Developmental coaching · grounded in adult-development research

The leadership you're capable of hasn't fully arrived yet.This is for the gap.

It starts with a free leadership assessment that measures the stage you lead from — not your personality or style. Then a coaching journey grounded in how leaders actually change, including Kegan and Lahey's work on why change is harder than it looks.

Discover your leadership stage →

Free 8-minute assessment
No account required

Your Leadership Development Profile
The Cultivator · Stage 3 of 5
Locus of control72
Meaning making58
Relational orientation65
Changing your mind54
Your free profile names your stage and where the growth is. See the full journey below ↓

How it works

Three steps. You always know what the next one costs.

For reference: executive coaching in the UK typically runs £150–500 an hour, and structured programmes £4,000–12,000 a person. This is not the same thing as a human coach — it is the developmental work, at a price you can decide on alone.

Step 1Free
The assessment

Answer honestly for 8 minutes. Get your leadership development stage and where your growth edge sits. No account, no card.

~8 min · instant
Most start here
Step 2£29
Your full profile

Ten sections: the mechanism behind your stage, your Hidden Bargain map, next-stage markers, and your first experiment for the week.

one-time · yours to keep
Step 3£149/mo
The journey

17 coaching conversations that build memory across your work. It questions your framing and tracks what it observes — the opposite of a fresh-start chatbot.

17 conversations · or £997 once

You can stop after any step. Nothing auto-renews. Your employer never sees any of it.

The problem with AI coaching

Most AI coaches are designed to agree with you. This one isn't.

Stanford researchers established in 2026 that AI systems are systematically sycophantic — they confirm rather than question. For a leader who is already confident, that's not coaching. It's a mirror that only shows what you want to see.

Generic AI coaching

— Confirms your framing

— Starts fresh every conversation

— Responds to what you tell it

What this does

✓ Questions your framing

✓ Builds memory across 17 conversations

✓ Tracks what it has observed

Why not a human?

A human coach is exceptional — and costs several hundred an hour with a diary to match. Trials (Stellenbosch 2023; HBR 2025, 167 leaders) found AI coaching matched human coaching on goal attainment — available anytime, at a fraction of the cost.

AI coaching matches human coaching on goal attainment (Stellenbosch, 2023) · 167 global leaders showed measurable improvement with AI coaching (HBR, 2025) · Read the research →

Human coaches still outperformed on psychological wellbeing and resilience — an honest finding this product doesn't obscure.

What leaders say

I've worked with three executive coaches over 15 years. This reached something none of them did — the story I'd been telling about why certainty was necessary.

VP

VP Engineering

Series C fintech · Anglo cluster

"The cultural calibration surprised me. It didn't feel like a Western framework applied to my context. It felt like it knew my context."

DI

Director

Global NGO · East Asian cluster

"Session seven was the one where I understood what my team had been trying to tell me for two years. I hadn't been available to hear it before."

GM

General Manager

Manufacturing group · Nordic cluster

Names withheld · roles and clusters verified · ICF confidentiality standards

Where this goes

Your profile is a map.
The journey is where it changes you.

167 leaders showed measurable change with this method — HBR, 2025

Human coaches still outperformed on psychological wellbeing and resilience — an honest finding this product doesn't obscure.

You've seen the what · here's the how

Your growth edge has a name. Six sections show you what to do about it.

The mechanism
Why your stage holds
The Hidden Bargain
Why the pattern survives
Next-stage markers
What to watch for
Three arenas
Where it shows up
Dimension interplay
How your axes combine
Your first experiment
To run this week
£29one-time

Step 2 of your journey — not a subscription. Keep the full profile whether or not you continue.

Start with the free assessment →

Private · not used for AI training · no employer link

The Leadership Development Scale — developed independentlyConstructive-Developmental Theory — Kegan (Harvard)Competing-Commitments Research — Kegan & LaheyICF AI Coaching Framework 2025