1-1 Coaching Partnerships
For Immediate Impact
The Focused Health Leader
Partnership
Under 6 Months
- Rapid 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
When you are under sustained pressure and need longer-term support with your leadership, wellbeing, and career direction: The Strategic Health Leader Partnership.
A confidential strategic partnership to support health leaders in ongoing complexity over a 12+ month period.
Health leadership today demands clarity in complexity, resilience under pressure, and sustained strategic capability. And on top of that you need to manage your career progression and take care of yourself too.
Perhaps you are:
- Needing fresh perspectives and new skills to thrive
- Wishing to feel more confident and at ease in a challenging role
- Wanting to improve your communication and relationships at work
- Looking to refocus or restructure your role(s)
- Wanting to transform your approach to resilience
This is long-term leadership development, grounded in real system challenges. We will also address any career direction or wellbeing challenges you are facing.
The Strategic Health Leader Partnership is best for leaders in ‘untidy’ roles who need a long-term thinking partner for ongoing system complexity.
Dr Fiona Day, Strategic Thinking Partner & Chartered Coaching Psychologist
Board-Level Experience: I integrate 30 years of population health expertise and board-level medical and public health leadership experience to act as a dedicated ‘thinking partner’ for those leading across complex systems.
Sustained Strategic Support: My practice is built on providing psychological containment and high-level challenge over 12+ months, helping you thrive amidst ambiguity and sustained pressure.
Unrivalled Standards: As a Chartered Psychologist (the UK’s highest psychological award), my work is published in BMJ Leader and delivers a 17.4% increase in wellbeing scores for the health leaders I support.
I am a peer in our relationship, guided by values of partnership, expertise, and compassion.
Together we will:
Enhance Your Strategic Leadership Capability
Learn how to view the bigger picture, and be comfortable moving between detail and strategy when required.
Clarify Your Unique Development Priorities
Understand your personal and professional development needs including your unique psychological growth edges.
Strengthen Your Decision-Making In Uncertainty
Learn how to be comfortable with ‘untidy’ roles without clear boundaries and to be effective in making decisions when the future is unknown and unknowable.
Expand Your Capacity To Lead Across Boundaries
Become a skilled partner across organisational silos and complex systems.
Build Adaptive, Flexible Responses To Complex Change
Become more psychologically flexible and able to pivot between multiple roles, while staying grounded.
Where helpful, evidence-based tools such as the Real World Group’s ‘Transformational Engaging Leader’ 360 or ‘Real World Leader’ assessment may inform your growth.
If you’re ready to feel clearer, calmer, and more confident about what comes next:
Book a confidential exploratory call.
Fiona speaks with great common sense based on considerable experience. I was always struck at how she could bring a different perspective to the issues I was dealing with.
Fiona has enabled me to nurture myself into a confident leader who seeks new challenges and is not afraid to say no to tasks & projects that do not satisfy my core values.
I always left the conversations feeling refocused, energised and empowered. Fiona facilitated our conversations with great expertise, professionalism, compassion and empathy.
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.
The Foundational Layer of every Partnership ensures a confidential, safe, and neuro-inclusive space grounded in professional ethics (EMCC & BPS). Using a psychologically-informed, biopsychosocial approach, I integrate cognitive-behavioural and neuroscience techniques to help you manage extreme pressure and lead effectively through complex system change.
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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.
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.
| The Focused Health Leader Partnership | The Strategic Health Leader PartnershipCurrently Viewing | The Global Health Leader Partnership | |
| 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+ month, use hours as needed |
| Session Duration Flexibility | Fixed 90 minute sessions | Flexible duration for every session (30-90 minutes) | Fully Flexible Session Lengths (30-180 mins): To match the intensity of your needs, from rapid crisis support to deep-dive strategy sessions |
| Rescheduling Flexibility | 7-day notice to reschedule | No notice required to reschedule | No notice required to reschedule |
| Priority Access & Crisis Support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Needs Assessment to Co-Formulate Objectives | Focused | Comprehensive | Comprehensive |
| Bespoke Learning Resources | No | Academically referenced resources | Academically referenced resources |
| Annual Leadership 360′ Assessment | No | Yes (TLQ/ Real World Leader) | 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% |
A Thinking Partner for Complex Roles
You are likely leading within ambiguity — balancing organisational politics, population outcomes, workforce pressures, and personal accountability.
This partnership provides:
- A safe, confidential space to think clearly and strategically
- Structured reflection to deepen leadership judgement
- Support to navigate live system challenges
- Integration of coaching and mentoring, drawing on board-level medical and public health experience
We work together at the levels you operate including organisational, system, and personal.
Plan Your Future Career
During the year, we can use my five-step career coaching framework — Plan, Do, Study, Decide, Act — is tailored to your unique circumstances.
We can work on any aspect of your future career, including understanding your needs, reviewing options, making decisions, strengthening your CV, LinkedIn, job search and job applications and interviews.
You will gain clear next steps, renewed confidence, and peace of mind about your future direction.
Sustainable Performance & Burnout Prevention
Senior health leaders are particularly vulnerable to chronic stress and moral strain.
Across the year, you will:
- Build early awareness of burnout indicators
- Strengthen emotional regulation under pressure
- Develop sustainable workload and boundary practices
- Lead from values without self-sacrifice
- Protect your wellbeing while maintaining ambition
This is about enduring leadership, not short bursts of performance.
Innovation, Confidence & Growth
You will be supported to:
- Take developmentally appropriate risks
- Increase your tolerance for uncertainty
- Design safe-to-fail experiments
- Simplify strategy without losing nuance
- Explore career pathways aligned with long-term impact
Small shifts, integrated consistently, lead to lasting change.
Why a Minimum of 12 Months?
Complex leadership challenges unfold over time. So does meaningful development.
- A longer-term partnership allows:
- Deep integration of new behaviours
- Support through real organisational cycles
- Continuity during career transitions
- Sustainable capability growth rather than quick fixes
Many senior medical and public health leaders value having a trusted, consistent partner alongside them as contexts evolve.
The Strategic Health Leader Partnership is designed to strengthen your leadership capacity and career direction for the long term — so you can serve systems, teams, and populations without compromising your own sustainability.
FAQs
Please email me or book a Confidential Consultation here.
Yes. My 1:1 bespoke coaching partnerships for General Practitioners (GPs), coaching for medical directors, leadership coaching for NHS consultants and healthcare clinical leaders, and coaching for DsPH are all tailored to your specific learning needs through a comprehensive needs assessment including evidence-based psychometrics.
Yes. Coaching for doctors of medicine and public health leaders is emerging as the most effective method of leadership development, and is the only evidence-based method which can respond to the dynamic context you lead in. This Partnership is for a minimum of 12 months which ensures that impacts are sustained whether you are a physician, surgeon, public health leader, general practitioner leader.
Yes. As well as leadership coaching for health leaders, I also offer staff development training and group coaching courses – these are organised via employers for a cohort of staff or a whole senior leadership team.
Yes. This was found in a recent systematic umbrella review. While many leadership development courses for doctors exist in medical CPD and public health training, they often overlook the personal self-awareness needed for success as a senior public health or medical leader. This self-awareness is best achieved through 1:1 coaching, supporting effective communication skills and positive leadership behaviours in the workplace.
I offer medical leadership courses and leadership skills training for physicians, surgeons, general practitioner and public health leaders for groups of staff. Through 1:1 coaching partnerships, I can help you develop the crucial public health and medical leadership skills needed for your career success.
Yes. Adults learn best by doing, my coaching and mentoring programmes for medical and public health leaders focus on skills. They are unique and customised to fit your personal and professional needs.
Yes. As a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, all my coaching partnerships are evidence-based. I use cognitive-behavioural, adult development, and leadership psychology theories. This approach helps you build strong skills in medical management and leadership for doctors. You’ll enhance your clinical healthcare and public health leadership skills now and for the future.
Yes. I also use mentoring in my leadership coaching partnerships for doctors and public health leaders. This helps teach new skills for your professional development. You’ll advance your skills in your speciality, whether in medicine, surgery, general practice, or public health. This prepares you to be a clinical and health leader of the future.
Yes. I offer executive coaching for doctors and executive coaching for medical directors, physicians, healthcare leadership coaching, leadership courses for doctors, leadership coaching for doctors, leadership development for doctors, leadership for medics, leadership skills for doctors, leadership training for doctors, business coaching for doctors with medic leadership development. You’re in the right place!
Yes. If you need an expert medical leadership coach, I can help you to cope as a medical leader, my medical leadership courses and coaching partnerships will help you with medical leadership development. I can help with medical management training, mentoring for medical directors, mentoring for medical leaders, and I am also a public health leadership coach.
If you’re wondering why doctors need leadership training and why doctors need to be leaders, the evidence is clear: better outcomes for patients and populations! As a medical leadership coach, I can help you to cope as a medical director with my expert medical leadership coaching programmes.
The Strategic Health Leader Partnership is a coaching programme suitable for senior doctors, medical, public health leaders, and healthcare leaders
Coaching for Doctors
Doctors in leadership roles including:
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Clinical Leads
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Clinical Directors
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Medical Directors
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Chief Medical Officers
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Medical Academic Leaders
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Medical Education Leaders
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Medical CEOs
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Clinical Chairs
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Associate, Deputy, and Executive level Doctors
Consultant Physicians, Surgeons, GP Leaders, and GP Partners also play key roles. I provide coaching for Clinical Commissioners, Clinical Network Directors, and aspiring Medical Directors.
I also offer coaching for:
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Clinical Chief Officers
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ICS Clinical Directors
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ICS Medical Directors
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Medical technology consultants
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Health informatics specialists
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Innovation leads
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Public and global health medical specialists
Coaching is available for Medical Educators, including Directors of Medical Education and Clinical Deans, as well as clinical leaders and epidemiologists. My support extends to senior Doctors, Physicians, Surgeons, Specialty Doctors, and SAS doctors in leadership. I also offer coaching for other post-CCT doctors in leadership roles such as:
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Experienced NHS consultants
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General practitioners in leadership
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Medical professionals in clinical practice
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Healthcare providers in leadership
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Medical managers in management roles.
Coaching for Public Health, Global Health & International Health Leaders
Including:
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Public health specialists
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Consultants in Public Health
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Consultants in Health Protection
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Senior Epidemiologists
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Directors of Public Health
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Unit Heads
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Directors-General
Public Health Leaders and academics, along with global health leaders, focus on policy and strategy. My services are also suitable for senior epidemiologists and public health scientists.
Coaching for Senior Health Leaders
Coaching is also offered for NHS Chief Executives, NHS Accountable Officers, NHS Executive Directors, including Directors of Strategy & Transformation, People, Workforce, and Human Resources Directors, Chief Nursing Officers, and Directors of Nursing. My coaching services are suitable for Healthcare CEOs, NHS Chairs, Executive Directors in the NHS, healthcare commissioners and providers, as well as ICS Chief Executives and Chief Operating Officers.
Choose your 1:1 Coaching Partnership:
As well as The Strategic Health Leader Partnership, I also offer leadership and career coaching Partnerships for medical and public health leaders:
The Focused Health Leader Coaching Partnership – Career clarity and leadership support for health leaders – under 6 months
The Global Health Leader Coaching Partnership – A unique service supporting global health leaders operating under extreme pressure – 12 months plus
