What is an executive career coach?
An Executive Career Coach helps guide the decisions that shape your career. A coach acts as a trusted confidante during times of opportunity, stress or uncertainty. You may be preparing for a change in role, or managing a difficult situation at work, or simply looking to improve your own personal development. A career coach will help stress test decisions and guide you towards the right solutions for you and your career.
How can an executive career coach help you?
Friends and family provide useful sounding boards for career-related questions, but they are no substitute for the professional guidance offered by an Executive Career Coach.
Whether you are looking to solve a problem at work or seeking a new challenge, a coach will help you work through potential options and formulate the right solution for you personally and professionally.
Why choose agp for executive career coaching?
Here at agp, we have a proven track record of guiding executives towards achieving their career aspirations and maximising their professional potential.
Our team of experienced coaches understands the complexities of the executive landscape and offers personalised coaching programmes tailored to each individual’s unique goals and challenges. We provide strategic guidance on career planning, advancement opportunities and effective leadership strategies to help executives navigate their career paths with confidence and clarity.
With our comprehensive approach, we empower you as an executive to identify your strengths, overcome obstacles and capitalise on opportunities for growth and development. Additionally, our commitment to ongoing support means that you stay on track towards achieving your career objectives.
Benefits of Executive Career Coaching include:
- A safe space to share your thoughts and work through career challenges, opportunities and aspirations.
- Support with planning a career path and how to unlock opportunities for career progression
- Help you develop positive thoughts and behaviours that will improve your performance at work
- Opportunity to work through personal and professional tensions and work towards an ideal work-life balance
- Help develop skills and behaviours that will make you standout in the workplace and support your professional development
Expert CV reviews and interview coaching
Our experienced coaches will review and help you improve your CV, ensuring it stands out to potential employers. They’ll also conduct mock interviews, giving you the chance to practice and refine your responses in a realistic setting.
Their approach is flexible and adaptable, adjusting to your individual requirements, whether you need help with specific job applications, interview techniques, or overall career guidance.
What does executive career coaching involve with AGP?
By combining unrivalled knowledge of the jobs market with sophisticated behavioural and psychological theories, AGP helps executives plot a successful path through their careers.
Self-learning is at the heart of our approach. We create bespoke development plans that identify your individual strengths, highlight areas for improvement and set personal and professional goals.
By working in partnership, over time, you will achieve the self-awareness and insight that empowers you to make better decisions and maximise your career opportunities.
Our unrivalled knowledge of business and client culture will help you achieve your goals faster and maximise your potential.
Our programmes are flexible, however we suggest a minimum of four sessions is required to put executives firmly on the path to sustained self-improvement. We also offer a complimentary discovery session prior to any career coaching, to explore how you and your coach might work together.
A session normally lasts for two hours. We think of the process in terms of a two-way conversation during which our coach will ask powerful questions and challenge current thinking, feelings or behaviours. Our carefully curated questions help you self-identify your own solutions, so you instinctively know the actions you need to take to improve your performance.
Our coaches understand the urgency for some coaching needs and will make themselves available to ensure clients achieve their desired goals, in their given timeframes.
Who is executive career coaching suitable for?
Executive career coaching is suitable for professionals holding executive-level positions or aspiring to reach such roles. It primarily caters to individuals who are looking for more guidance and support to navigate the nuances in their careers, whether they are looking to advance within their current organisation or transition to a new role or industry.
Executives facing challenges, such as career stagnation, leadership development, strategic career planning, or work-life balance can also benefit significantly from our executive career coaching. We’re here to guide you towards the best solutions for your career.
Additionally, those seeking to enhance their leadership skills, executive presence, communication abilities and decision-making capabilities can leverage our coaching to accelerate their professional growth.
Your expert executive career coaches
Introducing Tony and Sharon, your expert executive career coaches.
Tony, a graduate of Henley Business School, founded AGP in 2003 and has since worked with a wide network of senior executives across the UK and Europe. As our Master Executive Coach, Tony is recognised by Influence Digest as one of the top 20 executive coaches in London.
Sharon, with over 18 years of experience working with C-suite executives, is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She specialises in coaching and leadership development, supporting AGP’s diverse client base.
Together, Tony and Sharon help clients identify their strengths and provide the tools needed to thrive and evolve in today’s challenging and competitive business landscape.
