If you want to work on specific goals, get unstuck on a challenge, or simply limit work taking over everything else, coaching gives you a structured space to think clearly, with someone whose focus is to help you.
We offer two closely related coaching tracks, described below: executive coaching, focused on your leadership and your work, and wellbeing coaching, focused more broadly on what makes for a genuinely happier life. Many clients find the two overlap.
We always offer a free introductory session of up to 20 minutes, so you can meet the coach and judge if there is a good fit before committing to paid sessions. It is also a chance to explore what you would like to get out of the coaching, and how you and the coach could work together.
All our coaching is based on an agreement with each client, setting out what the coaching is about and what success looks like. The coach revisits this at the start of each session to keep things clear and on track. Conversations are confidential unless you specifically agree otherwise.
If you would like to know more, please email us at info@kemp-associates.com and we will follow up to arrange your introductory session.
Executive coaching helps leaders resolve a specific challenge or make genuine progress where they feel stuck — in how they lead, how they perform, or how they are navigating a difficult situation at work.
Coaching is best described as a candid and focused dialogue, where the client always decides what the focus is. This can be about a person’s formal role at work, their personal situation, or, often, a mix of both.
Our coaching framework is simple: a clear agenda, sessions every two to four weeks, and space in between to try things out and come back with what you learned. This regular rhythm helps to turn a single insight into a lasting habit of change, not just an insightful conversation.
Success means the client achieves clarity on one or more challenges. Done well, coaching can be genuinely transformative – not because of one big moment – but because change builds momentum and holds up after coaching ends. It is the coach’s responsibility to guide this process; the client stays in charge of where it is heading.
Coaching outcomes usually begin with understanding the impact of behaviour and how to change it, then turning that knowledge into action. Whether the goal is personal change or leading change for a team, the aim is to create the change.
Wellbeing coaching is about building wellbeing that holds up in both work and life. It focuses on what actually sustains wellbeing over time: satisfaction with your work and life, experiencing more positive emotions, and having a clear sense of what gives your work and life meaning and purpose.
As with all our coaching, you decide the focus. For some clients, it means finding energy and fulfilment in a demanding role, or countering difficult and draining relationships at work. For others, it is about working out what success looks like, or weighing work against everything else that matters.
There is no single fix for wellbeing. It comes from many small streams — habits, relationships, making better choices, etc. — that together add up to a bigger river of impact. Positive results usually come from many small steps, not one big leap.
Niels Kemp, our head coach, is also the founder of Center for Work Wellbeing, where he researches and advises organisations on what genuinely improves employee wellbeing. The resulting interventions differ distinctly from the common wellness programs that the same evidence shows have little effect. Wellbeing coaching draws on that same evidence base, but applied one-to-one instead of organisationally.
But wanting more wellbeing and actually building it are two different things — which is where our dual approach comes in.
The strength of coaching lies in its positive focus: helping people change elements of their work, goals, behaviours, or any life situation where they feel stuck, sometimes paralysed. Coaching isn't about fixing the past — it's about finding a way forward, to become unstuck and take action.
But wanting to change and actually changing are two different things. Change requires new habits, better decisions, different choices — and all of that is hard. Really hard. We know this from our own New Year's resolutions: knowing what we want to change is rarely the problem. Doing it is.
What makes our coaching approach different from most other coaching frameworks is that we widen the coaching dialogue with two evidence-based approaches that reduce the friction of change and build the motivation to sustain it.
Our two approaches are Behavioural Science Coaching and Positive Psychology Coaching. Behavioural Science gives us the insights and tools to make change actually happen — working with how people really decide and act, not just how they intend to. Positive Psychology Coaching gives us the motivation to keep going — by focusing on what's already working and building on it, rather than starting from what's broken.
One is about making it happen. The other is about building joy in doing it.
Most coaching relies on willpower, self-motivation, intuition and anecdotal experience — all of which tend to fade, making change hard to sustain. We take a different approach, built on two evidence-based methods that work with how people actually decide, feel and act, not just how they intend to.
Behavioural science coaching starts with a simple observation: knowing what to do and doing it are two different things. Most coaching only focuses on the first one. We draw on research into how people really make decisions, form choices, and why the intention to change behaviour rarely survives a busy week. By using behavioural science, we help you decode your habits and biases, and reshape your decisions and behaviour for the long term.
Positive psychology coaching complements this by focusing mainly on what is already working well, not on what is broken. It draws on research into what builds genuine wellbeing and sustained motivation, strengthening coaching's natural focus on what people are capable of.
Used together, the two approaches cover both halves of change: the mechanics of making it happen and the motivation to sustain it. Both are grounded in solid research, not intuition or anecdotes.
My mission is simple. I want to help people achieve positive and lasting change in their own behaviours and outcomes, or for the people they work with. I also want to empower individuals to make use of science and evidence-based tools to maximise the ability to do what matters to them, when it matters.
I bring four sets of expertise, experience, academic insights, and training:
I am a member of International Coaching Federation (ICF) and fully abide by their ethics and compliance rules.
Please visit my personal profile on LinkedIn for more information.
* Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists.