Cole believes that lasting improvement grows from insight, reflection, and action. His coaching approach:

• Builds trusting relationships based on active listening and powerful questioning.

• Empowers individuals to set clear goals, test new strategies, and measure impact.

• Balances challenge with support to foster resilience, confidence, and continuous development.

• Seeks to find and utilise the capacity and solutions that often exist within ourselves or our personal and professional relationships.

One-to-one executive coaching for leaders in schools, trusts, and businesses.

• Developing coaching culture through group coaching sessions - enhancing collaborative leadership and peer learning.

• Mentoring for effective self-evaluation of schools, workplaces, and voluntary organisations.

• Targeted coaching interventions for SEND / Equalities coordinators and inclusion teams.

• Ofsted standards review of education settings (with particular expertise in review of SEND provision).

Through personalised, one-to-one support, Cole helps you:

·        Clarify your goals - even the ones you’ve buried or forgotten.

·        Build a road map to move from where you are to where you want to be.

·        Stay accountable and motivated, even when life gets messy.

·        Shift your mindset to overcome self-doubt, fear, or indecision.

Whether you’re climbing out of a tough season or simply ready to level up, coaching offers a space to be heard, challenged, and supported. It’s not therapy. It’s a partnership - with you at the centre!

• Coached teachers in adaptive practices in understanding and meeting the emotional, developmental, and educational needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

• Supported governors and senior teams in a multi-academy trust through bespoke coaching programmes.

• Delivered coaching clinics as part of a secondment with Kent County Council Inclusion and Achievement Team.

• Coached international school leaders to adapt curriculum and pedagogy across diverse cultural contexts.

• Helping people with neurodiverse thinking to become more self-aware and seek specialist support (and consider possible diagnosis pathways).

• Helping specific teachers in journaling to improve self-esteem, become more effective in identifying strengths and goals for personal and professional development.

• Pandemic online safe space for people to talk about their mental health and share practical strategies for improving day-to-day challenges in life and work.

• Coaching individuals to advocate for themselves better in the workplace or in social settings (particularly concerning equity and equality).

• Mindful approaches to meditation in a Church setting (prayer for those of particular faith backgrounds).