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Data Leadership Coaching

Become the Data leader your organisation needs.

Practical, confidential support for Heads of Data, Data Directors and leaders stepping into broader responsibility.

Tom combines more than 20 years of Data leadership with a professional qualification in coaching and mentoring. That means the conversation can move naturally between how you lead and the real Data ambitions, decisions and challenges you are responsible for.

Professionally qualified in coaching and mentoring through CMI, grounded in real Data leadership experience.

Coaching that understands the job

This is not generic leadership coaching with the Data context left at the door.

The programme is coaching-led, helping you develop your own judgement, confidence and leadership approach. Where useful and agreed, Tom can also share relevant experience, challenge your thinking or act as a sounding board on Data strategy, AI, teams, governance, platforms and delivery.

What we can work on

You as a leader

  • Executive influence and communication
  • Leadership confidence
  • Difficult conversations
  • Team leadership and performance
  • Moving from technical expert to organisational leader

The decisions you face

  • Prioritising competing demands
  • Building or reshaping a Data team
  • Challenging a Data or AI strategy
  • Managing stakeholders and suppliers
  • Making investment and operating-model decisions

The ambition you need to move forward

  • Turning a Data ambition into practical action
  • Selecting a credible first AI use case
  • Communicating value to executives
  • Building trust in Data and reporting
  • Creating an achievable 90-day direction

A focused 12-week programme

  1. 1Starting diagnostic
  2. 2Six confidential one-to-one sessions
  3. 3Practical actions between sessions
  4. 4Work on one significant real-world leadership challenge
  5. 5Final progress review
  6. 6Personal 90-day leadership plan

The balance between coaching, mentoring and practical Data leadership challenge is agreed with the participant and adapted as the programme develops.

The programme helps you think, decide and lead more effectively. It does not outsource your role, provide an embedded delivery resource or sell access by the day.

Confidential by design

Coaching conversations remain confidential. Where an employer sponsors the programme, the participant, sponsor and coach agree the intended outcomes at the beginning.

Opening or closing sponsor conversations focus on objectives and progress, not the confidential content of individual sessions.

A defined programme, agreed upfront

12-week Data Leadership Coaching Programme

From £3,500

  • Starting diagnostic
  • Six confidential coaching sessions
  • Agreed actions between sessions
  • Final progress review
  • Personal 90-day leadership plan

Employer-sponsored or team programmes may require a different scope. Any change is agreed before work begins.

Starting fees provide a realistic guide. Final scope and fees are agreed before work begins, with VAT added where applicable.

Discuss the coaching programme