Ginny Baillie MCC PG CERT
"You already have what it takes to lead well, even if it doesn’t always feel that way”
You already have pretty much everything you need to be thriving as a leader. It might not always feel like that. Sometimes you don't have access to your resourcefulness, creativity, power, assertiveness and ideas. They might be covered up by negative experiences, politics, the knocks of life and toxic working culture experience.
This is the work of leadership - connection, becoming grounded, leading from a place of deep rooted knowing, layering skill and learning on top.
The Idea.
Most leadership development is about adding things: skills, frameworks, a technique for every situation. That has its place. What often gets missed is more fundamental: knowing and backing who you are, and trusting what you bring. The more solid that is, the better you lead.
When we lose it, it doesn’t look like a crisis. It looks like a full diary and no time to think. We second-guess calls we’d once have made on instinct. We skim instead of thinking properly. We do other people’s work because it’s quicker than the conversation. We wait for reassurance before backing our own judgement. And when someone takes credit for our idea or talks over us, we let it go in the moment, but it bugs us.
Or it goes the other way, which is harder to spot because it looks like strength. We stop asking questions. We dig in, hold on to control, and hear challenge as criticism. From the outside it reads as confidence. Underneath, it’s the same thing: we’ve lost touch with ourselves, and certainty has become somewhere to hide.
Sometimes there’s a skill to learn. More often, we’ve stopped listening to our own intuition. It’s still there.
Grounded leaders still get the difficult boss, the politics, the meeting where they’re talked down to. It just doesn’t knock them over. They know what they think, they say it, and they build the relationships that get things done.
That’s the work. Not a new you. More of you.
Work With Me
We start with whatever you bring: the restructure, the new boss, the role you’re stepping into, the difficult peers, the meeting that went wrong. That’s real and it matters. But we won’t stop there, because the same patterns tend to show up in every problem.
So the work goes underneath. Where do you really want to be positioned? Where could you stand to back your judgement? What are you putting up with that you don’t need to, and what are you avoiding that you need to face? I’ll help you work out what’s really going on and what will make a difference, and I’ll support you as you do the work.
What changes is how you show up. You trust your instincts and act on them sooner. You speak before you’re certain. You build the relationships that challenge you, nourish you and extend your influence, and you let go of work that was never yours to carry. When the difficult moments come, and they will, you meet them from solid ground.
The people around you notice. They get a leader who’s clearer, steadier and easier to follow.
Thank you so much for this Ginny - I can't tell you how much lighter I felt after seeing you (and how heavy and
cluttered before). You genuinely reset my sense of perspective. I think you characterised the "journey" so well
in your email last week - "leadership maturity" and my focus - 'fragmented' shall remain firmly on my
literal and mental white board.
CEO, Not-For-Profit
1:1 Coaching
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Amplify The Good Stuff
When coaching with me, you get to put down the load of leadership and think deeply about what's really going on. This is just for you to lay out everything you want and think through what's getting in the way.
You'll be in good hands, with nearly 30 years of leadership coaching experience, I am here to hold the space for you to sink in to and take time for yourself.
Of course I'll have some challenge and some truths to share, reflecting back to you to help you see clearly. Our work is uncover and amplify what's in you that you want to bring to the leadership party.
Great Meetings
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Meeting well
Most organisations only get their people in a room a few times a year, and those days are costly. Too often they’re filled with slides and updates that could have been an email, and nothing much changes afterwards.
In-person time has a different job now. It’s where trust gets built and the difficult conversations finally happen, and that connection carries a team through the months on screen. I help you design and run those days so they do that job: reading the group, working with the tensions in the room, and doing the things you can’t do online.
I also work with you & your people on online meeting culture. That means fewer meetings, better ones, and people who leave feeling it was worth turning up.
Skills Development
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Get Good
You may find there are skills you need to learn to lead the way your want to
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Presentation impact - do people feel engaged, are you landing your message?
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How to lead virtually - bringing connection across the cyberspace
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How to handle ‘politics’ - relationships are key at your level
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Running great meetings - you can get very good at this and my guess is they need improving, everyones do.
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Finding mentors and peers for genuine support - you need a tribe
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Ways of working with your team - when was the last time you looked at the 'how' of being together?
Clients' Feedback
Working with Ginny was a game-changer....Her flexibility never strayed from the focus of our work, and the practical tools she shared showed just how broad and insightful her knowledge is. I left each session not only more equipped, but more grounded in who I am as a leader.
Executive Director, Healthcare
My Story (part of)
I spent alot of time, money and sleepless nights trying to do things the 'right' way. Slightly annoyed to discover I could have skipped all that, invested in what really grounds me and trusted my talent, instinct and general fabulousness...
.....because leading from that place is easier, rewarding and frankly more fun
I've worked since I was 16. Along the way I was exposed to toxic behaviours from peers and bosses, archaic working practices, doses of sexism (the City in the 90's anyone?) and environments that eroded my self belief and confidence. I came to coaching because I'd really lose sight of what I really wanted from my career. I was wondering how come I'd done all the 'right' things yet I wasn't having the experience or rewards I assumed would be mine.
It wasn't until I started to do the 'wrong' things that my career really took off. "Wrong' in that I started to trust myself, work on what needed healing or upgrading, learn the skills I needed and be brave (and stop comparing myself to others and thinking I needed to be like them). Thing got very much better after that.
We spend mucb of our life in our careers, and suppressing and shape shifting who we are to be 'successful' is exhausting, Finding a different way is liberating and energising.
Get in touch to explore how you can change the things that you want to get better at or have more of (or eliminate entirely!)
I I live in Wales, UK, and I work on-line and in person. Meeting you in person at least once, where we can, is important.
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