Your Personal Performance Coach for What's Next.
Independent performance coaching for professionals wanting to make a change, to rediscover confidence, clarity and purpose in their careers. Book an Introductory CallCoaching for Performance, Growth and Change
At The Performance Practice, we help individuals and organisations improve performance through greater self-awareness, purposeful action and emotional intelligence.
Our approach is collaborative, respectful, and grounded in psychological insight. It ensures you perform at your best without losing what makes you human.
Whether you’re facing a career transition, working on leadership presence, or needing perspective in moments of uncertainty, our coaching supports sustainable growth, not short-term fixes.
Explore Our Services
At The Performance Practice, our coaching services are tailored to where you are in your career and where you want to go next.
Leadership Coaching
Develop the clarity, confidence and self-awareness you need to lead effectively in complex, changing environments. Build presence and purpose while creating psychological safety for those you lead.
Executive Coaching
For senior leaders seeking to enhance performance, decision-making and resilience. Executive coaching provides a confidential, reflective space to think strategically and act with intention.
Career Transition Coaching
Change brings both uncertainty and opportunity. One-on-one independent coaching helps you navigate career transitions with confidence, clarity, and a renewed energy for what’s next.
EQ Coaching
Emotional intelligence underpins high performance. EQ coaching helps you understand and manage your emotions, strengthen relationships and communicate with authenticity and empathy.
How We Work
Focus
Agreed objectives, timelines and costs.
Psychological Safety
Low risk, empathic and entirely confidential ‘space’ for the organisation and individuals to learn and explore.
Respectful & Collaborative
Never telling, always effectively encouraging and inspiring, and where needed effectively questioning.
Why Choose Independent Performance Coaching?
Sometimes progress requires perspective. Working with an external, independent coach gives you the space and freedom to reflect honestly, think differently and act with renewed purpose.
Ann Todd, our principal practitioner, combines her background in psychology, leadership, and organisational consulting to help professionals uncover what’s getting in the way of their progression and to build strategies for real, sustainable change.
It’s about more than performance; it’s about creating the conditions for you to thrive.
Latest Resources
Explore practical guidance and reflections on leadership, emotional intelligence and performance psychology. All designed to help you think more deeply about how you work and lead.
Stay Sharp (Parents)! Emotional Skills and Anxiety.
Psychologist on why emotional skills matter, ‘AI’ does not replace human friendship & improving social skills of Youth.
Stay Sharp! Navigating overwhelm in times of dizzying change.
Staying calm in times of dizzying change involves being deliberate in when and how we access the news. This article contains a 10 point check list to support this aim.
Stay Sharp! Psychological Safety
What is psychological safety?
Why it matters. Creating psychological safety in your teams.
Protecting vulnerable team members.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Performance Coaching?
Performance coaching is a structured and collaborative process that helps professionals enhance their effectiveness, self-awareness and fulfilment at work. It focuses on building confidence, clarity and sustainable growth.
How Is Coaching Different From Mentoring or Therapy?
Who Benefits From Coaching for Performance Improvement?
Anyone looking to progress in their role, lead with authenticity or navigate change. Many of Ann’s clients are senior professionals, individuals in career transition or high-IQ individuals looking to improve their emotional intelligence (EQ).
How Many Sessions Do I Need?
How Can I Get Started?
Simply book an introductory conversation to see how we might work together.
Ready to Perform at Your Best?
Let’s start a conversation about what’s next for you.