Executive Coaching
A thinking space for leaders carrying significant responsibility.
When you’re leading at a senior level, there are fewer places to think out loud.
You’re expected to have the answers, make the decisions and keep moving often while navigating complexity, competing priorities and people who need something from you.
Coaching gives you dedicated space to step back, think clearly and explore what’s really going on.
Coaching for senior expert leaders
I work with experienced leaders whose expertise is well established, but whose role increasingly depends on what happens beyond their technical discipline.
Together, we might work on:
- Making complex decisions with greater confidence
- Influencing beyond your immediate area of expertise
- Navigating difficult relationships or conversations.
- Leading through change and uncertainty.
- Moving from being the expert to leading through others.
- Challenging assumptions and seeing the bigger picture.
- Having greater impact without simply doing more.
There is no prescribed programme.
We work with whatever is most important to you, using your real leadership challenges as the material.
A space to think differently
My role isn't to give you the answers, it's to ask the questions that help you find better ones.
I bring challenge, curiosity and a perspective outside your organisation creating space to look at situations differently, test your thinking and decide what you want to do next.
THE OUTCOMES
Greater clarity, better decisions, more confident leadership and expertise that has greater impact.
Coaching Style
My style is calm, commercially grounded and psychologically astute.
My sessions are highly action-orientated with every session translating insight into momentum. Clients describe feeling “energised for action” and often leave saying, “I really needed that.”
I help clients lead authentically and sustainably by sharpening their self-awareness and shedding their limiting beliefs.
Thanks to my corporate leadership background, I blend evidence-based coaching and neuroscience-informed insight with commercial challenge.
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Meet Louise Thompson
I’m the Founder of Vivid Consulting, partnering with CEOs, senior executives and high-potential leaders navigating complexity, visibility and growth.
With over 20 years’ corporate leadership experience and accredited executive coaching training, I am a member of the International Coaching Federation and an experienced facilitator of senior teams.
I work with leaders and global teams across FMCG, Financial Services, Energy, Media and Professional Football to:
- Strengthen leadership voice and executive presence.
- Step confidently into senior-line visibility.
- Navigate high-stakes stakeholder dynamics.
- Lead cultural change.
- Develop next-generation leaders.
- Perform under pressure with clarity and control.
I regularly work across geographies and cultures, coaching virtually across UK, US and EMEA time zones.
