1-2-1 Leadership coaching
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Coaching for Calm REBELs
For leaders navigating pressure, politics and complexity who want more than a quick reset. This is structured, thoughtful, action-oriented coaching to help you lead with clarity, integrity and courage over time.
I work with leaders who want sustained support over time to help them navigating something bigger, deeper or more persistent. That might be a difficult role, a leadership transition, a confidence wobble, a values clash, or simply the feeling that something important has drifted and you want to find your way back.
We work together over six months so that you can make sense of what’s going on, act on what matters, and keep adjusting as real life unfolds.
Calm REBEL Leadership is a combination of thoughtful reflection and deliberate action aligned to your values and authentic version of leadership.
This is for you if...
Strategic
You want to move your leadership forward in a more strategic way.
Momentum
You want to maintain your growth even when things get Busy.
Resilience
You want to develop your ability to stay effective in a challenging system.
Honesty
You want support that is honest, practical and challenging not fluffy or formulaic.
Personalised
You want personal development tailored exclusively to you not standard training.
How Coaching Works
Real conversations, real action
Each session gives you space to think, reflect and be challenged — but always in service of better decisions and meaningful action.
Ongoing recalibration
As your context changes, we adapt. This is not a rigid programme. It’s a structured partnership that evolves with the reality you’re in.
A typical engagement includes:
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60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions every 2-6 weeks
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clear focus areas and goals
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actions and experiments between sessions
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reflection on what’s working, what isn’t and what needs to change
Common Coaching Themes
Resilience
Staying true to yourself under pressure and developing the tools to tackle the challenges of leadership in complex environments.
Impact
Developing your presence and maintaining your integrity in systems that make it difficult.
Confidence
Developing or rebuilding confidence in your judgement, navigating conflict and making difficult decisions.
Context
Maximising your effectiveness by developing greater awareness and mastery of all the different leadership stances required in complex environments.
Progression
Identifying, stepping into and settling into a bigger leadership role without becoming someone else.
These are just examples and we can identify your specific goals in a free kick off call.
Looking for something quicker?
Try the Calm REBEL Reset
The Calm REBEL Reset is a two-week program designed to get you unstuck and progressing on a specific burning issue.
My Approach
The Coach’s Casebook
A lot of coaching either stays too abstract or rushes too quickly into advice.
I work differently.
My coaching gives you space to think properly, but it also helps you turn insight into action. I’ll help you notice patterns, challenge assumptions, reconnect with what matters, and make moves that are small enough to do and real enough to matter.
I bring years of coaching experience, deep leadership and organisational understanding, and the Calm REBEL perspective: helping good people stay human and effective in systems that often pull them away from themselves.
If you want to learn more about my coaching style and results, you can read my International Book Award-winning book The Coach’s Casebook.
Testimonials
about me
Geoff Watts
Award-winning author, keynote speaker, coach, and one of the early leaders of the agile movement. For over two decades I’ve been helping leaders rediscover the courage to lead authentically.
I’ve written best-selling books including Scrum Mastery, Product Mastery, and The Coach’s Casebook. My latest, Calm REBEL Leadership, distills years of coaching into a framework for rebelling — not with noise or aggression, but with calm, integrity, and impact.
I’ve spoken on stages around the world — from TEDx events to major international conferences — and have worked with organisations across industries to transform how they approach leadership.
