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//EXECUTIVE COACH FOR SENIOR LEADERS

Decisions get easier with a second brain.

Coaching for directors and founders who carry the calls nobody else in the building can help them make.

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// THE PHILOSOPHY

The higher you go, the fewer people tell you the truth.

I work with directors and founders on the decisions that do not fit in a team meeting: the restructure, the hire, the number you have not said out loud yet.

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The Ninety

The Retainer

Strategy Day

Margot Ives working through a plan with a client at a meeting table
Three senior leaders talking around a table
Two colleagues in conversation by an office window

90 days of 1:1 — the remit, theteam and the decisions you havebeen carrying on your own.

A standing hour everyfortnight, for leaders whowant the line kept open.

One day, one decision:the restructure, the hire,the offer on the table.

// THE RESULTS

Coaching that fits a real week

Decide faster

A second read on the call you have been circling for three weeks.

Say the hard thing

Language for the conversation you keep moving down the calendar.

Hold a bigger remit

A plan for the first ninety days of the job you just took on.

Leave at a sane hour

Boundaries built into how the team runs — not bolted on after a bad quarter.

// MEET YOUR COACH

Hi, 
I’m Margot.

Twenty years in operating roles, the last fourteen in the chair beside them. I ran a 400-person division before I started coaching, so I have signed the budget, made the redundancies and lost the sleep. I take on twenty clients a year.

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Margot Ives in conversation with a client across a meeting-room table

240+

leaders coached since 2011

20

clients a year, no more

89%

stay for a second term

// CLIENT WORDS

Real leaders. Real decisions.

I stopped taking every decision home.

"Margot asks the question I have been avoiding, then waits. Three weeks later the restructure was done."

Devan Rao Operations Director, Northvale Group
Devan Rao, Operations Director at Northvale Group
The first honest hour of my month.

"I run a division of four hundred people and I had nobody to think out loud with. This is the hour where I get to be unsure about something."

Helen Ashby Managing Director, Kestrel & Co
Helen Ashby, Managing Director at Kestrel and Co
I took the bigger job and kept my evenings.

"We mapped the first ninety days before I accepted the role. I have not worked a Sunday since March, and the team is steadier than I am."

Ngozi Bell Chief People Officer, Arden Health
Ngozi Bell, Chief People Officer at Arden Health
She made the hard conversation ordinary.

"I had been rescheduling it for a year. We wrote it out together and I had it on the Tuesday."

Mei Tanaka Finance Director, Bridgeworks
Mei Tanaka, Finance Director at Bridgeworks
Margot Ives writing in a notebook at her desk

// Free guide

Before you decide: The Decision Brief

  • A one-page way to frame any big call
  • Five questions to ask before a restructure
  • A diary that survives a bad quarter