Coaching for Leaders and Organisations
Real-world coaching, grounded in deep experience — delivered online, outdoors, and off-grid.
Explore the options below, or get in touch to create something bespoke.
Whether you're looking for focused 1:1 coaching, a transformative retreat, or a team experience that shifts things for good — you’re in the right place.
Choose Your Coaching Format
Hybrid Coaching
Reset in Nature, Continue online — Hybrid Coaching
Some breakthroughs need more than a Zoom call.
This hybrid coaching offer combines an immersive 1:1 retreat in the Ashdown Forest with ongoing online sessions giving you the depth of in-person work, and the flexibility of consistent, long-term support.
It’s for leaders who want to think clearly, reconnect with what matters, and lead with renewed energy and perspective.
Time in nature helps shift what’s stuck. The coaching helps you make it stick.
We begin face-to-face — with space to breathe, walk, reflect, and go deep. Then we continue online, building on that clarity with focused support over time.
For those navigating change, growth, or big questions about who they are as a leader — this is work that meets you where you are, and helps you get where you want to go.
Download more information on our Hybrid Coaching packages here
Online Coaching
High-Impact, Nature-Inspired Coaching — Delivered Online
This is coaching for people who don’t often get space to think.
Whether you’re a founder making big decisions, a senior leader navigating growth and change, or an organisation seeking meaningful support for your team this work creates the space needed to pause, reflect, and lead with greater clarity.
Delivered entirely online, these sessions bring the same spaciousness and depth as my in person work but in a flexible, accessible format that fits into real life.
No fluffy pep talks. No generic frameworks.
Just focused, evidence-based coaching rooted in real leadership experience helping individuals lead with more intention, and organisations strengthen their leadership from the inside out.
Download more information on our online coaching packages here
In-Person Coaching & Retreats
High-Impact, Nature-Based Coaching — In Person
Some conversations are simply better in person even better in the forest!
Whether you're looking for a focused 90-minute coaching session in the Forest Revival space or an immersive solo retreat, this is coaching designed to go deep — grounded in nature, and tailored to your pace.
In-person sessions offer a powerful pause from the noise of day-to-day life, giving space to think clearly, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and intent.
Ideal for senior leaders, founders, and professionals seeking perspective, direction, or time to recalibrate — this is work that meets you in the forest, and supports you long after you leave it.
Coaching Packages for Organisations & Individuals
Whether you’re supporting a senior leader through change, investing in your team’s growth, or navigating a career transition — these coaching packages are built to flex around real needs.
Packages are available for charities, SMEs, larger organisations, and individuals seeking tailored outplacement or leadership development support. Each one includes structured 1:1 coaching (typically over 3–12 months), with session frequency and format shaped to fit the you.
Coaching & Mentoring for SME Leaders & Founders
Real-world coaching & mentoring for SME leaders who want to think clearly, stay resilient, and lead with lasting impact
Thorp Coaching offers executive coaching, founder mentoring leadership development, and nature-based retreats tailored to growing businesses that want to lead differently — with sustainability, authenticity, and purpose at the core.
Coaching for Organisational Impact
Deep Coaching for Leaders Who Shape Culture
Thorp Coaching supports organisations to build confident, resilient, and values-led leaders.
Whether you’re developing individual talent, navigating change, or investing in culture this work helps people lead with greater clarity, connection, and confidence. It’s grounded in real-world experience, backed by evidence, and always tailored to the people and pressures inside your business.
NED Mentoring and Coaching
Building Confidence and Impact in the Boardroom
Thorp Coaching offers tailored support for Non-Executive Directors, helping individuals market themselves confidently, strengthen their influence, and lead authentically.
With extensive board experience, Emma Thorp helps you clarify your purpose, communicate with impact, and build resilience. As Co-founder of the Diverse Directors Programme, she brings valuable insights from this initiative into her coaching.
Supporting Early-Stage Leaders
Coaching for Founders Who Want to Lead from a Stronger Place
The Unseen Work — a coaching offer designed specifically for founders and early-stage leaders who are doing the hard things in life science and tech: building, pitching, growing, and holding it all together.
It’s not advice. It’s not surface-level support. It’s a powerful space to do the deep, strategic work that helps you lead with more clarity, confidence, and energy — without burning out.
Outplacement Services
Helping people move on — and forward.
When a role ends, it’s about more than just a career change. It can shake confidence, identity, and direction. Thorp Coaching offers tailored, thoughtful outplacement support that helps individuals navigate what’s next with clarity and confidence.
This isn’t off-the-shelf advice or a quick LinkedIn refresh. It’s human, practical, and results-focused coaching — designed for senior leaders, specialists, and organisations committed to doing right by their people.
By investing in quality outplacement, organisations protect their brand, maintain morale, and demonstrate leadership integrity — while helping those affected move forward positively and purposefully.
For Charities and purpose driven leaders
Practical, grounded coaching to lead with purpose and impact
Thorp Coaching offers high-impact, executive coaching grounded in lived leadership experience and a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing charities and mission-driven organisations.
Away Days & Team Building
Purposeful Team Development — Rooted in Nature
Thorp Coaching designs bespoke away days that blend coaching, team-building, and nature-based activities to strengthen communication, build trust, and realign teams.
Ideal for organisations navigating change or high-pressure phases, these immersive experiences support wellbeing, connection, and collective clarity.
What People Are Saying
“You don’t realise how much you need this day until you get to the other side of it!
At first the prospect of working on myself for a whole day terrified me. It felt ego driven which is a real trigger for me but the combination of Emma and Lavender Cottage is difficult to put into words. It’s like you are transported to a different time and place where you have breathing (and as needed yelling!) space to, in my case start to discover who I really am and where I am going. The walk after lunch is so powerful as the metaphors nature brings and how Emma teases them out at just the right moment was at times very emotional. Emma’s ability to hold a safe space for you is so embracing and yet she knew just the right times to push a little bit harder, even if it felt uncomfortable.
Take the day, it will change the course of your life forever.”
— COO - Retreat Client
As someone who has struggled with imposter syndrome and been hard on myself both at work and in my personal life, working with Emma has been a game-changer. She has this amazing ability to guide and support you in such a subtle way that you don’t even realise the huge impact she's having. Emma doesn’t just give advice or feed you positive affirmations. Instead, she empowers you to come to realisations on your own. It's like she helps you discover that you already have your own toolkit (the mental and emotional tools you need to handle tough days without letting your confidence take a hit); she's just showing you how to find and use it. This approach has made me feel more resilient, self-positive and self-reliant, and it's truly transformative.
— Online Client - Founder
Working with Emma has been a truly transformative experience. From the moment you step into her retreat, you feel immediately at home. The space she creates is a sanctuary where you can fully relax and open up. Her unique approach to coaching weaves nature, mindfulness, and deep self-reflection, making every session an inspiring journey of personal growth. Emma has a gift for helping you tap into your inner strengths, clarify your goals, and find balance in both personal and professional areas of life. Her coaching goes beyond just achieving goals—it’s about holistic, lasting transformation. I’m incredibly grateful for the profound impact she’s had on me. Thank you, Emma!
— Online Client & In Nature Client - NED & Executive
I have been working with Emma for 6 months now and her coaching has enabled me to make affect meaningful change in my life by doing less, not more.
The reflections I am compassionately invited to carry out have empowered me to have greater awareness of my own mind and behaviour, to make small and mighty changes, bringing more joy and less.... noise.
I was lucky enough to meet Emma in person and have a coaching session in nature, I would highly recommend this, Emma + nature is powerful for propelling yourself forward to what you want to achieve!
Emma is a rock you can anchor yourself to, while allowing you to work through the tough challenges life inevitably provides and see clearly what you can do to impact how you live your life (It is more than you think!).
I am grateful for Emma's approach, which feels very gentle and yet is extremely powerful for affecting the change you seek. You will learn so much from Emma through her guidance, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Be prepared though, Emma is clearly experienced and talented coach. Proven in her awesome questions and a razor-sharp way of challenging you exactly where and when you need it. Go for it, you will be so pleased you did and as a bonus you will come away with a more profound respect for nature.
— Online and In Nature Client - Director
The work I have done together with Emma has been so enlightening. Her approach is not about generating action plans and to-do lists of self improvement, but about deep self reflection and understanding of what drives my beliefs and behaviours and what I need to thrive in every aspect of my life. Her choice to work in harmony with nature is inspired. She truly is a talented coach.
— Online & InPerson Client - Founder
Emma has a natural ability to balance psychological safety with the right amount of challenge to encourage the best out of her clients. I'm a relative newcomer to coaching, and have found my sessions with Emma invaluable in building a mental toolkit to navigate my professional journey. She is able to help me see beyond my own insecurities, and uncover and embrace my strengths. Each session has built on the last, and I always leave feeling positive and confident. Can't ask for more than that!
— Online Client - Executive & Head of