Leadership and career coaching
For the part of the job nobody trained you for
One-to-one coaching for people who became managers by being good at something else.
Programmes
How we can work together
What each programme involves, how long it runs, and who it suits.
One to one, fortnightly, online or in person
One-to-one coaching
Guide: four figures for the programme
12 weeks · six 75-minute sessions
Twelve weeks, six sessions, and a defined end.
- A 45-minute conversation first, free and with no obligation
- Six 75-minute sessions over twelve weeks
- A written summary and one action after every session
- Email between sessions, answered within a working day
- An honest checkpoint at session four, with the option to stop
For — Senior individual contributors and first-time managers in the first two years.
Read moreGroup of six, weekly, online
Group programme
Guide: high three figures per person
8 weeks · eight 90-minute sessions
Six people, eight weeks, and the most useful realisation in management.
- Eight 90-minute group sessions
- One 45-minute individual session mid-programme
- A private channel for the cohort that stays open afterwards
- All materials and session notes
For — People who would rather not be coached alone, and teams sending one person.
Read moreOn site or online
In-house work
Guide: quoted per engagement
Half or full day, plus follow-up
Workshops and ongoing support for a whole management layer.
- A scoping conversation with the sponsor
- A half or full-day workshop, built for your actual situation
- Individual follow-up sessions for each participant
- A written summary of themes, anonymised
For — Companies with eight to twenty people in or near a management layer.
Read moreOne to one, online
A single session
Guide: mid three figures
90 minutes
Ninety minutes on one decision, with no programme attached.
- A short brief from you beforehand, so the session starts in the right place
- Ninety minutes on the one thing
- A written summary within a working day
- No follow-up and no upsell unless you ask
For — Anyone with one specific decision and a deadline.
Read moreHow I work
What you can count on
It has an end
Twelve weeks, with a defined outcome agreed at the start. A coaching relationship that runs forever has usually stopped being coaching.
Something to do
Every session ends with one specific action before the next one. Insight without a next step is entertainment.
An honest checkpoint
At session four we assess whether this is working. If it is not, we stop and you pay only for what has happened.
Not mentoring
I will not tell you what I would have done, because what I would have done is not available to you.
Process
The method
How the work is structured, from the first conversation onwards.
- 01
The conversation
Forty-five minutes, free. What is going on, what you want to be different, and whether I am the right person. Sometimes I am not, and I will say so.
- 02
The contract
We write down what "better" looks like in twelve weeks, specifically enough that we will both know whether it happened.
- 03
The work
Six sessions, fortnightly. Each one ends with a summary and one action, and each one starts with what happened to the last action.
- 04
The checkpoint
Session four is a deliberate stop. Is this working? If not, we end it there and you pay only for what has happened.
- 05
The close
A final session that looks back at what we wrote down at the start, and a written summary you keep. No automatic renewal.
Testimonials
What has changed for people
By the numbers
- 14 yrs
- Building and running teams
- 180+
- People coached
- 12 wks
- A programme, start to finish
- 45 min
- First conversation, free
About
About Ostara
Fourteen years building and running teams, then a coaching practice for people who were promoted for being good at something else.
More about meStart with a conversation
Forty-five minutes, free, and no obligation. If I am not the right person, I will say so and suggest two people who might be.
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