COACHING
Helping senior leaders
unlock their potential.
Executive and team coach, founder, organisational psychologist.
Coaching lies at the heart of our business
Suzanne Gough, PhD.
At Emica, a coaching philosophy underpins all that we do. We partner with senior leaders, founders and teams to help them successfully navigate change and strengthen their leadership and collective impact.
Our internationally experienced coaching and mentoring team strike the perfect balance between challenge and support to help our clients gain clarity, conviction, and confidence for sustainable impact at the individual, team and organisational levels.
Why leaders choose Emica
Our trusted network of experienced, credentialed coaches combine rigorous coaching practice with international business experience.
Supportive yet appropriately challenging partners, creating confidential, non-judgemental space. Our role is not to direct or prescribe, but to help clients see more clearly, think more broadly and act with intent.
We focus on building sustainable capability, not dependency. The client remains the hero of their own story. We are there to support, challenge and enable progress.
Emica’s coaching mindset
- Stay curious
- Walk alongside, not ahead
- Hold up the mirror
- Create safety, not dependency
- Listen for what’s said and unsaid
- Be a thinking partner
- Respect our cultural differences
Our coaching team
Internationally experienced, credentialed executive and team coaches with deep roots in organisational psychology and real-world leadership. We understand the pressures leaders face because we’ve worked inside complex, global organisations as well as alongside founders and growing teams.
Paul Ryder
Executive Coach Associate – HR Expert and Business Psychologist
Robin Lewis
Executive Coach Associate & HR Consultant
Suzanne Gough
Founder, Executive and Team Coach, Organizational Psychologist
Howard Gough
Principal and Consulting Practice Lead
Lana Murad
Executive Coaching Associate & Trainer
Fraser Gregory
Lead Associate – Finance And Commercial
Team & individual coaching to grow capability and impact.
OUR COACHING SERVICES
Bespoke coaching for senior executives seeking to perform at their best in complex and demanding roles. Our programmes are tailored to the individual and focused on building clarity, identifying blind spots, and strengthening critical leadership capabilities. Where helpful, coaching is supported by relevant assessments to deepen insight and accelerate development.
For HR leaders and senior teams looking to strengthen leadership capability across the organisation. We design coaching and development programmes aligned to your values, strategy, and context, supporting executives to grow as leaders while delivering organisational impact. Our approach typically combines psychometric assessments, 360‑degree feedback, and stakeholder interviews to establish clear, meaningful coaching objectives.
Coaching and development designed for the highly diverse environments common across the region. We support leaders to understand their own values, assumptions, and potential biases, and to navigate the risks inherent in multicultural teams. By building awareness and cultural intelligence, leaders are better able to harness diversity as a source of collaboration, creativity, and effective problem‑solving. Engagements may include Cultural Intelligence (CQ), behavioural preference assessments, and other cross‑cultural frameworks where appropriate
Founders and scale‑up leaders often juggle multiple roles while leading their organisations through constant change. Coaching provides a structured space to step back, gain clarity, and focus on what matters most. We support founders with goal‑setting, prioritisation, team composition, and leadership effectiveness—helping them navigate growth successfully while protecting their health and wellbeing.
We provide coaching supervision for coaches and leaders who use coaching skills in their role—offering a confidential, reflective space to enhance practice, maintain professional standards, and work with the complexity that comes with supporting others. Sessions typically explore live case material, the coaching relationship, boundaries and ethics, the coach’s use of self, and the wider organisational system. We draw on established supervision frameworks, including Hawkins & Shohet’s Seven-Eyed Model, to examine an issue through multiple lenses (client, coach, relationship/process, supervisor, and context), helping generate fresh insight and clear next steps.
Group supervision leverages the wisdom of the group to broaden perspective and normalise challenges, while individual supervision provides dedicated space to think out loud with a trusted partner and go deeper on sensitive or complex situations.
Many organisations recognise the value of managers who can hold effective coaching conversations as part of their leadership role. We introduce managers to core coaching principles and skills, helping them to listen more deeply, ask better questions, and engage and influence their teams more effectively. This approach strengthens performance, capability, and engagement across the organisation.
When challenges sit at the team rather than individual level—or when greater collective impact is required—team coaching provides a powerful intervention. Team coaching can help to:
- Realign the team around its core purpose
- Clarify ways of working and decision‑making
- Surface and address unspoken tensions
- Strengthen understanding of individual strengths and contributions
- Improve stakeholder relationships
- Align around strategy and priorities
Our approach is systemic, taking the team as the primary client. Where appropriate team coaching is complemented by individual coaching for the team leader and members to reinforce impact.
BENEFITS
What clients gain by choosing Emica
- Greater self awareness and inspirational insights into own behaviour and drivers.
- Define authentic leadership style and increase impact and influence
- Identify and leverage strengths and uncover blind spots and leadership derailers.
- Enhanced clarity on goals, intentions and priorities.
- Increased focus, motivation and confidence from alignment of strengths, values and goals.
- Space for reflection that supports learning and meaningful behaviour change
- Fresh perspectives to enable transformational change.
- Clear, actionable next steps, supported by accountability.
