COACHING

Four ways to set your course

Every engagement starts with a free discovery call, so we can check the fit before any course is plotted.

Chart

Diagnostic session

£350 / 90 minutes

A single, focused session to get a clear fix on where you are. We map your current pressures, strengths, blind spots, and the real shape of the opportunity.

  • 90-minute diagnostic conversation
  • Leadership chart: context, challenges, priorities
  • Clear read on commercial, strategic, operational, and personal bearings
  • Written summary with suggested next waypoints
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Waypoint

Transition sprint

By arrangement

A short, structured sprint for a specific inflection point — a new role, a new team, a restructure, or a decision that needs clarity fast.

  • Three 60-minute sessions over 6–8 weeks
  • Between-session message support
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True North

Flagship programme

By arrangement

The core Steorra engagement: a six-month 1:1 programme for data and digital leaders who want to grow into the full weight of their seat.

  • Two 60-minute sessions per month
  • Personal leadership plan
  • Between-session support by message
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Steady Bearing

Ongoing advisory

By arrangement

Long-term coaching and sounding-board support for senior leaders who have found their rhythm and want a trusted navigator to keep them on course.

  • Monthly or fortnightly sessions, tailored to pace
  • Ad-hoc support ahead of board meetings, appraisals, or difficult decisions
  • Annual planning and review cycles
  • Optional team and stakeholder alignment work
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START HERE — FREE

Every course starts with a free discovery call

Thirty minutes, no charge and no obligation. We'll talk about where you are, where you want to be, and which engagement — if any — is the right fit. You leave with a clearer read either way.

Book your discovery call

Something else in mind? Get in touch.

NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

Take the two-minute bearing check

Eight either/or questions that show where your leadership stands across direction, command, influence, and resilience — and where the work might start.

Find your bearing

THE RESULTS

What we aim to change

Coaching is an investment, so it should move something that matters. These are the outcomes we work towards with every client.

01

A seat that holds weight

Walk into the boardroom as a peer, not a supplier — confident that your contribution carries the same authority as any other function around the table.

02

Fluency in the language of the business

Translate technical work into commercial terms, so the value of data is understood in revenue, risk, and cost — not dashboards and pipelines.

03

A function that leads, not serves

Reposition data and digital from a service desk to a strategic driver, with a narrative the rest of the business buys into.

04

Steadier judgment under pressure

Make clear-headed calls in the moments that matter — a restructure, a failed delivery, a sceptical stakeholder — without losing sleep over them.

05

Difficult conversations, handled well

Address underperformance, challenge senior colleagues, and hold boundaries with confidence — the conversations most leaders avoid.

06

A leadership identity that fits

Lead in a way that is genuinely yours — sustainable in pace, true to your strengths, and built for the long term rather than borrowed from someone else.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

In their words

“Within three months I'd stopped firefighting and started leading. The sessions gave me the clarity — and the confidence — to reshape how my function was seen at board level.”

Chief Data Officer

Global financial services

“The most useful part was the honesty. No scripts, no fluff — just a structured space to work out what I actually thought, and someone to hold me to it.”

Director of Digital

FTSE 100 retailer

“I came in for help with a difficult restructure and left with a completely different understanding of my own leadership. Worth every penny, and then some.”

Head of Data & Analytics

Consumer brands group

FOR ORGANISATIONS

Investing in your data and digital leaders?

Steorra also works with organisations that want to back the people carrying their data and digital future — from sponsoring a single leader through True North to wider leadership development. If that sounds like your next move, we'd love to hear from you.

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THE METHOD

How coaching works

A structured, four-stage way of working — the same discipline you bring to running a data function, turned on your own leadership.

01

Clear the deck

We start by charting where you actually are: context, pressures, strengths, and the blind spots that come with a seat at the table. No assumptions, no templates.

02

Set the bearing

Together we define what success looks like in your terms — commercial, strategic, operational, and personal — and translate it into goals with honest checkpoints.

03

Work the drift

Between sessions you test new approaches in the real world. Each session we review what happened, sharpen the judgment behind it, and correct course.

04

Hold the course

The aim is independence: your inner compass getting steadier every month, so the bearing holds long after the engagement ends.

This is your agenda

We work on what matters to you — not a prescribed programme. You set the destination; the coaching follows.

Non-judgemental

A space with no performance to manage and nothing to prove. Say the unsayable, think out loud, and be met without judgement.

A thinking partner

Not advice from the sidelines — a partner who thinks alongside you, asks the questions others won't, and holds you to your own answers.

Aligned to the ICF ethical framework

All Steorra coaching follows the International Coaching Federation's guidelines and Code of Ethics — clear agreements on scope and confidentiality at the start, sessions that stay firmly in your agenda, and absolute discretion throughout. Nothing you say leaves the room.