EXECUTIVE EDUCATION. A unique programme for seasoned executives in professional services.
Realise how reputation creates a ripple of value that provides you and your organisation with a natural advantage. Discover how it accelerates ambition and learn how to optimise and influence it , online and offline.
About this programme
Senior leaders in professional services are judged not only on their technical expertise, and their ability to lead the organisation but on their personal reputation: the presence they project, the trust they build and the influence they wield with clients, peers and stakeholders – both online and offline.
This programme provides the Natural Leader with the ability to unleash this untapped advantage and to hold a reputation that creates opportunity and influence for themselves and their organisation in support of their market position. Reputation isn’t surface-level polish, it is a valuable asset owned by those with an interest in you. The leader does not own it, they can only influence it. It’s the natural outcome of authenticity, values and exceptional communication. Strong and healthy reputations are the natural outcome of human excellence – clarity in message and intention, connecting deep and communicating powerfully, through the right channel, to the right people, at the right time.
Personal Reputation.
Realise how reputation creates a ripple of value for natural advantage
Who is this programme for?
Seasoned executives who find themselves as an advocate and ambassador for their organisations and their industry, who are upholding market position, forwarding purpose, activating vision adn who are seeking to influence perceptions and beliefs to accelerate strategy.
Experiential Learning, Practical Outcomes
- Duration: 1 day, 2 days or 3 days – to suit the depth of learning you seek (9.00am-5.00pm)
- Delivery: in-person (preferred) or virtual
- Group size: 1 – 8
- Style: High engagement, dynamic, experiential. Immediate and personalised coaching and guidance. Personalised learning. Coaching infused. Scenario based.
Walk away with…
Amid the personalised coaching, experiential learning, the modelling, demonstrations, the colleague support and peer observation and the coaching the skills practice.. we won’t go on.. there are six, key outcomes for those that join this programme.
- Understand ‘what’ reputation is, ‘why’ to unlock its value and ‘how’ to use it to enhance influence and opportunity for you and your organisation.
- A personal reputation audit and stakeholder map to establish your reputation gap.
- Creation of your own clear personal reputation blueprint.
- Defined, distinctive and authentic personal brand, applying it to gain visibility, credibility and influence, including PR and social media strategies.
- Heightened practice in strengthening relational trust and connection for stakeholder impact.
- Designed and populated personal reputation strategy on and off line.
Agenda
Each programme is tailor made to align personal reputations with professional objectives and organisational aims. A typical agenda is as follows
Part One: Defining Leadership Reputation
| Session 1 | Reputation as a strategic asset. |
| Session 2 | The Reputation Audit; personal and professional value. |
| Session 3 | Defining personal reputation brand, values and narrative. |
| Session 4 | The natural leader reputation blueprint. |
Part Two: Amplifying Influence and Visibility
| Session 5 | Influencer mapping and gap analysis |
| Session 6 | Relational trust; connection and storytelling |
| Session 7 | Common ground. Visibility and influence |
| Session 8 | Personal strategy and commitment contract |
Beyond The Day? The Outcomes
Our experiential learning means leaders walk away with practical skills and techniques to implement and the desire to do so. Way beyond the programme itself the outcome reach from the leader and team to the wider organisation.
For your individual leader
Authentic presence. Greater confidence in how they show up online and offline.
Clear personal brand. A compelling narrative to communicate their unique value.
Enhanced influencing skills. Strong use of voice, body and breath to engage others.
Increased visibility. Practical PR and social media strategies.
Trusted influencer. Ability to inspire confidence and build lasting trust across senior stakeholder networks.
For your team
Role Modelling, setting tone for embodying values and presence.
Stronger trust and engagement. Credibility that fosters psychological safety and collaboration.
Clarity and alignment, team members better understand values, direction and expectations.
Increased team visibility. Strong reputation of leader raises reputation of whole team.
Culture of excellence. Teams learn to value reputation as part of performance.
For your organisation
- Reputational strength. Senior leaders become brand ambassadors who embody organisational values.
- Client confidence and loyalty. Strengthened trust with clients and stakeholders attracting talent, resource and revenue.
- Market differentiation. Authentic presence and thought leadership helps organisation stand out.
- Sustainable performance. Reputation-driven is purpose led, intentional, congruent and leads to cultural strength, resilience and long term growth.
Meet your natural leader team
Rachel Griffiths
Rachel is the creator of this programme. An experienced executive coach and leadership development professional, she brings strategic communications and marketing expertise with 15 years of specialising in personal and corporate reputation. Beyond professional services her clients have included the Guardian, Unilever, Oxfam, Costa, The NHS, Lloyds, Cooperative,
Conrad Hornby
A professionally trained actor and performance expert, Conrad previously worked in international banking in the City of London. With an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, he coaches personal impact and presence, His immediate coaching and feedback enables senior leaders to adapt their message, presence and impact. Conrad works across the banking, insurance and government sectors to connect at a deeply human level by holding their space, communicating to engage, captivate audiences and listen with deep impact.
Leading In Professional Services
We know your world.
We have been consultants, developing client relationships across professional services for 25 years. You will benefit from our unique combination of expertise.
Executive coaching, performance training, communications skills and strategy personal reputation, purpose, leadership development, organisational and relationship systems coaching. Those we work with access this blend of experience to enable them to build healthy and strong relationship integrity and know how to maintain authenticity through even the most courageous of conversations.
Performance Leadership
Our approach to leadership, naturally resources individuals to establish meaningful connection with clients and to become proficient in relationship skills, from building rapport to hosting meaningful conversations.
Our blend of experience affords performance leadership, enabling those who leader naturally to bring strong and healthy relationships.We work with a unique combination of leadership intelligence (mind) human intelligence (emotion) and performance intelligence(use of body, breath and voice). Rooted in the ability to consistently lead from your natural best, this is leadership performance through exceptional human connection and communication.
Optimal, healthy, enduring relationships
Performance leadership results in optimal, healthy enduring leadership. Congruent at all time in thinking, feeling and doing, others experience natural leaders as authentic. They develop the mindset of intellectual calm, clarity and abundance. The ability to be emotionally open, using emotion in self and others positively and proactively to support connection and relationship. They are practiced at adapting and changing their communication style and physical presence to connect deeply with clients, whether in a one-to-one, addressing a board or speaking to 1,000 individuals.
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Pricing – flexibility affords optimum learning
Our programmes are tailored to each client, with pricing that varies according to format, group size and participant needs.
It means that our clients receive a tailored design to optimise the balance between ‘breadth and depth’ of learning.
This flexibility ensures every programme is tailored for maximum value and enduring impact.
Optional value add
- To extend the impact of the programme we offer:
- Additional participants. 12 maximum
- Pre-programme relationship health, mapping and skills survey
- Follow-up 1:1 coaching or team coaching sessions
- Half day refresher workshop (60-90 days post programme)
Next steps
- A conversation to understand your specific needs and reputation objectives or challenges
- We customise scenarios to reflect your clients and practice areas.
- Partner with you to confirm format, dates and logistics
Let’s talk
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Call us on +44 (0)161 660 7466
Email us hello@thenaturalleader.com