Products and Services

In September 2003, Aspiral started as a Career Coaching practice. With a foundation in Psychometry, our coaching focused on using vocational and related assessments as a precursor to a Career Coaching process. Guiding young people with career choices and pathways is Aspiral’s foundation and legacy. We’ve assisted more than 400 individuals in this area and still offer this service with pride and enthusiasm. As our clients matured and moved through the stages of life, so did our business focus, and we’ve gradually moved towards more Executive and Leadership coaching. The core challenges and career questions often linger, and this way of working has remained central to Aspiral’s offering. Working closely with people this way is still a labour of love, with many clients from all ages and stages exploring personal questions of purpose, identity, transition and self-determination.

Aspiral’s experience with Career, Executive and Leadership Coaching, has shown that purpose, identity, transition and self-determination consistently emerge as challenges for people of all stages, ages and organisational levels. We are intrigued by and drawn to working closely with individuals inquiring into these areas. These fundamental human concerns are also significant for organisations. We believe that identity and purpose go a long way to influencing the way we manage ourselves and others, and what strategy we choose. An understanding of identity informs both management and strategy. In other words, if you know who you are, you understand what you are doing, and you know where you are going. Our most successful clients are people who are committed to figuring out who they are, how they can be more rounded and what their next step is. Some are in transition – from one organisation, industry or career to another – and many are those who have reached a plateau of sorts in their career, questioning their ‘fit’ or their happiness and are wondering what the next decade or two will look like. So, if you’re feeling the need to recalibrateyourself and fine-tune the impact you’re making or the legacy you’re leaving, we should talk. If you’re longing to operate more from free will than iron will, let us help you bring about more ease and effortless success.

Aspiral works 1:1 with many leaders, focusing on their capacity to lead within organisational contexts and parameters. While leadership is a colossal construct and a subject that’s widely debated and studied, we at Aspiral believe we’ve found a unique, powerful and integrated way of working practically with leaders at every level. No matter who you are or what your leadership status is, our Leadership Coaching supports you in cutting through the leadership swamp and homing in on that which is personally meaningful and universally true. In other words, as leaders evolve they not only become more authentically ‘themselves’ but also are able to gain access to more and more universal wisdom. What is evident in conscious and authentic individuals is essential to great leadership.

Aspiral’s Executive Coaching approach follows on from our view of leadership and Leadership Coaching. This approach has proved consistently successful on many levels. As a result, over time, our organisational coaching work has tended more towards the executive level. The reason for our success with executives stems from the practice relating to executives first and foremost as humans and leaders developing in their own right, regardless of their executive or organisational context. We coach people first and executives second. This ability to initially ‘decontextualise’ executives and work with them transformatively, has proven fruitful for both individuals and organisations. Of course, we realise that context is king. Executives and their organisations are ‘nested realities’, and when one empowers an executive, an empowered team follows and gives the organisation an optimal probability of success. Not only do individuals find this approach deeply satisfying, but we can also see the unique and transformative benefits for leaders, teams, organisations and wider society.

Unsurprisingly, once a CEO or team leader experiences the benefits of effective individual coaching, questions arise about their team and the possibility of team coaching. This natural progression serves CEOs well as the team members experience parallel insights and the team’s ways of understanding, articulating and being start shifting and interconnecting. That is, they develop a common understanding of how to engage, have powerful conversations, solve problems, make decisions and act. Essentiality, they develop team cohesion.

The format for Team Coaching is usually a minimum of a 2-hour monthly or fortnightly session in a small group of +/- 8 people. This is especially effective when each member of the executive or team has also engaged in their own individual coaching.

On occasion, Aspiral conducts Group Coaching– coaching a collection of people who are not part of the same team. The process often covers emergent themes or classic leadership topics such as productivity, assertiveness, communication, delegation, transition, EQ, work-life balance, listening and self-awareness.

Coaching Clusters are a unique and cost-effective way for teams to be coached while learning how to coach. Aspiral uniquely combines ‘pure’ peer-to-peer coaching, using skillful questioning, with occasional instructive components that cover basic coaching theory. Coaching Clusters are usually run by a senior coach from Aspiral as 2 or 3-hour monthly sessions and is perfect for executives or managers with some experience of coaching. It works well for leaders who want to learn peer coaching, enhance a Leader as Coach programme, or when aiming to instill a coaching culture throughout the organisation.

Influences on our Coaching Cluster methodology include experiential learning, The Learning Organization, coaching and counselling.

Two important principles of Coaching Clusters are (1) reflection is a necessity in contemporary learning – it provides personal meaning and subjective insights and (2) learning happens best when people bring immediate, personally relevant, real-life experience and challenges to coaching forums.

Over the past ten years Aspiral has worked with many clients online, using Skype or FaceTime, or through more purpose-built tech platforms such as Zoom. Several leaders from across the globe have engaged our services, either privately or from within multinational organisations. We’ve coached senior leaders in Australia, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Ireland, USA and South America, including those from a major UK telecom company and a Japanese car manufacturer, among others.

It’s an increasingly popular and extremely cost-effective way to support leaders in virtual or geographically dispersed teams.

This offering is Aspiral’s equivalent of the standard Leader as Coach in the marketplace. We believe ours is a unique, condensed exploration of coaching that aims to capture the heart of the art. Developed by Roland Cox and inspired by Bruce Lee’s contribution to the world of martial arts, it combines 15 years of coaching experience across multiple methodologies and settings and aims to capture the quintessential technical strokes required to bring about transformation.

Advice is not what it used to be. And the world of financial planning has grown to include lifestyle planning approaches. This course gives wealth managers, lifestyle planners and financial advisors the understanding of how coaching really works on a fundamental level, and the skills and techniques to coach simply but powerfully. This modular course is another of those that grew organically out of a long-term client’s need for coaching techniques to enhance the way they engaged their clients. This offering is also currently being expanded to a more general Coaching for Technical experts that could include doctors, lawyers and others in professional private practices.

This offering is essentially the old classic, Stress Management, with an Integral twist. We look at Stress Management through the four lenses of Wilber’s Integral theory to make sure we’re covering all the bases. This comprehensive look at stress is then tapered into practical, essential techniques and tools to manage stress. A winner workshop in under a day, or punchy talk in 60 – 90 minutes.

The impact of neuroscience on the world of personal transformation and coaching is rapidly increasing and becoming conclusive. For anyone serious about their own transformation and the resultant influence on others, a basic understanding of the workings of the brain and the nervous system are imperative. We’ve compiled this illuminating, interactive offering based on the work of David Rock and other thought leaders within the field, to ensure leaders are optimally informed and prepared for personal growth. This is ideal as baseline preparation for a coaching process.

Improving one’s productivity is a perennial theme in coaching and leadership. After many years of requests for assistance with enhancing productivity, and delivering courses, talks and 1:1 sessions, Aspiral has fined tuned this course to capture the essence of productivity in any setting. Our work is mostly based on Getting Things Done (Allen) and First Things First (Covey) as well as some outstanding, pragmatic formulas for productivity

Understanding and regulating ones emotional and physiological states is another key skill for learning and growing. While considered a complex process and an advanced skill, we believe we’ve been able to cut through to the essentials and are able to direct attention to the core elements through the influence of mindfulness, ontological coaching and our own study of somatics. This offering is also ideal as preparation for one’s own coaching.