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Chief Executives is a booking agency. Four coaches are available to book. The work is one-to-one. Fit is agreed in writing.
Linus Murphy is the coach this agency books for senior leaders already inside a stretch of major change. The published work that booking sits on is Elite Executive Leadership Transformation and Executive Key Focus Areas; the longer page is about. Mara Vell, Adeola Khan, and Rhys Calder take other briefs: a sitting or incoming executive, a confidential series, a defined stretch of work.
Choose from the brief, not from a mood. If the stretch is a new finance or operating seat and an inherited calendar, start with Mara. If the stretch is a board hour or silence on the executive team, start with Adeola. If the stretch is a founder still occupying a seat that now needs a professional C-suite, start with Rhys. If the stretch is major leadership change — a shift in the leader so culture can follow, and two or three focus areas rather than a programme — start with Linus.
You do not have to pick before you write. The contact form lets you name a coach or name the kind of conversation instead. One-to-one coaching, role transitions, and a sounding board are on the coaching page.
A brief you can keep — three answers, in your words — is in a brief you can actually keep. If you cannot write it yet, write it before you ask for a chemistry call. A vague wish produces a vague engagement.
Each coach has a name, a seat, and a brief you can enquire against. Fees stay in writing. Availability is not a calendar you can click. A first conversation is an enquiry, not a booking until something is agreed in writing.
| Coach | Typical brief |
|---|---|
| Linus Murphy | Senior leader in a stretch of major change; transformation and key focus areas |
| Mara Vell | Incoming finance or COO seat; calendar and decision rights |
| Adeola Khan | Board hour, chair rules, executive-team silence |
| Rhys Calder | Founder-CEO professionalizing a C-suite they still occupy |
Enquire when you can say the seat and the stretch. If you cannot, keep the note short. The wrong coach is cheaper to avoid than to unwind.
Who you might book
The work is one-to-one. Fit is agreed in writing. Four coaches, booked against a brief.
Lead
Coach · senior leaders in major leadership change
This agency books Linus when a senior leader is already inside a stretch of major change: a new identity in the seat, a culture that has to move with them, and a short list of levers rather than a programme. The work is Elite Executive Leadership Transformation and Executive Key Focus Areas. The longer record is on the about page.
Coach
Coach · operating cadence and incoming finance seats
Mara coaches operators who have just taken a finance or chief-operating seat and need the week to match the job. She works from the inherited calendar and the decision-rights map, not from a transformation slide, and she will not sell a team offsite as coaching.
Coach
Coach · board conversations and executive-team dynamics
Adeola works with sitting executives who need a confidential room before a board or a difficult internal hour. The work is the conversation the leader will have — not a script written for them, and not a report back to the chair. Process can be shared; content stays with the executive.
Coach
Coach · founder-CEO seats moving into a professional C-suite
Rhys coaches founder-CEOs who are building a professional C-suite around a seat they still occupy. The brief is usually the first no, the calendar, and which work no longer belongs to the founder — not a scale-up methodology.
Next step
Say who you are and the kind of conversation you want. Fees and fit are agreed in writing — they are not published here.