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Brian Westley

Coaching

Career, leadership and sales coaching — Manchester and online

Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute discovery session. Sessions run for 60 minutes and include my time between sessions to set and review the work.
Career CoachingLeadership CoachingSales Coaching
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Career coaching

You chose at 18 or 19 what to do with your life. Life doesn't work that way.

Most of us go through a major career shift roughly every ten years. That isn't failure — it's arithmetic. The question is whether the next shift happens to you, or is chosen by you.

How we work

We start with your why — what actually matters to you, underneath the job titles. Then your how — the way you want to work, the gifts you want used. Only then your what — the role, the sector, the move. Done in that order, the answer holds.

Does this sound like you?

  • “I am totally burnt out.”
  • “How do I find a career that uses my gifts?”
  • “I don't believe in my company, my boss or my industry any more.”
  • “Is this all there is?”
  • “I should be happy by now — but I'm not.”
  • “I need work-life balance.”
  • “I'm so overwhelmed; there's never enough time.”
  • “On paper it looks great, but something's missing.”
  • “I achieved what others wanted. Now I want what I want.”
  • “How do I get to the next level?”
Book a free 30-minute consultation

Free, 30 minutes, no obligation — a good way to see if we make a good partnership.

Leadership coaching

For people aspiring to lead — and leaders who want to be more effective

Many people call these soft skills. I call them critical skills. They are what decides whether your team follows you, and whether the people above you listen.

Does this sound like you?

  • “Can I really be a leader — or am I an imposter?”
  • “How do I communicate better?”
  • “How do I network better?”
  • “How do I manage upwards?”
  • “How do I help my team navigate change?”
  • “How do I handle competing priorities?”
  • “How do I manage conflict?”
  • “Why won't my staff deliver?”
  • “How do I recharge now that I'm burnt out?”

The three-step method

  1. 1

    Leadership 360

    Structured conversations with your colleagues, direct reports and manager, so we start from how you actually land — not how you assume you do.

  2. 2

    Personal development plan

    We build a PDP together from what the 360 surfaces: a small number of goals that would genuinely change your effectiveness.

  3. 3

    Ongoing sessions

    Regular 60-minute sessions applying targeted tools and techniques against those goals, reviewed and adjusted as you go.

“I love working with leaders at global matrixed companies, becoming their thinking partner to overcome the interferences that hold them back and propel them forward using their unique strengths.”
Brian Westley
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Free, 30 minutes, no obligation — a good way to see if we make a good partnership.

Sales coaching

Consultative selling and personal impact for sales leaders

Short, focused work on how you sell and how you come across: diagnosing the client's real problem before offering a solution, and DiSC®-informed work on adapting your communication style to the person across the table.
Working with Brian I realised that not every choice in life is “either… or…”. Through his curious, trustworthy and attentive coaching style I transformed my unknowns into a vision of great possibilities.
Veronika Hobor — Switzerland
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Free, 30 minutes, no obligation — a good way to see if we make a good partnership.