Coaching Services
Supporting CEOs, Headteachers, School Leaders, SLTs and Multi-Academy Trusts
Leading schools in today’s system, particularly in high‑deprivation and high‑scrutiny contexts, demands more than skill.
We partner with school & MAT leaders to do deep, honest coaching that explores identity, values and lived experience, so leadership remains sustainable, courageous and effective.
Integrity Coaching offers coaching services tailored to 3 different roles.
What are the benefits of Coaching?
NFER: Mentoring and Coaching for Professionals: A study of research evidence – 2009
Research from this study found that when offered as a support mechanism for School Leaders the following benefits were found to be in evidence.
Support the Well-Being of School Leaders
Coaching supports the psychological well-being and confidence of School Leaders. Headship can be professionally isolating and so School Leaders need opportunities where they can explore the challenges of the role, be listened to and identify solutions that can best support them in their role. Above all, a happy and healthy School Leader leads to a happy and healthy school.
Enhances Leadership Skills
Coaching deepens leadership knowledge, skills and practice and develops leaders’ problem solving and creativity. As a result, time is used more productively for overcoming complex challenges and school improvement initiatives are able to make greater impact.
Increased Emotional Resilience
Coaching helps to build the emotional resilience of School Leaders by enabling leaders to reflect on challenges they are facing and how to overcome them. Coaching provides a space where Heads can identify new tools and ways of thinking and being, that will better equip them for facing and dealing with crises and struggles when they arise.
Develops Self-Awareness and Self-Management
Coaching enhances leaders’ reflection and thinking skills and allows Heads to become more self-aware and better at self-management. This results in leaders who know how to build on their strengths and address areas for development in themselves. Leaders are then able to transfer this learning to deal more successfully with others.
Improves Communication and Relationship Management
Coaching has been shown to help build Heads’ communication and relationship management skills. After coaching, Heads feel more able to handle difficult conversations which helps to reduce conflict and promotes greater harmony across all relationships.How do our Coaching Processes work?
All our coaching processes are bespoke, personalised and focus on four key areas to help you to uncover the tools that you need for building excellence in yourself and others.
Vision
Achieving clarity about what you want for yourself and your school
Values
Strengthening your moral purpose and ability to make the right (and sometimes tough) choices
Beliefs
Creating positive beliefs about what can be achieved, to help realise your own strengths and capabilities
Behaviours
Embedding new behaviours to support the development of excellence in yourself and others
Testimonials
Integrity Coaching provides the type of services that every School Leader needs; independence, compassionate and understanding: expert coaches who listen to you and work with you in a humane way, to bring to life the particular vision that you have for the staff and pupils in your school.
Michael Rosen
School Governor, Author & former Children’s Poet Laureate
" Coaching sessions have enabled me to focus on personal goals within the workplace and have made me allocate time within my working week to focus on important issues. My coach prompted me to consider dealing with a difficult professional relationship within work and to find a solution to improving this from my perspective. Mark has been an excellent coach, helping me to develop a succession plan in readiness for my retirement and coaching me through a solution-focused approach to managing a difficult work-based relationship. This has been the best coaching experience I have had."
"My coaching journey with Viv was a truly foundational part of my development as a school leader. The coaching sessions were brilliant, they offered me the space, time, and challenge I needed to clarify my leadership vision and translate it into meaningful action. Viv’s expertise, compassion, and skill created an environment where I could reflect deeply, grow in confidence, and strengthen my ability to lead with integrity. The impact of that work has stayed with me throughout my leadership journey, and I remain incredibly grateful for the role Viv played in helping me become the leader I am today."
"What I’ve learnt from being a Headteacher is that the job may not get any easier but what changes is your ability to deal with it and that’s how Integrity Coaching has helped me. The coaching relationship has supported me to better manage and overcome the stresses of School Leadership, particularly when other people are involved. It has helped me become a nicer person to be around in school and my staff have really noticed the difference. I’m also just so much more efficient after coaching, you can just get so much more out of me now. I think that’s played a significant role in contributing to my school’s performance."
“Viv’s vast experience enabled her to analyse our discussions an get to the nuts and bolts of the situation very quickly. I can safely say that Integrity Coaching will meet your specific needs and provide you with the tools to improve, even if practice is already deemed outstanding.”
“My time with Integrity Coaching gave me the environment and space to examine my motivations and my thoughts. They helped me reflect on why I do the things that I do, in the way that I do them. In doing so, they were able to bring me back to what motivated me to do this job in the first place. They showed me how to get back in control, renew my purpose and zeal for my job. I quickly developed more confidence and self-belief and I have since seen the impact it has had on the rest of my school, from my SLT, the children to the governors.”
“Integrity’s coaching allowed me to truly appreciate the importance of leading by example and modelling the self-care that I wanted to see in my team. After Coaching, I began to look after myself more carefully and in doing so, I was able to notice how when I feel better, I’m also able to lead better.”
Integrity Coaching Case Studies
Read case studies written by Headteachers, School Leaders and Governors
