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Meaningful work. Sustainable life.

A private advisory for leaders in the creative, higher education, and nonprofit sectors — for complex roles, and how you work and live.

A short, confidential call to see if this is the right fit.

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Private

Confidential thinking space with an experienced advisor

Strategic

Clarity, perspective, and practical ways forward

Sustainable

Work and life that holds over time

Not just coaching. Not just consulting.

This is a thinking partnership, one that brings together strategic insight and deep, sustained support.

I work as a private advisor, combining coaching with over 20 years of experience in marketing, communications and strategy.
 

Some conversations will feel like coaching. Others will be highly strategic. Most sit somewhere in between.

The focus is always the same: helping you see clearly, think well, and take the next step with confidence.

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How we work

I won’t sit back and simply facilitate. I will think with you.

We might be working through a leadership challenge, a complex organisational decision, or a question about direction, positioning or growth — often within the same conversation.

This is a space for both reflection and action.

A place where ideas are tested, assumptions are challenged, and clarity emerges.

A one-to-one, ongoing partnership designed around the realities of leadership and life.

Focused and deliberate

I work with a small number of clients, allowing for depth and real attention.

 

Led by your reality

We focus on what's actually in front of you — the decisions, the dynamics, and pressures that come with leading.

 

Sustainable over time

This is about creating a way of working and leading that you can maintain — not just now, but for the long term.

Just rigorous, honest thinking — shaped around you.

It's lonely at the top. 



Leading a mission-driven organisation is complex and often isolating.

The stakes are high.

Resources are limited.

And the people around you — your board, your team, your funders all need something from you.

There are few spaces where you can think out loud without consequence.  

 

Few where the conversation is entirely about you, your leadership, and what you need to sustain it.​

 

This is where this work sits.

 

 

For over 20 years, I've supported leaders through growth, change and complexity, helping them  to think clearly, make confident decisions, and move their work forward.
 

I understand the realities of the sector: the pressures, the politics, and the pace — and what it takes to lead well within it.

My work has spanned organisations including:

Barbican     ·     Headlong    ·    Hofesh Shechter    ·   LAMDA     ·    The Old Vic    ·   RADA

Rambert    ·    Regents' Park Open Air Theatre    ·    Royal Court    ·   Shakespeares' Globe

More about my experience

I make better decisions —
and recognise when I'm getting in my own way
I leave with a clearer sense of what matters —
and what to do about it
Properly transformational

Ways of working

If this feels like the kind of space you’ve been looking for, there are few ways we might work together.

Most clients work with me on an ongoing basis through private advisory — a sustained, one-to-one thinking partnership.

For those not looking for something ongoing, I also offer a small number of more focused conversations.

Private Advisory

An ongoing, one-to-one advisory relationship for people navigating complexity, transitions or high-stakes work.

Includes:

Two 60-minute sessions each month

- Ongoing access between sessions

£750 per month

Outcomes often include:

- Clearer thinking in complex situations

- Calm, focused decision-making

- Confidence to move forward with conviction

- Tangible progress where it matters most

 

 

One-off Session

A single, focused conversation for moments when you need to think something through properly, and come away clearer on what to do next.

Many people start here before deciding whether ongoing advisory would be useful.​ 

It's the same depth of thinking, just contained to a single conversation.

£180 per session

 

Self-Funded Advisory

I also work with a small number of self-funded individuals, where there is a strong fit and the work feels genuinely useful.


Please feel free to get in touch.

If you're working at this level, and would value a trusted, experienced  partner to think clearly with — this work is for you.

A short, confidential call to see if this is the right fit.

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Private advisory for leaders in the creative, higher education and nonprofit sectors

©2026 Kym Bartlett 

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