Growing resilient leadership through professional coaching.
Our professional coaching team has delivered over 10,000 sessions to senior project and change leaders, with an average client rating of 4.8 out of 5. Trusted for the past decade by the UK Government and private sector clients alike.
Coaching sessions delivered
Average across 225 reviews
Senior leaders coached on PLP
Building PM capability
The transition from manager to leader.
The transition from project manager to project leader is fraught with challenge. Leaders are required to be resilient and courageous in the face of uncertainty and set-backs, while letting go of the detail to focus on critical strategy.
Our professional coaching team offers a track record of effective interventions, enabling clients to reset negative habits, challenge limiting beliefs and build personal resilience — both within the project environment and from within themselves.
Our approach.
Trusted for the past decade by the UK Government and private sector clients to build effective leaders through coaching support. We have assembled a team of highly qualified and practiced executive coaches who support growing leaders through a powerful series of 1-2-1 confidential sessions.
In addition to extensive experience and qualifications, we deploy a range of psychometric instruments and 360-degree behavioural reviews to understand leader personality traits and external behaviours. Through group and personal coaching supervision, our coaches are kept at the forefront of practice through continued professional development.
What backs every coach
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ILM Level 7 minimum qualification
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Trained at Ashridge Business School
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Ongoing coaching supervision and CPD
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Direct experience leading complex programmes
What goes into an academy.
A partnership approach. We co-build with you across whichever components your community needs — training, frameworks, assessment, accreditation, and the technology to run it all.
Who they are on a good day. How they come apart under pressure.
Hogan Personality Inventory
How a leader behaves on a good day at work.
Hogan Development Survey
How leaders behave under pressure. The derailers that limit a career.
Motives, Values, Preferences
What drives a leader, the cultures they thrive in, and where engagement is highest.
How they solve problems and how they show up alongside a team.
Kirton Adaption-Innovation
How leaders solve problems, approach change, and complement each other on a team.
Strengths Based Leadership
Build on natural strengths instead of trying to fix weaknesses.
DISC Assessment
Improves communication, collaboration and team dynamics.
How others see the leader, brought together in one coaching framework.
360-degree Reviews
Structured feedback from peers, reports and senior stakeholders.
Bespoke Feedback Reports
Combines multiple data sources into one framework for your leadership context.
Project Leader Coaching
For senior project leaders facing complexity and change
Confidential 1-2-1 coaching for the day-to-day of project and change leadership. Our coaches have led complex programmes themselves. They've turned around troubled projects and shifted senior careers.
What changes for you
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Step up to be more strategic
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Build personal resilience under stress
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Lead across multi-discipline teams
Project Team Coaching
For project teams required to perform from Day 1
Team coaching for brand-new collaborations and for teams that have lost their way. Our coaches are Ashridge-trained and NLP-qualified, with psychometrics that put team differences to work.
What changes for the team
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Accelerated team performance
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Harness diversity into collaboration
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Manage conflict for sharper problem-solving
What our clients say.
Senior leaders on critical change initiatives, in their own words.
A real result.
After two coaching sessions with The Project Academy, Barry from the Ministry of Defence was promoted.
"Working with my coach Lara has had a profoundly positive effect on me, my working life and career. It has enabled me to understand myself and my colleagues better, and given me skills to be more effective in difficult situations. For leaders seeking to develop their personal resilience and become more effective, I heartily recommend this coaching."
