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//ABOUT MARGOT

I have sat where you are sitting.

Fourteen years ago I ran a division of four hundred people and had nobody to think out loud with. That is the gap I work in now.

Margot Ives, executive coach, seated in a sunlit room

// THE STORY

From Running the Division Myself to Sitting Beside the People Who Run Them Now

  1. 2006

    The operating years

    Head of operations, then a 400-person division. Budgets signed, redundancies made, sleep lost.

  2. 2011

    The first clients

    Three former colleagues asked for an hour a fortnight. It turned out to be the whole job.

  3. 2018

    The method

    The questions that kept working became The Decision Ladder — four steps, written down.

  4. Today

    240 leaders later

    Twenty clients a year. Two days a week in the room. No associates, no franchise.

Margot Ives writing in a notebook at her desk

// WHAT I BELIEVE

Three rules
I won’t break

Margot Ives walking along a sunlit corridor
  • Your call, not mine

    I do not tell you what to do. I make sure you have looked at the thing from every side before you do it.

  • Write it down

    A decision you cannot put in four sentences is a decision you have not made yet.

  • Nothing leaves the room

    No notes shared, no board updates, no references to your name. That is the whole value of the hour.

240+
leaders coached since 2011
20
clients a year, no more
89%
stay for a second term
14
years in the coaching chair

// WHAT I BELIEVE

The human behind the method

She made the hard conversation ordinary.

“Margot gave me the words for a conversation I had been rescheduling for a year — and a plan for the week after it.”
Mei Tanaka Mei Tanaka Finance Director, Bridgeworks
Margot Ives standing by a window in her studio

//work WITH ME

Still deciding? Let’s decide together.

One free call, thirty minutes. You leave with a clear next step either way.

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