Calm mind. Clear decisions.
The Thinking Ground | Sally Shuttleworth
+44 07943 725508
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Calm, clear coaching for leaders,
teams & individuals
Coaching that supports clear thinking when things get hard, sound decisions you can trust, and follow-through that lasts.
Practical, experience-led, and honest executive coaching, with just enough humour to keep it real.
Calm, clear coaching for leaders, teams & individuals
Executive coaching that supports clear thinking when things gets hard, sound decisions you can trust, and follow-through that lasts.
Practical, experience-led, and honest, with just enough humour to keep it real.
Coaching Engagements
Coaching engagements
Business Leaders
This is for senior leaders and business owners who carry complexity, pressure, and consequential decisions.
Goal:
More steadiness, clearer judgement, better conversations, and repeatable leadership habits.
What it looks like:
A short diagnostic, then coaching rhythm that fits you best.
Typically weekly or fortnightly sessions plus light support between sessions if needed.
Typical timeline:
Most engagements run 3 to 6 monts, with a clear review point.
Tangible outcomes:
Cleaner priorities, faster decisions, stronger presence in difficult conversations, better delegation and boundaries.
Systemic Team Coaching
For teams who need better alignment, trust, decision making, and follow through.
Systemic Team Coaching is a way of coaching a team that treats the team as a living system, not a set of individuals.
Instead of focusing mainly on how team members behave with each other inside the room, it focuses on how the team creates outcomes through its relationships, decisions, and ways of working across the wider system around it.
Goal:
A more honest and productive way of working together, plus a practical operating rhythm that holds under pressure. It builds clearler purpose, sharper decision making, and healthier ways of working under pressure. Success shows up when stakeholders experience the team as more aligned, easier to work with and more reliable in execution.
What it looks like:
A systemic team engagement starts with contracting on purpose, stakeholders, boundaries, and measures of success, then moves quickly into observing how the team actually works with its wider system and coaching live on decisions, relationships, and routines that improve delivery. Generaelly includes a series of sessions designed around Think, Ground, Create.
Typical timeline:
Two common shapes:
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Reset and align: 1 session pp, one team session (4hrs) plus a follow up session (2hrs)
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Build new ways of working: 3 to 12 sessions including workshops, business as usual meetings, possibly 1to1 sessions, over 3- 12 months with a clear review point
Tangible outcomes:
Clear shared priorities, workable rules of engagement, higher quality conversations, decisions that stick, and improved follow through. Stakeholders should report fewer escalations and handoff failures, decisions are made faster with clear owners, delivery becomes more predictable against agreed measures, and the team runs a repeatable cadence that sustains those results.
Personal Clarity Coaching
For private individuals who are capable but stuck, at a transition point, or choosing a new direction.
Goal:
Clarity, confidence, and momentum, grounded in how your actually think and feel, not just goals on paper. pressure.
What it looks like:
A short diagnostic conversation, then a small number of sessions with between session practice.
Typical timeline:
4 to 8 sessions depending on the situation.
Tangible outcomes:
Clear direction, better decisions, less spinning, more consistent action. Clarity on where you want to go and how to get there.
How I work
I work with a framework in the background to support the depth and direction of the sessions.
I don’t share it publicly, because the work is always responsive and shaped around the person in front of me, not a fixed process.
What really counts is how the work helps people think more clearly, make decisions they trust, and move forward in ways that feel right for them.
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
My Coaching Framework
I work with a framework in the background to support the depth and direction of the sessions.
I don’t share it publicly, because the work is always responsive and shaped around the person in front of me, not a fixed process.
What really counts is how the work helps people think more clearly, make decisions they trust, and move forward in ways that feel right for them.
When work feels busy or overwhelming, it's often hard to see what actually matters.
We take time to slow things down, untangle what's going on, and make sense of competing priorities. This helps bring clarity to situations that might feel messy or stuck, without oversimplifying them.
The aim isn't quick answers, but a clearer view of what's really happening.
Most people don't struggle because they lack ability. They struggle because they're under pressure, reacting quickly, or carrying too much at once.
This part of the work focuses on creating space to think more clearly.
We look at assumptions, restore perspective, and reduce mental noise so decisions feel calmer, more considered, and easier to stand behind.
Clarity on its own doesn't change much unless it leads somewhere.
Together, we focus on turning insight into decisions that make sense, followed by action that fits real life.
The emphasis is on progress that feels steady and sustainable, rather than pushing for change that doesn't last.
Behind the scenes, I use a framework to help guide the work and keep sessions focused and grounded.
It supports the work in the moment, allowing each session to be shaped around the person rather than a fixed model.
What matters most isn't the framework itself, but how it supports clearer thinking, more confident decisions, and steady, meaningful progress.
The Thinking Ground | Sally Shuttleworth
+44 07943 725508
© 2025 The Thinking Ground. All rights reserved
Business Leaders
Systemic Team Coaching
Personal Clarity Coaching
How I Work
My Coaching Framework
When work feels busy or overwhelming, it’s often hard to see what actually matters.
We take time to slow things down, untangle what’s going on, and make sense of competing priorities.
This helps bring clarity to situations that might feel messy or stuck, without oversimplifying them.
The aim isn’t quick answers, but a clearer view of what’s really happening.
Most people don’t struggle because they lack ability. They struggle because they’re under pressure, reacting quickly, or carrying too much at once.
This part of the work focuses on creating space to think more clearly.
We look at assumptions, restore perspective, and reduce mental noise so decisions feel calmer, more considered, and easier to stand behind.Clarity on its own doesn’t change much unless it leads somewhere.
Together, we focus on turning insight into decisions that make sense, followed by action that fits real life.
The emphasis is on progress that feels steady and sustainable, rather than pushing for change that doesn’t last.Behind the scenes, I use a framework to help guide the work and keep sessions focused and grounded.
It supports the work in the moment, allowing each session to be shaped around the person rather than a fixed model.
What matters most isn’t the framework itself, but how it supports clearer thinking, more confident decisions, and steady, meaningful progress.
This is for senior leaders and business owners who carry complexity, pressure, and consequential decisions.
Goal:
More steadiness, clearer judgement, better conversations, and repeatable leadership habits.
What it looks like:
A short diagnostic, then a coaching rhythm that fits you best.
Typically fortnightly sessions plus light support between sessions if needed.
Typical timeline
Most engagements run 3 to 6 months, with a clear review point.
Tangible outcomes:
Cleaner priorities, faster decisions, stronger presence in difficult conversations, better delegation and boundaries.
For teams who need better alignment, trust, decision making, and follow through.
Goal:
A more honest and productive way of working together, plus a practical operating rhythm that holds under pressure.
What it looks like:
Light scoping, meet the team one on one, then a series of sessions designed around Think, Ground, Create.
Between sessions there is one small habit to practice and a simple review loop.
Typical timeline:
Two common shapes:
-
Reset and align: 1 session pp, one team session (4hrs) plus a follow up session (2hrs)
-
Build new ways of working: 3 to 12 sessions over 3- 12 months with a clear review point
Tangible outcomes:
Clear shared priorities, workable rules of engagement, higher quality conversations, decisions that stick, and improved follow through.
For private individuals who are capable but stuck, at a transition point, or choosing a new direction.
Goal:
Clarity, confidence, and momentum, grounded in how your actually think and feel, not just goals on paper. pressure.
What it looks like:
A short diagnostic conversation, then a small number of sessions with between session practice.
Typical timeline:
4 to 8 sessions depending on the situation.
Tangible outcomes:
Clear direction, better decisions, less spinning, more consistent action. Clarity on where you want to go and how to get there.