Secure your place by 15 April and upgrade your kick-start 1:1 to a 90-minute deep dive. worth £395.

May 2026 · Limited to 15

A 12-week roundtable for senior leaders and founders

Elevate:
The Roundtable

Stop leading from survival mode.

It is time to become the leader you already know you can be.

Are you ready to rewire the patterns that have been running your leadership?
Do you want to step into the version of yourself that makes decisions with clarity and leads with authority?
Would you like to feel like you again?

Yes. Tell Me More

This is for you if

71%

of CEOs experience burnout at least occasionally

60%

of founders say burnout directly impairs their ability to lead and make decisions

50%

of CEOs feel lonely in their role and say it hinders their performance

Your brain rarely switches off.

Work follows you into the evening.

You replay conversations with your team, the ones you should have handled differently.

You wake up thinking about tomorrow's decisions.

You're high-functioning. You're holding everything together.

You finish the day exhausted but wired.

You appear calm in every room you walk into while your nervous system is quietly on fire.

"If I don't do it myself, it won't get done right."

"Being available is what makes me a good leader."

"Asking for help means I'm not coping."

"I've achieved everything I set out to and I still feel like a fraud."

"I can't slow down. If I stop, everything falls apart."

"Everyone else seems to be handling this fine. Why can't I?"

You are not failing. You have not hit your limit.
You have just outgrown the thinking patterns that got you here.

But you want this

Imagine If Life Could Look Like This in 12 Weeks.

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You stop making decisions from fear and start making them from clarity, even under pressure.

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You stop pretending that you are in control and actually start feeling it. in the room, in the meeting, in yourself.

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You finally understand why you keep going round in the same cycles and you change it, not just manage it.

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You protect your capacity without sacrificing your ambition.

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Your brain switches off when work ends. The evenings and weekends become yours again.

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You feel like yourself again.

In three months you will walk away able to

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Make bold decisions with clarity and stay steady under pressure

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Lead your team with authority without needing to control everything

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Have the difficult conversations you have been avoiding

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Delegate with genuine trust and build a team that takes ownership

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Sustain your performance without burning out to prove your worth

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Navigate your next level with the internal foundations already in place

I want this. show me how

Client Results

What This Looks Like in Practice

Sarah. Senior Director, Global Tech Company

Sarah went from second-guessing every major decision to leading her team of 40 with clarity.
She started having the difficult conversations she had been avoiding and took her first two-week holiday in years.

Before

Highly capable and extremely successful.
But privately she replayed every difficult conversation, avoided making bold decisions, and constantly felt anxious.

The Result

We identified the identity pattern that was driving her high performance. We worked on the belief that slowing down meant falling behind. Then built systems that improved how she showed up to her team.

"I had, had coaching before and it helped but nothing ever addressed what was actually the problem. I would make the changes but then go straight back to doing the same things. Nicola made me realise that my work ethic came from an insecurity that if I stopped working hard I wouldn't get the validation I needed. It was like a light bulb moment and that's where everything started to shift. I can't thank her enough, not only do I now feel good enough at work, I also feel like a good enough mum to my children"

Sarah. Senior Director

The Problem Is Not Your Strategy.
It Never Was.

Most leadership development tells you to do more. Lead harder. Move faster.
Build better systems but that doesn't address the mindset shifts required.

Identity Lag

Still leading like the person you were three years ago, even though everything around you has changed.

The Performance-Worth Loop

Equating how much you produce with how much you are worth, so you can never actually stop.

Survival Mode Leadership

Making decisions from fear instead of clarity, reacting instead of leading, running on pressure instead of purpose.

Most leaders try to fix this with better strategy or more discipline.
But sustainable high performance does not come from doing more. It comes from changing the patterns underneath.

The leaders who perform at the highest level are not the ones working hardest. They are the ones who have done the inner work nobody else sees.

Inside Elevate we do exactly that.
Subconscious work. Neuroscience-informed coaching. Harvard-grounded leadership strategy with a room of people who get it.

That is what we do inside Elevate: The Roundtable. And there is nothing else like it.

I'm in. that's what I need

Mark. COO, Series A Start-Up

Mark stopped pushing people away and started becoming the leader his team actually wanted to go to.

Before

Promoted quickly and privately struggling with confidence ever since. The gap between his title and how he felt in it had quietly turned into passive aggression. His team had stopped coming to him with problems. His relationships were strained. He knew something was wrong but did not know what it was or what to do about it.

The Result

We traced the behaviour back to the confidence gap underneath it. Once he understood what was driving it, he stopped needing to protect himself in every interaction. The defensiveness dropped. His team felt it. They started coming to him again.

"I kept thinking if I just worked harder it would click. That the confidence would come. It never did. If anything the more I pushed, the worse things got with my team and I couldn't work out why. What changed was that I started to actually feel confident in my decisions. And when that happened, I stopped needing to control everything. I trusted my team more. I stopped being so defensive. I started having conversations I had been avoiding for months."

Mark. COO

Why You Cannot Do This Alone

Your partner does not get it.
Your friends do not get it.
Your team definitely does not get it.

This is not a time management problem. You need people who are genuinely in the same place.

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Someone just had a massive win. They share exactly how they did it.

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Someone is three months ahead and have already dealt with the problems you are trying to figure out.

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Someone is facing the same thing right now. Suddenly you realise that you are not the only one.

Imagine how confident you'd feel having a group of people who are in the same place in your pocket.

The Method

The 3-Month Journey

Identify what is holding you back. Change how you lead. Make the shifts to make it last.

Month 1

Identify & Rewire

We start where most programmes do not.
Your subconscious.
The patterns wired so deep you do not even notice them running.
Before we change anything, we name what is actually happening and why your nervous system keeps pulling you back into the same cycles.

→ Why You Are Exhausted
→ The Inner Critic
→ Thought Loops
→ Identity Lag

By the end of month one you will know exactly what has been driving your exhaustion, overcome self-doubt and talk yourself out of overthinking spirals.

Month 2

Lead

With the mindset work in place, we now bring in the strategy.
Harvard-grounded leadership frameworks applied to how you actually lead.
The decisions you avoid.
The influence you are not using.
The boundaries that you keep collapsing.

→ From Reactor to Responder
→ Influence Without Force
→ Setting Boundaries That Stick
→ Decision-Making Under Pressure

By the end of month two you will be holding difficult conversations without the spiral, making decisions without the second-guessing and you step into the identity of the elevated leader that you are.

Month 3

Elevate

Integration.
This is where we pull everything together to help you think and lead sustainably.
You finish with your personalised Resilient Leader Blueprint.

→ Your Non-Negotiables
→ Building Your Leadership Style
→ Creating An Elevated Work Culture
→ Your Resilient Leader Blueprint

You leave with a personalised blueprint for how you lead and the internal shift to back it up. This is not just motivation, this is a complete system that will stay with you.

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Leah. Managing Director, Professional Services Firm

Leah stopped trying to be everyone's friend and started being the leader her team actually needed her to be.

Before

Needing everyone to like her meant she avoided difficult conversations, micromanaged everything and couldn't let go.
She worried that stepping back would make her look lazy, like her team were doing more than her.
She left her team with no real autonomy so they stopped taking any initiative.

The Result

We worked on the belief underneath the micromanagement, the need for approval that was driving it and what it would actually mean to trust her team.
We rebuilt her relationship with delegation, her team gained the autonomy to own their objectives. And the difficult conversations that had been building for months finally were addressed.

"I thought I was a dedicated leader, but I was just scared of conflict. I avoided difficult conversations, took things back off people without realising it and my team had stopped trying because they knew I would just do it. What Nicola helped me see was why I was doing it and why then I started letting go. My team surprised me. They just needed me to trust them. I can't thank Nicola enough."

Leah. Managing Director

What Is Included

12 weeks of clinical psychology, executive strategy and peer transformation. Maximum 15 people.

3 × 1:1 Sessions

A 30-minute kick-start before the programme begins.
A floating 60-minute session to use when you need it most.
A 30-minute close to consolidate what has shifted and map what comes next.

6 × Fortnightly Group Sessions

Six 90-minute group sessions on Zoom, every two weeks.
Facilitated by Nicola. Part peer work, part guided reflection activities, part hot seat coaching on what is actually going on for you right now.
You will leave each one with something that shifts.

Weekly Audio Drops

Each week, a 20 to 30 minute audio drop lands in your inbox.
Deep psychology, made practical. Built for a commute, a walk, or ten minutes before the day starts.
The kind of thing that stops you mid-track because it is the ah-ha moment you have been searching for for years.

Peer Accountability Pods

Your opportunity to meet weekly with a small group of peers to talk about what is really going on in your world.
No agenda, no pressure. Just honest conversation with people who are in it with you.

Elevate Collective

A private space to share wins, ask for advice and get input from people who are experiencing the same things.
Direct access to Nicola and your collective of peers, between sessions when you need it most.

Elevate HQ

Everything in one place. Recordings, resources and audio drops all stored and ready when you need them.
Miss a session or want to revisit the work? It is all there.

Your Investment

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Monthly

£500

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Total: £1,500

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Places are limited to 15. This cohort fills on a first come, first served basis. Once they are gone, they are gone.

Is This For You?

This is for you if:

✓ You are scaling a team and ready to lead from strength, not stress.
✓ You are preparing for your next level and want the internal foundations in place before you get there.
✓ You are ambitious and values-driven, and you want success that feels good, not just impressive from the outside.
✓ You are curious, open-minded and ready to do the kind of reflective work that creates real change.
✓ You want to build the psychological fitness that makes you genuinely resilient, not just good at hiding the pressure.

This is not for you if:

✗ You are looking for tactics, templates or a quick fix.
✗ You want to consume content rather than do real work.
✗ You need full one-to-one support. The group dynamic is central to how this works.

Meet Nicola

I work with founders and senior leaders who are brilliant at what they do and exhausted by how they are doing it.

Most have already tried coaching or therapy. They got something from both. But neither got to the root of it.

That is the space I work in. The gap between insight and actual change. I bring clinical psychology, neuroscience-informed coaching and Harvard-grounded leadership strategy into one integrated method that works at the level where change actually happens, inside the belief system, in the subconscious patterns that have been quietly running the show.

I go deep. That is the point.

Credentials

→ MSc Psychology
→ Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy
→ EMCC Accredited Executive Coach
→ Harvard Leadership Certification
→ NHS · Metropolitan Police · Deloitte · KPMG · BBC

I'm ready to rewire how I think, grow and lead

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this work if I am already high-functioning? +

Especially if you are. Most of the people in this room are high-functioning. That is part of the problem. When you are good at performing fine, nobody around you knows what it is actually costing you. This programme is built for people who look like they have it together and know that something still needs to change.

Do I need to be leading a team to join? +

No. This works whether you are leading a team of fifty or leading yourself into your next level. The internal work is the same either way.

How much time do I need each week? +

The fortnightly sessions are 90 minutes. Weekly audio drops are 20 to 30 minutes, designed for a commute, a walk, or downtime. Peer pods are self-organised around your calendar. It is built to fit around a demanding schedule.

I have done coaching before. How is this different? +

Most coaching works at the level of behaviour and strategy. This goes underneath, to the identity, to the belief patterns that are quietly running everything. You have probably already changed what you do multiple times. This changes how you lead. That is a different thing entirely.

What if I cannot make a live session? +

All sessions are recorded and available in ELEVATE HQ within 24 hours.

Your capacity is not your strategy.
It is you.

May 2026. 12 weeks. Maximum 15 people.

Clinical psychology. Executive strategy. A room where you do not have to perform.

£500 per month or £1,350 paid in full. Maximum 15 places.

Secure your place by 15 April and upgrade your kick-start 1:1 to a 90-minute deep dive. worth £395.

Pay in Full £1,350 Pay Monthly £500

May 2026 · Limited to 15

Elevate:
The Roundtable

Stop leading from survival mode. In 12 weeks, rebuild the patterns that have been running your leadership and step into the version of yourself that makes decisions with clarity, leads with authority and actually enjoys their success.

Clinical psychology meets executive strategy.

Pay in Full £1,350 Pay Monthly £500

What it actually looks like

Your brain rarely switches off.

Work follows you into the evening.

You replay conversations.

You wake thinking about tomorrow.

You finish the day exhausted but wired.

You may still be high-functioning.

You may still be holding everything together.

You are performing calm in every room you walk into while your nervous system is quietly on fire.

You are not failing. You have not hit your ceiling. You have just outgrown the patterns that got you here.

The Problem Is Not Your Strategy.
It Never Was.

Most leadership development tells you to do more. Lead harder. Optimise faster. Build better systems. But none of that touches what is actually happening underneath.

Identity Lag

Still leading like the person you were three years ago, even though everything around you has changed.

The Performance-Worth Loop

Equating how much you produce with how much you are worth, so you can never actually stop.

Survival Mode Leadership

Making decisions from fear instead of clarity. Reacting instead of leading. Running on pressure instead of purpose.

You do not need another framework layered on top of patterns that are already cracking. You need to rebuild from the inside out.

Pay in Full £1,350 Pay Monthly £500

This Is Not Coaching That Scratches the Surface.

Business Coaches

Give strategy without psychology. The change is temporary.

Therapists

Address psychology without business context. Insight without implementation.

Executive Coaches

Optimise performance without root cause. So you burn out anyway.

ELEVATE combines all three.

Clinical psychology. Executive strategy. A room full of peers who actually understand the pressure.

I go deep. That is the difference.

What Shifts in 12 Weeks

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You stop making decisions from fear and start making them from clarity.

→

You stop performing confidence and start leading from it.

→

You finally understand why you keep getting stuck and you change it, not just manage it.

→

You protect your capacity without sacrificing your ambition.

→

Your brain starts to switch off when work ends. The evenings become yours again.

→

You feel like yourself again. Not the title. Not the role. You.

Why You Cannot Do This Alone

You have been doing it alone for a long time. And it has cost you more than you realise.

At this level, there is no one above you to ask. Your team cannot fully understand the weight of what you carry. Your friends and family want to support you but they are not leading at this level. So the doubts stay private. The difficult decisions get made in isolation. And the belief that you are the only one who feels this way quietly convinces you that something is wrong with you.

Nothing is wrong with you. You are just doing one of the hardest jobs there is, without the peer support that makes it sustainable.

This is what the group changes. When you are in a room with people who are genuinely at the same level, something shifts. You hear someone articulate the exact thought you have been too afraid to say out loud. You stop performing and start being honest. And honest is where the real work begins.

You came for Nicola. You will stay for the room.

Working with Nicola was the first time anyone had actually addressed the root of why I kept getting in my own way. Not what I was doing wrong. But why. Everything shifted from there.

Client, Senior Leader

The 3-Month Journey

Three months. Three phases. One complete rebuild.

Month 1

Identify and Rewire

Mindset Foundations

We start where most programmes will not. Your identity. The patterns running everything underneath. Before we change anything, we name what is actually happening and why.

→ Why You Are Exhausted
→ The Inner Critic
→ Slowing Down to Speed Up
→ Identity Lag

Month 2

Lead

Leadership Presence

With the foundations in place, we look at how this shows up in how you lead. The decisions you avoid. The influence you are not using. The boundaries that keep collapsing.

→ From Reactor to Responder
→ Influence Without Force
→ Setting Boundaries That Stick
→ Decision-Making Under Pressure

Month 3