Step into leadership with authenticity and confidence.
For leaders who feel ill-equipped, and want the confidence and tools to lead their team and individuals more effectively.
What clients say
Real shifts. Real leaders.
Working with People Champions has been a game changer for me. Duncan's coaching has helped me to overcome long standing professional challenges that were holding me back, unlocking my full potential in ways I never imagined. As a result, I'm adding more value in the workplace and genuinely enjoying my work more than ever.
Working with Duncan has been so insightful and uplifting. His ability to ask the right questions and gently challenge limiting beliefs has been thoughtful, practical and empowering. What sets Duncan apart is his clear understanding of leadership qualities and his natural ability to build confidence and resilience.
Duncan has a natural approach to coaching and ensures that he maintains the coaching mentoring boundary. His professionalism comes in abundance whilst making you feel at ease and instilling a sense of trust from the outset.
Sound familiar?
Leading people is harder than anyone warned you.
You're caught in reactive cycles of back-to-back meetings and constant email traffic, with no real time to think.
You struggle to keep your team motivated and engaged, especially during change or uncertainty.
You avoid the difficult conversations that come with managing people who push back or impede progress.
Your feedback either lands too soft to change anything, or too sharp and damages the relationship.
You're still doing too much yourself because you're not delegating down to the team.
What you've tried already.
Trying to earn respect by becoming the tough boss, mistaking intimidation for authority.
Doing it all yourself to lead by example, and becoming the bottleneck instead.
Avoiding conflict to stay liked, and letting poor performance slide.
Reading the books and listening to the podcasts, but never actually practising it.
Swooping in to fix every problem instead of coaching your team to solve it themselves.
Your Method | The Solution
We start with a deep dive questionnaire
Which pinpoints where your real goals and immediate priorities lie, not generic leadership theory.
Every session is built around what matters most to you
Once your priorities are clear, we start on your biggest focus.
Accountability that keeps you moving
A quick weekly check-in to make sure progress between sessions actually happens and momentum doesn't drop.
You'll know exactly where to focus, before we even start
Through a deep dive questionnaire that gets straight to your real leadership challenges and what's been holding your team back, not generic theory.
You'll work on the situations that actually matter
One-to-one sessions over six months, 60 to 90 minutes each, built entirely around your real team, your real challenges, and the leader you actually want to become.
You'll never lose momentum between sessions
Weekly accountability check-ins, no scheduled call needed, just quick messages, videos, or voice notes on WhatsApp to keep your leadership development moving forward.
You'll always know exactly how far you've come
Goal progress tracking via the app, so you can see your growth as a leader taking shape, session by session.
How it works
A simple, structured path from where you are to where you want to be.
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Pre-coaching
You complete a questionnaire to identify your goals, context, and what's getting in the way.
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Session 1
We identify the priorities from those goals, surface potential blockers, and build your success criteria.
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Between sessions
You're not on your own. WhatsApp and email support throughout so you can ask questions, share wins, and keep momentum between sessions.
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Sessions 2 to 6
We work through your real situations, build practical habits, and embed them into how you lead day to day.
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Follow-up session
We review your overall progress, measure what's changed, and build your plan for what comes next.
What happens when you sign up
Here's what happens next.
Once you've chosen how you'd like to pay, here's what happens next:
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We hop on a short welcome call and I send over your deep dive questionnaire
A quick call to say hello properly, set expectations, and answer any questions, then your questionnaire to get started.
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You complete it and send it back for review
I review your answers and upload everything into the app, so it's all in one place from day one.
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We book your first session and get going
You'll hear from me directly to schedule session one, and from there we're straight into the work.
What makes this different
Most leadership training gives you theory. I focus on transforming how you lead.
Not just what you know. Here's what that looks like in practice.
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Built around you
Every session is shaped by your situations, your team, and the challenges actually in front of you.
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Real experience
You get a coach who has sat where you're sitting, led real teams for 15 years, and knows what it actually takes.
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Uncomfortable questions
The questions I ask won't always be comfortable. That's the point. The best answers come from the hardest questions.
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Real accountability
Full accountability between sessions so the learning actually sticks and becomes how you lead day to day.
About your coach
Meet Duncan.
I've spent 15 years leading teams, managing people, and coaching. I know what it feels like to be expected to lead without anyone showing you how.
I saw it happen repeatedly. Good people, promoted into leadership roles, left to figure it out on their own. Some made it work. Most struggled in silence.
I qualified as a transformation coach and co-founded People Champions to give leaders the practical support that most companies never provide.
I coach the way I wish someone had coached me when I first started leading people.
Pricing
Invest in how you lead.
Same program. Two ways to pay. Choose what works for you.
Pay in full
Six-month coaching program
- Deep dive questionnaire and review
- 6 × one-to-one coaching sessions (60–90 mins)
- Weekly WhatsApp accountability between sessions
- Goal tracking in the app
- Follow-up review session
Monthly
Billed monthly for 6 months
- Deep dive questionnaire and review
- 6 × one-to-one coaching sessions (60–90 mins)
- Weekly WhatsApp accountability between sessions
- Goal tracking in the app
- Follow-up review session
If you don't feel a real shift by session 3, I'll refund every penny. No questions, no awkwardness.