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Relational Coaching for
Executive Resilience

Building the relational skills to match your organisational goals


 

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Roxana Bacian ACC
Executive Team and Leadership Coach
Associate Certified Coach with ICF

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“Roxana has been a fantastic organisational coach for our team
as well as coaching individual team members.

She has helped us navigate
a time of significant organisational change and we have come out
of the other side a more cohesive team with stronger shared sense of -
and processes for - working together.”

- Mark Walton,
Founder and Prev Executive Director, 
Shared Assets

Bringing a total of 13 yrs experience (7yrs in design and 6 yrs in coaching) supporting leaders and teams in social impact to shift processes and cultures. With a keen interest in the inner work required for leadership of integrity, highlights of my impact include:
 

Design/Systems Thinking:
Highlight: Suppported the Scottish Government and Care Information Scotland to co-design their national carer information service together with service users in 1 year; as a Service Designer at Snook, with lead designer Valerie Carr.

 

Organisational Development:
Highlight: Supported Shared Assets (CIC in UK) to design new operational processes and cultural practices as they shifted governance models from a hierarchical to a flat structure within 7 months; in collaboration with NEON and Carrie Magee.

 

Wellbeing in Leadership:
Highlight: Helped increase 11 x headteachers' confidence in their ability to sustain the wellbeing of their teams by 43% within 4 x months; in collaboration with Know You More.

 

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Publications

Listen to podcasts I've been on  and read articles
and coaching weeknotes I've published:

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Conscious Leadership
with The Breakout Room,
Tim Mart, Know You More
Jan 2024

Talking on leadership that brings people together.
 

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Coaching Weeknotes
by Roxana Bacian Coaching
Started 2021

Exploring the intersection of inner growth, coaching and organisational change-work.

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Team Coaching Insights - Articles
by Roxana Bacian Coaching
Autumn 2025

Insights drawn from on the ground work with teams and colleagues.

Coaching Programmes

1-2-1 and Team Coaching Programmes for Organisations

Free 30min Introduction Call
‘Chemistry’/ Demo Coaching Call - assess compatibility:
 

Meeting each other, exploring working together and/or running a demo coaching session to assess fit, needs and compatibility coaching approach and coaching goals. Book here.

 

Includes: 

  • Intro to myself, coaching experience, approach, style and theoretical orientation;

  • Exploration of the goals and learning outcomes you want to approach in coaching;

  • Addressing potential concerns and identifying next steps in working together. 

 

Expected ROI: 

  • Clarity on how my coaching approach could support your organisation and team goals

  • Identify the core challenge/s that require your team’s attention in the current context;

  • Pinpoint the conditions you will need to have in place to make effective use of coaching.
     


3hrs One-Off Session
‘Diagnostic’ - pinpoint organisational and team blockers:

This session is useful for teams who are going through organisational shifts and are looking to diagnose the blockers - cultural, strategic or operational - that are impeding their forward movement as a team.

Includes: 

  • Pre-session work assignment for the team in preparation for the session (drawn from ‘Chemistry’ call conversation); 

  • Bespoke agenda targeting core area/s identified in ‘Chemistry’ call and data from pre-session assessment (finalised with input from team); 

  • 3hrs structured coaching call focused on tangible outputs and learning outcomes.


Expected ROI: 

  • Identified core areas that are blocking forward movement across the team and organisation;

  • Discussed and agreed actionable steps to take in order to move past these blockers;

  • Identified core gaps in communication/collaboration and approached at least one difficult conversation within the session.



6 Months Coaching Programme
‘Relational Momentum’ - Build the relational skills to match your organisational goals


Choose this programme if recent pressures and challenges have surfaced gaps in team dynamics. This programme is for your team if you want to become more intentional about team communication, feedback and conflict resolution; so that your culture sustains your organisation.

Includes - may vary depending on final brief: 

  • 30min Intro Call with the whole team (3 - 6 people) 

  • 30min 1-2-1 Intro Calls with each team member to discuss needs and goals

  • Bespoke diagnostic exercise (based on team intro call)

  • 6 x 1.5hrs team coaching sessions (monthly)

  • Mid-point review and feedback form

  • 6 x agenda outlines for each coaching session (with input from team) 

  • Email communication and programme management (scheduling)

  • Insights on our process from coaching supervision.

 

Long-term ROI and measurable impact: 

  • Cohesiveness in team communication - you’ll come out of the programme having practiced holding conflict creatively as a team and approaching difficult topics as a collaborative process;

  • Ease in approaching challenges at depth - you have built stamina and speed in identifying inner and outer blockers within your team and the skills to address them in a timely manner; 

  • Shared understanding of purpose and process - you’ll come out with an embodied sense of ‘one-ness’ as a team, having newly re-experienced your team’s strengths.


12 Months Coaching Programme
‘Executive Resilience ’ - Build the relational skills and team practices that will sustain a healthy organisational nervous system


Choose this programme if you’d like to build on your team’s relational skills as well as turn these into tools, strategies and practices that you can propagate across your organisation. This programme is for you if you’d like to embed new behaviours across your team; so that you can face upcoming challenges.

Includes - may vary depending on final brief: : 

  • 30min Intro Call with the whole team (3 - 6 people) 

  • 30min 1-2-1 Intro Calls with each team member to assess needs and goals (3 - 6 people)

  • Bespoke diagnostic exercise (based on team intro call)

  • 12 x 1.5hrs team coaching sessions (monthly)

  • Mid-point review and feedback form

  • 12 x agenda outlines for each coaching session (with input from team) 

  • Email communication and programme management (scheduling)

  • Insights on our process from coaching supervision.
     

Long-term ROI and measurable impact: 
 

  • Cohesiveness in team communication - you’ll come out of the programme having practiced holding conflict creatively as a team and approaching difficult topics as
    a collaborative process;

  • Ease in approaching challenges at depth - you have built stamina and speed in identifying inner and outer blockers within your team and the skills to address them
    in a timely manner; 

  • Shared understanding of purpose and process - you’ll come out with an embodied sense of ‘one-ness’ as a team, having newly re-experienced your team’s strengths
    and values.

  • Tools and strategies to address cultural gaps shared and understood across team - you’’ll come out with practical tools and designed up systems for confronting challenges live, bespoke to your team members' psychological needs;

  • Resilient organisational nervous system - you’ll come out with a live embodied experience of working through conflict and difficult organisational decisions, providing you with a resilient team system able to face upcoming challenges.

    Read
    'Approach' section for more information about coaching approach and costs.
     

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Executive Team Coaching

Coaching Programmes for Teams

About your team: 

  • Small to medium organisation undergoing complex changes, whether to do with operational processes, team dynamics or shifts in governance and strategy;  

  • You need to make highly ethically-complex decisions under multi-layered pressure;

  • You see the relational and moral development of your team as core to solution-finding.

Coaching Methodology & Orientation: 
I am trained in a variety of coaching models and follow the ICF coaching code of ethics.
I bring work experience of employing traditional service design tools from previous work with NEC Digital, organisational development tools and anti-oppression and liberatory tools from previous work with NEON.

I hold a developmental and process-oriented stance to working in coaching. This means that I work at greater emotional depth to enable greater degrees of change in behaviour and outlook. The work itself still revolves around outcomes, as this is inherent to making change happen. This way of working is supported by my personal work in psychotherapy and attending recognised and ongoing CPD.

I use my experience and knowledge of change management at both inner and outer levels in supporting teams to listen for the thing they can’t hear when they operate within the fray of the day-to-day. This listening might point them to an organisational value that has been side-lined, an unexpected direction that is emerging, a new awareness of the wider context in which the organisation operates or a conversation that hasn't happened yet.

Once this field of listening has been created, everything becomes possible. And teams come out re-connected to their collective purpose and with increased ability to take effective steps towards responding to their current challenges and preparing for future ones.

Previous Success:

“Roxana has been a fantastic organisational coach for our team as well as coaching individual team members. She has helped us navigate a time of significant organisational change and we have come out of the other side a more cohesive team with a stronger shared sense of - and processes for - working together.”

- Mark Walton, Founder and Prev Executive Director, Shared Assets

Find a case study of this work in the team coaching programme info document below and book a free call to meet each other and explore working together.

Executive 1-2-1 Coaching

Coaching Sessions & Programmes for Leaders

About you: 

  • You are a C-suite or senior management leader looking to better serve your team as your organisation is looking to respond to current external and internal pressures; 

  • You have already done some of this thinking yourself but need a neutral source of support where you can be honest about uncertainties and challenges you are facing; 

  • You see you moral and psychological development as core to solution-finding.

Coaching Methodology & Orientation: 
I am trained in a variety of coaching models and follow the ICF coaching code of ethics. I bring work experience of employing traditional service design tools from previous work with NEC Digital, organisational development tools and anti-oppression and liberatory tools from previous work with NEON.

I hold a developmental and process-oriented stance to working in coaching. This means that I work at greater emotional depth to enable greater degrees of change in behaviour and outlook. The work itself still revolves around outcomes, as this is inherent to making change happen. This way of working is supported by my personal work in psychotherapy and attending recognised and ongoing CPD.

I use my experience and knowledge of change management at both inner and outer levels in supporting helping leaders to listen for the thing they can’t hear when they operate within the fray of the day-to-day. This listening might point them to an organisational value that has been side-lined, an unexpected direction that is emerging, a new awareness of the wider context in which the organisation operates or a conversation that hasn't happened yet.

Once this field of listening has been created, everything becomes possible. And leaders come out re-connected to their purpose and with increased ability to take effective steps towards responding to their current challenges and preparing for future ones.

Previous Success:

Pippa was moving into a senior role in a new part of the social impact sector. She was looking for a space to unpack her insecurities about returning to a leadership role as well as looking critically at the position of power that came with being a funder.

“Roxana helped me to identify the issues I needed to consider, how I could make progress in my thinking and how I would know I had reached clarity on an issue. I’d recommend her for anyone who wants to take a step away from their day-to-day life and find a way to move their thinking forward."

- Pippa Smith, Head of a Grantmaking Foundation”

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Credentials 

The experience, skills and presence I bring to this work are shaped by the relationships I’ve been blessed with, the people who aren’t afraid to keep growing. They include my therapist, supervisor, coaching colleagues and most of all, the clients and teams I work with; who are brave to cross the bridge of their lives and that of their organisations.​

  • > 180hrs of ongoing live coaching CPD and 250 coaching sessions (1-2-1 and team);
     

  • 7 years designing visuals, programmes and services with Shift Design, Snook, FutureGov and with clients such as Forum for The Future and Dot Everyone; 
     

  • 2.5 years organisational and team coaching with civil society and not-for-profit teams; as an Associate with New Economy Organisers Network;
     

  • 1.5 years facilitating and training coaches with Simply Coaching and 3.5 years supervising coaches as a volunteer supervisor with MOE Foundation;
     

  • 6 months coaching headteachers in Scotland supporting them to sustain their wellbeing and that of their teams; as an associate with Know You More
     

  • 6 years leadership, career and wellbeing coaching with social entrepreneurs, creative freelancers, designers, climate specialists, researchers, creative arts practitioners, curators, consultants, heads of grant-making foundations and directors of charities;
     

  • 8.5 years of weekly psychotherapy identifying unhelpful patterns of behaviours, finding alternative responses, increasing relational skills and emotional regulation;
     

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Roxana provided me with a space to work through uncertainties and challenges around starting a new role and helped me to reach clarity in my own thinking and identify productive ways forward with useful prompts. 

 

I was moving into a senior role in a new part of the social impact sector. I was looking for a space to unpack my insecurities about returning to a leadership role as well as looking critically at the position of power that comes with being a funder.

 

I found it very useful to have a dedicated space to analyse how things were going as
I started my new role. Roxana helped me to identify the issues I needed to consider, how
I could make progress in my thinking and how I would know I had reached clarity on an issue. I’d recommend her for anyone who wants to take a step away from their day-to-day and find a way to move their thinking forward.

Pippa Smith, Head of Grantmaking Foundation

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