Coaching and training for teams & companies

Your leaders don’t need more training.
They need to step up.

I help organisations turn high-potential talent into visible, trusted leaders — by building confidence, clarity, and presence that strengthens leadership internally and reputation externally.

Leadership doesn’t shift when people learn more.
It shifts when people trust themselves more.

My work sits at the intersection of leadership, confidence, visibility, and personal branding, grounded in positive psychology and real organisational experience.

It’s not about making people louder or more performative.
It’s about helping them lead with clarity, judgment, and intention.

The result is leadership that feels grounded, credible, and sustainable, for the individual and the organisation.

If this is the shift your organisation needs, read on.

Here’s how I support leaders and teams through that shift.

Executive Coaching

For senior leaders and executives navigating complexity, visibility, and high-stakes decisions.

  • As you progress, leadership becomes less about skill, and more about judgment, presence, and clarity. Yet there are fewer spaces to think out loud, be challenged, or gain perspective.

    Executive coaching offers a confidential partnership to help you think clearly, decide decisively, and lead with confidence when it matters most.

    This is not about more theory or advice.

    It’s about sharper thinking, stronger leadership presence, and impact that lasts.

Team Coaching

Team coaching that builds confidence, trust, and momentum — not just alignment.

  • Where teams get stuck, misaligned, or talk past each other — this work creates clarity.

    My approach to team coaching is grounded in positive psychology and strengths-based coaching, with a strong focus on confidence, self-trust, and psychological safety. This is particularly effective for teams with diverse personalities, backgrounds, and working styles — where unspoken dynamics often block progress.

    Cutting through miscommunication
    A key part of my work is slowing conversations down and surfacing what’s really being said (and not said). This helps teams move from scattered opinions to shared understanding — and from confusion to clarity.

    Alignment without forced agreement
    Rather than pushing consensus, I help teams align around one clear direction and make decisions they genuinely commit to — even when perspectives differ.

    Strengths as the foundation
    By identifying and leveraging individual and collective strengths, teams learn how to work with their differences, not against them — improving trust, collaboration, and momentum.

    Through this work, teams:

    • communicate more clearly and constructively

    • navigate tension without avoidance or escalation

    • align on decisions and execute faster

    • build trust, ownership, and accountabilit

    Teams that waste less energy on misalignment and more on meaningful work — because they’re clear, aligned, and moving in the same direction.

Step Up

Step Up is a leadership incubator for high-potential talent who are capable — but not yet showing up as leaders.

  • Where capable people hesitate, this work creates leaders.

    Step Up is a leadership incubator designed to support high-potential talent who have the skills — but not yet the confidence or visibility to lead at their full level. 

    Addressing the real blockers
    Instead of surface-level training, Step Up tackles what traditional leadership programmes ignore: self-doubt, imposter syndrome, fear of visibility, and hesitation in high-stakes moments.

    Inner leadership skills that change behaviour
    Participants develop the skills that actually shift how they show up — confidence, presence, clear decision-making, and the ability to speak with authority when it matters

    From potential to visible leadership
    This is not about learning more. It’s about leading differently — with clarity, self-trust, and intention.

    The result
    Leaders who show up clearly, credibly, and are trusted to lead.

    Because capable people don’t need more frameworks — they need to step up.

Personal Branding Workshops

Turn brilliant people into visible, trusted leaders, without turning them into “influencers”.

  • If your best talent is doing exceptional work but staying quiet, unseen, or inconsistent in how they communicate, you don’t have a performance problem.
    You have a visibility problem.

    These workshops help leaders and high-potential talent communicate their value clearly, show up with confidence (online and in the room), and build a personal brand that strengthens both their leadership presence and the company’s reputation.

    The workshops (at a glance)

    Workshop 1 – Foundations
    Mindset first. We address imposter syndrome, fear of visibility, and confidence — and reframe personal branding as a leadership skill, not self-promotion.

    Workshop 2 – Amplifying Your Voice
    From clarity to presence. Participants build confidence in how they show up in rooms that matter and strengthen their professional presence online.

    Workshop 3 – Bringing Your Brand to Life
    Practical execution. Participants learn how to communicate consistently and efficiently — including how to use AI as an editor and amplifier, not a replacement.

“I would recommend Step Up to absolutely all the CTOs I know.”

The name really fits, because that’s exactly what I saw. 60% of the people who joined have stepped up in a very visible way. The number of people I can really trust to be responsible and accountable for global initiatives has doubled since working with Yota.

Lucia Pino-Garcia

Chief Technology Officer, Ninety One

 

Hi, I’m Yota

I help leaders change how they see themselves, so they can lead with clarity, confidence, and authority.

I’m a software engineer turned coach, with experience inside organisations including Amazon and Yahoo. I’ve seen first-hand what it takes to succeed — and actually enjoy your work — in complex, high-pressure environments.

Alongside my coaching work, I’m the founder of Together in Tech, a community of over 5,000 people. I’m also a visiting lecturer and board member at UCL School of Management, and a UK delegate for the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

I’ve worked with leaders and teams across multiple Fortune 500 companies, supporting leadership clarity, visibility, and decision-making in complex, high-pressure environments.

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Here’s what makes working with me different

And what makes it possible for my clients to get such great results.

 

I’m an accredited coach

I have an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching, and am accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Everything I do is evidence-based and rooted in the psychology of performance, so it gets real-world results.

I have experience inside complex organisations

Before coaching, I worked inside large, fast-moving organisations including Amazon and Yahoo.

I understand what leadership looks like when expectations are high, visibility is constant, and decisions matter. That context shapes how I design and deliver leadership development — practical, relevant, and grounded in real organisational life.

I create space for honest, challenging work

I create spaces that allow people to be honest, challenged, and supported at the same time.

Wellbeing is part of the work, without lowering expectations around leadership, responsibility, or performance.

The aim is clear thinking and grounded leadership in complex environments.

How we work together

All engagements are bespoke and designed in partnership with you.

We start with a conversation to understand your context, challenges, and goals. From there, I recommend the most useful way forward, whether that’s a programme, coaching, workshops, or a combination.

This is a thoughtful, selective partnership, not an off-the-shelf solution.

Is this right for your organisation?

If you’re exploring leadership development, retention, or how to support high-potential talent more effectively, let’s talk.

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