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Welcome
Are you a leader who:
- Wants to step into a new role with impact and authenticity?
- Faces a bigger remit or challenge and hopes to lead with confidence?
- Wants your team to move from ‘not bad’ to highly-functioning?
I’m Jess, and I can help.
Welcome to Self and System.
What I appreciate most is the way Jess brings a deeply human and pragmatic approach. This goes beyond the professional; she meets you where you are, without judgment, and helps you see what you simply could not see alone. I can only highly recommend working with Jess.
Aurelie Onimus
I would recommend Jess to others – she is a wonderful warm individual who I think has a talent at bringing out the best in people.
Professor Hilary Ranson
My sessions with Jess are the most useful two hours of my month. Jess' intelligent, empathetic and thoughtful approach makes her the perfect thinking partner and I leave feeling refreshed, re-energised and ready to take action.
Sarah Howden
I gained such a lot from working with Jess. She is a highly skilled listener, coach and trainer. My time with her has been invaluable and I continue to draw on the learning I’ve gained from working with her.
Natalie Burfitt
Who are you when you lead?
Most leadership development focuses on what leaders know.
I’m interested in what sits under that: the person doing the leading.
After all, can you leave yourself at home and just bring your leadership skills to work?
Sometimes the patterns that get in our way are the very ones that helped us get where we are. They’ve worked and they’ve brought us success. So changing them can feel risky.
The inner work of noticing what’s really going on, making the invisible more visible, creates choice about what happens next.
That’s the philosophy of Self and System. More awareness, range and choice.
One-to-one Coaching
A space to look beneath the surface of your leadership, understand your patterns and develop more choice in how you lead. And you don’t have to do this alone!
Team Coaching
Helping teams see and shift the patterns and dynamics that shape how they work together.
I work with the person behind the role. Your patterns. Your assumptions. Your relationship with yourself. What happens when the pressure goes up. What you avoid. What gets under your skin. How you respond when someone challenges you. And how much freedom you have in the way you show up.
We start with Self, because leadership starts there.
But none of us exists in isolation. We’re part of teams, organisations, relationships and wider systems that shape how we think, behave and lead. And we shape those systems too, often without realising it.