Experience the Power
of Transformative Coaching
“There is a best-self version of each of us just around the corner.”
An Integral Approach to Transformative Leadership:
Dancing Through The Storm
Based on experiences with clients over 25 years, supported by ongoing research in neuroscience and stages of adult development, the case studies describe a range of incidents and key relationships that impact in different ways across different contexts. Not a generic one-size-fits-all approach to business coaching and leadership, my work is rather an integration of theoretical perspectives that combine to enhance performance, build resilience and retain talent. I urge business leaders to reimagine existing systems, to challenge current issues facing corporate life, based on examples from work on reinventing organisations, agile transformations, and frameworks for organisational challenges in our current fast-paced unpredictable world.
The metaphor of “dancing through the storm” refers to the skill of a leader in finding their footing in turbulent conditions, with volatile people – the ability to create a rhythm that matches the emerging circumstances, and which meets the challenges of managing different personalities through stormy days and calm intervals.
Coaching for consciously-crafted leadership skills
Ever wish you had more confidence in your leadership, more resilience and positive self-belief?
Ever wish you had more confidence in your leadership, more resilience and positive self-belief? Your most powerful strength as leader, business owner, parent or partner, in the midst of conflicts and confusions, is your authenticity and evidenced-based self-belief. My passion and skills help my clients live into their own ‘best self’, to free themselves from self-doubt, fear of failure and even that little inner voice that sometimes whispers ‘imposter’.
My coaching approach – one-on-one and with teams – increases conscious awareness of self, enhances perspective-taking and engagement with others. The result leads to improved decision-making, better team relationships, skilful change management, better systems awareness and better outcomes.
Leading a Top Team
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Top teams perform at their optimum when the leader understands the importance of listening, is able to reflect, and has the courage to share their thinking fully, no matter how tentative.
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Top teams have leaders who not only function from their strengths but are aware of their blindspots and know how to focus on including these in their perspective.
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Top teams have leaders who commit to self-work as well relationship building.
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Top teams have leaders who know how to coach team members to enhance creative solutions-focussed thinking.
“Approximately 5% of leaders in the West operate with the mental and emotional capacity needed to manage complex, systemic change and reliably generate organisational transformation.” – Barrett C. Brown, Ph.D. The Future of Leadership for Conscious Capitalism (2014)
What My Clients Say:
“Dorrian’s coaching cultivates openness, encourages profound self-exploration, and inspires the pursuit of authentic purpose—a rare gift that truly transforms lives.”
Coaching for leadership
Leaders, do you:
- Lead by example?
- Have engaged employees?
- Use intelligently focused delegation to grow and inspire others while freeing up valuable time for yourselves?
- Possess great resilience in times of uncertainty?
- Constantly develop self-reflection so that you can relate to others better?
- Recognise blindspots and how to refocus these?
- Understand and work well with different world views and values?
Good reasons for seeking a coach:
- You need a safe confidential space to think out loud.
- You are seeking more purpose in your life.
- Perhaps you are suffering –
or you cause others to suffer.
Discover the intense value of having your own confidential space to explore your thinking.
From Reactive to Real:
The Levels of Conscious Leadership
In a world of accelerating complexity, what kind of leadership do we truly need?
Most leaders are stuck in firefighting mode. They’re reacting to change, not shaping it. They’re delivering performance under pressure—but at the cost of psychological safety, innovation, and trust.
Research shows that foundational traits like empathy, fairness, and collaboration aren’t “soft skills”—they’re hardwired into our biology. These are the evolutionary traits that enable social groups to thrive.
Culture starts at the top. We know from Frederic Laloux’s inspirational discoveries in Reinventing Organizations that no business can evolve beyond its leaders’ level of development.
Senior leaders, executive teams, and board members who are committed to creating psychologically safe, adaptive, and purpose-led cultures understand the value of matching the level of conscious complexity of their manager/leaders to their function – a head of sales may need a different energy and style of engaging with staff from that of a creative director.
