About Achieve Coaching
About Me
I am Mark Snape, currently working toward ICF accreditation as an Associate Certified Coach.
Over 30 years of senior leadership experience in the British Army and in the Defence and Aerospace industry has taught me all about leading diverse teams within high pressure environments, managing conflict and developing personal and organisational resilience.
I understand the challenges of dealing with stress, expectations, new roles and cultures and achieving balance whilst giving your best and providing transformational impact.
I have worked alongside some of the most impactful and inspirational leaders, and I have also seen the damage that toxic leadership can wreak. I have dedicated myself to helping my clients ACHIEVE their goals, whilst maintaining balance, happiness and self awareness.
I believe in taking a customized approach to each of my clients. I will work closely with you to understand your unique needs and challenges, and develop solutions that are tailored to your specific situation.
Why do Coaching?
Coaching provides a space for executives and leaders to grow, overcome challenges and maximise their effectiveness and impact.
Whether it is navigating personal leadership development or steering an organisation through complex transitions, coaching offers a tailored, results-driven approach to elevate your performance.
Coaching can also help navigate a path through life's challenges and crystallize thinking.
My Approach
I believe that the power of executive and performance coaching is in being flexible and client-centred. Through active listening and asking razor sharp challenging and impactful questions I create a safe, confidential space for clients to work through dilemmas and partner with them as they to challenge themselves to develop and achieve.
The Business Case for Executive and Performance Coaching
Coaching strengthens leaders' ability to manage uncertainty, high stake scenarios and inter-agency collaboration. It enhances morale and engagement - critical where skills are costly to replace. Coaching also builds psychological readiness and resilience under pressure, reducing burnout. Essentially, coaching can help to ensure that leaders' behaviours align with strategic objectives and Defence values, and the impact of improved decision making, retention and morale cascades beyond the individual undergoing coaching.
All these benefits can be measured via retention data, 360 degree feedback, project delivery on time metrics and stress/ resilience indices via personnel surveys.
There is documented evidence (e.g. The Manchester Review 2001, Vol 6 No1) that executives and leaders (at all levels) receiving coaching achieved higher goal attainment and resilience compared to controls and ROI studies show ~529% financial return on investment when coaching is aligned with business goals.