Conversation Coach

Where leaders practise the conversations growth depends on.

AI can move almost everything in a growing company. It can't have the hard conversation for you. This is a coaching programme led by a real person, with a private Practice Room your leaders use in between.

Talk to Claire See how it works
Practice Room · Live Rehearsing with: Grace
YouI wanted to share something I've noticed about your work over the last month. Some small errors have been cropping up, which means we're both spending time on extra checks. Is that something you've noticed too?
Grace · reacts like a real personHonestly? I've had loads on. Nothing's actually gone wrong, has it? I didn't realise it was a problem.
YouThis isn't about effort, I can see how hard you're working. It's that I need your work reliable enough to go straight out, and right now I'm checking it first. What's getting in the way?
CoachGood. You held the point without softening it, and you ended on a question she can actually answer. Now let's work on what you'll do if she goes quiet.
How we work together

Led by a human. Practised in between.

This isn't an app you hand your managers and hope. It's a coaching programme with Claire, and the Practice Room is where the work sticks between sessions.

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With Claire

Onboarding, buy-in and goals

We start together, as a team. What's getting avoided, what good looks like for you, and what each leader wants and needs from this. Goals set together, nothing imposed.

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In the Practice Room

Practice between sessions

In between, leaders rehearse their real conversations in the private Practice Room, against personas that react the way people actually do. As often as they need, where getting it wrong costs nothing.

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With Claire

Touchpoints that keep it honest

We come back together to assess against your goals, model what good looks like, and test the hard parts with human judgement and real emotion in the room.

Then back into the Practice Room. Session, practice, session. That's the rhythm.

Who's Claire?

Claire Gothard has spent twenty years leading people and the conversations that come with them, from the classroom to the C-suite, most recently heading a national programme team of over 300 and winning whole-team buy-in for its multi-million relaunch. She's also embedded a vision across a 100-person team in three months, not by running a programme at anyone, but by coaching eight senior leaders to carry the conversations themselves. That cascade is exactly what Conversation Coach builds in your team. These days her own team is zero humans and several opinionated AI agents, so she's not guessing about leading at AI pace either. The whole thing runs on her dad's motto: make money, do good, have fun.

Inside a practice session

Three steps between putting it off and saying it well.

1

Build your anchors

Before you rehearse, you shape four anchors: how you'll open, the point you won't soften, the understanding you're checking for, and how you'll close. Your plan for the conversation, in your own words.

2

Rehearse against someone who reacts

You practise out loud against a persona that responds the way people actually do: defensive, emotional, quiet or pushing back. Get it wrong here, where it costs nothing, instead of live.

3

Get feedback and go again

You get feedback on what happened and what to try next: where you softened, where you held, what to do differently. Your sessions with Claire build on exactly what you practised.

Why now

Your best people are the finite resource.

Everything else in your company is speeding up. Keeping great people aligned, developing and here is the part that doesn't scale on its own. That takes leaders who can say the hard thing well: up, down and across the org.

Without practice

The conversation just never happens.

  • Everyone's moving too fast, so the feedback waits for a better moment that never comes.
  • The standard slips quietly, and your best people notice before you do.
  • Your leaders keep doing well without ever learning to lead well.
  • Misalignment compounds at AI pace. Things get dangerous fast when nobody says the hard thing.
With Conversation Coach

It gets practised, then it gets said.

  • Leaders give and receive feedback well, in every direction, so the humans stay aligned while everything speeds up.
  • Culture, trust, pace and performance get carried by your leadership layer, not just by you.
  • No sheep-dip leadership programme. No consultancy parachuted in to tell you how to run your company.
  • Just you, investing in your people leading well, with human judgement and AI-powered practice behind them.
Inside the Practice Room

Walk in with your anchors ready.

Four anchors, built before you rehearse. Here's a real set, from a conversation most leaders will recognise. Keep scrolling and they'll open in turn.

Scenario Your one-to-one with Grace is tomorrow. Her work has needed quiet correcting for a month, and she may not realise how much has been fixed around her.

  • "I wanted to share something I've noticed about your work over the last month. Some small errors have been cropping up, which means we're both spending time on extra checks. Is that something you've noticed too?"

  • "There were errors on the paper, the briefing and the invite list, and I've been building extra checks into other pieces. I know how hard you're working, and I need your work reliable enough to go straight out. What's getting in the way?"

  • "Here's what I've taken from this: I need your work to go straight out without a check first, and right now we're not there. Is that how you see it too?"

  • "We can't change what's already happened. I'd like us to agree a clear approach for how work gets checked before it leaves you. Can we set that together now?"

Lighter than consultancy, more active than a course, more structured than ChatGPT and more repeatable than asking the founder again.

Who it's for

Built for teams that grew faster than their management layer.

Founder-led and fast-growing teams, where the conversations that keep good people now carry more weight than they used to.

Practising them is how you protect your people, your pace and your performance as you grow.

Next step

Weighing this up for your team?

Conversation Coach is currently working with a small number of founder-led teams. If that sounds like yours, the next step is a conversation with Claire, not a demo funnel.

Message Claire on LinkedIn

Or email hello@conversationcoach.co.uk

P.S. Scrolled all the way down looking for the price? That's exactly the kind of direct conversation we're selling. Ask.