching, six month engagement
One payment. Instalments available on request. Prices exclude VAT where applicable.
- Fortnightly CEO coaching sessions built around live decisions
- A full review of how your time and attention are spent
- Leadership team assessment and a plan for the gaps
- Decision-making structures your team can run without you
- Quarterly strategic sessions away from the day to day
- Direct access between sessions when something significant lands
- You get an email confirming your spot straight away.
- Gerry contacts you personally within one working day to book your first session.
- Nothing starts until the two of you have agreed a date.
Rather talk it through first?
Nobody should commit to work at this level from a web page alone. Book a call, or email Gerry directly and ask him anything.
CEO coaching: the questions chief executives ask
Does my leadership team need to be involved?
Not necessarily, though the work moves faster when they are. Gerry can work with you alone, or run sessions with your leadership team where the constraint sits in how the group operates rather than in how you lead it.
I have had coaching before and it did not stick. Why is this different?
Coaching fails when it stays conversational. This work changes the structures around you, which means who owns what, how decisions get made and where your time goes. Structures outlast good intentions.
How long does it take?
The visible changes in your calendar usually arrive within a quarter. The deeper change, where the business genuinely runs without you in the room, takes closer to a year. Both start with the same first session.
Let's find your way through.
A direct conversation about what your role has become and what it should be instead.
Talk to Gerry