Supporting forward-thinking senior executives and business leaders, my tailored coaching programmes empower positive personal, professional and career growth. Especially effective in the media, music, entertainment and creative agency sectors, I focus on exploring and unlocking clients’ full potential – enabling talented leaders and senior teams to enhance their overall performance and thereby increase company enterprise value.
Taking a holistic approach to fully explore clients’ work and life contexts, alongside external impacting factors, is also central to my coaching approach to support optimal work/life balance.
Tess Willmott, Professional Certified Coach
The Value of Coaching
Coaching is a powerful catalyst for unlocking and maximising individual career potential. It provides a dedicated space for leaders to explore their strengths, challenge limiting beliefs, and develop strategies for professional growth. By fostering deeper self-awareness and empowering leaders to overcome obstacles, coaching sets a clear path for sustained transformation in performance and effectiveness. Discover how targeted coaching can supercharge your impactful leadership.
Executive Coaching
My coaching programmes empower leaders and high-potential talent across a wide-ranging sectors, including media, entertainment, and creative agencies. I partner with CEOs, Founders, board-level and senior executives as a thinking partner to navigate complex challenges, enhance strengths, and refine leadership styles. To support clients’ sustained transformation towards higher performance, a carefully tailored approach surfaces key topics where support and development are most needed, with smart goal setting determined from the outset.
Team Coaching
Progressive business leaders increasingly recognise the critical role of team coaching in cultivating high performance and great business outcomes. Effective team coaching builds a foundation of trust, promotes healthy conflict resolution, and strengthens communication channels. It aligns team members towards shared accountability and collective goals, proving essential for better outcomes on many levels. Team coaching fosters unity and well-being, maximising the collective potential of all.
In support of one of our high potential ExCo Directors, Tess’s positive coaching impact was undeniably noticeable and recognised by me, our CEO, their peers and direct team. Tess’s communications, clarity and absolute commitment to results has meant I’ve recommended two further ExCo members to Tess, with whom she is now successfully working
I am incredibly grateful for the coaching journey with Tessa. Her warmth, openness and genuine curiosity made the process feel both supportive and challenging in the best possible way. Tess helped me define my goals with clarity and better understand how I show up as a leader, leaving me more confident and intentional in my decisions and leadership.
As I stepped up into a role overseeing 65+ employees, she provided a steady, grounding presence that helped me navigate challenges with confidence. Her insightful approach allowed me to recognise my responses to situations & reframe them to achieve the best outcomes. We tackled real-life scenarios, identifying practical ways to adjust my behaviours to benefit both myself & my team.
Working with Tessa during my first year as Managing Director was genuinely pivotal. She created a space that was both supportive & challenging, where I could explore what leadership really meant to me. During our sessions I found clarity on my leadership style, built confidence in my instincts & developed practical tools to handle everything from high-stakes conversations to day-to-day decision-making.
I can’t speak highly enough of Tess. She put me at ease whilst exploring the root of issues that previously impacted me in my role. Tess’s coaching programme has given me renewed perspective, a new skill set in evolved thinking & leadership style, along with more measured reactions to business challenges.
Working with Tess has been life-changing for me, I was navigating some complex situations in my role, and she created space for me to think and act differently. She always made it seem possible and indeed easy, when I know, that alone, I would be in that same position likely not moving forwards.
I engaged Tess to coach high potential senior leaders in my team and witnessing their positive results, encouraged me to work with her myself! I have found our sessions explorative and yet focused, working through key stress factors and specific behaviours and habits which I needed to shift in realising massive growth and significant structural change in our business.
Feedback from the team on their individual coaching has been positive with several great new initiatives undertaken showing good outcomes for the business overall. Tess's style, humour and intelligence made it very easy for our team to feel properly listened to and engaged with - especially coming out of the isolation of COVID lock downs.
Tess’s insight into the creative agency world, plus her wise personal counsel gives me confidence that she will support development of my senior leadership team – both in the UK and the US.
I have relied on my coach Tess, to help navigate key moments in both my career and personal life when I have needed a wise sounding board to help guide me through. Our sessions help me feel clear on my purpose, what I want to achieve and most importantly how I should go about making it happen to affect real positive change in my life and work.
One to one coaching sessions with Tess at a tricky juncture in my career gave me firstly the clarity I needed to make some important decisions around my role and direction, and secondly the confidence and wherewithal to bring about the changes I needed to make.
Even the hardest work that really stretches you feels achievable and positive with Tess guiding the way. She provides a tailor-made programme which she creates from a deep understanding of your goals, sensibilities, and experience and has a unique ability to hear, distil and provide practical tools for growth.