What is Performance Coaching?
Performance coaching is a tailored coaching approach for ambitious employees, leaders or business owners who want to enhance their impact, achieve strategic goals, and foster high-performing teams.
As we step into more demanding roles, the weight of the decisions we make and the impact on others get bigger. Constant demands and the changing business needs of your role can become overwhelming, exhausting and almost suffocating.
If you value high performance, you know how hard it is to continually lift your results and productivity. Particularly, when times get tough. This focused career coaching is for executives and leaders who want to unlock their full potential and drive work performance—without burnout or overwhelm.
My coaching process encourages you to explore what you need to do to keep your results improving and to help you stay accountable and positive.
Why High Performance Coaching?
If you have always considered yourself a high performer, your performance falters when:
- Learning something new
- Overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome
- Undertaking a big change that is receiving a lot of resistance
- Difficult personal issues impact your mindset
- Balancing your strategic vision with daily demands
- Working with a variety of stakeholders with competing needs
- Handling difficult conversations and team dynamics
- Staying resilient under pressure
- Needing to think bigger, but you're lacking clarity.
Who is High Performance Coaching For?
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High-performing leaders who want to sustain excellence
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Executives navigating stretch goals or high-stakes projects
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Individuals ready to move from good to great
This type of coaching is relevant for those wanting high performance through continuous improvement and a combination of both professional development and personal development. It is also relevant for poor performing employees who need a support to improve their leadership skills, expertise or managing their duties.
COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE

It's not just leaders or individuals who want to improve their performance who benefit from having a performance coach.
Sometimes there are employees or leaders who:
- Have hit a plateau in their career and need a reboot
- Have lost ambition
- Have run out of ideas on how to improve things
- Behave in ways that are no longer working to improve the results of their team
- Keep struggling to hit their team's KPI's.
Effective high performance coaching goes beyond addressing immediate issues; it encompasses identifying teachable moments, fostering meaningful conversations, and empowering individuals to resolve challenges on their own.
MY PERFORMANCE COACH APPROACH
In today's high-pressure world, sustaining high performance is key to both business and personal success. It involves discipline, learning from experience, working with feedback and having the confidence to try new things.
In my book, Trusted to Thrive, I unpack how high performance occurs at the intersection between accountability and psychological safety.
As your performance coach, I work with you to not only feel safe with me, but also to increase your safety in your role. More importantly, I work with you to be accountable acting as your accountability partner to challenge you to be your best.
I believe strongly that every individual is the expert in their life and I work with you to uncover what's meaningful and important to you.
You can think of me as like your friendly GPS navigator guide - helping you to more clearly chart your own course, stay accountable to achieving goals and navigating obstacles more easily. All while ensuring you do so sustainably.
Through hourly coaching sessions, I help leaders and employees:
- Get clarity on what they need to do next. Coaching helps individuals focus on what matters most—cutting through noise to align efforts with their key goals.
- Achieve both professional and personal growth by identifying strengths and weaknesses.
- Enhanced Self-Awareness. Clients develop a deeper understanding of their strengths, blind spots, and behavioural patterns—often the first step to long-term growth.
- Create a plan to drive tangible progress using SMART goals.
- Greater accountability. Having with regular check-ins with me means regularly reviewing progress and being challenged to stay on track—raises commitment and follow-through.
- Improve individual performance through working with your ability and skill set, not against it. Coaching speeds up personal and professional development by helping people take bolder action with more self-belief.
- Improved Communication Skills. Performance coaching hones the ability to communicate clearly and confidently, whether in one-on-ones, meetings, or presentations.
- Better Resilience and Emotional Regulation. Clients learn how to stay grounded under pressure, navigate change, and respond rather than react—essential skills in today’s high-speed world.
My coaching helps you set and achieve your goals while preventing burnout and overcoming overwhelm. There are also leadership coaching and executive coaching options.
"I had some goals that I wanted to achieve both personally and professionally. I've been heavily involved in sport and I'm no stranger to pushing myself to get results.Marie-Claire worked with me to reflect on my goals and be kinder to myself. She kept me accountable with some actionable measures that I took. I found this really useful having some accountability to that idea of whom I wanted to be. I'm very pleased with the performance I achieved during this time and so has my boss."




Benefits of Performance Coaching for Teams
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Stronger Leadership Bench Strength
Coaching prepares individuals for bigger roles and responsibilities, contributing to succession planning and long-term growth. -
Higher Engagement and Retention
When employees feel supported and invested in, they’re more motivated and less likely to leave. -
Better Collaboration and Productivity
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Clearer Decision-Making
Coaching encourages strategic thinking, enabling leaders to make decisions more confidently and with broader perspective. -
Improved Performance Culture
Embedding coaching into your leadership toolkit creates a ripple effect—encouraging continuous improvement across the organization.

Improve Confidence
Performance coaching involves a structured approach to enhancing one's skills and abilities in order to achieve personal and professional goals.
By working with a coach, individuals can identify areas for improvement, set realistic targets, and develop strategies to overcome obstacles. Through this tailored guidance and support, individuals can boost their self-belief, develop a positive mindset, and ultimately enhance their overall performance.
Coaching and performance go hand in hand, as the coach provides valuable feedback, encouragement, and accountability to help individuals reach their full potential. By investing in performance coaching, individuals can gain the tools and confidence needed to succeed in various aspects of their lives.
Actionable Feedback
One of the key aspects of performance coaching is providing actionable feedback to individuals seeking to improve their skills and excel in their professional lives.
A great mentor understands the importance of giving constructive criticism that can be implemented immediately, resulting in tangible benefits for both the individual and the organisation.
By focusing on specific areas for growth and development, leaders can guide their mentees through tailored practice sessions that will ultimately lead to greater success in their careers. Effective leadership development through actionable feedback is a crucial component of personal and professional growth within any organisation.
PERFORMANCE COACHING PACKAGE
My coaching helps you set and achieve your goals while preventing burnout and overcoming overwhelm. There are also leadership coaching and executive coaching options.

