Work with Nicki Privately
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Create the leader, life and legacy you know is possible.
A twelve-month private coaching experience
For leaders, business owners and professionals who carry significant responsibility
and are ready to create lasting change from the inside out.
This work is about far more than solving the issue that has brought you here. It is about understanding yourself more deeply, strengthening the way you lead and becoming more intentional about the life, relationships and future you are creating.
Together, we will deep dive into how you think…
Apply for a Discovery ConversationThe people who come to me are rarely looking for coaching
They usually come because something in their leadership, work or life has reached a point where it can no longer be ignored.
You might be dealing with a relationship at work that is taking up far more of your thinking and energy than you want it to. You may have stepped into a bigger role and discovered that being good at your job has not prepared you for everything leadership now asks of you. Perhaps you are avoiding a conversation, questioning decisions you would once have made confidently, or wondering why the people around you are still not responding in the way you expected.
For others, there is no single obvious moment or problem. You simply know that the way you have been thinking, working and leading is no longer creating the results or the experience you want.
You know you are capable. You care deeply about what you do and the impact you have. You have already read the books, completed the training and tried to work out what needs to change.
Yet the same situations keep repeating, sometimes with different people and in different rooms.
This is usually where our work begins.
We start with what is happening now because that is what feels true. Then we begin to understand what is sitting underneath it all: the beliefs, the stories, the meaning you are making of what is happening, the emotional patterns and the past experiences influencing how you interpret situations, how you respond and what you believe is possible.
The presenting problem is simply the doorway.
The deeper work we will do together will help you understand what is creating it.
Everything starts with Self
I believe everything starts with Self.
That does not mean everything happening around you is yours to carry. It means that the greatest opportunity for change begins with understanding your own inner world.
The way you think shapes the way you lead. The way you lead shapes the decisions you make. Those decisions influence your relationships, your organisation, your business, your family and the future you create.
Much of this happens outside conscious awareness.
We respond to situations through beliefs that may have been formed years before the current problem existed. We make meaning based on previous experiences. We protect ourselves in ways that once served us. We develop habits, expectations and emotional reactions that gradually become so familiar that they feel like our only choice.
You may believe your team are not up to the challenge, or that they do not value the direction, that your manager does not have your back, that you don't like conflict, or that the pressure comes with the role and there is nothing you can do about it.
Those beliefs feel real because you have gathered lots of evidence for them.
My role is not to dismiss your experience or tell you that your thinking is wrong. My role is to help you see what may have become invisible from inside the situation.
Sometimes the first shift is very small.
A question, or a different perspective. A question around something you had felt so certain about.
What else might be true? What might you be making this mean?
And what becomes possible when you see your role in the pattern, with awareness rather than blame?
This is where possibility begins.
How change happens...
The work begins with the challenge you bring into the room, then moves beneath the surface to create perspective, possibility, awareness and choice, so you can begin Becoming the Self who leads and lives differently.
The Presenting Problem
We begin with what is happening now. The difficult relationship. The promotion. The pressure. The decision. The loss of confidence. The team that is not responding. The business that is not progressing in the way you expected.
The situation that brings you here is where we start.
The Perspective
You will often arrive with a strong belief about what is happening and why. Together, we create enough movement in that certainty for curiosity that something else might be part of this too, to surface.
We allow another perspective to enter.
Potentiality
Once there is space around the original story, you begin to see choices that were previously unavailable.
This is where hope returns. You begin to wonder whether your experience could be different and whether you have more influence than you realised.
Awareness
This is often the light-bulb moment. The point where you suddenly recognise the pattern you have been living inside.
You may see how an old belief has been influencing your leadership, how a past experience is shaping a current relationship, or how the meaning you have made of a situation has been affecting your choices.
Awareness changes the relationship you have with the pattern because you can no longer completely disappear inside it.
Choice
With awareness comes the ability to choose. You can begin responding where you once reacted. You can have the conversation you have delayed. You can set a boundary, make a decision, communicate differently or stop repeating a role that has kept you over-functioning for everyone around you.
This is where insight becomes lived change.
Becoming
Over time, the work becomes less about trying to behave differently and more about becoming the person who naturally leads, decides and lives differently. From certainty.
You become more grounded in yourself. You trust your own judgement. Because you have become the person who does the things you say you are going to do.
You lead with greater intention and bring more of who you are into your work, your relationships and the future you are creating. And you are starting to get very excited about what’s possible for you now.
Who this work is for
This is for leaders, business owners and professionals whose decisions affect other people.
You may work in a complex environment, such as healthcare, education, human resources, professional services, business, or another environment where the quality of your leadership matters way beyond your own role.
You may have recently been promoted or taken on greater responsibility. You may already hold a senior title and know that your confidence, presence or relationships have not yet caught up with the role you now occupy.
You may be technically excellent and trusted to deliver, while finding the people side of leadership much more demanding than you imagined.
You may care so deeply about doing a good job that you carry the responsibility long after your working day has ended.
You may have reached a point where success alone is no longer enough. You want to experience your life differently, enjoy the opportunities you have created and become more present in the relationships that matter to you.
This work is also for the person who knows there is something more available.
Another level of leadership. A different way of experiencing the role. A greater impact. A future that feels as good on the inside as it may already look from the outside.
You do not need to arrive with the full answer. You simply need to be willing to begin with yourself.
About Nicki
Why work with me?
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I have spent 22 years working inside leadership, management and organisational development, including complex public-sector, multi disciplinary systems where the decisions made by leaders have a direct impact on staff, patients, families and communities.
Before that, I worked internationally in five-star hospitality, experiencing different cultures, standards, systems and ways of leading people. Moving through those different environments taught me early that behaviour never exists in isolation. The rooms we enter, the systems we belong to and the expectations surrounding us all shape who we become and how we show up.
Over the years, I have watched capable and deeply committed people step into positions of greater responsibility without receiving the support or development needed to hold those roles well. To create the changes that would make the differences needed.
I have seen the cost when leadership begins to unravel.
It affects the individual, and it travels into the team, into the organisation and then into the homes of all.
This is why I care so deeply about this work.
My approach brings together psychodynamic coaching, systemic coaching, NLP, paradigms, emotional mastery, identity work, Insights Discovery and years of lived organisational experience.
The qualifications show you the range and depth I bring into the room. But what matters most is what this means for you.
I listen to what is being said and for what is unsaid. I notice the moment the real story begins to surface. I ask the deeper question and give you the time to find the answer, rather than rushing towards a conclusion because the hour is almost finished.
There may be times when we spend a whole conversation on one question because that is where the work needs to go.
This is a close and highly personalised way of working. I come to understand how you think, what matters to you, the patterns influencing your decisions and the future you are working towards.
You have someone in your corner who understands the whole picture. I have got your back.
Our work together
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Over twelve months, we create the space that is often missing when you carry significant responsibility.
Space to think without needing to have the answer immediately.
Space to understand what is influencing you beneath the surface.
Space to challenge the beliefs and patterns that have shaped your leadership, relationships and decision making.
Space to remember what you are working towards and who you want to become as you create it. How you want to experience what you are creating and how this extends into the wider areas of your life.
Some conversations may focus on leadership, team dynamics or a difficult relationship at work. Others may take us into identity, confidence, visibility, money, family, purpose or the way you experience time and responsibility.
Your life does not divide itself neatly into separate boxes, so neither does our work.
How you lead affects how you feel when you return home. How you see yourself influences what you ask for, what you tolerate and which opportunities you allow yourself to pursue. The environments you belong to shape what feels normal and what you believe is possible.
We work with the full picture because everything is connected.
There is no fixed script for the year.
There is a clear philosophy and a depth of support, while the exact work is shaped around you, your goals and what emerges as your awareness develops.
How we work
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Monthly private coaching
We meet privately once each month. These conversations create protected space for us to explore what is happening, understand the deeper pattern and decide what needs your attention next.
You are busy, and you need time between conversations to live the work, apply what you are learning and notice what changes in your leadership and life. The coaching does not exist only within the session. The space between our conversations is where much of the integration takes place.
Direct support between sessions
You will have direct WhatsApp access to me throughout the rest of the month.
This means you can reach out when something happens in real time: before an important conversation, after a difficult meeting, when you notice an old pattern returning, or when a new opportunity asks you to make a significant decision.
This support is there to help you pause, reflect and respond intentionally rather than waiting until the next scheduled conversation.
A personalised development pathway
Your development will continue between our private sessions through reading, reflection and carefully chosen resources.
You may already have completed many programmes and read many books. The difference here is that the material will be connected directly to the work you are doing and the person you are becoming.
You will have access to relevant learning through Kajabi, alongside personalised recommendations and exercises that support your development.
Brilliant Mind Frequency
You will receive access to Brilliant Mind Frequency, our live daily community designed to help you begin your day with intention.
The sessions create regular space for celebrations, wins, reflection, activation and setting the frequency and tone for the day ahead.
This becomes part of the environment supporting your growth. You are not relying on one coaching conversation each month and then returning to exactly the same patterns and pressures without support.
You have a place to reconnect with your intentions, your goals and the way you want to show up.
Access to my signature work
You will also receive access to the learning and resources within my signature programme, currently expressed through Emotional Mastery: From Reaction to Response.
This work helps you understand the unconscious emotional patterns shaping how you react under pressure and develop the awareness that allows you to respond through conscious choice.
Your private coaching will help you apply those principles directly to your own leadership, relationships and life.
Live participation can be discussed depending on the structure of your partnership and the programme timetable.
The Immersive Experiences
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There are times when the next shift needs more than another conversation on Zoom.
It needs a different environment.
Our usual environments constantly reinforce familiar roles, behaviours and ways of thinking. The same rooms, responsibilities, conversations and demands can make it difficult to access a genuinely different perspective.
A private immersive experience, these experiences take you out of that environment and gives us concentrated time to work together in an environment prescribed to create the expansion you require.
The location is part of the intervention.
The Highlands may create grounding, perspective and connection to something much larger than the immediate problem.
London may create energy, momentum and a renewed sense of possibility.
The South of France may expand your relationship with wealth, beauty, culture and what you allow yourself to experience.
We choose the environment according to what your system needs, rather than selecting a destination simply because it looks appealing.
An immersive experiences may happen near the beginning of the year, once we understand the work more deeply, or later as a way of integrating everything you have created.
There are two ways to work with me privately, depending on whether an immersive experience is included from the outset.
What may change over the year...
The transformation will be personal to you, because your starting point and the future you want are uniquely yours.
There are, however, changes I see repeatedly.
The conversation you have been avoiding finally happens. You stop spending days preparing for what somebody might say and begin trusting your ability to respond in the moment.
You become more aware of the meaning you are making of situations and can separate what is happening now from what an older part of you fears it means.
You lead your team with greater clarity. You stop taking responsibility for everything and begin allowing other people to carry what belongs to them.
You become more comfortable with authority, visibility and being seen at the level you have worked hard to reach.
You make decisions with greater confidence because you understand your own thinking rather than checking it against everyone else.
You stop taking the worst part of the working day home. You will sleep through the night once more.
You reconnect with the reasons you wanted the role, the business or the opportunity in the first place.
You begin doing the things you have said you wanted to do, rather than remaining caught in the gap between knowing and doing.
You become more intentional about the environments you enter, the relationships you create and the standards you hold.
Most importantly, you experience yourself differently.
The people around you experience that change too. Your team feels it in the way you lead. Your family feels it in the way you arrive home. Your business or organisation feels it in the decisions you make.
The ripple effect reaches far beyond the original challenge that brought you into the conversation.
Client stories
Two client journeys
In their own words
"I am so grateful for this work. It has changed how I parent, and lead my life."
Client K — Professional
"I no longer wake up expecting everything to go wrong."
Client M — Business Owner
Ways to work with me
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Work With Nicki Privately
£15,000
Payment options can be discussed during your Discovery Conversation.
A twelve-month private coaching experience designed around you, your leadership and the future you want to create.
This includes:
- Monthly private coaching
- Direct WhatsApp support between sessions
- A personalised reading and development pathway
- Kajabi learning resources
- Access to Brilliant Mind Frequency
- Access to relevant resources from my signature programme
- Reflection and integration between sessions
- Priority access to book a private immersive experience separately
Work With Nicki Privately | Experiences
£25,000
Payment options can be discussed during your Discovery Conversation.
This includes the full twelve-month private coaching experience outlined above, alongside one bespoke private immersive experience.
The immersive experience includes two days and two nights in an environment chosen around the transformation you are creating and what your system needs next.
The exact location, timing and experience will be agreed as our work develops.
Standalone private experiences
Private experiences may also be available for people who are not currently working with me over twelve months.
These are offered by application because the environment, focus and structure are shaped around the individual rather than sold as a standard one size fits all.
A standalone experience may be right for someone at a significant decision point who needs concentrated space, challenge and perspective, or for someone already part of Brilliant Minds Academy who wants to deepen a particular area of their work.
Details and investment are created around the location, duration and level of support required.
Why I work with a small number
of private clients
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This level of work asks for real proximity.
Over the year, we will come to understand how you think, the patterns you return to, what matters to you and the future you are creating.
I remember the conversation from three months ago when a familiar pattern appears in a different situation. I notice the language you use when you are stepping towards something and the language you use when an older belief is trying to pull you back.
That depth of attention cannot be delivered at scale.
For that reason, I work privately with a small number of people each year. I am opening two spaces beginning in mid-September.
The Discovery Conservation
Every private coaching relationship begins with a Discovery Conversation.
This gives us the opportunity to explore what is happening now, what you want to create and whether working together feels right for both of us.
This is a real conversation.
We will begin with the challenge that has brought you here and explore some of the thinking, beliefs or patterns surrounding it. You may begin to see the situation from a perspective you have not considered before.
The purpose is to give you a genuine experience of how I work, while giving both of us the space to decide whether a twelve-month coaching relationship is the right next step.
If we decide to move forward, I will explain the practical details, answer your questions and agree the best starting point for our work.
Client Story
What happens next?
Complete the short application below.
Your answers will help me understand what has brought you here, what you are hoping to change and which way of working with me you are considering.
I will personally review your application.
If I believe the conversation could be valuable for both of us, you will receive an invitation to choose a suitable time for your Discovery Conversation.
Because this is a close twelve-month relationship, the fit matters.
The conversation gives us both the opportunity to explore that.
One conversation has the power to
change the direction of everything.
The question is whether you're ready to have it.
You have probably spent a long time thinking about what needs to change. The next step is a conversation.
Bring the challenge that feels most present. Bring the questions you have been carrying. Bring the part of you that still believes something different is possible.
We will begin there.
Apply for a Discovery Conversation