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Executive Coaching for HR Leaders Navigating Complex Absence & High Stakes People Decisions.  

A confidential, senior level thinking partnership for HR Directors, Senior HR Business Partners and People Leaders managing complex sickness absence, workforce health challenges and high stakes people decisions.

HR leaders often carry emotionally heavy, ambiguous or risk sensitive absence cases without a safe space to think clearly. This service provides specialist executive coaching for HR leaders managing complex absence, giving you structure, clarity and reflective distance.

When cases feel ambiguous, emotionally heavy or risk laden, this coaching provides the clarity and reflective space you rarely get inside your organisation.

 

 

DECISION FOCUSED EXECUTIVE COACHING PROGRAMME 
 

A specialist coaching programme for HR professionals responsible for complex absence, workforce health decisions and sensitive people issues

 

A 3 month coaching engagement designed for HR leaders dealing with complex absence and workforce health decisions.


This programme gives you a structured, confidential space to:
 

  • Think clearly about difficult or sensitive cases

  • Sense check decisions before taking action

  • Explore options and implications without pressure

  • Strengthen emotional regulation and resilience

  • identify blind spots, assumptions and patterns

  • Reduce cognitive load in high stakes HR and complex absence situations

  • Hold boundaries and avoid becoming the emotional container for everyone else

 

The goal isn’t to give you advice.
The goal is to help you think well.

 

 

WHAT'S INCLUDED 

 

Your coaching programme is designed specifically to support the thinking required in complex absence, workforce health and sensitive HR decision making

  • 6 × 60-minute coaching sessions over 3 months

  • Delivered virtually (Teams / Zoom)

  • A calm, structured thinking space

  • Non-directive exploration of decisions and next steps

  • Insight and reflection drawn from 20+ years in workplace health

  • Optional email check ins between sessions

  • Every session is confidential and focused on you — not the case.

 

 

WHAT THIS COMPLEX ABSENCE COACHING DOES NOT INCLUDE 
 

To stay within coaching boundaries and practice, this programme does not include:
 

  • Legal advice

  • Clinical or medical advice

  • HR or operational decision making

  • Case management or coordination

  • Written reports or recommendations

  • Guidance on organisational processes or capability outcomes

 

All decisions remain your responsibility.
My role is to support the quality of your thinking, not to instruct or influence organisational action.

 

 

​WHO THIS COACHING IS FOR
 

This programme is designed for senior HR professionals who hold accountability for complex sickness absence, workforce health decisions and emotionally sensitive cases, including:

 

  • HR Directors

  • Senior HR Business Partners

  • Heads of People or Wellbeing

  • Senior Leaders handling complex absence or workforce health conversations
     

If the emotional, human or organisational weight of these cases is landing on your desk, this coaching is for you.

COMMON COMPLEX ABSENCE CHALLENGES HR LEADERS BRING TO COACHING

HR leaders typically come to coaching when managing challenges such as:
 

  • long Term sickness absence with uncertain return outcomes

  • mental health related absence and fluctuating capacity

  • sensitive health disclosures impacting performance or capability

  • cases where HR becomes the emotional container for employees or managers

  • ambiguity around risk, wellbeing and organisational pressure

  • decisions that feel high stakes, sensitive or reputationally significant

INVESTMENT 
 

Pricing for executive coaching for HR leaders managing complex absence and workforce health decisions
 

  • 3 Month Coaching Programme: £2,500 - £3,500 (depending on scope and level of seniority)

  • Optional ongoing monthly retainer support is available for continued decision focused coaching.

NEXT STEP

If you want a confidential, structured space to think through complex decisions with steadiness and clarity:

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👉 Book an introductory call OR 👉 Get in touch to explore whether this coaching is the right fit

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