Coaching for leaders in bigger, harder roles
Bring your best to the hardest work.
I help leaders who've been asked to innovate make it happen, without burning out.
Free, 30 minutes. You tell me what’s hard right now; I’ll be straight about where I can help, and where I can’t.
Does this sound like you?
"My plan depends on teams who’ve got their own priorities."
"I've been asked to use AI to drive growth, like a startup. Nobody has said what that means here."
"I'm accountable for the most complex thing I’ve ever led, and people are already waiting for results."
"I'm doing two jobs, and struggling with them both."
"I've got more data and more opinions than ever, and less idea what to do."
"I’m flat out all week and still feel behind."
If one of those sounded familiar, the problem probably isn't you.
The way you've worked until now got you here. It was built for a particular job, a particular team and a particular pace. Then the job changed: a new domain, a bigger team, a mandate nobody has run before, a programme that cuts across the whole business.
The instincts that used to be reliable start giving mixed results, and you're expected to rewrite the playbook while running the role at full speed.
That's the work we do together: building the playbook for the job you have now, while you're doing it.
Your role changed faster than your playbook
Your role changed faster than your playbook
How I help
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The work
What to focus on, what to let go of, and how to show real progress early. Decisions you can make on incomplete information, and explain to others.
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The people
Real commitment from people who don't report to you. Leading your team through change that's happening anyway, with trust and performance intact.
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Yourself
How you think, decide and hold up under pressure. Noticing your reactions before they run the meeting. Not control, which roles like these rarely give anyone, but agency: knowing that how you show up changes the outcome.
Stop being run by the role.
Start leading it.
Be clear on what matters, doing your best work, without losing yourself. We get there by working on all three layers of the role at once. Most help focuses on one or two. The hardest roles need all three.
About Prashant
For more than twenty five years I've worked inside technology businesses, from early-stage startups to large, established companies. I've moved between marketing, product, project management, software and operations, hands-on and leading teams. Almost every move meant taking on work I hadn't done before, and leading people who knew it better than I did.
I've worked on both sides of the innovation problem: building new things in startups, and getting new ideas through the constraints of larger organisations. The hard part of a bigger role is rarely the technical content. It's working out what to carry forward, what to let go of, and how to lead when the old approach stops working.
I also trained and worked as a mindfulness and mindset coach. It's why I pay as much attention to how you're thinking under pressure as to what you're doing.
I coach because I remember doing these roles without anyone to think them through with. And because the hardest problems get solved by people working at their best, not people running on empty.
What you'll get from me
Questions that cut through. The answers you reach yourself are the ones you'll act on.
My experience, when it's useful. When I've been somewhere you're heading, I'll share what I saw, as input rather than instructions, and I'll ask before I do.
The how, on request. If you need a template, a framework or how I'd approach something, I can send it after the session as a short note or voice memo. That keeps our time for what's actually in the way, which is rarely the how.
Patterns you might miss. If I notice one, I'll say so.
You choose the mode. Some days you'll want a thinking partner, some days a straight answer. Tell me which, and I'll tell you if I think you need the other.
Your decisions. They stay yours. The goal is a new playbook you own, not one you borrow from me.
Book a discovery call
Is this for you?
It probably is if…
You've taken on something bigger and harder than you've run before, and you want to do it well.
You'd rather be challenged than agreed with.
You're willing to try something new before you know exactly how.
Not sure? That’s what the call is for.
How it works
A free 30-minute call. If I can help, I’ll show you how. If I can’t, I’ll say so.
Agree the focus. If it’s a fit, we agree what you want to be different in three months, and how we’ll know.
Regular sessions, usually fortnightly. On whatever’s live at the time, and we adjust rhythm as we go.