Facilitation and Coaching

I bring over a decade of facilitation and coaching experience helping individuals, leaders, and teams build the skills, awareness, and behaviours that create cultures of growth and high trust. People I work with report greater self-awareness, clearer communication, and increased courage and participation after our time together.

My coaching begins with building trust, and I bring warm practicality, presence, and sharp insight as coach that allows clients to start doing real work on what matters most to them from the very first session.

My facilitation practice creates conditions for the full range of views and feelings in a team to be voiced and heard. It creates space for differences to be surfaced and integrated rather than suppressed, for unexpected possibilities to take shape and genuine commitment to decisions to occur based on clarity.

Over time, this work builds capacity in leaders and teams to face difficulty skilfully, reclaim agency, lead with integrity, repair relationships, and to self-correct when they find themselves off track.

I draw primarily on Integral Development, Deep Democracy, and Systemic Constellations in my approach.

What to expect

Depending on what your team needs, you can expect a combination of:

  • Conversations and processes that surface powerful insights and decisions that create movement

  • Fresh distinctions and honest mirrors that reveal how you are actually leading and your team is actually functioning

  • Experiential practices that build new awarenesses and collective capacity over time

  • Work with archetypes and story to uncover the stories teams and or/leaders are living within and what they might be called to step into next

  • Psychological frameworks for self-knowledge and mutual understanding, used in service of growth and development rather than categorisation

You can expect to be challenged, and to learn and grow as a leader, as a team or organisation.

“Francesca has made the University a better place. Her ability to create interventions which prompt deep thinking and action to improve our culture has advanced the development of our staff and will leave a legacy here. She has built strong relationships, credibility and trust in a short time, giving those who work with her real confidence to tackle our challenges. She's one of the best appointments I've made.”

Sara Shinton, Director of Future Leaders Fellows Development Network

“Francesca has a fantastic ability to create an environment of trust and growth, actively listening and asking thought-provoking questions that guide us toward our collective goals. The group dynamic is truly transformative.”

Beth, Senior Leader, NHS Lothian