Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders Under Extreme Pressure
We help founders and senior leaders rewire the patterns underneath the pressure, so leadership stops costing them their evenings, sleep and peace.
- Multi Award-Winning Executive Psychotherapist
- 1,000+ Clients Transformed
- Featured in Men's Health
About this work
What executive coaching with Nicky Anstey actually is
Executive coaching with Nicky Anstey is one to one work for founders, directors and senior leaders who are succeeding outwardly and quietly running on empty. Nicky is a multi award-winning Executive Psychotherapist and Business Performance Coach, working with leaders across the UK and internationally. Her practice integrates performance coaching with psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, NLP and performance nutrition into one programme, so the patterns underneath the pressure get rewired at the root, not just managed at the surface. The result is leadership performance that holds, without the cost to your nervous system, your relationships or your sleep.
Standard executive coaching works on what you do. Strategy, decision frameworks, delegation, communication. Useful, often necessary, and rarely the thing actually slowing you down. Nicky’s executive coaching reaches the patterns standard coaching cannot, using the same trademarked process behind every Rewire Coaching engagement.
When senior leaders look for an executive coach
When leading at the top starts costing you everything else
You can hold a board meeting. You can carry a P and L. You can make decisions that move significant numbers. From the outside, you look like the leader you trained to be. From the inside, it feels different.
The hours stretch. Sleep gets worse, then worse again. You replay difficult conversations long after they have ended. Weekends disappear. You sit through a strong year and feel nothing. The thought of slowing down for a week is more frightening than the exhaustion.
That zone has a name. Extreme pressure. It is the middle of the spectrum, between productive challenge and full burnout. Underneath it sits a recognisable mix of patterns. Perfectionism where standards have become a cage. Imposter syndrome where wins never feel like yours. People pleasing where saying yes is safer than saying no. Standard executive coaching does not reach those patterns.
How the work moves
Executive Coaching for Senior Leaders Under Extreme Pressure
Nicky is qualified in five disciplines and uses whichever fits the work in front of you. Executive Psychotherapist for patterns with deep roots. Master NLP Coach for state and belief change. Master Hypnotherapist for unconscious rewiring. Master Life and Business Coach for strategy and decision-making. Registered Nutritionist aligned with medicine for the physiology of focus and recovery.
The five sit inside the trademarked Rewire Method, the structural reason this work reaches places single-discipline coaching cannot.
Lived experience is the second reason. Nicky experienced severe burnout during her own corporate career. The story is not background. It is the reason the work reaches parts of senior leadership that pure coaching cannot. Read more about Nicky.
Programmes are scoped on the Reset Call once the diagnostic identifies the right depth. Most clients are sponsored by their employer or self-fund as a strategic investment in their own leadership and health.
Leaders who have done this work
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“I just wanted to say how transformational my sessions have been with Nicky and I would wholeheartedly recommend her.”
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“The most powerful timeline work I’ve ever done – gentle, insightful, and deeply effective. Nicky is truly the best.”
How You Can Work with Nicky
Nicky works with a small number of clients at any one time. Every engagement is delivered by her directly, with no associates and no handoffs. Most clients begin with a Reset Call and from there choose the right programme together.
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See Rewire Coaching
Rewire Coaching
The signature one to one programme, built on the trademarked Rewire Method. Where most clients begin.
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See High Performance Coaching
High Performance Coaching
For high achievers who already perform and want the inner state to match the outer results.
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See Leadership Coaching
Leadership Coaching
For leaders who feel the weight of every decision and want to lead from a steadier place.
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See Business Coaching
Business Coaching
Strategic business coaching paired with the inner work most coaching cannot reach.
Succeed Beyond Your Limits
Twenty minutes with Nicky, one to one. No pitch. Honest conversation. If her work is the right fit, she will say. If it is not, she will say that too.
Why Nicky
Why Work With Nicky Anstey
She has lived it. Nicky experienced severe burnout during her own corporate career, then built her businesses through significant personal and health challenges. The story is not background. It is the reason the work goes deeper than most coaching.
She has the qualifications to go deep. Nicky is a qualified Executive Psychotherapist, Master NLP Coach, Master Hypnotherapist, Master Life and Business Coach, and a Registered Nutritionist aligned with medicine. Five disciplines inside one practitioner. Most coaches hold one.
She has the results. Over 1,000 clients have worked with Nicky and gone through the trademarked Rewire Method. Reduced pressure, clearer thinking, stronger leadership, healthier lives.
She is not a generalist. Nicky works specifically with high-achieving business owners and senior leaders. The people who others assume are fine, because they are still performing. Read more about Nicky here.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is executive coaching
One to one work with a coach focused on how a leader leads. How you decide, communicate, delegate, recover and hold yourself under pressure. Nicky’s executive coaching adds psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and NLP to the mix.
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How is executive coaching different from business coaching
Executive coaching focuses on the leader. Business coaching focuses on the business itself. Plenty of overlap, different lens.
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Who does Nicky work with
Founders, directors, C-suite executives and senior leaders in the UK and internationally. Common thread: outward success and private pressure.
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How long does an executive coaching programme last
Length depends on the depth of work being done. Confirmed during the Reset Call once scope is clear.
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How much does executive coaching cost
Priced by programme scope. Pricing is shared during the Reset Call after the right engagement has been identified.
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Can my company sponsor executive coaching
Yes. Documentation for finance, HR and L&D is provided. Confidentiality is held between Nicky and the executive even when an employer is paying.
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Is it confidential from my employer
Yes, strictly. Sponsor reporting covers attendance and completion, not session content.
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Do you offer executive coaching online
Yes. Most executive clients work online. In person sessions are available by appointment.
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What happens after I enquire
You book a Pressure and Performance Reset Call. Twenty minutes with Nicky. If her work is the right fit, she explains what working together would look like.
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Is executive coaching the same as Rewire Coaching
Executive coaching with Nicky is delivered using the Rewire Method, the same trademarked process behind Rewire Coaching. Different framing, same underlying method.
Working Across the UK and Internationally
Most one to one work is delivered online, which means Nicky works with business owners and senior leaders across the United Kingdom, Europe and internationally. In person engagements are arranged by appointment for corporate workshops and select programmes.
Transform to Perform Coaching
Godalming, Surrey, UK
Ready to Book Your Reset Call
Twenty minutes, one to one with Nicky
Share a little about what is going on. Nicky reads every enquiry personally.
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No obligation. Confidential. 20 minute call. Fit check for both of us.
Case Study
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