Expert executive coaching to strengthen your leadership—whether you meet us in our Oxford office or work with us online.

Oxford attracts leaders from diverse sectors from professional services to research, healthcare, high-growth spin-outs and technology—each facing distinct challenges. Whether you are shaping strategy, aligning your team, or making critical decisions, the demands on senior leaders are relentless. You are navigating complexity, making decisions under pressure and ensuring that both your team and your business perform.

Listening Partnership’s executive coaches work with CEOs, senior executives and partners across Oxford and beyond. We create the time and space for you to step back, cut through complexity and lead forward with clarity and impact.

Our approach blends narrative coaching, commercial focus and leadership impact—supporting you to strengthen how you lead now, while shaping the leader you want to become.

Our executive coaching in Oxford provides senior leaders with the space to think, gain clarity and drive meaningful change. Whether you’re looking for personal leadership development, support through a transition or a sounding board for complex decisions, we offer:

• Executive Coaching – One-to-one coaching for CEOs, senior executives, and professionals across Oxford’s diverse sectors. We focus on your leadership impact, strengthening your ability to think clearly, lead decisively, and influence effectively.
• Leadership Coaching – Working with you to refine your leadership style, build executive presence, and lead with confidence in high-stakes environments.
• Team Coaching – Helping senior teams align around shared goals, improve communication, and work together more effectively to deliver results.
• Coaching Supervision – Ongoing development for coaches, providing space to review your work and ensure good practice.
• Leadership Development & Training – Business storytelling masterclasses and our signature narrative coaching approach designed to equip leaders and internal coaches with the skills to lead and communicate with impact.

We offer executive coaching in a way that fits your needs and schedule. You can work with us:

• In Oxford – From our coaching space in Eynsham, West Oxfordshire—offering a quiet, discreet setting away from daily pressures, while still being just a short distance from Oxford city centre.
• In London – From our office near Liverpool Street.
• Across the UK and Internationally – Via Zoom and video conferencing, working with clients globally. Whether you prefer face-to-face conversations in Oxford or virtual coaching that fits around your leadership commitments, we work in a way that fits your world.

Listening Partnership is a team of senior executive coaches and supervisors, founded by Nick Isbister and Jude Elliman, with over 25 years of experience supporting leaders across Oxford, London, the UK, and internationally.

Our team brings a blend of commercial acumen, senior leadership experience, and coaching expertise. As executive coaches in Oxford, we work with CEOs, board members, partners and emerging leaders across sectors—including finance, professional services and high-growth businesses. Our team supports senior leaders across Oxford’s distinctive leadership landscape from world-renowned universities and research institutions to fast-growing startups, professional services, healthcare, not-for-profits and the public sector.

We are known for our combination of astute business insight, deep listening and the courage to ask the questions that unlock fresh thinking. Together, we partner with you to cut through complexity and strengthen your leadership impact.