Key Talent Coaching

Executive team development

Build an executive team that inspires exceptional performance.

Strengthen your collective impact today and build a leadership legacy that enables the teams of tomorrow to thrive.

Build your executive team’s next chapter

Exceptional coaching. Transformative change. Measurable results.

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How exceptional teams are built

Exceptional executive teams are made, not born.

They are built through a partnership between a committed CEO, an expert team coach and executives willing to grow together.

Together, we strengthen how your team leads, challenges and supports one another, creating the conditions for exceptional performance now and shaping a leadership legacy for the teams that follow.

Our approach connects individual executive development with team coaching around your real organisational priorities. Each executive gains insight into their own contribution, while the team develops shared ownership of its collective impact.

The team you build today shapes how others lead tomorrow.

Sarah Friis facilitating a leadership development workshop with an executive team
Client experience
“Through executive team changes and challenges, Sarah has provided consistency and helped us hold ourselves and each other accountable.”

We chose Sarah Friis from Key Talent Coaching to work alongside our executive team for her expertise in team dynamics, her insightful and constructively challenging coaching style, and her unwavering commitment to our success.

Her coaching continues to strengthen how we work together and lead, for the benefit of our people and the success of Kordia.

Neil Livingston
Chief Executive Officer, Kordia

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Context

When executive teams are not performing collectively.

Functional priorities compete with enterprise priorities.

Leaders operate in silos.

Decisions lack consistent ownership.

Difficult conversations are avoided.

Accountability defaults to the CEO.

Pressure increases defensiveness.

Collaboration becomes transactional.

The executive team struggles to lead organisational change together.

Client experience
“Sarah Friis is a gifted facilitator who creates a safe and challenging environment from which individuals and teams can grow.”

I have worked with her across three companies, and she has consistently delivered through her ability to build high-performing teams while surfacing and addressing any dysfunction that may exist. Sarah is an exceptional operator.

Heather Kean
Director of People & Culture, T&G Global Limited

Executive team taking part in a facilitated group discussion

Executive team development pathway

One pathway. Four powerful shifts in collective executive leadership.

Combine individual executive development with team coaching to strengthen how your executives lead together. Build shared understanding, align strategic contribution and develop greater consistency between leadership intention and impact across the team.

Shape the experience around your team’s priorities, using relevant diagnostics alongside individual and collective coaching.

Stage 1

Executive INSIGHT

Understand how each executive’s thinking, values and behavioural patterns shape their contribution and the team’s dynamics.

Understand yourselves. Strengthen shared awareness.

Explore Executive INSIGHT
Stage 2

Executive IMPACT

Align executive priorities, strengthen stakeholder influence and build shared ownership of the strategic outcomes your team needs to deliver.

Align your intentions. Expand your collective impact.

Explore Executive IMPACT
Stage 3

Executive INTEGRITY

Sustain and strengthen collective executive capacity and performance under pressure. Develop more constructive responses to the demands that test your team.

Strengthen capacity. Sustain performance together.

Explore Executive INTEGRITY
Stage 4

Executive INSPIRE

Align your executive team around the leadership approaches and systems that shape an organisation consistently delivering exceptional performance.

Inspire transformation. Accelerate performance together.

Explore Executive INSPIRE

How it works

A clear starting point. Measurable progress. Continued growth.

We partner with your CEO and executive team to develop each executive and the team together, connecting personal leadership growth with your organisational priorities.

Each executive gains insight into their mindset, leadership behaviour and impact. Individual and team coaching turns that insight into stronger collaboration, clearer accountability and collective strategic performance.

  1. 01

    Establish your benchmark

    Agree what success looks like against your board-approved KPIs and organisational priorities. Record the team’s starting position and identify the leadership and team-effectiveness measures that will help track progress.

  2. 02

    Understand the real challenges

    Through interviews and relevant assessments, explore the underlying patterns affecting your team’s effectiveness. Understand the organisational context, surface different perspectives and clarify what needs to change.

  3. 03

    Choose your starting point

    Select the development stage that best addresses your team’s priorities: Executive INSIGHT, IMPACT, INTEGRITY or INSPIRE. Shape the combination of individual development and team coaching around the outcomes you want to achieve.

  4. 04

    Engage, apply and review

    Through individual and team coaching, apply the learning to real organisational challenges and strengthen how your team leads together. Review progress against the agreed benchmark, gather feedback and repeat relevant assessments at agreed intervals to understand what is changing and where further work is needed.

  5. 05

    Shape the next stage of growth

    Use the evidence and learning to agree your next development priorities. Build on progress, select the next relevant pathway stage and embed the practices that sustain your team’s effectiveness.

Start where your team needs to grow. Build on what changes. Keep strengthening your collective impact.

Outcomes

What changes for the organisation.

Stronger executive-team alignment.

Greater trust and constructive challenge.

Improved cross-functional collaboration.

Shared ownership of strategic priorities.

More effective collective decision-making.

Greater organisational consistency.

Stronger conditions for sustained performance.

Create the executive team your organisation deserves.

Let’s explore how your executive team can inspire exceptional performance today and shape a leadership legacy for the teams that follow.

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