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What is Thrive Leadership Coaching?

Leadership Coaching provides leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs with the tools and strategies to enhance their leadership skills, decision-making abilities, and strategic thinking. Through personalized guidance, leaders gain greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and communication skills, enabling them to lead with confidence and clarity.

Leadership Coaching helps professionals navigate workplace challenges, improve team performance, and foster a culture of innovation and accountability. By focusing on goal-setting, resilience, and problem-solving, coaching empowers leaders to maximize their impact, drive business success, and achieve sustainable professional growth. Whether you’re looking to refine your leadership approach or take your career to the next level, Leadership Coaching provides tailored support to unlock your full potential.

Annelies Nel Executive Coach

Purpose

To grow a leaders wellbeing and organisational impact

A confidential, strategic partnership for leaders who value space to think deeply, sharpen judgement, and lead with clarity and credibility.
One-to-one coaching strengthens your capacity to manage pressure, navigate complexity, and expand your leadership influence – without compromising wellbeing.

Best suited for leaders who:

  • Carry significant organisational responsibility
  • Are navigating complexity, pressure, or transition
  • Want to strengthen both wellbeing and impact

Why Leaders Value Thrive Coaching

Leadership journeys often fall into three seasons:

Transitions/Create Leaders

  • New role
  • Repositioned leadership mandate
  • Specialist-to-organizational leadership transition

Excel/Expand Leaders

  • Broader impact
  • Deeper strategic perspective
  • Pathway to organizational leadership

Restore/Realign Leaders

  • Stakeholder pressure
  • Political complexity
  • Stress and resilience demands

How Engagements Work

Team journeys often fall into three seasons:

1. Discovery

Clarify context, desired outcomes, and what success will look like.

2. Engagement

Coaching tailored to your leadership system and organisational reality.

3. Integration

Embed learning into sustainable habits, behaviours, and measurable impact.

One-to-one Coaching Outcomes

Leaders build clarity, steadiness under pressure, and impact that endures.

Self-Leadership & Wellbeing

  • Identity, purpose, and values clarity
  • Knowing self better; managing self better
  • Greater resilience, emotional regulation, and sustained energy

Leadership
Impact

  • Contextually effective leadership behaviours
  • Improved clarity, focus, and leadership presence
  • Stronger judgement and decision-making under pressure

Organisational Impact

  • Holding a strategic perspective
  • Achieving results through others
  • Positive impact on culture and stakeholder relationships

Thrive Leadership Coaching - Focus Areas

Strategic: Leadership

Meet and exceed organizational objectives through:

  • Setting clear direction and objectives
  • Inspiring action
  • Monitoring progress
  • Making course adjustments as required.

Build: Stakeholder Relationships

Build the following:

  • Cohesive Executive team
  • Healthy culture
  • Key stakeholder relationships

Energy: Manage and Refresh

Manage and Refresh through:

  • Regular breaks
  • Thinking time
  • Office support
  • Personal time
  • Family time

Thrive Leadership Coaching - Questions?

Executive Coaching - Hermann Funk testimonial
Annelies and I belong to a group of professional coaches, The Coaching Forum. Through our regular meetings I got to know Anelies well. I appreciate her profound knowledge of coaching, her sincere approach and her capacity to ask probing questions. Annelies is solution focused and has the ability to listen emphathetically
Hermann Funk
Social Entrepreneur
Executive Coaching - Witness Simbanegavi
Annelies is an expert in the areas of management and leadership coaching. She is quite experienced and is results driven. I therefore strongly recommend her.
Witness Simbanegavi
Chief Director

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