High Character Leadership

For high responsibility individuals
with high responsibility mindsets

Aurelius. Solomon. Lincoln. King. Wilberforce. Nightingale. Teresa. Cadbury. Elizabeth. Rockefeller.

History’s greats recognised two things.

The challenge of position.
The need for character.

Do you hold a position with high responsibility? With pressure, power, profile or prosperity?

Lives of high responsibility have always been awash with character traps.

Isolation. Options. Overcommitment. Exhaustion. Ego. Status. Temptation. Adulation. Hubris. Entitlement. Outbursts. Identity.

But it is particularly challenging today.

Because today’s character traps are outsized in frequency and impact; social character formation is at historic lows and our culture lacks real sympathy for people with power.

We provide that understanding, informed, empathetic support.

We work one-to-one with people with responsibility or success who recognise their character is both an asset and a liability.

For some, it may even represent the last great adventure to conquer: themselves.

Sound familiar? Let’s talk.

This goes beyond good leadership. It is about who you are beyond simply your professional goals.

Whether it is becoming a better person, spouse, parent, partner or friend, that journey begins and ends with character transformation.

Trusted. Discreet. Experienced.

Global Politicians

Companionship to public individuals needing support in the spirit of character accountability and friendship with no agenda.

Business Executives

Support for individuals at the top of their professions in a marketplace that is increasingly focused on virtue, values and ethics.

Family Offices

Family principles needing a safe place to invest in themselves given the long term legacy they have inherited or leave behind.

Other Influentials

Entrepreneurs, investors, faith leaders, professional athletes, entertainers: we have or can provide support in all contexts.

“John is a uniquely gifted coach and advisor. He brings a warmth and wisdom that combines a deep and practical understanding of business challenges with a profoundly human empathy.

John's counsel, support and practical guidance was absolutely invaluable at a time of major professional and personal challenge and I would have struggled to navigate it without him.”

Head of Department, Global Consulting Firm

What is our approach?

Physical fitness has a fixed reality to it: some things help more than others, some don’t at all and particular things happens when you do it well. It is the exactly same with character development.

We take those patterns that have pedigree across the wisdom traditions, supported by social science, and contextualise them to your challenges.

What is the investment?

Our typical starting programme is a 6 - 12 month process. We do have a shorter, online introduction but we encourage an engagement that pursues change in context beyond an introductory phase.

Our Gold Package is aimed at those who want extended in person support: in person retreats, travel, in person moments of application etc.

Expanding the Principles

Drawing out some detail of the headline characteristics and applying it to a leadership context.

Expanding the Practices

Articulating the philosophies and methodologies that exist behind the various practices that turn character change into reality.

“Do you wish to be great?
Then begin by being.

Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?
Think first about the foundations of humility.

The higher your structure is to be,
the deeper must be its foundation.”

— Augustine