Think with Jude

Coaching for professionals

You’ve built a successful career. But something about the next step isn’t quite clear.

Many capable professionals reach a point where working harder isn’t the answer — thinking differently is.

Coaching creates space to think clearly and move forward with confidence.

A former internal coach at Deloitte, I’ve been supporting senior managers and directors navigate complex leadership and career decisions for over a decade.

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When your career reaches a crossroads

You’ve built a strong reputation for delivering excellent work.

People trust you.

You’re capable and respected.

Which is why it can feel confusing when something about the next step doesn’t quite fall into place.

You might be:

• stepping into a bigger leadership role
• moving organisations or considering a new direction
• navigating complex stakeholders and politics
• questioning whether your current path still fits
• feeling stuck despite strong performance

At these moments the challenge usually isn’t ability.

It’s working out what needs to change.

Testimonials

"I made partner!"

I can honestly say, that your help on the panels and how to come across, had a significant impact. Impact has always been a problem for me, but apparently no more, as it didn’t come out as a feedback point at all.

Financial Audit Director

now Big 4 Parter

"Helped me reflect"

I tend to come out with my best material when I am talking ‘ad-lib’ And you really tapped into this in terms of helping me identify several areas of focus as I look to go back through the Partner process later this year.

Financial Advisory Director

now Big 4 Partner

"A great listener "

[Jude] is both challenging when she needs to be and empathetic when required. She appears to have dealt with most situations before and always seems to have useful insights into workplace dynamics, team leadership skills, and rapport-building.

Real Estate Advisory Senior Manager

now Big 4 Director

"Lets me talk, listens and doesn’t interrupt"

The sessions are challenging, but ensure that I think about the reason for behaviours, and why I feel certain areas to be difficult. I have seen significant developments in how I approach these situations since working with Jude.

Financial Advisory Senior Manager

now Big 4 Director

The reality of senior roles

As your career progresses, something quietly changes.

There are fewer places where you can think things through openly.

  • Your team looks to you for answers.
  • Your manager has their own pressures.
  • Your peers may be navigating the same dynamics.

Important questions often sit beneath the surface.

  • Questions about leadership.
  • Career direction.
  • Difficult relationships.

Or decisions about what comes next.

Coaching provides something that’s surprisingly rare at this stage of a career:

A confidential space to think clearly with someone outside your organisation.

How coaching helps

Coaching isn’t about being given answers.

It’s about creating the space to think more clearly than you can on your own.

In our work together we explore:

  • the dynamics in your organisation
  • patterns in how you lead and communicate
  • the feedback you’ve received and what it really means
  • the career decisions in front of you
  • the shifts that will make the biggest difference

Not in theory.

In the context of the real situations you’re dealing with right now.

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About Jude Sclater

Before working independently, I was an internal coach at Deloitte, supporting senior managers and directors navigating leadership challenges and complex career decisions.

Working inside a professional services environment gave me a deep understanding of the pressures leaders face — client demands, high expectations and the challenge of leading while still delivering.

Today I work with professionals who want a thoughtful space to step back, think clearly and make confident decisions about their leadership and careers.

Who I typically work with

My clients are usually professionals who:

  • care deeply about doing their work well
  • hold themselves to high standards
  • are thoughtful about the kind of leader they want to be
  • are open to reflection and challenge
  • want clarity about their next step

Many are navigating pivotal moments such as:

  • stepping into larger leadership roles
  • reassessing career directio
  • rebuilding confidence after difficult feedback
  • leading teams through complex challenges

You're likely to benefit from coaching it you:

  • Value honest conversations
    You want someone who will challenge your thinking, not just agree with you.
  • Are open to reflection
    You’re willing to examine patterns in how you lead and communicate.
  • Want clarity about your next move
    You’re tired of second-guessing what senior leadership is really looking for.
  • Care about leading well
    You want to make thoughtful decisions about your work, your leadership and your career.
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Testimonials

"Positive self promotion"

I now speak positively (without caveats or pre-judging what others might think) about my successes, find opportunities to let key stakeholders know the progress I’ve made.

Risk Advisory Senior Manager

now Big 4 Director

"Worthwhile and useful"

There was a benefit for me to have time and space (and help) to focus on and articulate some of my career development challenges and goals.

Tax Director

now Big 4 Partner

" Immeasurably assisted me"

You gave me the “tools” to be able to assess and consider my behaviour and interactions outside of the sessions.

Corporate Finance Assistant Director

now Partner, Global Risk Mitigation Firm

"Would definitely do it again"

You were direct, responsive and challenged me. I liked this.

Financial Advisory Director

now Big 4 Partner

How the coaching process works

Step 1: Book a free coaching conversation

The first step is a free 60-minute coaching conversation.

This session gives you the chance to experience coaching and see whether it feels like a good fit. Coaching is a meaningful investment of both time and money, so it’s important that you feel comfortable with how we work together.

We’ll use the session much like a normal coaching conversation — exploring what’s going on in your career and what you’d like to change or move forward.

Many people find they leave this first conversation with greater clarity, even if they decide not to continue with coaching.

If there’s time at the end of the session, we can talk about what working together might look like. If not, I’ll send you the details afterwards and you can take some time to consider whether it feels right.

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Step 2: Decide whether coaching feels right

After the first conversation, you can decide whether you’d like to continue.

Coaching works best when there’s a strong sense of trust and openness between us, so it’s important that it feels like the right fit for both of us.

There’s no pressure to decide immediately.

Step 3: Coaching sessions

If we decide to work together, the coaching takes place over six one-hour sessions online.

These sessions provide the space to explore the leadership, career or organisational challenges you’re navigating and to work through them in a thoughtful and practical way.

The six sessions must be used within seven months of the first session, which provides enough continuity to support meaningful progress while allowing flexibility around busy schedules.

What’s the investment?

£1,500 for six coaching sessions invoiced monthly in advance (£250 per session).

If you’re curious about whether coaching could help you move forward in your career, the best place to start is by giving it a go with a no risk, no pressure, free, confidential coaching session.

 

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What coaching sessions are like

Coaching sessions are structured conversations designed to help you think more clearly about the situations you’re facing.

You might bring topics such as:

  • a leadership challenge you’re navigating
  • difficult feedback you’ve received
  • a career decision you’re considering
  • a complex relationship at work
  • uncertainty about your next step

My role is to ask thoughtful questions, challenge your thinking where useful and help you explore different perspectives.

The aim isn’t to give you answers.

It’s to help you develop the clarity and insight to decide what’s right for you.

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Confidentiality

All coaching conversations are strictly confidential.

If coaching is funded by your organisation, we may agree on general goals or themes to share, but the content of our conversations remains private unless you choose to share it.

Many clients find this confidentiality is what allows them to speak openly about the challenges they’re navigating.

Is coaching right for you?

Coaching tends to work best for people who:

  • are open to reflection and honest conversation

  • want to think more deeply about their leadership or career

  • are willing to experiment with new approaches

  • are ready to take action between sessions

You don’t need to have everything figured out before starting.

Often people come to coaching simply knowing that something needs to shift.

If you’re curious about whether coaching could help you move forward, the best place to start is a conversation.

1-2-1 coaching programme

Address what’s holding you back and  increase the impact you need to get promoted with my Get Promotion Ready programme.

I trained as a coach when I was at Deloitte in 2011 and have over 900+ hours logged with 200+ people. I’m accredited through the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and hold a MSc in Organisational Behaviour from Birkbeck University.

I love to help leaders become promotion-ready by acting on feedback, enhancing leadership presence, and seizing new career opportunities.

Free introductory coaching session

If you’re curious about what coaching with me is like, I offer a 60-minute free session to anyone who wants to try it out.

There’s genuinely no expectation to continue, sometimes one good conversation is enough to help you see your next step more clearly.

If there is time at the end of the session and you’re curious we can talk about working together otherwsie I’ll send you an email with the details.

All I ask is for 3 minutes of your time to tell me how the session was for you.

Discuss working together
  • Check-in on actions since last time
  • Celebrate successes
  • Decide what you want to think about
  • Choose actions to work on
  • Reflect on how you’re coaching your team
Session 6: 60 mins
  • Reflect on the coaching programme
  • What did you learn that you want to take with you
  • What’s still unfinished and how will we resolve that
  • Celebrate successes
  • Decide how do we want to stay in touch

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you guarantee I’ll get promoted?

No. There are so many variables that go into a promotion that neither of us can control. What I can guarantee is that if you put the work in and are willing to explore any resistance that might arise then you will leave the programme having made clear steps towards YOUR definition of career success.

You say this is a new programme, have you coached people facing these challenges before?

Yes. When I worked in Learning and Development for Audit and Risk Advisory at Deloitte I was the learning advisor on the Director promotion panels. I also ran a programme for Senior Managers and Directors who were deferred from promotion to help them successfully pass reassessment.

The testimonials on this page are from people I coached while at Deloitte.

What happens in a coaching session?

You probably have a lot of people giving you advice and telling you what they think you should do. Coaching is different, instead of telling you what I think you should do I help you work it out for yourself. Each session is decided by you and follows a consistent structure:

Beginning: We check in, celebrate wins, and establish the question for the session

Middle I ask you thought-provoking questions to explore your question and help you find solutions that will work for you. You’ll be doing most of the talking and I won’t tell you what to do because what works for me is probably not going to work for you.

Ending: Reflect on your insights from the session and actions you want to take away.

The Bounce Back and Thrive programme differs from other coaching offerings because you will be aware of how I coach so you can use the same techniques with your teams.

You can find out more in this blog post.

How much time will this take me?

In total you’ll spend six and half hours in coaching sessions with me and then it’s up to you how much time you want to put into putting your insights into action.

I believe the most successful changes come from changing your mindset and approach to things you’re already doing so if you find your actions from sessions are taking more than 3 hours a week to implement, let’s talk about that.

Can I contact you between sessions?

Yes, you’ll be able to email me between sessions if you need additional support and I’m always happy to have a quick 5 minute conversation when you need it.

I’ve got another question

I know this is a big investment and you need to be sure so please send me as many questions as you have or we can set up a call. Get in touch.