CEO Coaching with Phil Hayes-St Clair
You didn’t work this hard to feel this alone.
I coach CEOs because great leadership is the only lever that changes everything else. This is 1:1 coaching for enterprise CEOs that scales their companies without sacrificing their health and relationships.
Built for CEOs
I coach a small number of current and soon-to-be enterprise leaders 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 an organisation that endures.
This is built for leaders facing 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
30 minutes with Phil to see if 1:1 coaching suits your situation
The problem in front of you is probably one of these.
Open the one that sounds like your week.
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Boards drift when the CEO stops leading the agenda. We rebuild confidence, cadence, name the two decisions that matter this quarter and redesign the relationship with the chair.
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Speed is a design problem. We find where decisions queue, build a leverage model and remove you from the queue.
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A lack of candour can destroy momentum. We surface the three conversations the organisation isn’t having and script them together.
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Most stalled raises are a story problem before they are a numbers problem. We tighten the narrative, the sequence of who hears it and build a coalition of committed investors.
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We separate what the team can control from market activity, then rebuild the GTM strategy, incentives and pipeline discipline to energise your sales organisation.
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Wrong hires usually trace back to capabilities and job descriptions for structures that are no longer fit-for-purpose. We rewrite the hiring playbook that’s fit for the next five years.
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The fear is about the gap, not the person. We plan the 90 days after the exit before we plan the conversation.
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Usually led by someone running on empty. We start with your energy, then the message, then the meeting rhythm that carries it.
Trusted by leaders at:
Confidence and your time back.
When I ask clients what changed, the word they use most is confidence. They make harder decisions sooner, lead the team they have with more conviction, and get time back with the people who matter to them.
HOW IT WORKS
Nine sessions, shaped around you
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Fit call: 30 minutes to talk through where you are and whether we're the right match.
Nine private sessions: Each one starts with what's in front of you that week, then the strategic advantage you’re building.
Anytime access: Available anytime between private sessions to work through time-sensitive issues and decisions.
A leadership system you keep: You leave with a way of making decisions you'll use long after our work ends.
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Before I coached CEOs, I was one.
I coach CEOs because great leadership is the only lever that changes everything else, and because I know what it costs to lead without it.
20 years as a CEO, built seven companies, closed multi-million dollar deals, shaped high performance cultures. Former Australian soldier and national athlete. Work with CEOs in private and public companies across biotech, healthcare, aerospace, hospitality and technology.
Before you decide
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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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1:1 coaching is private work shaped entirely around your situation, with a small number of clients each year. The CEO Room is a six-week 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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Engagements are priced on scope. We’ll cover investment on the fit call. Book time to learn more.
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Yes, Nothing you share leaves our sessions.
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Book a 30-minute fit call. If it’s a match, we’ll agree on a start date. You can book here.
Prefer to work alongside other CEOs?
The CEO Room puts you with five other chief executives for six weeks, with a private session with me each week and a group session where the class works on one CEO's hardest problem, and the class you join stays with you well past week six.
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.