• You’re a successful professional who has got to the top with high degrees of intelligence and specialist skills. The next step is to be seen as a leader and rainmaker, and communicate more effectively.

• The company is doing well but it needs a refreshed direction and focus. You need to bring everyone together again so that you can all agree and re-energise around why we’re here, what we do and what makes us great and special. Then act accordingly.

• The Firm needs to perform better with strategic clients. The service you provide is great but you don’t have the share of wallet you know you should, and you need to build wider and deeper relationships so that the accounts are secure and growing.

• You’re planning an offsite or workshop which has to have a clear focus and real engagement by those involved.

There should be many great stories but only one Strategic Narrative. That is the driving force for effective leadership, real differentiation, deeper client relationships and alignment between colleagues who all need to point in the same direction.

This is the work I do, working at the intersection between coaching, consulting and mentoring.

Individual professionals will challenged and supported to define what they stand for and why - and then are encouraged to live it through their decisions, actions and behaviours.

Firms and teams will become clear and focused, aligned around an agreed story that they all understand.

Strategic accounts can be grown through a move from valued supplier to Trusted Partner.

I give keynotes and lead workshops based on this approach, and can facilitate your event in a way that connects different sessions to create a coherent flow. I spent 10 years as a TV and radio reporter for the BBC, ITN and Sky. I then founded and ran three successful, award-winning businesses, selling one to a US NASDAQ business. I have coached, trained and consulted with leaders, professionals and those working on the front line with clients.

I am co-authoring a book for Economist Books on trust, called ‘Choose Trust’.

Let’s talk.

Stuart Maister