Executive Coaching for Financial Services Leaders
Lead with Extreme Excellence
We coach leaders behind Private Equity and Financial Services Firms across Europe and the US, helping them lead with the same rigor, discipline, and ambition they bring to their deals.
“Leadership in this industry is unforgiving.
Deal cycles move. Investors expect. Teams are watching, often across several offices, markets and time zones. The pressure doesn’t pause for reflection.
Most leaders I work with didn’t get into this to examine who they are as a leader. They got into it to succeed. But the ones who last know they have to learn to do both. This is where I come in.
I work one-to-one with managing partners, executives and leaders in private equity to sharpen how they lead and perform under pressure - wherever their teams and deals take them.
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Who we Coach
Leadership Coaching, Built for Financial Services
80%
Of our clients are Private Equity firms
20%
Are broader Financial Services firms
We work with leaders in private equity and financial services across Europe, the US, and the rest of the world. That focus means we understand the pressures that come with this industry: deal cycles, investor expectations, high-stakes decisions, and scaling a firm without losing its culture.
Chitupa knows these pressures first hand. As a coach, she has worked in this industry at senior leadership level, up to Board level, and she and her team bring that experience and the realities of this industry into every coaching session.
Our Coaching Framework
The ARTE Model
Every coaching engagement is built around the same four principles. They are the foundation of how we think about leadership, and where our name comes from.
Awareness
Awareness of leadership self, others, and our interpersonal relationships and power dynamics
Responsibility
Responsibility of leadership to create new levels of integrity, and to co-create new structures and systems to better serve all.
Transformation
Transformation through sustainable actions and behaviours that are measured and celebrated by all stakeholders.
Excellence
Excellence achieved through heightened decision making processes, anabolic Energy!, and by respecting each leader’s and client’s authentic voice and contribution.
Your Leadership, Aligned to your Business Vision
We collaborate with leaders to align your leadership identity to your organisation’s business vision, so the way, the way you lead daily and the direction you take, are aligned to the firm’s goals.
Our bespoke coaching model is built around the realities of your firm, your sector, and the specific leadership moment you’re in. Whether that’s scaling a team, navigating a transition, sourcing deals, building a leadership pipeline, or becoming the leader your next chapter requires, and more.
Ultimately we are here to assist you solve your leadership challenges. We primarily do this on a 1-1 basic and occasionally also require all of leadership in one room to address global and specific leadership issues.
Our Philosophy
“We align your leadership identity to your organisation’s vision, then teach you what it means to lead with extreme excellence.”
Ready to Lead with Extreme Excellence?
Every coaching relationship starts with a conversation about where you are, and where you and your leadership needs to go next.