Executive Coaching in London
Most executive coaches are trained in weeks. Philippe Jacquet’s coaching draws on a background that took decades to build: Jungian analyst training u2014 one of the most rigorous forms of psychological training in existence u2014 combined with executive coaching qualifications from ESSEC Business School, one of Europe’s top-ten business schools by Financial Times ranking. The difference is not stylistic. It is structural.
The problems that bring senior leaders to coaching are rarely what they first appear to be. Underperformance has a psychological dimension. Burnout is not simply the product of overwork. Interpersonal conflict in leadership teams is almost always about something beneath the surface. A Jungian-trained coach works at that level u2014 not just with what is happening, but with what is driving it.
Our executive coaching in London programme offers senior professionals a psychology-informed space to develop the depth of self-awareness that sustained high performance requires.
Why Jungian training changes what executive coaching can do
A standard executive coaching qualification involves weeks of training u2014 sometimes a weekend programme, sometimes a three-month online course. It teaches models, frameworks, questioning techniques. These are useful tools. But they operate at the surface of what a person brings to their professional life.
Jungian analyst training is different in kind, not degree. It takes years u2014 typically five to seven u2014 and involves three things that standard coach training does not: intensive personal analysis (the analyst is themselves analysed, over years, by a senior practitioner); ongoing clinical supervision; and deep immersion in the theory and practice of depth psychology. The result is a practitioner who understands psychological structure, not just behaviour. Who can recognise the patterns beneath a problem, not just the problem itself.
When that depth of training is combined with ESSEC Business School executive coaching qualifications and 25 years of clinical experience working with senior professionals, executives and high-net-worth individuals, what becomes possible in coaching is of a different order. The work addresses not just performance and strategy, but identity, motivation, the shadow side of leadership, and the psychological cost of sustained achievement u2014 things that conventional coaching rarely touches.
What this coaching addresses
The full range of presentations that bring senior leaders to coaching: leadership identity and authority u2014 the question of who you are as a leader, not just what you do; interpersonal dynamics and conflict in leadership teams; decision-making under sustained pressure; burnout and the recovery of motivation; transitions u2014 into new roles, post-exit, into later career; the gap between external success and internal experience; and the patterns that repeat across different organisations and relationships, which are never really about the organisation.
The work is also available for individuals who are at a turning point u2014 not in difficulty exactly, but at a moment where the next chapter is unclear, and where conventional coaching’s focus on goals and actions does not reach what is actually needed.
Confidentiality and discretion
Sessions at Harley Street W1 and Central London are conducted with the same absolute confidentiality as clinical psychotherapy. Nothing discussed is disclosed to any employer, board, investor or third party. For senior leaders whose personal and professional worlds overlap significantly, this is not a peripheral concern u2014 it is the condition that makes the work possible.
Format and locations
Sessions are available in person at Harley Street W1, Central London, and Bermondsey SE1, and online via secure video link. For international clients, sessions continue online between in-person periods. An initial consultation is the appropriate first step u2014 a private conversation about what has brought you here and what you are looking for, with no obligation beyond it.
Frequently asked questions
How is Jungian executive coaching different from standard coaching?
Most executive coaches are trained in weeks. Jungian analyst training takes five to seven years and involves personal analysis, supervised clinical work, and deep immersion in depth psychology. This produces a fundamentally different quality of coaching u2014 one that works at the level of psychological structure, not just behaviour.
What does executive coaching at this practice address?
Leadership identity and authority, interpersonal dynamics in leadership teams, decision-making under pressure, burnout, transitions into new roles, the gap between external success and internal experience, and patterns that repeat across organisations.
Where did Philippe Jacquet train as an executive coach?
Philippe Jacquet trained as an executive coach at ESSEC Business School, ranked among Europe’s top ten business schools by the Financial Times, combining this with full Jungian analytical training.
Is executive coaching confidential?
Absolutely. Sessions are conducted with the same confidentiality as clinical psychotherapy. Nothing is disclosed to any employer, board, investor or third party.