What Services do you provide?
The areas of support we may be able to offer support on include the following:
Business strategy
Business planning - start up & advanced
Business - non exec board support
Business sales, purchases & restructures
Compliance support
Contracts
Data Protection & GDPR
Directors duties
Divorce coaching - individuals & couples
Due diligence
Executive mentoring & coaching
Insurance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Policy preparation and review
Shareholder agreements and disputes
Sport representation
Will writing
Should you be in any doubt as to whether we can assist, please simply ask and we will be happy to let you know openly and promptly if we can
Can you support new start up businesses?
Yes, we offer support to start up businesses on financial terms that reflect their early stage status.
What are the benefits of oversight non executive or mentor support?
The appointment of oversight non executive support at any point in a company lifecycle provides experienced independent input to Board decision making and the operations of the company as a whole. It can assist grant, fund raising, growth and turnaround activities as a whole.
The appointment of a mentor helps professionally and personally develop company officers as it gives them an experienced, independent ear to bounce ideas and strategies off away from the day to day operations of the business. This can be invaluable to the creation and progression of new ideas as well as to the general emotional wellbeing of the key officers upon whom the organisation and its employees rely day to day
What is a Separation and Divorce Coach?
A separation and divorce coach is a goal-oriented professional who provides the emotional support and practical strategy needed to help navigate individuals or couples through a separation or divorce. While solicitors manage the legal process, a coach focuses on the "human element"—helping you manage stress, improve communication with your ex-partner, and move from being overwhelmed to being calmer, organized and empowered.
The Key Benefits of Divorce Coaching:
1. Significant Cost Savings
Divorce coaching often pays for itself by making the legal process more efficient by:-
- Lower Legal Fees: Clients often use solicitors as emotional outlets, which is a very expensive way to process feelings. By working with a coach, you arrive at your solicitor’s office, as needed, prepared, focused, and ready to make decisions, reducing billable hours
- Improved Efficiency: A coach helps you gather paperwork, clarify your priorities, and streamline your "asks," preventing costly back-and-forth negotiations over minor issues.
- Involvement of a coach can dramatically increase the chances of avoiding costly litigation and can help make couples feel confident and trusting enough to document their own divorce to a satisfactory conclusion or do so via solicitors, in a way that validates them both more quickly, and without expensive advisors or multiple sets of court fees
2. Emotional Stability and Clarity
A major benefit of a coach is having a "safe harbour" to process the chaos of divorce.
- Emotional Regulation: A coach provides tools to manage anger, grief, and anxiety, preventing these emotions from clouding your judgment on long-term decisions.
- Shift to the Future: While the process can feel like an ending, a coach helps you shift your mindset toward the future, helping you rebuild self-esteem and define your new "normal."
3. Coaches can develop and help emotionally enable "parallel parenting" and co-parenting strategies. They help you keep the children’s best interests at the centre of your decision-making and teach you how to communicate with your ex-partner in a way that minimizes conflict and shields the children from tension.
How a Divorce Coach Differs from Other Advisors
- Vs. a Solicitor: A solicitor handles the legal case and litigates with barristers as necessary; a coach handles you. The coach ensures you are emotionally ready to give clear instructions to your legal team if you have one.
- Vs. a Therapist: Therapy often explores the "why" of the past. Coaching is action-oriented and forward-facing, focusing on "how" you will navigate today and thrive tomorrow.
- Vs. a Mediator: A mediator focuses on being a neutral party to help agree particular issues, such as finances or children; a coach looks at the overall emotional picture and helps facilitate positive actions and self progression
Coaches often work in tandem with other advisors, but their work never overlaps.
The separation and divorce coaching sector is now thriving in the US, as couples are having to source alternative less costly means of resolving disputes than litigation. This is a trend likely to follow in the UK in the years to come.