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Meridian.

  • Practice

    Established 2015 · London

  • Credentials

    ICF PCC · EMCC Senior Practitioner

  • Engagements

    140+ senior leaders coached

Executive coaching · Helen Maxwell

Coaching for executives in the first year of a bigger job.

Meridian is the private coaching practice of Helen Maxwell — fourteen years running FTSE 250 P&L teams, eleven years coaching the people who now do.

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Coaching senior leaders within

  • Calder & Wren LLP
  • Halewood Group plc
  • Brantham Capital
  • Northgate Rail
  • Asheridge Health

Section 01: The Position

  • Who this is for

    New CEOs, EDs, MDs, partners

  • Typical window

    Months one to eighteen

A working session at a window table
A working session · London

The job got bigger. The room got quieter.

The promotion was the easy part. Now the people who used to tell you the truth report to you, the decisions arrive without context, and the habits that won you the role are quietly working against it. Most executives spend their first year performing the job rather than doing it — and they know the difference, even when nobody else can see it yet.

Meridian exists for that year. Not mentoring, not therapy, not a framework with your name pasted in — a structured working partnership with someone who has run the numbers, held the room, and made the calls you are about to make.

About Helen Maxwell

Section 02: The Method

The Meridian Line

A named method, because improvisation is what you already have. Three phases, fixed in order, reviewed in the open.

The method in full

  1. Position

    Establish where you actually are — not where the org chart says you are.

  2. Bearing

    Decide the two or three moves the next year genuinely turns on.

  3. Passage

    Execute through live decisions, reviewed against the bearing every 90 days.

Section 03: Testimony

“I stopped performing the job and started doing it. The distinction was worth the year.”

Group CFO, listed infrastructure business
Three engagements, told straight — including his

Section 04: Engagements

  • The First Meridian

    Six sessions over four months

    Executives in a new or substantially bigger role

  • The Standing Partnership

    Twelve months · monthly sessions · open line

    Established leaders who want a permanent thinking partner

  • The Boardroom Brief

    Commissioned cohort work, scoped to the brief

    CHROs and L&D directors developing a senior bench

Engagements are custom-quoted following the discovery call. Every engagement carries a standing 90-day review — either party can end it there, without ceremony.

Engagements in detail

Section 05: Begin

Begin with a conversation, not a commitment.

Thirty minutes with Helen. No preparation, no deck, no follow-up sequence. You leave with a written note on what she heard and whether — honestly — coaching is the right instrument.

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