A senior 1:1 coaching practice for leaders, managers and high-achievers who would rather think clearly than be sold a system.
RBYL Coaching was built around a fairly simple observation: the more senior a person becomes, the harder it gets to find a room where they can think honestly. Boards want certainty. Teams want direction. Peers, even good ones, are often inside the same situation. Therapy is the wrong shape. Mentoring rarely fits. What’s missing is the considered, contained conversation a serious adult needs in order to make better decisions about a complicated job.
The initials stand for “Reclaim Back Your Life,” which is honest about the destination — capacity, clarity, a job that costs less than it earns — but the work itself is calm, practical and adult. Not therapy. Not motivational. Not a curriculum.
The practice doesn’t do programmes, certifications, group facilitation at scale, or weekend retreats. It is a 1:1 coaching practice, run by one senior coach, with a small caseload that gets full and then closes.
If what you need is a training cohort, a leadership programme or a corporate L&D engagement, there are better places for that. If what you need is a steady, considered room to think in, this is the practice for it.
Coaching only works when the person across the table actually wants the work. So this matters more than the credentials.
Not the brochure version — the actual one. The cadence, the rhythm, and the things clients usually want to know before they commit.
Long enough to do real work, short enough to keep the engagement honest. Most clients run fortnightly through the engagement and shift to monthly only when they’ve moved into the open-ended thinking-partner shape. Occasional half-day intensives are available when a particular decision warrants them, but they’re the exception.
Sessions run over video by default. Most UK clients never travel, and the work doesn’t suffer for it. For clients in or near Bath, in-person sessions are available; for those further afield, occasional in-person intensives can be arranged when the moment calls for them.
Nothing leaves the coaching room without your say-so. Where an employer pays, a light tripartite contract is agreed at the outset covering goals and review points — and nothing beyond that contract is shared with sponsors or HR. The room stays yours.
Where it earns its keep. A note to draft, a conversation to have, a pattern to watch for over a fortnight. Deliberately not homework in the school sense. If you’re hoping coaching will give you a stack of templates and assessments to complete, this is the wrong practice. If you’d like the room to do the heavy lifting and the rest of your life to remain yours, it’s likely the right one.
For clients who carry direct reports, we’ll often talk about how to use a tool like the HeyRamp platform to give your own team a quieter, more structured 1:1 cadence — it removes a layer of cognitive load that often shows up in coaching as “I just don’t have the headspace.”
The practice is based in Bath, which suits the kind of work it is — quieter than London, easy to get to, and the right scale for a coaching practice that doesn’t try to be everywhere. Most clients are in London, the South West, the South East and the Midlands, with a steady minority across the rest of the UK and in Scotland.
For UK-wide clients, the engagement is remote-first by default. For those in or near Bath who’d like the in-person option, it’s there. The shape of the engagement is decided around the work, not around geography.
The practice runs a small, intentional caseload. When it’s full, it closes to new enquiries until a place opens. The trade-off is that the coach you speak to on the chemistry call is the coach you work with for the engagement — not the partner who hands you over to someone else after the contract is signed.
If a place isn’t available when you get in touch, you’ll be told that directly and given a sense of when one might be.