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Blocks of 3, 5 or 8 · 30-minute review included

Business Owner & Founder Coaching

Step out of being involved in everything. Explore your role as an owner, delegate with clearer boundaries and build a more sustainable way to lead.

Sometimes growth starts with space to think out loud. A new responsibility, a confidence question or an important business decision can feel different when someone listens carefully and helps you explore it. We start with the person, not a fixed list of answers.

A one-to-one coaching conversation
Thrive Training Lab

Your goals. Your next step.

Duration

50-minute sessions

Group size

1:1

Format

Online or face to face

Price — Face to face

Pricing on request

+ VAT

Price — Online

Block of 3: From £499Block of 5: From £649Block of 8: From £999

+ VAT

Welcome to the Lounge — real conversations. Meaningful growth.

Why this coaching matters

Running the business can leave very little room to develop the person behind it.

A relaxed, supportive space to think differently, explore challenges and build confidence. Your coaching starts with who you are and what you want to change. Together, we turn reflection into practical next steps in personal live online conversations.

What you’ll explore in the Lounge

Business Owner & Founder Coaching focuses on you in your role as an owner: the responsibilities you carry, the decisions that keep returning to you and the working habits you want to change. Where Business Coaching explores strategy, marketing and growth priorities, this space centres on how you lead and sustain your contribution.

Together, we examine what only you need to own, what others could take responsibility for and what makes delegation feel difficult. You can explore boundaries, decision-making, isolation and the shift from hands-on delivery to leading through others. The aim is a considered way of working that fits your stage of business, with practical actions and progress reviewed against the goals you agree.

a real challenge. a purposeful response.

The challenges this addresses

  • The owner becoming the default decision-maker for every task
  • Business demands leaving little room for boundaries, delegation or personal development
  • Delegation delayed by uncertainty about what others could own
  • Hands-on delivery habits limiting space to lead through others

What this can change at work

Running the business should not leave no room to develop how you lead it. This personal coaching space helps you examine the decisions, boundaries and responsibilities that keep returning to you. As you explore delegation and a more considered contribution, your team can gain clearer ownership, while the organisation can become less reliant on your involvement in every everyday choice.

Ownership discussed explicitly

You identify a responsibility someone else could own and discuss the decision-making boundaries with them before handing it over.

Boundaries reflected in choices

You explain a working boundary and use it when deciding which business requests need your direct attention that week.

Leadership habits reviewed

You review where you stepped back from hands-on delivery and consider what helped or hindered others taking responsibility for the work.

Inside your coaching sessions

Each live online session starts with a real situation in your working week. You might map recurring decisions, prepare a delegation conversation, explore a boundary or test a different allocation of your time. Your coach listens, challenges assumptions constructively and helps you choose a manageable next step. Between sessions, apply your chosen action and bring back what happened. This is personal coaching for your role as an owner, not legal, financial or investment advice. Flexible 50-minute sessions are booked in blocks of three, five or eight with an included 30-minute review.

Make Business Owner & Founder Coaching relevant to your business

Tell us where you want to make progress with your evolving role as a business owner. We can discuss suitable workplace examples, priorities and access needs before agreeing the scope. Choose live online or face-to-face training for your UK or European team, with delivery arrangements agreed before booking.

Discuss this course

What we can work on together

Your goals determine the focus. These are the areas we can explore, rather than a fixed lesson plan.

  • Your evolving role as a business owner
  • Delegation, ownership and decision boundaries
  • Priorities and sustainable working routines
  • The thinking behind control and responsibility
  • Constructive conversations with colleagues and partners
  • A personal action plan for how you lead

What’s included in your booking

Your booked time and format
50-minute sessions · Live online or face to face, agreed before booking · 1:1.
Personal coaching around your goals
Focused one-to-one discussion, reflection and practical next actions around your agreed priorities. Timings and spacing are flexible and agreed with you.
Your end-of-block review
A 30-minute review is included with every coaching block, to reflect on your goals and agree what comes next.

Additional coaching beyond your chosen block is agreed separately. Travel, venue arrangements and any software licences are confirmed separately where relevant. Prices exclude VAT.

Outcomes

We work towards these outcomes through the goals and actions you agree with your coach:

  • Clarify what you need to own and what others can lead
  • Prepare a practical delegation conversation
  • Test boundaries that protect focus and sustainable working
  • Develop a considered approach to recurring decisions
  • Review changes in your role against agreed personal goals

the next conversation is where it counts —

Take it back to work.

Choose a real situation where you want to apply the learning. Use it to turn an outcome into a manageable first step, then reflect on what changes.

Choose

Start with one priority: Clarify what you need to own and what others can lead.

Apply

Agree an action with your coach and try it between sessions, at a pace suited to your goal.

Review

Reflect on what happened, seek feedback where appropriate and choose your next step. Follow-up support can be discussed separately.

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Course synopsis

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Key focus areas

  • Time management and identifying priorities
  • Structuring a realistic working week
  • Clear everyday communication
  • Assertiveness and saying no constructively
  • Boundaries, habits and personal accountability
  • Your specific personal development needs

Outcomes — you'll be able to

  • Identify the patterns behind your current challenge
  • Create practical routines suited to your circumstances
  • Communicate needs and boundaries more clearly
  • Experiment with new behaviours and review what works
  • Build the self-awareness to continue developing independently

Face to face

Pricing on request+ VAT

Online: Block of 3: From £499Block of 5: From £649Block of 8: From £999 + VAT

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Leadership Coaching

Develop your leadership through focused one-to-one coaching that addresses real challenges, builds influence and supports progress towards agreed goals.

50-minute sessions1:1

Course synopsis

Leadership can feel less isolating when you have space to think clearly about your next move. Whether you are a new manager, an experienced leader or a senior executive, leadership can bring complex relationships, difficult conversations and significant change. This one-to-one coaching starts with understanding you, exploring your strengths and blind spots, and agreeing clear goals and the outcomes you want to achieve in your role. Each 50-minute session works towards those goals, helping you tackle pressing challenges, strengthen your influence and presence, and review progress against your personal development plan. Delivered as a standalone development programme or alongside our leadership workshops, it gives you focused space to turn reflection into practical action in your day-to-day leadership.

Key focus areas

  • Your leadership strengths and blind spots
  • Leading through challenge and change
  • Influence and presence
  • Difficult relationships and conversations
  • Personal development plan

Outcomes — you'll be able to

  • Gain clarity on your leadership strengths
  • Tackle your toughest leadership challenges
  • Increase your influence with stakeholders
  • Review progress against agreed goals

Face to face

Pricing on request+ VAT

Online: Block of 3: From £499Block of 5: From £649Block of 8: From £999 + VAT

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