Elevate Collective
1:4 Group Mentoring For Public Sector Coaches
£4500 or 10 x £450 (inc VAT)
Elevate - For Public Sector Coaches
You’ve given decades of your professional life to the public sector. Now it’s time to have the impact that you want but on your terms.
Is this you?
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- You’re a public sector professional who’s realised the current path isn’t sustainable and that you want to have a greater impact but on your own terms
- You want to keep making a difference, but not at the cost of your health and private life
- You know you have valuable expertise but aren’t sure how to turn it into a viable business
- The idea of “selling” makes you uncomfortable – it feels at odds with public service values
- You worry about finding enough work if you leave your role
- You are passionate about the public sector, know you have a lot to offer, but want to do it in a way that feels a lot less exhausting
Scroll down to find the programme details, including course module content.
How We Help
We understand the unique challenges of transitioning from the public sector because we’ve been there.
In Elevate we teach you how to:
- Identify and package your most valuable skills and knowledge
- Find opportunities that align with your values
- Navigate procurement processes confidently
- Build a stable pipeline of work
- Market your services authentically
- Set healthy boundaries while building the kind of business you want
- Learn how to package your knowledge and experience into services the sector needs, while creating the flexibility and boundaries you deserve.
Programme Overview
The public sector plays a pivotal role in shaping the well-being and prosperity of society. Public sector organisations are tasked with addressing complex challenges, from delivering essential services to driving social change and fostering economic stability. The managers within these organisations serve as the conduits, ensuring that policies are effectively translated into action. However, the increasingly multifaceted and high-pressure environment of the public sector demands exceptional leadership and management skills—skills that can be significantly enhanced through a structured mentoring programme.
Elevate, our programme for those with a background in the public sector, is designed to equip coaches with the tools, insights, and strategies necessary to support public sector managers in their professional growth. The programme underscores the critical importance of the public sector, the unique challenges its leaders face, and the transformative power of effective coaching and mentoring.
Elevate is a group programme taught in small cohorts of 1:4. The sessions are bi-weekly on a day/time decided by the cohort.
The Importance Of The Public Sector
The public sector’s influence extends across every aspect of society. It encompasses a wide array of services, from healthcare and education to infrastructure development and environmental protection. These services are fundamental to improving quality of life, reducing inequalities, and fostering a sense of community. In this context, public sector leaders are entrusted with decisions that have far-reaching implications. Their ability to inspire teams, allocate resources efficiently, and adapt to changing circumstances is essential to achieving organisational goals and meeting societal needs.
Moreover, the public sector often operates under increasingly intense scrutiny, with stakeholders ranging from policymakers and taxpayers to service beneficiaries. This heightened accountability, rapidly increasing demand pressures, and continually changing political aspirations, set against a financial backdrop of reducing financial resources, create a dynamic and challenging environment for all staff and managers. These realities support the need for robust support systems to help public sector leaders navigate complexities, maintain resilience, foster innovation and encourage adaptative leadership. These are all factors that well-positioned mentoring programmes are uniquely positioned to fulfil – delivered by you.
The Role of Coaching & Mentoring in Public Sector Leadership
For public sector managers, coaching & mentoring provide an opportunity to:
- Enhance Leadership Skills
- Navigate Complex Challenges
- Promote Personal Growth
- Foster Innovation
The Elevate Programme aims to:
1. Equip Coaches with Specialised Knowledge: Coaches will gain a deep understanding of the public sector’s unique context, challenges, and opportunities.
2. Develop Tailored Coaching Strategies: The programme will train coaches to design and deliver mentoring sessions that address the specific needs of public sector managers.
3. Promote a Culture of Learning: The programme will help to identify different ways of connecting within organisations, especially decision makers. The ability to remain connected, through intelligent networking, remaining open to understand changing pressures, trends and policies operating across the public sector.
4. Drive Organisational Impact: Ultimately, the programme aspires to better equip you with the skill-set and knowledge to be able to connect with individuals working within the public sector, to help improve the overall effectiveness and resilience of public sector organisations by empowering their leaders.
Conclusion
The Elevate programme will help equip you, as coaches and future business leaders, with the skills and insights needed to support public sector managers.
Elevate aims to drive meaningful, sustainable improvements across public sector organisations.
The Background
Sarah Clein and John Gilbert are Coaching Revolution mentors. They both have a public sector background and have businesses that deliver services to the public sector.
Sarah and John know exactly how it feels to be where you are right now. To be deeply committed to public service but recognise that the current way of working isn’t sustainable..
- The constant pressure in a system that is creaking with ever-growing demand and ever-reducing resources.
- The moral injury of knowing what the best job looks like while not always being able to support your teams to deliver this.
- Leading in the sector you love and are loyal to, while knowing that you are putting work first and yourself way down the list at times.
We’ve helped dozens of senior public sector professionals successfully transition into consulting and coaching roles where they:
- Maintain their positive influence
- Work with clear boundaries
- Create sustainable incomes
- Preserve their professional integrity and values
We’ve taken the knowledge and experience of this teaching and, together with the decades of knowledge and experience of the public sector that Sarah and John bring, built Elevate.
Our mission is to show you that this transition isn’t just possible – it’s happening successfully every day. All you need is the right guidance and support.
Imagine Being Able To:
- Choose which projects you take on and who you work with
- Set clear boundaries that protect your time and energy
- Package your expertise in a way that truly helps organisations and individuals
- Build a sustainable income doing meaningful work
- Keep contributing to the sector you care about – on your terms
- Turn your public sector expertise into a thriving portfolio business – without sacrificing your values or burning out.
More About Sarah Clein
Sarah Clein is an ICF PCC. She has worked as an associate coach for several companies over the last 10 years while running her own coaching and consulting business. Sarah has also delivered leadership development programmes and action learning sets to public sector organisations.
Her professional background spans 30 years in the public sector. During that time, she trained social workers, foster careers, governors, youth workers, and teachers in personal, social, and health education.
Sarah’s business offers coaching, consulting, facilitating and training to women in senior leadership roles within the public sector.
- ICF PCC Accreditation
- BSc Consumer Science
- Post Grad Diploma in Health Promotion
- MA in Public Health
- Diploma in Counselling
- DISC trained
- EQi2.0 trained
To find our more about Sarah and our other mentors, click here to go to our About Us page.
More About John Gilbert
John is a retired local government Chief Executive who has a thriving executive coaching and leadership training business.
- John’s business offers coaching and mentoring to public sector senior leadership teams.
- ILM 7 Executive Coaching & Mentoring
- Local Government Association (LGA) – National facilitator for aspiring Chief Executives and Directors
- BEd (Hons) Education
- MSc Masters Degree in Management
- Leadership Top Team Coaching and Development
To learn more about John and our other mentors, click here to go to our About Us page.
Details Of Module Content
Module 1
Foundations
Objective: Understand the public sector from the perspective of a service provider.
Content: Define your Ideal Client Avatar (ICA) for public sector clients and understand their unique challenges.
Module 2
Understanding Public Sector Needs
Objective: Understand your clients from a marketing perspective.
Content: Deepen insight into public sector professionals’ “3am problems” and their organisational context.
Module 3
Becoming Visible
Objective: Communicate your value effectively.
Content: Develop messaging that resonates with public sector clients and introduces the Keynote Narrative Presentation (KNP).
Module 4
Refining Your Message
Objective: Develop a clear and effective marketing message.
Content: Tailor the KNP to align with public sector values and create clear, empathetic communication.
Module 5
Finding Opportunities
Objective: Discover different routes to reach public sector clients.
Content: Explore pathways to public sector clients, including networking, referrals, and speaking engagements.
Module 6
Navigating Procurement Processes
Objective: Understand procurement processes and proposal writing from the perspective of a supplier.
Content: Understand the nuances of public sector procurement and how to create compelling proposals.
Module 7
Engaging Public Sector Organisations
Objective: Use online tools to find opportunities to coach.
Content: Tendering, Requests For Information (RFIs) and Requests For Proposals (RFPs) from the supplier’s perspective.
Module 8
Building Relationships
Objective: Convert opportunities into contracts through sustained communication.
Content: Maintain and strengthen client relationships, keeping communication warm and aligned with public sector priorities.
Module 9
Balancing Stakeholder Needs
Objective: Differentiate between clients and decision-makers.
Content: Understand and address the distinct needs of public sector clients and decision-makers.
Module 10
Creating Sustainable Engagements
Objective: Understand the communication funnel.
Content: Turn one-time projects into long-term partnerships through ROI demonstrations and strategic follow-ups.
Our Approach
We combine our understanding and experience of the public sector with practical business building expertise and skills. Our programme is specifically designed for people like you who want to:
- Package their expertise effectively
- Find opportunities aligned with their values
- Market their services authentically and with integrity
- Build sustainable independent practices
We’ll show you exactly how to make this transition while maintaining your integrity and commitment to public service.
You’ll be taught by those who have already achieved what you want to.
Talk To Us About Joining Our Next Cohort
Elevate aims to:
1. Equip Coaches with Specialised Knowledge: Coaches will gain a deep understanding of the public sector’s unique context, challenges, and opportunities.
2. Develop Tailored Coaching Strategies: The programme will train coaches to design and deliver mentoring sessions that address the specific needs of public sector managers
3. Promote a Culture of Learning: The programme will help to identify different ways of connecting within organisations, especially decision makers. The ability to remain connected, through intelligent networking, remaining open to understand changing pressures, trends and policies operating across the public sector
4. Drive Organisational Impact: Ultimately, the programme aspires to better equip you with the skill-set and knowledge to be able to connect with individuals working within the public sector, to help improve the overall effectiveness and resilience of public sector organisations by empowering their leaders.
Conclusion
This programme will help equip you as coaches and future business leaders, with the skills and insights needed to support public sector managers, the programme aims to drive meaningful, sustainable improvements across public sector organisations.
Ready to explore how you could transition out of direct employment while maintaining your impact? Book a confidential conversation to discuss your situation and learn more about how we can help.
