The Foundation Partnership is best for senior doctors and public health leaders seeking rapid career clarity or recovering from burnout.
Dr Fiona Day, Chartered Coaching Psychologist & Expert Career Coach for Health Leaders
Career Clarity Specialist: As an expert medical and public health career coach, I have helped hundreds of senior health leaders move from feeling ‘stuck’ or ‘burnt out’ to leading with renewed intentionality and confidence.
Proven Framework: My five-step career coaching framework – Plan, Do, Study, Decide, Act – will help you rapidly navigate role transitions, portfolio careers, or peri-retirement.
Validated Results: My evidence-based approach is grounded in the psychology of work and delivers a 17.4% increase in wellbeing, ensuring you can lead powerfully without sacrificing your health.
I am a peer in our relationship, guided by values of partnership, expertise, and compassion.
Together, we will:
Clarify Your Direction
Step back from daily demands and reconnect with your strengths, values, and ambitions, so your next move is intentional, not reactive.
Navigate Career Transitions
Progress with retirement planning, portfolio careers, role redesign, major leadership moves, or starting a consultancy. You can approach change feeling grounded and in control.
Secure Senior Health Leadership Roles
Strengthen your executive presence, career narrative, CV, LinkedIn profile, applications, and interview performance for Board, system, national, or international positions.
Transform Your Resilience
Move beyond coping strategies. Rebuild energy, reset boundaries, and develop a sustainable leadership style that protects your wellbeing while maintaining impact.
Redesign Your Role or Your Entire Career
Refocus, restructure, or reinvent your professional path with a clear short- and long-term action plan.
If you’re ready to feel clearer, calmer, and more confident about what comes next:
Book a confidential exploratory call.
I’ve gained confidence and the courage to make the right decisions for my career. Fiona’s expertise and commitment to helping me has been pivotal for me this year, and I wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again.
Fiona’s approach is collaborative, open and flexible.
Fiona completely related to my dilemma and provided an excellent service. She enabled me to explore solutions in a safe space.
Evidence-based coaching proven to deliver a +17.4% increase in validated wellbeing scores
- BMJ Leader
Peer-review published in BMJ Leader (2023). Based on evaluations of 80 senior doctors and public health leaders, with significant improvements in optimism and decision-making clarity.
The Foundation: Included in Every Partnership.
Your quality guarantee, regardless of which partnership you choose.
My Foundational Layer to every partnership ensures your experience is a confidential, safe space grounded in professional ethics (EMCC & BPS). As a specialist in medical and public health careers, wellbeing and leadership, I bring a psychologically-informed, integrated biopsychosocial approach – incorporating cognitive-behavioural and neuroscience techniques – to help health leaders manage extreme pressure and navigate complex system change. Because I am qualified as a medical and public health specialist peer, I understand the unique professional world of senior clinicians and public health leaders, ensuring our work together is both practical and world-class.
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Bespoke session frequency, typically 1-4 weeks between sessions.
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CPD certificates (2 hours for every 1 hour of coaching).
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Written summaries & reflective material to maximise impact.
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Regular progress reviews to ensure we stay on track with your objectives.
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Budget-aligned flexibility 12-month plans or deferred payment for one year.
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Strategic needs assessment to co-formulate your objectives.
My approach ensures every one of my 500+ senior health leadership clients is underpinned by the same 17.4% proven outcome published in BMJ Leader.
Additional Services: Based on the intensity of support required for your current level of complexity.
While every Partnership shares the same time-effective, ethical and scientific foundations, the depth and duration of our work are determined by your unique needs.
Use the guide below as an illustrative starting point; during our Consultation, we will co-design the exact intensity and scope required to match your specific professional context, including high-impact needs like Interview Consultancy.
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The Focused Health Leader Partnership CURRENTLY VIEWING |
The Strategic Health Leader Partnership | The Global Health Leader Partnership | |
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| Primary Goal | Immediate impact for specific challenges | Long-term impact and sustained leadership | Global responsibility under extreme pressure |
| Duration & Intensity | 9 hours over 6 months, use hours as needed | 18 hours per 12 months, use hours as needed | Up to 54 hours per 12+ months, use hours as needed |
| Session Duration Flexibility | Fixed 90-minute sessions | Flexible duration every session (30–90 minutes) | Fully flexible session lengths (30–180 mins), from rapid crisis support to deep-dive strategy |
| Rescheduling Flexibility | 48 hours' notice to reschedule | No notice required to reschedule | No notice required to reschedule |
| Priority Access & Crisis Support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bespoke Learning Resources | No | Academically referenced resources | Academically referenced resources |
| Annual Leadership 360° Assessment | Available (TLQ / Real World Leader) | Yes (TLQ plus optional stakeholder interviews) | Yes (TLQ plus optional stakeholder interviews) |
| Exclusive Masterclasses & Strategy Days | No | No | Personalised masterclasses & quarterly strategy sessions |
| Proven Wellbeing Outcomes | +17.4% | +17.4% | +17.4% |
| Book a Consultation | View Details | View Details |
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The Focused Health Leader Partnership
Immediate impact for specific challenges
Primary Goal
Immediate impact for specific challenges
Duration & Intensity
9 hours over 6 months, use hours as needed
Session Duration Flexibility
Fixed 90-minute sessions
Rescheduling Flexibility
48 hours' notice to reschedule
Priority Access & Crisis Support
No
Bespoke Learning Resources
No
Annual Leadership 360° Assessment
Available (TLQ / Real World Leader)
Exclusive Masterclasses & Strategy Days
No
Proven Wellbeing Outcomes
+17.4%
The Strategic Health Leader Partnership
Long-term impact and sustained leadership
Primary Goal
Long-term impact and sustained leadership
Duration & Intensity
18 hours per 12 months, use hours as needed
Session Duration Flexibility
Flexible duration every session (30–90 minutes)
Rescheduling Flexibility
No notice required to reschedule
Priority Access & Crisis Support
Yes
Bespoke Learning Resources
Academically referenced resources
Annual Leadership 360° Assessment
Yes (TLQ plus optional stakeholder interviews)
Exclusive Masterclasses & Strategy Days
No
Proven Wellbeing Outcomes
+17.4%
The Global Health Leader Partnership
Global responsibility under extreme pressure
Primary Goal
Global responsibility under extreme pressure
Duration & Intensity
Up to 54 hours per 12+ months, use hours as needed
Session Duration Flexibility
Fully flexible session lengths (30–180 mins), from rapid crisis support to deep-dive strategy
Rescheduling Flexibility
No notice required to reschedule
Priority Access & Crisis Support
Yes
Bespoke Learning Resources
Academically referenced resources
Annual Leadership 360° Assessment
Yes (TLQ plus optional stakeholder interviews)
Exclusive Masterclasses & Strategy Days
Personalised masterclasses & quarterly strategy sessions
Proven Wellbeing Outcomes
+17.4%
If You’re Experiencing Burnout, You’re Not Failing
Burnout in senior health leadership often looks like:
- Ongoing exhaustion and feeling ‘drained’
- Emotional flatness or irritability
- Loss of motivation
- Feeling trapped between responsibility and depletion
Burnout is not weakness. It is often the cost of sustained responsibility without an evidence-based space to reflect and recalibrate.
This coaching psychology partnership helps you:
- Understand what is truly draining you
- Rebuild sustainable energy
- Reset boundaries without losing authority
- Reconnect with meaning and purpose
You can lead powerfully without sacrificing yourself. But some things may need to change.
A Structured, Proven Process for Career Decisions
My five-step career coaching framework — Plan, Do, Study, Decide, Act — is tailored to your unique circumstances.
We may work on:
- Clarifying your personal and professional priorities
- Understanding your leadership strengths
- Career vision and option appraisal
- Job search strategy and senior role applications
- Interview preparation
- Networking and professional positioning
- Work-life balance and long-term career sustainability
- Transition to independent consultancy or peri-retirement
You will gain clear next steps, renewed confidence, and peace of mind about your future direction.
You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone
Leadership at this level can feel isolating. Having an experienced, confidential thinking partner can change everything.
If you’re ready to feel clearer, calmer, and more confident about what comes next:
Book a confidential exploratory call.
FAQs
The first step is to book a Confidential Consultation with me here.
I am an expert medical and public health career coach, and my practice is underpinned by rigorous theory of the psychology of work. I can help you to understand what you need, and provide guidance on your options and next steps.
Yes. I include mentoring for doctors in leadership roles and public health leaders in my coaching partnerships. As an expert mentor in medical and public health careers, I have coached hundreds of senior doctors and health leaders. My professional development coaching and mentoring programmes provide tailored, high-quality CPD.
Yes. I offer a tailored personal and professional development partnership for senior doctors and public health leaders. From our first consultation to our final session, my expertise in medical and public health leadership will guide you through a customised coaching partnership. This will help you take charge of your career and professional growth as a leader, whether you’re a physician, general practitioner, surgeon, or in public health.
Yes. As an expert Medical Career Advisor, Career Coach and Career Counsellor for Medical Directors and Chief Medical Officers, I can help you with career support with any aspect of your professional life!
Public Health is facing unprecedented challenges both locally and globally. I can help you with all aspects of your senior public health leadership career.
Yes! I specialise in medical leadership career support and the careers of medical and public health leaders.
The Focused Health Leader Partnership is a career coaching and career counselling programme for senior doctors in leadership roles and public health leaders
Coaching for Doctors
I coach doctors in leadership roles, such as:
- Clinical Leads
- Clinical Directors
- Medical Directors
- Chief Medical Officers
- Medical Academic Leaders
- Medical Education Leaders
- Medical CEOs
- Clinical Chairs
- Associate, Deputy, and Executive Doctors
Consultant Physicians, Surgeons, GP Leaders, and GP Partners also play key roles. I support Clinical Commissioners, Clinical Network Directors, and those aiming to be Medical Directors.
I also offer coaching for:
- Clinical Chief Officers
- ICS Clinical Directors
- ICS Medical Directors
- Medical technology consultants
- Health informatics specialists
- Innovation leads
- Public and global health medical specialists
Coaching is available for Medical Educators, including Directors of Medical Education and Clinical Deans. I assist senior Doctors, Physicians, Surgeons, Specialty Doctors, and SAS doctors in leadership. I also coach post-CCT doctors in roles like:
- Experienced NHS consultants
- General practitioners in leadership
- Medical professionals in clinical practice
- Healthcare providers in leadership
- Medical managers
Coaching for Public Health, Global Health & International Health Leaders
I coach leaders in public health, including:
- Public health specialists
- Consultants in Public Health
- Consultants in Health Protection
- Senior Epidemiologists
- Directors of Public Health
- Unit Heads
- Directors-General
Public Health Leaders, academics, and global health leaders focus on policy and strategy. My services also suit senior epidemiologists and public health scientists.
Coaching for Senior Health Leaders
I provide coaching for NHS Chief Executives, NHS Accountable Officers, and NHS Executive Directors. This includes Directors of Strategy & Transformation, People, Workforce, and Human Resources Directors, Chief Nursing Officers, and Directors of Nursing. My coaching also supports Healthcare CEOs, NHS Chairs, Executive Directors in the NHS, healthcare commissioners, and ICS Chief Executives and Chief Operating Officers.
1-1 Coaching Partnerships
For Immediate Impact
The Focused Health Leader
Partnership
Under 6 Months
- Career clarity and leadership support
- Burnout recovery and sustainable leadership
For Long-Term Impact
The Strategic Health Leader
Partnership
12 Months +
- System mastery and complex change
- High performance, protected wellbeing
For Global Health Leaders
The Global Health Leader
Partnership
12 Months +
- Thrive in global complexity
- Sustained population health impact
