Dr. Neil Wilkie 

Transforming Leadership Through Depth and Understanding

Most executive coaching follows a predictable path. Set goals. Assess current reality. Create action steps. Move forward. It's efficient, structured, and fundamentally limited.

After three decades leading and transforming businesses—from FTSE 100 boardrooms to strategy consulting with National Power and BT, from raising over £500 million across 13 management buy-ins to building innovative ventures from the ground up—I discovered something essential: sustainable success isn't built on frameworks alone. It's built on understanding the whole person, their relationships, and the often-invisible patterns that shape their decisions.

This realisation led me to leave the executive suite 15 years ago to train as a psychotherapist. Since then, I've had the privilege of working with over 100 CEOs, helping them navigate not just business challenges but life transitions—scaling companies, planning succession, moving towards retirement, and discovering what truly fulfils them beyond the metrics.

A Different Approach

My coaching goes deeper. Much deeper.

Where traditional coaching asks "What do you want to achieve?", I ask "Who are you becoming, and is that who you truly want to be?"

Where others focus on goals and tactics, I help you understand:

• The unconscious patterns formed in your early years that still shape your leadership today
• Your authentic values—not the ones you think you should have, but the ones that genuinely drive you
• The critical relationships in your organisation that create or constrain success
• Your vision for a fulfilled life, not just a successful career
• The culture you're actually creating, not the one described in company documents

This multidimensional approach draws on my unique combination of experiences: the practical wisdom of building and leading businesses, the rigorous training of psychotherapy, and the academic depth of my doctorate in the phenomenology of relationships from Middlesex University.

Relationships Create Culture. Culture Creates Success.

Through my research and practice, I've developed two distinctive frameworks that inform my coaching:

The Duo Coaching Framework examines the dynamics between two people—whether business partners, co-founders, or key leadership pairs—revealing how these relationships shape everything around them.

The Relationship Paradigm provides a comprehensive structure for understanding the entire web of relationships within an organisation, across six essential dimensions: Communication, Connection, Commitment, Fun, Growth, and Trust.

These frameworks, combined with my business experience and therapeutic training, allow me to work with you at multiple levels simultaneously—personal transformation, relationship dynamics, and organisational culture—because none of these exist in isolation.

For CEOs Who Want More

If you're leading a business and sensing that conventional coaching isn't enough—that the real barriers to your success lie deeper than quarterly targets or operational efficiency—we should talk.

Perhaps you're wondering:

• Why certain patterns keep repeating despite your best efforts
• Whether the life you're building is the one you actually want
• How to transform relationships that have become stuck or destructive
• What comes next, and how to move towards it with clarity and purpose

My approach isn't for everyone. It requires honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to look beneath the surface. But for those ready to do this work, the transformation extends far beyond business metrics—it touches everything.

Because ultimately, your leadership isn't separate from who you are. And who you are isn't separate from the relationships and patterns that have shaped you.

The question is: are you ready to understand all of it?

Dr Neil Wilkie works with CEOs and senior leaders who recognise that sustainable success requires more than strategy—it requires self-knowledge, authentic relationships, and the courage to lead from a place of genuine understanding.

Dr. Gwen Stirling Wilkie

Gwen has extensive experience as a senior business leader, Executive Director and Trustee from within private and third sector organisations.  She has over 35 years of leadership experience and has been consulting in different industries and sectors for over 20 years.  In her consulting work she specialises in senior leadership team effectiveness, dialogue, transformation, and culture change. 

As a behavioural scientist and business psychologist Gwen is skilled in decoding the relationship dynamics at play between individuals and within senior level teams.

She is much sought-after for her consulting work and known for her warm relational style.  Those who have worked with her say that she is able to “quickly get to the nub of what’s going on” and “intuitively picks up on what’s not being said”.

She develops relational-based consulting skills in others as faculty on the Certificate of Dialogic OD at the Cape Cod Institute, along with masterclasses on the MSc in Management Consulting at Leeds University Business School.

Her book on virtual consulting, ‘From Physical Place to Virtual Space’, was an Amazon best-selling business consulting book in February 2021.  Her second book is a new concept in the evolution of reimagining work, moving beyond post-pandemic hybrid working, 'Omni-Working'  This was published in October 2023,

Gwen has a range of qualifications including the Applied Behavioural Sciences NTL OD Certificate & Human Interaction Group Dynamics Trainer, Relational Organisational Gestalt, Ecological Constellations, NLP Master Practitioner & Coach.  She is a Certified Business Psychologist, holds an MSc in Organisational Consulting and an MBA from Ashridge Business School.  She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.  Gwen has just been awarded her Doctorate in 'Responsiveness in the Evolving Landscape of Work; an Edgewalker's tale' .