Coaching: Life in the Spotlight

We help you develop the strategies and skills you need when every eye is trained on you.

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The challenges
  • Helping you step into your new role and win hearts and minds.
  • Coaching you through the communication challenges of your first 100 days.
  • Preparing and rehearsing your key presentations.
  • Helping you deliver change messages that connect and inspire.
  • Mentoring you as you campaign for elected roles.
  • Getting you in 'peak condition' for crucial job interviews.
  • Helping you transition to board level roles.

Many years ago, we were having dinner in London when the buzz of the restaurant stopped.

We turned to see what had happened. Walking towards his table was the actor, Michael Douglas. He was the centre of attention. He had nowhere to hide.

You may never win an Oscar but you can be sure that your climb up the corporate ladder will involve extreme visibility and judgement by your internal and external stakeholders.

Everyone you meet will interpret your character based on what they see. They will look for direction based on what they hear. They will judge your empathy based on how you listen.

And you will understand, plan and problem solve the road ahead of you if you have clarity around your goals, obstacles and next steps.

Call us to discover how you can put the DNA of Leadership Coaching at the heart of your journey.

our process

How We'll Work Together.

CHEMISTRY
CALL
Contracting and
Goal Setting
Coaching Calls
Progress Checks
and
Accountability
Final feedback
Celebrate Your
Success
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Your stories are your strongest interview strategy

Your Personal Story Bank

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You know the moment. The interviewer leans forward and says, "Tell me about a time when ..." And your mind goes blank.

Not because you haven't done remarkable things. But because under pressure the best stories are the hardest to find.

Your Personal Story Bank is a bespoke interview preparation service that extracts your strongest career stories, structures them for maximum impact, and maps them to the questions you’ll actually be asked. It’s built using the same storytelling methodology we use with organisations like Microsoft, PwC, and Aviva, but it's applied to your career, your voice, and your target role.

What you get is a comprehensive, cross-referenced document containing 8-12 stories told in your words, structured so the interviewer remembers you long after you’ve left the room.

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THIS IS HOW IT WORKS:
  • Chemistry Call — A 30-minute conversation where we explore your career, your strengths, and the role you’re targeting. We’re listening for the story seeds: the moments, turning points, and achievements that interviewers need to hear.
  • Personalised Questionnaire — Based on what we hear, we create a tailored questionnaire designed to unlock deeper material. It references things you told us and primes your memory before the main session.
  • Story Harvesting Interview — A focused 60-minute interview where we dig for the vivid details, the feelings, and the specific moments that make stories land. This is where the real material surfaces.
  • Your Story Bank — We build your complete Personal Story Bank: 8-12 structured stories in your authentic voice, each tagged by strength, mapped to common interview questions, and cross-referenced to the job description. Plus a one-minute version of every story for networking and quick-fire situations.
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WHY this works and who It's for
  • Most interview preparation helps you practise answering questions. Your Personal Story Bank gives you something fundamentally different: a library of proof points you own, ready to deploy for any question, in any interview, for years to come.
  • Every story follows a structure drawn from narrative science — the same frameworks that help the world’s best storytellers hold an audience. Your interviewer won’t know why your answer landed so well. They’ll just know it did.
  • And because every story is written in your voice you’ll sound like yourself at your most compelling. The structure does the persuasive work. All you need to do is practice telling them. Which we can talk about later if you want to.
  • This is designed for professionals preparing for senior appointments or board-level interviews. Career changers who need to reframe their experience for a new context. High-potential leaders being prepared for promotion. Anyone who knows they’re brilliant at what they do but struggles to prove it when the spotlight is on.
  • Oh ... and we'll also send you our books!
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From treading the boards to teaching in boardrooms these guys really know how to bring logic and emotion to the theatre of business.
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Whenever I'm feeling stuck The Story Spotters unlock my thinking in an incredible way.
Louise Bonham - MAPP
As a manager I quoted them. As a leader I emulated them. Now as a business founder I advocate for them. You will too.
Lee Anderson - Specialist Risk Group
An inspiring session on what is a key component of leadership. We are already putting the ideas into practice.
Chris Ambler - Jersey Electricity
Rarely have I seen my colleagues offering spontaneous applause on a Zoom.
Richard Von Gusovius - Campbell Lutyens
I have worked with The Story Spotters many times over the years and they always deliver over and above expectation.
Jon Walker - AXA
The Story Spotters bring back the importance of how we should be behaving as human beings for the better.
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