Leaders Rising

Susie Rushden: Executive, Leadership & Team Coach

Unleashing leadership and uniting teams with emotional intelligence, trust and action.

I help frustrated executives and C-Suite leaders elevate performance and fix fractured teams.

200+

15+

years experience

clients

700+

hours of coaching

What’s keeping you up at night?

Let’s put it to bed!

Reveal Ignite Strive Evolve

Rising leaders:
Take your career to new heights

What’s standing between you and your leadership goals?

  • Feeling overworked and undervalued

  • Facing constant stress and high pressure

  • Struggling with influence and credibility

  • Stuck in patterns that limit your potential

  • Stagnating development and wellbeing

You’re not alone. These are just some of the challenges faced daily by leaders seeking coaching.

I can help you:

✓ Accelerate promotion and financial security

✓ Strengthen confidence and resilience

✓ Leverage stress for peak performance

✓ Juggle stakeholders and navigate complex team dynamics

✓ Prioritise personal development and growth

✓ Master work-life balance to side-step burnout

Imagine a world where your hard work is valued, respected, and rewarded. You are secure in the knowledge your career path is clear. You feel free and fulfilled in all aspects of life.

Get unstuck and Elevate your career in just 12 weeks: Join my Leaders RISE programme today.

Entrepreneurs and board teams:
Fix fractured teams to elevate performance

When teams lack cohesion, the problems are limitless:

  • Low trust and high conflict

  • Siloed thinking and poor communication

  • Misaligned leaders, values, or behaviours

  • Stifled creativity and resistance to change

  • Low accountability and wasted resources

  • Missed targets, failed projects, and high employee turnover

The effects can be widespread, but there are solutions that work - I’ve seen it first-hand.

I can help you:

✓ Speed up decisions and strengthen execution

✓ Reinvigorate innovation and strategic initiatives

✓ Foster flexibility and openness to change

✓ Lift employee morale and retention

✓ Reassure stakeholders

✓ Revive profit and growth

Imagine your team is entirely self sufficient. Aligned by trust and shared values, they collaborate, innovate, and execute with seamless agility, consistently delivering real, sustainable results.

Fix fractured teams and elevate performance in just 12-weeks: Join my Teams RISE programme today.

Investing in Emotional Intelligence pays dividends

The evidence is clear: Building trust by raising Emotional Intelligence elevates productivity, wellbeing and profit.

People at high-trust companies report:

(Harvard Business Review, cf. low-trust companies)

50%

Higher productivity

106%

More Energy

13%

Less sick days

Highly empathetic coaching from a seasoned pro

  • Extensive Senior leadership experience, heading up Sales and Development

  • A sector-agnostic approach based on systems and psychology

  • Professional Certificate in Systemic Board & Team Coaching (Henley Business School)

  • Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Birkbeck University)

  • Diploma in Counselling

  • PCC from ICF

  • 200+ individual and team clients

  • 700+ hours of coaching

200+

15+

years experience

clients

700+

hours of coaching

Coaching style:

A head for business, a heart for people

I specialise in providing no-nonsense solutions, drawing on high Emotional Intelligence.

I’ve been called the perfect contradiction:

  • High grit and high empathy

  • Results-focused yet caring

  • Ready to challenge and champion

  • Rapidly unpacks systemic challenges

  • Confident both in the boardroom and at the ‘coal face’

  • Uncanny ability to sense unhelpful emotions bubbling beneath the surface

  • Disarms tensions with tact and a winning sense of humour

I’ll guide you, or your team, through the 4 pillars of success

Reveal

Ignite

Strive

Evolve

Together, we’ll make next-level results a reality.

My four unique cornerstones for success

Action, not hype!

  • Weeks: 1-3

    We'll partner to identify which coaching techniques align with you, or your team's unique style to bring laser-sharp clarity to your vision.

    • What is your biggest passion or driving force?

    • What does success look like to you?

    • What's blocking the path to your vision?

    • How committed are you to achieving what you want?

  • Weeks: 4-6

    We'll create a tailored plan using specific actions and strategies to explore, embrace, and expand your true leadership or team potential.

    • What goals must be reached create to achieving your vision of success?

    • Which of your strengths, values, and resources can we tap into or develop to achieve them?

    • Which resilience tools do we tailor for you to overcome potential obstacles and level up results?

    • What do you need to keep focused and accountable?

  • Weeks: 6-8

    What setbacks do you find the hardest to overcome?

    What resources, skills and behaviours can we tap into or develop to strengthen your resilience?

    What will keep you motivated to overcome future obstacles?

    Together we'll explore what purposeful, sustainable change requires from you or your team holistically, and cocreate your high-impact strategy for assured success.

  • Weeks: 9 -12

    Now we level up and carefully explore your boundaries and elevate your new skills towards peak performance.

    By enhancing your adaptability and creativity, we’ll nurture your strengths, refine your new skills, and explore your original goals through a wider lens so you can shoot for the moon and achieve the success and transformation you signed up for.

  • REVEAL CLARITY

    • Success foundations

    • Empowered emotional intelligence for leaders

    • The secret leadership advantage

    • Stress Management

    IGNITE purpose

    • Negotiating with Impact

    • The art of delegation and saying 'no'

    • Sales Masterclass

    • Mastering feedback and hard conversations

    STRENGTHEN leadership

    • Building Team Trust

    • Strengthening your leadership and team voice

    • Managing high conflict personalities

    • Leading through change with integrity and impact

    ELEVATE performance

    • Mastering the tools for peak performance

    • Excelling with complex motivation

    • Utilising stress to excel under pressure

    • Enhancing systemic influence to raise your personal and team stake

    • Reaping the rewards you deserve

    My integrative coaching approach draws from diverse methodologies, psychological theories, and self-development practices grounded in evidence-based principles.

    The 12-week program is tailored to create the comprehensive coaching experience for client so modules choices may vary.

“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times... The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. ”
— Milhaly Csikszentmihaly

Kind words from clients

  • “One of the most inspirational and talented sales leaders I know … Her emotional intelligence is truly incredible! I would not hesitate to recommend Susie to any business looking to empower, inspire and upskill their workforce.”

    Nicole Plinston: Co-Founder and Director This is Prime

  • “Susie helped me gain clarity and perspective on my future goals. She is a kind, supportive coach who has enabled me to cut out the noise and get to the bottom of what makes me tick.”

    Ruth Hurd: Senior Project Manager Johnson and Johnson

  • “Susie is a one-off. She is non-judgemental, reassuring, and completely at ease in unknown or uncomfortable spaces. She has built a highly successful leadership career working within several aggressively competitive commercial organisations.”

    Karen Reynolds: Global Transformation Strategy W.T.W.

  • “Susie helped me uncover the deeper roots of my anxiety, understand my triggers, and master the tools I need to overcome them and thrive as a leader … I've experienced significant improvements in a relatively short time.”

    Senior Service Leader: Firebrand Training

  • “This self-awareness journey has improved my personal life and enhanced my leadership skills, allowing me to understand better and connect with those I lead.”

    Senior Sales Leader: Firebrand Training

Ready to RISE?

Get in touch to set up a free 30-minute discovery call