Navigate Change with Confidence & Clarity
Coaching for NHS & ICB Communications Leaders
Explore your options with qualified coaching support from
a former NHS Director of Communications
If you're leading comms in an ICB right now, this might feel familiar:
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You’re being asked to shape the strategy and comms plan for change you weren’t consulted on
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You’re supporting your team’s morale, while privately wondering what’s next for you
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You’re holding the board line, but no one’s holding space for your own leadership.
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And you’re doing all of this under pressure to prove value, fast
You are not alone. And you do not have to lead through this alone either.
I focus on empowering NHS communications leaders to lead through ambiguity, influence without burning out, and define what success looks like, even when the ground is shifting.
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WORK WITH ME
Louise Thompson,
former Director of Communications, NHS
leadership and careers coach
As I wrote recently in this article, Communications leaders are often asked to be the voice of clarity while navigating uncertainty themselves. I've lived this experience first-hand: leading NHS comms through restructures, merger plans, and ambiguous change programmes while wondering if I'd have a job at the end of it.
The coaching I offer is grounded in that reality.
I have worked at board level as a Director of Communications within the NHS at a local and regional level, and as communications lead to the Chief Nursing Officer for England, advising on large scale change and health advocacy programmes, thought leadership and national communications campaigns.
Now, as a trained ILM coach and proud graduate from the NHS Leadership Academy (with a diploma in Executive Healthcare Leadership), I work with communications and other functional and strategic leaders across the NHS.
I specialise in empowering communications professionals and their teams to:
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Enhance strategic influence and maintain visibility at board level
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Navigate uncertainty and lead change, as leaders (and human beings)
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Clarify career strategy and direction - inside and beyond the NHS
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Develop a compelling and authentic leadership brand fit for future opportunities
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Balance the needs of your team with your own wellbeing and career goals
MY SERVICES
Option 1: One-to-one coaching package (Comms leaders)
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Three 60-minute sessions focused on your specific challenges and goals
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Personalised development resources to enhance your leadership capabilities, career clarity and sense of wellbeing as a leader
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Optional CV/LinkedIn career narrative review if exploring exit
£550.00 (longer packages available)
Option 2: Team Coaching for NHS Comms Departments
I offer small-group coaching designed to:
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Support team dynamics and engagement during change
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Provide individual coaching support to team members
Custom sessions available - please enquire for details