Sian Taylor Coaching

Empowering Inspiring Collaborative Leadership

Develop your leadership

Capacity

Enhancing your leadership across your organisation and beyond, creating a culture where everyone feels valued and respected.

Capability

Broadening your leadership style, helping you to adapt facing challenges directly, focusing on collaboration and empowerment to enhance success.

Confidence

Deepening your self-belief and belief in others, demonstrating trust and harnessing different perspectives to produce positive outcomes.

I believe leadership should empower, inspire and promote collaborative ways of workings, benefitting individuals and teams, creating forward thinking organisations.

Working together we will develop your leadership to generate a culture that is built on trust, respect and collaboration, resulting in collective endeavour and outcomes greater than the sum of its parts.

What we can achieve together

I will help you turn your knowledge, your beliefs and your desires around leadership into actions that are in keeping with who you are and how you want to be seen as a leader.

You'll become more effective and influential in your role, understanding the political landscape both within and external to your organisation, and how you can make a positive impact within it.

You'll have confidence in dealing with challenging, complex and uncertain situations, no longer second-guessing whether you've said or done the right thing, and not shying away from difficult conversations.

You'll know that your leadership provides inspiration and motivation for colleagues across your organisation, and that working together alongside each other, you're in a good place to face the future challenges with positive outcomes.

Why work with me?

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"I now feel that I have a repertoire of questions and strategies which help me to evaluate a problem and devise solutions..."

Professor Karen Throsby, Head of School, University of Leeds

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“Thanks so much for the work you did with the team – you really helped us make progress."

Emma Thompson, Associate Director, Education and Research, Manchester Metropolitan University

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"... significantly impacted my professional development and personal growth."

Mark Dorey, Assistant Director of Communication & Engagement, University of Leeds

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"It was very valuable to feel able to speak in this open way"

Stuart McAnulla, Deputy Head of School, University of Leeds

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"Working with Sian has been a transformative experience during a challenging transition phase in my career at a new institution"

Prof Maggie Kubanyiova, Research Centre Director, University of Leeds

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"The work Sian and Debs did for us was excellent and exceeded our expectations, I would have no hesitation in recommending them.”

Paul Everitt, Associate Director of Library Services, Manchester Metropolitan University

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"Sian created the space to talk things through to unpack things, make connections between the things that were on my mind and helped me connect to how much influencing I had actually done but not realised."

Angela Sharp, Director of Strategic Partnership, Lincolnshire Community Health Services

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"I learnt to be more confident in my own strengths, and those of others, and to believe that I can be successful in the role..."

Dr Hannah Holmes, Head of Department, Manchester Metropolitan University

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"Working with Siân has helped to 'unblock' me, allowing me to move forward in a number of areas where I felt stuck and unable to make progress"

F Salisbury, Solicitor

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"... I was asked to lead on a major change project within my institution and having regular coaching sessions with Sian provided an invaluable opportunity to reflect on the issues and challenges I was facing"

JA, Deputy Dean

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"Once that realisation was understood, she guided me through ways of improving and learning to believe in myself"

Ranjana Medagoda, IT Operations Manager

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"... coaching helped me to keep a sense of perspective and to become stronger as a senior leader”

Sandra Sharpe, Deputy Director (Programmes), Manchester Metropolitan University

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"... Siân provided a frame for me to gradually think through a vision, strategy and how to prioritise what to focus on, and how to use my time effectively doing so"

Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester

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"... I felt I was in a safe space to discuss my thoughts and ideas with Sian expertise to guide me through my thought processes"

Solicitor, Trafford Council

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"... I have had no hesitation in recommending Siân to colleagues
and those who have worked with her have expressed to me how helpful their work with Siân has been"

Paul Walsh, People Development Manager,
Manchester Metropolitan University

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"Siân always asked the right, stimulating questions that helped me to get to the bottom of issues I had, and to find the most efficient solutions to problems..."

AB, The University of Manchester

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"I would definitely recommend her as a coach, through such work I have found her to be insightful, attentive and understanding"

Gavin Deadman, Senior Staff Learning and Development Advisor,
The University of Manchester

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"One of Siân’s greatest strengths is her ability to really listen to what people are saying..."

Service Manager, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

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"She is calm, level headed, focussed on practical solutions, and provided our senior management team with high quality advice, support and guidance which was critical to achieving our goals"

Prof Peter Bower, Centre for Primary Care,
The University of Manchester

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"We very much appreciated your quick understanding and pick up on the main issues... the feedback, offered without prompting, was very positive"

Gavin Parry, Curriculum Director for the Media Department,
Manchester Metropolitan University

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"Siân has been a fantastic coach, putting me at ease from our first session, encouraging reciprocal openness..."

JH, Great Places Housing Group

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"I really can’t say enough to recommend Siân Taylor as a professional coach. The support she has given me has been so helpful in my professional development..."

Project Manager, The University of Manchester

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"I have experienced first-hand her skills in bringing out the best in people, building confidence and getting to the heart of issues with intelligent questioning..."

Carly Rolfe, The University of Manchester

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"Siân has a partnership approach with colleagues to learn to reflect continuously on their actions and take relevant and realistic actions toward reaching goals..."

Prof Stephen Campbell,
NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety
Translational Research Centre

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Read about what people have gained from coaching with me

Read about what teams have gained working with me

Leadership and management courses can give you knowledge and know how. They can provide you with a space to practice new skills.

Being guided by role-models you admire, or perhaps those leaders who you really don't want to emulate(!), our experience strongly shapes the leader we want to be.

But who can help you do this when the pressures on and everyone has a million-and-one other responsibilities to be getting on with?

I will support and challenge you to do the things you believe are the right things to do.

To be the leader you want to be, whilst dealing with everything else you have responsbility for.

Working together, we'll find ways for you to develop your leadership style which feels natural and has the positive impact you're looking to make.