Expert executive coaching to revitalise your leadership – in our Oxford office or online.

Oxford attracts leaders from diverse sectors, including professional services, higher education, research, healthcare, high-growth spin-outs and technology – each presenting distinct challenges.

Executive coaching gives you the space to think clearly and act decisively when leadership is challenging and overwhelming. We recognise that the demands on leaders are relentless, whether you are shaping strategy to harness results, aligning your team to enhance performance, or making critical decisions for greater effectiveness.

Our narrative coaching approach addresses your commercial priorities and your leadership impact directly – redefining how you lead now and shaping the leader you need to be in the future.

Our executive coaching in Oxford provides senior leaders with the space to take your leadership to the next level. Whether you’re looking for focused one-to-one coaching, support for your leadership team or specialised development opportunities, we offer:

• Senior leadership coaching: One-to-one coaching for CEOs, senior executives, and professionals. We focus on your leadership impact and business success.
• Executive coaching: Working with you to expand your thinking, manage complexity and step fully into leadership with presence, purpose and clarity.
• Team coaching: Helping teams align around shared goals, improve communication, and work together more effectively to deliver results.
• Leadership development courses: Business storytelling masterclasses for leaders who want to embed storytelling as a key leadership capability.
• Narrative coaching courses: Training for internal and independent coaches who want to apply a fresh approach in their practice.
• Coaching supervision: Providing a professional space for executive coaches to reflect and develop coaching capabilities, discuss ethical issues and manage client challenges within complex systems.

We offer executive coaching in a way that works best for you, whether you prefer face-to-face conversations in Oxford or virtual coaching that fits around your leadership commitments. You can work with us:

• In Oxford: from our coaching space in Eynsham, West Oxfordshire – offering a quiet, discreet setting away from daily pressures, while still being just a short distance from Oxford city centre
• In London: from our office near Liverpool Street
• Across the UK and internationally: via Zoom and video conferencing, working with clients globally

Listening Partnership was founded by Nick Isbister and Jude Elliman in 2012. We are a team of senior executive coaches and supervisors, with different specialisms and backgrounds, but with a shared appreciation of the power of story in people’s lives. We work with leaders in Oxford, London, across the UK and internationally.

Our team brings a blend of commercial acumen, senior leadership experience and coaching expertise. As executive coaches in Oxford, we work with CEOs, board members, partners and emerging leaders and teams across sectors, including: corporates, finance, professional services, tech, creative industries, government, higher education, spin-outs, not-for-profits and startups.

We are known for our sharp business insight, deep listening and the courage to ask the questions that unlock fresh thinking. We partner with you to cut through complexity and catalyse your leadership and storytelling impact.