Achieve profound change, clarity, and lasting legacy.

Confidential, highly effective, and trusted by clients worldwide.

Choose your path to clarity

Explore the pathway most aligned with your current focus, with support that is tailored, discreet, and designed for clarity and transformation.

Specialised Support: resolving deep-seated blockers to moving forward, strengthening key relationships, and managing impacts from neurodiversity, including ADHD and Autism.

For Private Clients, Founders and Principals

Clarity, legacy and transitions, without noise.

You’ve substantial success. Now, you're navigating the complexities of what comes next: succession, enduring impact, evolving identity, and lasting legacy. I help high-performing individuals and families gain profound clarity around what matters most, ensuring impacts last for generations.

Contemplating the sale of a business or restructuring family wealth.
Exploring impactful philanthropy and aligning its structure and strategy with your values.
Facing a generational handover or stewardship of wealth for heirs.

How I help

Confidential, values-led discussions that reveal guiding purpose and direction.
Structured transition plans grounded in identity and clarity.
A trusted, external sounding board for sensitive decisions.

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Defining Philanthropic Legacy

A principal clarified the mission and governance structure for a foundation, aligning impact with values and confidence in long-term purpose.

Navigating a Major Career and Life Transition

A senior leader identified a new path, built a transition plan, and moved into a new chapter with renewed purpose.

Private Leadership Coaching

Strategic clarity for senior leaders.

Senior leadership can feel isolating. Whether you're holding complex decisions, navigating change, or needing a confidential space outside the organisation, our time together will bring strategic insight, discretion, and clarity.

Preparing yourself for growth, transition or wider responsibility.
Facing ambiguity around career direction, organisational change, or difficult decisions.
Seeking outside perspective without internal politics.

How I help

Executive coaching grounded in practical strategy.
Tools for alignment, courageous leadership and clear decision-making.
Safe space to reflect and reframe, to decide and act.

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For Personal Change or Challenges

You may be feeling stuck, at a crossroads, or facing a personal challenge.

Many of us reach a point where our next step is unclear, or our external success masks internal misalignment. Whether you're feeling like an imposter or stuck, or at a crossroad, my structured, discreet support can help you understand yourself, find your focus, and move forward with conviction.

Questioning what success really means to you.
Managing imposter syndrome or constant self-doubt.
Navigating loss, transitions, or internal conflict.

How I help

Personalised coaching that blends structure with humanity.
A non-judgmental space to surface insights and action.
Toolkits and frameworks to regain momentum with purpose.

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Our services enhance key aspects of your organisation, from executive leadership and team dynamics to establishing best-in-class governance and resilience.

We support pragmatic AI integration, stronger business processes and, where needed, a more material reframing of how objectives are delivered. The work is practical and proportionate, protecting continuity while avoiding unnecessary risk or disruption.

Governance, Risk and Resilience

Implementation, enhancement and benchmarking, with fractional risk and governance leadership where experienced support is needed.

Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Leadership training, team dynamics, executive workshops and practical support for sharper challenge and better decisions.

Business Improvement and AI

Process optimisation, AI implementation, AI governance and transformation support designed around real operating needs.

Surveys and Insights

Sherborne surveys explore the current and emerging questions leaders are faced with. The next survey is being finalised and will be released in 3Q 2026.

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Testimonials

Highlights from client journeys in their own words. Reproduced with permission.

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Michael is an exceptional coach with a unique ability to listen deeply and foster true self-reflection. His coaching enhances leadership skills and emotional intelligence.
J. Townsend, Head of Data

Michael provided outstanding support and a wealth of tools to help assess tricky situations, better understand what I needed and achieve the best outcome.
A. Barolet, Legal Counsel

Of all the recommended providers we have used, perhaps three made a noticeable difference to those we sent, and Mike is one of those.
Anonymous, Charity Chair

My Approach to Thoughtful Action

I support your thinking, decision-making, and progress at the highest levels, beginning with exploring what matters to you.

The Sherborne Compass

A deeply insightful tool that provides foundational knowledge of what matters to you and where your investments of time and energy are paying off.

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Reflection, Planning and Decision Tools

Tools that build on the Compass, supporting progress tracking, decision-making, planning, accountability and confidence.

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About Michael, founder of Sherborne

“I work with people who carry weighty responsibility and face complex personal or leadership decisions. My role is to offer clarity, structure, and a trusted space for those decisions to unfold.”

Michael blends strategic precision with human depth. An accredited EMCC coach and Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, he brings a rigorous lens to long-term thinking, risk, and decision-making - tempered by two decades of experience in coaching, leadership development, and education.

Based in London, he works with clients globally, both in person and virtually.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does your advisory differ from other services?

My advisory is a confidential, forward-looking partnership focused on empowering clients to unlock their own insights and solutions for transformational outcomes and legacy building.

I'm already in therapy. How is coaching different?

Therapy often focuses on healing and understanding the past. Coaching is primarily forward-looking and action-oriented, helping you design strategies and take concrete steps.

How is progress measured?

We begin by defining what success looks like for you, then review progress against bespoke objectives and the concrete outcomes that matter.

My situation is extremely sensitive. How is confidentiality protected?

Discretion is the bedrock of my practice. Engagements are governed by rigorous ethical standards and absolute confidentiality. NDAs are available and welcomed.

What is the typical duration of an engagement?

Engagements are bespoke. Many clients find a 12-week journey highly effective for gaining clarity and making substantial progress.

What is the investment?

The investment is determined following an initial discussion. Individual programs typically start from £350 per session, with broader engagements scoped individually.

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Whether you're exploring ideas, navigating change, or seeking trusted counsel - confidential enquiries are welcomed.

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