This work is for organisations that want to strengthen leadership at executive level.
That may mean preparing a senior leader for promotion, helping an executive settle into a first executive role or a bigger one, supporting a CEO with better alignment across the executive team, or helping the senior team work with more trust, courage, accountability, and cohesion.
Sometimes the need sits with one leader.
Sometimes it sits across the executive team.
Sometimes the issue is not capability, but how the executive group is operating together.
This support is designed for organisations that want practical, discreet help with senior leadership challenges.
What You’ll Come Away With
The aim is stronger leadership at the top of the organisation.
That may include clearer executive alignment, stronger ownership, cleaner conversations, more confidence in bigger roles, better executive presence, and a healthier way of working across the senior team.
The exact focus depends on the brief, the people involved, and what the organisation is trying to strengthen.
What to Expect
This work is tailored to the organisation and the leadership challenge in front of it.
It may include one-to-one executive coaching, support for newly promoted or transitioning executives, executive team sessions to improve alignment, cohesion, and operating rhythm, or targeted work with a CEO and senior team around culture, trust, accountability, and leadership effectiveness.
The work is coaching-led, with advisory input where useful and appropriate.
Every engagement begins with a conversation to understand the context, the goals, the stakeholders involved, and what useful progress would look like.
From there, scope is agreed based on the need.
Some organisations need support for one executive.
Some need support for the full executive team.
Some need both.
This is practical work, grounded in the real pressures of leadership, organisational politics, and performance.
Pricing
Quoted on request.
Testimonials
Fernandes Group engaged Richard Black to support the continued development of our executive leadership capability.
What we valued was the practical nature of the coaching. Richard created space for meaningful reflection while keeping the conversations grounded in the decisions, pressures, and priorities senior leaders deal with every day.
Richard’s approach was hands-on and practical. He combines constructive challenge, reflection, and result-oriented guidance, and his senior executive experience gave him a good understanding of the environment our leaders operate in.
We also valued the structure around the engagement. Regular sponsor check-ins, engagement reports, and an evaluation meeting helped maintain alignment while respecting the privacy of the coaching relationship.
- Fernandes Group
Working with Richard helped me take a more pragmatic approach to leadership, improve my results orientation, and make quicker decisions. The coaching helped me recognise blind spots, organise my thinking around difficult issues, and stay accountable to clear action steps.
Richard coaches the person, not only the issue. He listens carefully, reflects back what he hears, and helps you see where your own convictions may be getting in the way of progress.
- Alvin Venetiaan, Managing Director
Richard helped me step back from day-to-day operational involvement and become more deliberate in how I lead.
The coaching supported me through a period of organizational transformation, where I needed to strengthen structure, execution, and senior team alignment. Through the work, I clarified roles, improved decision-making discipline, and shifted from being too involved in operational issues to creating clearer accountability within the management team.
What stood out was Richard’s balance of honest challenge and practical application. The coaching helped me identify leadership patterns, translate reflection into action, and make real changes in structure, behaviour, and decision-making.
I became more strategic, more decisive, and more consistent in how I lead.
- Patrick Pengel, Managing Director
Working with Richard helped me become calmer, more confident, and more intentional in how I respond to difficult situations.
He helped me slow down, work through my thoughts, and use a pause before making decisions or responding. That shift made a difference in both my personal and professional life, including how I relate to my spouse, children, and employees.
What I valued most was Richard’s ability to listen without judgement and guide without telling me what to do. The calm he brought to the coaching process was refreshing and deeply helpful.
His support helped me grow into a calmer, more capable, and more confident person.
- Derniea Serieux-Ellis, Country Manager
Working with Richard helped me become more reflective, disciplined, and intentional in how I lead.
The coaching supported me in improving delegation, setting clearer boundaries, saying no without guilt, and creating more space for my direct reports to contribute. I became more aware of my patterns and better able to choose my response rather than simply react.
Richard’s approach felt safe, practical, and tailored. His conversational tone, lack of judgement, and relevant guidance helped me find my own answers and convert awareness into action.
- AVP, Financial Services
Price
By booking this package, you agree to these Terms and Conditions
- Scope tailored to the organisation’s needs
- Available for one-to-one executive coaching
- Available for executive transition support
- Available for executive team alignment and cohesion work
- Available for CEO and senior team support around culture and operating practices
- Confidential delivery with agreed boundaries and stakeholder clarity