The First Room · A founding cohort

You don't have to
do this alone.

A founding cohort of leaders who are done carrying it all and ready to lead from a different place. Ninety days, a small room, and the thing that changes fastest once you stop doing it in private: your energy.

Apply for a place Six places · Founding cohort
Why a room 01 / 06

The loneliest part is thinking it's just you.

Everyone at your level looks like they've got it handled. So you decide the drowning is a you problem, and you clamp down harder, in private.

It isn't just you. Put a handful of leaders who are all quietly white-knuckling it into one room, and the first thing that arrives is relief. The second is momentum.

What happens in the room

You catch fire
off each other.

The shift is contagious. You watch the person beside you drop the grip and lead lighter, and it gives you permission to do the same. Nobody's performing. Everybody's honest. And that room becomes the place you go to remember who you are as a leader.

You leave with the leader you were built to be, and a room that watched you become them.
What the First Room is 02 / 06

Ninety days. Here's
what's in the room.

Not a course. Not five tips to tidy your inbox. Real work, real cases from your week, and four things that make it work.

01

Six group sessions

Fortnightly, ninety minutes. Energy work, real cases from your week, and peer coaching with people who get exactly what you're carrying.
02

A private one to one

A personal deep dive with Siôn, including your Energy Leadership Index debrief. The interference that's specifically yours.
03

Your Leadership Playbook

The artefact you build across the ninety days and keep. How you lead, on paper, in your words.
04

The room between sessions

A private group channel for the moments the week bites, so you're never doing it alone.
Is this you 03 / 06
This is for you if
  • You're a leader who cares more than anyone, and lately it's the thing costing you.
  • You've been holding on so tight for so long you've forgotten it could feel any other way.
  • You hold yourself to a standard nobody set for you, and it's starting to cost you.
  • You suspect a better system isn't the answer, and you're ready to look deeper.
This isn't for you if
  • You want productivity hacks and a tidier calendar.
  • You're sure the problem is everyone else.
  • You want to stay exactly as you are and just feel a bit better about it.
  • You're not willing to be honest in a room of peers.
Proof 04 / 06

Recognising the energy I'm showing up at has been the biggest takeaway. When I stand back and observe myself, I show up with more calmness and clarity.

MartinLegal Director
Ellie · Account Director
"Months on, it has totally changed my mindset. Clear actions, and something learned about myself every time."
Federica · Elevate
"An incredibly helpful journey, only thanks to your expert guidance and support."
Re-signed, not sold
Two co-founders I coach have just committed to another block. The clearest signal there is.
The founding cohort 05 / 06

You're not buying six sessions. You're buying the leader you become.

You walk in
  • Underwater, working harder than ever for less.
  • Leading from fear. Clenched around every detail, trusting no one else to carry it.
  • Evenings gone, and the knot in your stomach on a Sunday night.
  • Quietly wondering if you're actually up to this.
You walk out
  • Walking out of meetings with energy, not wrung out. The whole room feels the difference.
  • The work stops routing through you, because your team finally steps up.
  • Your evenings back, without anything dropping.
  • The quiet certainty that you belong there.

The sessions are how. This is what you walk away with. And it takes two hours a fortnight, so it gives your evenings back rather than taking more of them.

£2,000per place · six to eight places
Founding rate · it rises for the next room

Everything in the room

  • Six fortnightly group sessions
  • A private one to one with Siôn
  • Your Energy Leadership Index and full debrief
  • Your Leadership Playbook, yours to keep
  • The private group channel
  • Ninety days, start to finish

The one to one version of this work, The Private Room, is £4,000. This is the same mechanism, in a room of your peers, at a founding rate of £2,000. It rises for the next cohort. In return for the founding rate I ask two things: your honest feedback, and a testimonial when it lands.

Come and see. At my risk.

Come to the first two sessions. If you are not clearer on exactly what is draining you and what to do about it, I refund you in full, and you keep the Leadership Playbook. The only way to lose here is to stay underwater.

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How it starts 06 / 06

A conversation.
Not a pitch.

Apply, and we have a short conversation. A two-way check that this is right for both of us. No hard sell. If it's a fit, you're in the room. If it isn't, I'll tell you.