CEO Coaching with Phil Hayes-St Clair
Lead with clarity when the weight is yours to carry.
I coach CEOs to scale themselves, lead great teams, and grow the business, without sacrificing their health and relationships. There are two ways to work with me.
1:1 CEO Coaching
I coach a small number of current and soon-to-be CEOs and MDs each year. This is private, focused work on the decisions only you can make.
Together, we focus on your scalability, becoming a great leader and growing your business through complexity. My clients range from growth-stage founders to enterprise CEOs and they share one idea: A deep desire to operate at their best and build something that endures.
This is built for leaders facing real pressure: M&A, rapid team growth, market shifts, leadership tension, or personal reinvention.
Private, confidential coaching shaped entirely around your situation
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Strategy, perspective, and accountability at the level you operate
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A leadership system you keep using long after our work together
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Work with Phil 1:1
Private coaching for CEOs ready to lead with clarity and grow with precision. A small, deliberate client list each year.
Format 1:1, Private
Who Current + soon to be CEOs, MDs
Places Limited each year
Prefer to grow alongside other CEOs?
The same thinking inside a small group of CEO peers chasing same milestones as you. The CEO Lab is the way in.
GROUP COACHING
The CEO Lab
Your next milestone, whether it’s $20 million or $100 million, asks for a different level of leadership.
Six weeks, six CEOs. You go through it as a cohort, and the class you join stays with you long after week six.
Effort got you here. Confidence in the the quality of the decisions you make, the strength of the team making them with you and how well you lead as the stakes climb will take you to the next milestone.
How each week works
Two things happen every week. First, you work on the issue in front of you right now, in a private hour with Phil. This is the issue, decision or the conversation that’s been keeping you up at night. Second, you join your cohort for the CEO spotlight.
Additionally, you get resources built to grow specific capabilities that are central to achieving your goals including decision-making, sales, developing your people, scaling yourself, and your 90-day plan.
EACH WEEK, SESSION ONE
Your 1:1 with Phil
One hour, one-to-one, focused entirely on your situation. Your decisions, your blockers, your growth targets, and what is getting in the way of them.
EACH WEEK, SESSION TWO
The CEO Spotlight
One hour as a group. One CEO brings their most pressing problem to the room, and every other member, with Phil, works on it together. Over six weeks, every CEO gets their Spotlight.
The six weeks
WEEK 1
Baseline
Review your leadership and find the highest-leverage opportunities in your business and your leadership.
WEEK 2
Decision-making
How to make better calls, faster, with less noise and less second-guessing.
WEEK 2
Sales, revenue and profitability
Identify the biggest growth lever available to you right now and build a clear plan to pull it.
WEEK 4
Your people
How to get more from the team you already have and build a culture that matters.
WEEK 5
The personal side
Managing energy, dealing with isolation, and staying effective under pressure.
WEEK 6
What comes next
Leave with a 90-day plan that has been stress-tested by the group.
What you leave with
A precise read on where you are as a leader and where your highest-leverage opportunities sit
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A decision-making approach that lightens the weight of the calls you make alone
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At least one clear, tested action on your biggest growth lever
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Five other CEOs who have sat inside your business problem and know it almost as well as you do
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Membership of your class, and the people who went through the same six weeks with you
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Every CEO enters with a scored leadership baseline. That baseline anchors every conversation with Phil across the six weeks. By the end you have an objective view of where your leadership has moved, with the business metrics to show why it matters.
Beyond the program, every CEO becomes a Lab alumnus: monthly calls with Phil and your class, async access for time-sensitive decisions, and priority invitations to the annual CEO Retreat.
THE INVESTMENT
$12,000 USD
Six weeks, 12 sessions, leadership survey and debrief, full Lab curriculum, and class membership. Then Alumni membership - $500 USD per month for one meeting with Phil and your class, every month, for as long as you want it. Cancel anytime.
Class 142 opens for a 28 September start.
Six seats, filled in order of successful application.
CHOOSING YOUR WAY IN
Which one fits you?
1:1 CEO Coaching
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You want private, confidential work on your specific situation
You are navigating areas that calls for full focus and discretion
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You want a coaching relationship shaped entirely around you
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You prefer depth over cohort pace
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The CEO Lab
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You value a structured six-week arc with a clear outcome
You lead a business between one and 30 million in revenue
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You want a peer group of CEOs at the same stage
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You are coachable, ambitious, and ready to be challenged
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Before you decide
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1:1 coaching is private work shaped entirely around your situation, with a small number of clients each year. The CEO Lab is a six-week group program for six CEOs who go through it together as a cohort. Both draw on the same approach. The difference is whether you want private depth or a peer group alongside you.
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Current and soon-to-be-CEOs and managing directors who want to lead with clarity and grow the business without trading away their health and relationships. Clients range from growth-stage founders to enterprise CEOs.
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CEOs in any industry working toward a specific next milestone in revenue or scale, who are coachable, ambitious, and serious about where they want to take the company.
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The CEO Lab is $12,000 USD for the six-week program. After that, $500 USD per month for the Alumni membership which includes a monthly meeting with Phil and your class, cancel anytime. 1:1 coaching is priced based on the engagement. Book a call to learn more.
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Six weeks, with two one-hour sessions each week: a private 1:1 with Phil and a group CEO Spotlight session. Beyond the six weeks, every member is invited to join the alumni community.
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For 1:1 coaching, book a call. For the CEO Lab, apply for the next class. Phil reviews every application personally.
The world’s best leaders have a coach.
Tell me where you are and where you want to take your life and company.
We will find the right approach.