OUR MISSION

EMPOWERING HIGH-PERFORMING AND HIGH-POTENTIAL INDIVIDUALS TO ACHIEVE PURPOSEFUL PROGRESSION

We provide Executive Coaching and Leadership Development for organisations and self-funding individuals in a way that aligns to personal and professional objectives, and achieves organisational goals.

WHAT WE VALUE

HUMAN CONNECTION

We believe in the power of genuine human-to-human connection, fostering trust and collaboration in all our interactions.

RESULTS DRIVEN EXCELLENCE

We deliver strategic, pragmatic solutions that achieve measurable results for both individuals and organisations. Our focus is on helping clients reach their goals with effective, commercially viable strategies.

CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT

We emphasise self-awareness as the cornerstone of effective leadership, promoting continuous personal growth and resourcefulness for sustained success.

PURPOSEFUL PROGRESSION

We guide individuals to integrate their professional growth with their overall life purpose, ensuring a balanced and fulfilling journey

WHAT WE DO

  • 1:1 Executive Coaching for high performing and high potential individuals accelerates their growth by focussing on purposeful development aligned with organisational goals in a confidential and impartial space.

    This tailored coaching approach enhances leadership capabilities, strategic thinking, and resilience.

    Investing in Executive Coaching ensures a strong leadership pipeline, driving sustained success and competitive advantage for your organisation.

    An initial three-way conversation between coach, coachee and sponsor is offered to ensure coaching is best targeted for the individual. Example coaching topics include:

    • Influencing and Impact

    • Navigating senior stakeholders

    • Developing your authentic leadership style

    • Building confidence to grow

    • Creating a meaningful personal development plan and taking action

    • Strategic use of time

    • Sustainable leadership including resilience and wellbeing strategies

    • Creating followship and leveraging your team

    • Managing self and others through change

    • Is this really what I want? And why?

    *Self-funded places are also available. Please get in touch to find out more.

  • Group Coaching for high-performing and high potential individuals fosters growth through shared learning experiences and diverse perspectives.

    Investing in group coaching cultivates a network of strong leaders who drive ongoing excellence and innovation for your organisation.

    We work with you to develop bespoke group coaching that meets the needs of your individuals and organisation.

    Examples include:

    • Next generation leadership

    • Parental group coaching across career stages

  • Leadership development programme design, delivery and facilitation for high-performing and high potential individuals which provides tailored growth aligned with organisational goals and addresses the mindset, beliefs and behaviours required for progression.

    This can include customised training and skills development, experiential learning and continuous feedback or simply facilitating at one of your inhouse programmes. Our work has spanned early careers induction and development programmes through to Senior Leader development.

    Topics have included:

    • Who am I as leader?

    • Feedback mindset

    • Leading self

    • Leading others

  • Leverage the knowledge, experience and learnings of our team for your organisations benefit:

    • Designing an early career development programme (including inductions)

    • Director programmes Learning Design

    • Enhancing your coaching culture

    • Improving Employee Engagement and Employee Experience

    We spend time understanding your goals and challenges and provide you with tailored advice, based on experience to allow you to move forward with confidence.

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMME

LEADERSHIP FOR YOUR LIFE:
THE ULTIMATE BLUEPRINT

This immersive one-day programme is designed for participants to discover and harness true leadership potential, helping to achieve purposeful progression in both professional and personal lives. This programme can be tailored to meet the needs of your organisation and individuals. It can be delivered in your offices or virtually.

  • ★ Explore your purpose: Deep dive into understanding your core values, what drives you and why

    ★ Integrate your purpose: Learn how to align your purpose with various aspects of your life, including work, family and personal interests

    ★ Identify your strengths: Recognise and celebrate unique strengths and talents and consider how to further harness these

    ★ Spot potential pitfalls: Identify potential challenges and “watch outs” that could hinder progress and learn strategies to overcome them

    ★ Create your blueprint: Capture all of your insights on a single page, crafting a personalised blueprint for leading yourself and others effectively, both professionally and personally

    By the end of the day participants will walk away with a clear, actionable plan to lead with confidence and authenticity

    *Self-funded and individual places are also available. Please get in touch to find out more and discuss available dates.

WHO WE ARE

LAURA BIRCH

Founder & Director

Laura is an experienced Executive Coach and Leadership Development professional specialising in guiding high-performing and high-potential senior leaders and executives to advance and unlock the next stage of their careers – enabling purposeful progression.

Laura has over 17 years experience coaching and developing individuals and groups across the employee lifecycle - from graduate to Partner. Most recently she has coached over 60 Directors to Partnership in Big4 organisations. Outside of coaching, Laura has led the strategic direction of leadership development programmes for key talent in some of the world's most advanced professional services firms. Topics have included;

  • every day coaching skills

  • influencing and impact

  • feedback mindset

  • sustainable ways of working (resilience strategies)

  • managing the inner critic

Laura has also led programmes to support working parents as they navigate the challenges that being a working parent can bring and has partnered with HR Directors to enable a broader coaching culture across their groups.

  • Laura creates a supportive yet challenging space that encourages those who engage with her to become even better versions of themselves. She helps to strengthen relationships, navigate competing tensions, and develop the mindset, beliefs, and behaviours required for purposeful progression. Laura employs a diverse range of coaching and leadership development tools, models, theories, and methods to tailor her approach to each client's unique needs and goals. Described as empathetic, inspiring, and pragmatic, Laura particularly enjoys working with individuals who possess an open mind and a growth mindset.

    Laura's credentials include:

    ·       Senior Practitioner Coach (EMCC)

    ·       Myers Briggs practitioner

    ·       EQi 2.0 and EQ 360 Practitioner

    ·       CIPD Level 7

    ·       Reiki practitioner level 1 & 2

    Personally, Laura is a proud solo parent to her daughter. She enjoys sunny yet crisp days out, the power of breath and meditation, exploring new places and spending quality time with her family and friends.

    Laura's mission is to spread goodness by inspiring personal growth.

  • "Excellent balance of concentrated listening and then impactfully joining the dots in our sessions"

    - Partner, Big4

  • "Laura is an excellent listener and balances this skill with constructive and supportive challenge. The result is that I always leave our sessions feeling listened to but also with better perspective on what we have discussed"

    - Senior Manager, Big4

  • "Laura was rapidly able to put me at ease. She listened to me, challenged me at times, and used frameworks to good effect to help me make sense of my challenges and the way forward"

    - Director, Big4

  • "Helping me link challenges and issues to personal development and behaviours, and practical suggestions and techniques to develop quickly"

    - Director, Big4

  • "Her empathy, friendliness, and ability to scratch beneath the surface of a situation massively helped me"

    - Director, Big4

  • "It supported me through a promotion process, which I was successful in. It gave me confidence in decisions that I was required to make. It made me feel supported and encouraged and overall provided me with a range of new tools and techniques which I've been able to use and recommend to others"

    - Director, Big4

  • "Laura is excellent at holding the mirror up, helping me to understand why I respond in certain ways - and then talking through tools and frameworks that I can use. She combines "technical" coaching with empathy in a way that really resonates"

    - Partner, Big4

ASSOCIATES AND FRIENDS OF THE PROGRESSION PLACE

The Progression Place has a large network of experienced and qualified associate coaches and leadership development professionals in order to engage at scale. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and we will be happy to share the bios of those who best meet your needs.

Our associates have experience across a wide range of industries including professional services, law, retail, public sector and SMEs.

We also collaborate with experienced and qualified therapists, HR professionals and Yoga practioners and would be happy to discuss how this might benefit your organisation. 

GET IN TOUCH

If what you’ve read has sparked your interest, we’d love to hear from you.

Get in touch at laura@theprogressionplace.com to arrange an initial exploratory conversation.

Alternatively, fill out the contact form here and we’ll get back to you.