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Executive Coaching London for founders, CEOs, and senior teams who need a confidential thinking partner and stronger leadership around them.
You’ve built something that works. The question is whether it still depends on you to keep working.
I’m a Senior Leadership & Culture Advisor based in London. I work with founders, CEOs, and senior leadership teams who want clarity, strong relationships, and sustainable performance, without losing themselves or their people to get there.
This isn’t generic consulting. It isn’t more advice on top of advice you already have. It’s a senior partnership, grounded in one philosophy:
Live Better. Lead Better. Elevate Others.
25 years of real-world executive experience, built into The Way of Elevated Leadership, but the centre is always the human being leading.
The Elevate Leadership Circle
A retained six-month partnership for founders and senior leadership teams who want leadership that lasts, and a culture that elevates people and performance together.
For the team
- Clarity on direction, priorities, and standards
- Executive team alignment and decision maturity
- Courage and accountability — without fear or harshness
- Trust, psychological safety, and healthy conflict
- Ownership that sticks — fewer escalations, less rework
For you
- A confidential space to think clearly under pressure
- Align your life and your leadership
- Strengthen conviction and courage
- Navigate the decisions and relationships that are hardest to talk through with anyone else
Start here — two ways in:
Take the ELEVATE Scorecard
Five minutes, on your own, to see where you currently stand across Live Better, Lead Better, and Elevate Others — and which one is under the most pressure right now.
Book a complimentary team session
No cost, no commitment — see what the Circle actually feels like in the room, with your whole leadership team.
Not Ready for the Full Circle? Two Lighter Ways In
Executive Coaching London for Founders & CEOs
For the founder or CEO alone. The higher you go, the fewer people you can speak to openly. This is where you cut through the noise and rebuild the clarity everything else rests on.
Individual Circle
For the leadership team alone, without the CEO 1:1 layer. Growth doesn’t scale through information. It scales through transformation — leaders growing together, in honesty, accountability, and trust.
The Culture Programme
Design your culture on purpose, not by accident.
Most companies never actually design their culture. It forms anyway, shaped by whoever’s loudest, whatever got rewarded last, whatever habits nobody challenged early enough. By the time it’s visibly a problem, it’s already load-bearing.
The Culture Programme is how we build it deliberately instead.
Beliefs, values, behaviours.
Culture doesn’t start with a values poster. It starts with what your leadership team actually believes — about people, about performance, about what’s worth protecting when things get hard. From there, values become specific enough to act on, and behaviours become visible enough to hold each other to.
Five pillars, built to be lived:
Belonging · Contribution · Growth · Acknowledgement · Mattering Being seen, heard, and valued.
And the performance layer.
This is where Purpose, Passion, People and Performance — the same 4Ps that run through everything I do — become the operating rhythm your culture runs on, not just a slide from an offsite.
Depending on the size and shape of your company, this can also become your internal communication framework, or an employer branding document — stronger than the typical culture manifesto, because it’s built to be used, not just written.
Taster → Design & Build → Sustain.
Speaking, Keynotes & Workshops
Insight that sticks. Stories that shift behaviour.
25 years of leadership and culture building, research-backed insight, real stories from the messy middle, and practical application leaders can use immediately.
Popular themes:
Live Better, Lead Better, Elevate Others
The Last 8% Culture
Mattering at Work: How Great Leaders Make People Feel Seen
Celebration as a Leadership Strategy
Let’s Make Things Happen
1. Conversation
A confidential call to explore your situation and whether we’re the right fit. No pitch. No pressure.
2. Design
Shaped around your reality, your team, your culture. No templates.
3. Elevated Leadership
More clarity, stronger leadership, a culture that holds, and a way of leading that lasts long after our work together ends.
Johan Odén
Senior Advisor & Executive Coach
Executive Coaching London FAQs
What does executive coaching involve?
It is a confidential space to think clearly under pressure, work through difficult decisions and relationships, and strengthen the clarity, courage, and presence you bring to leadership.
Who is the coaching designed for?
I work with founders, CEOs, and senior leaders carrying significant responsibility, particularly when growth, change, culture, or complex relationships are putting leadership under pressure.
How is the Elevate Leadership Circle different?
The Circle combines leadership and culture advisory for the whole senior team with private executive coaching for the founder or CEO. It strengthens the individual leader and the system around them together.
How long is the Elevate Leadership Circle?
It is a retained six-month partnership. That creates enough time to move beyond insight, build healthier leadership habits, and embed changes in how the senior team makes decisions, handles conflict, and takes ownership.
