Welcome to The Natural Leader

Optimal, healthy and enduring leadership performance through exceptional human connection and communication

We nurture and enable individuals, teams, systems and entire leadership populations, to be at their natural best. Our work creates optimal, healthy and enduring leaders who drive sustainable change. Our clients can link person - people - purpose - planet. Nature is our inspiration. For all of us, it is also our single stakeholder.

Leadership Development

Activate natural leadership, fulfil potential and enable sustainable change across your leadership eco-system.

Our programmes

Executive Coaching

Regenerate and nurture exceptional leadership performance with C-suite and senior level executive coaching.

Our programmes

High Performing Teams

Accelerate team performance, tap into natural resources in the individual and collective.

Our programmes

Consultancy

Gain full access to our unique expertise to meet your specific needs

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Our reason for being

Our purpose.

Leadership in service of our people and our planet.

Our vision.

Optimal, healthy and enduring leadership performance that links personal leadership through to our global responsibilities.

Our mission.

Naturally resourcing leaders, capable of driving sustainable change through exceptional human connection and communication.

Our difference

Welcome to the most contemporary approach to leadership in 2025. We enable naturally resourced, healthy leaders who are capable of optimal and enduring performance and who can evoke it across their leadership population. Those we work with experience eight differences.

  • Being a leader. They develop leadership through 'being' a leader. Not 'doing' leadership.
  • Healthy and resilient leadership. They develop 8 leadership intelligences, each mapped directly to the dimensions of health and wellbeing.
  • Optimal and enduring performance. Tapping into their natural resources, that are at their best, effortlessly.
  • Driving lasting change. They know how to drive change through being exceptional at human connection and communication.
  • Activate their leadership system. They evoke natural leadership in others, their teams, their organisation and their purpose
  • Dynamic and personal practice. Through experiential learning they grow through immediate feedback, coaching and guidance
  • In service of our planet. They consistently link their personal leadership through to planetary responsibilities.
  • A heightened perspective of leadership. They nurture leadership across their eco-system. Person. People. Purpose. Planet.

A unique blend of world-class standards and practices

Nature-based leadership 

Our principles of nature-based, sustainable leadership involve the latest thinking in leadership development.

Accredited executive coaches

We are practicing executive coaches and members of the international coaching federation (ICF). Benefit from our 20 years of executive coaching at a senior level across all sectors.

Organisational and relationship systems coaching

Our coaches are trained in Organisational and Relationship Systems Coaching (Centre for Right Relationships). We actively reveal the systems in your organisation and strengthen the many relationships within.

Leadership performance and impact

World-class communication skills from professionally trained actors. Shape your personal impact, captivate and engage your audience through the use of your body, breath, voice.

Hands-on business experience

Having held senior leadership positions across leading organisations, we always place our work firmly and effortlessly into your context.

Sustainable and regenerative leadership

Cutting edge practices in leadership that are fit to protect our planet. Our team is actively working with global best practices in sustainability and sustainable leadership.

Reputation and brand

Accelerate your purpose. We've supported some of the UK's leading organisations to measure, create, maintain and strengthen the quality and strength of their reputation. Online and offline.

Healthy leadership

We work with 8 leadership intelligences that are mapped directly to dimensions of health and wellbeing. Leaders remain healthy, able to deliver optimal performance and hold heightened levels of resilience because they are naturally resourced.

“This is about 'being' a leader. We draw from our experience and put theories into personal practice with the individual or team in front of us. With an expanded sense of who they are as a leader, they become able to draw on every aspect of their unique, natural leadership intelligence and adapt it to their audience and purpose, for greatest impact.”

Emotional Intelligence

Working actively and positively with emotions in self and others.

  • Becoming emotionally literate across the full spectrum of human emotion and appreciating their value.
  • Identifying and appreciating emotions in yourself and others with respect and value.
  • Speaking to the emotional field with confidence and proficiency.
  • Working with your emotions and those of others in a constructive way.
  • Valuing the role that positive emotion plays in leadership performance and being committed to it.
  • Vulnerability.

Relational Intelligence

Create and hold positive relationships.

  • Being able to create and maintain positive relationships across your life and work.
  • Taking responsibility for managing and maintaining those relationships with exceptional relationships skills.
  • Being competent in leaning into challenging negative relationships constructively and increasing their strength.
  • Understanding the qualities needed in relationship.
  • Contributing your unique gifts, skills, and talents to work that is personally meaningful and rewarding.

Reputation Intelligence

Ensuring the collective and perceptions that others hold, align with your aspiration.

  • Appreciating all those who have an interest in you, your team, organisation and purpose.

Physical Intelligence

Use your physical state, your body, breath and voice.

  • The ability to remain in your best physical state, at ease and free from tension in your body, regardless of circumstance.
  • Identifying when your body changes to indicate a change of state
  • Being able to use your body, breath, posture, energy and voice to have the impact you seek.
  • Appreciating how movement changes the chemicals in your body and knowing how to affect a physically positive state.

Environmental Intelligence

Linking your leadership to your environment and the planet.

  • Understanding how your social, natural, and built environments affect your health and well-being.
  • Being aware of the unstable state of the earth and the effects of your daily habits on the physical environment.
  • Demonstrating commitment to a healthy planet.

Intellectual Intelligence

Thinking freely, creatively and without inhibition or habit.

  • Ensuring that you can access and maintain an intellectual state to best serve you.
  • Ensuring it is not a reactive or habitual state but one of choice and design that is relevant to you.
  • Being empowered and at choice.
  • Understanding thinking habits that may hold you back, belief systems that may be 'historic' or state.
  • Be consistently curious about yourself and others.
  • Holding confidence and self belief in your unique self and your ability to respond positively to changes and challenges.

Communication Intelligence

Expanding your full range and register of personal communication skills to connect with others.

  • Designing personal impact and influence.
  • Adapting vocal range, tone and articulation.
  • Authoring a clear and compelling narrative.
  • Effective use of pause.
  • Using emotion to engage.
  • Managing 'state' through breath, energy and pace.
  • Highly effective listening.

Social Intelligence

Building and maintaining connections across your community.

  • Building and maintaining a series of connections across the organisation, business.
  • Being care-ful.
  • Healthy relationships, enjoying being with others, developing friendships and intimate relations, caring about others.
  • Ego-less in service of making space for others and letting others care about you.
  • Contributing to your community.
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Expect a different experience

Our leadership is as unique to each of us as our fingerprint.

You will experience theory being brought directly into personal practice. Our work is experiential, practical and interactive, so prepare to work and have fun. Learning is sustained and progressive, because professional guidance and direction is personal and immediate.

Don’t just take our word for it...

Whether it is from our work coaching leaders on a one-to-one or the result of our two year programmes developing leaders across a team, here is what those who work with our coaches say.

“Your performance and business skill is a perfect mix, it combines brilliantly. You were engaging, warm and made me feel comfortable doing things out of my comfort zone."

NHS Consultant
Leadership development

"Lyn has a magical touch, she created a really safe space and encouraged us to be brave and test new ways of communicating. We were able to have a very different impact with her help."

Pharmaceutical Leader
Leadership coaching

"You create a very relaxed environment in which I can understand what drives and limits my personal effectiveness in the business. It is a privilege to work with you."

European Regional Lead, Sustainable Engineering
Team coaching and executive coaching.

"We worked together for over a year, you created a safe and constructive environment that allowed me to reflect and challenge myself. Thanks to your work I recognise myself more clearly and objectively, understand my ways of working and can tangibly define my belief system. Brilliant."

Head of Customer Contact
One-to-one coaching

"Generally lovely to work with, thanks for working so well across internal stakeholders. I would certainly recommend you, lots of hard work and no over-promising, which I really appreciated."

Programme Lead
Communication & leadership

"We worked with you for two years and you transformed us, helping us to grow the people in our team from just turning up to work and operating unconsciously to truly understanding themselves, how they are and how they impact others."

Global Manager, CTI
High performing team

"Your insight and guidance is invaluable for us and any organisation that is serious about better business and sustainability"

Commercial Head, Sustianable Business
Impact and Influence
NHS AstraZeneca Elobau Avios Oxfam Unilever

Our client experience

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