Leadership Development for Managers & Business Owners

Leadership development for newly promoted managers, business owners and future leaders

Helping good people become confident, capable leaders, without losing themselves in the process.

You were brilliant at your job.

Not just good. Brilliant. The person everyone relied on. The safe pair of hands. The one who made things work quietly and never made a fuss about it.

Then a promotion came.

Or the business grew.

Or the team you had been part of became the team you were suddenly responsible for.

And quietly, something changed.

More hours. More pressure. Decisions that never used to feel heavy. Evenings half-present because your mind never really left work.

A sense that despite everything you are giving, you are not quite getting on top of it.

There's a name for this: the leadership transition gap.

The skills that made you excellent before, the doing, the knowing, the fixing, aren't the same skills this role requires. Nobody warns you about that part.

The Business Clubhouse works with business owners, newly promoted managers and future leaders who are navigating that gap. Often quietly. Often alone. And often far closer to the other side of it than they realise.

Not through workshops or generic online courses. Through structured leadership development and honest coaching that creates real, lasting change.

Three ways to work together

Everything is designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward without adding pressure.

The Total Leader Academy

Structured leadership development over 18–24 months. For people who are ready to stop figuring it out alone and start leading properly.

From £12,000

The Locker Room

Ongoing one-to-one coaching for business owners, to challenge your thinking and help you perform at your best as a leader, and including optional group round table events.

From £600

Ad hoc Coaching & Support

Not everyone needs a full programme or a monthly commitment. Ad-hoc coaching gives you access to group sessions, one-to-one support - tailored to exactly what you need right now

From £199

What clients say...

Results that go beyond performance.

"Before, I was firefighting. Now I'm planning — and progressing. This programme didn't just change how I work. It made me happier, personally and professionally."

Jack Davis

Middlesex County Cricket Club

"In six months, I achieved more than in the previous two years combined. I've lost that rabbit-in-headlights feeling."

Programme participant

Ash Taylor Business Coach

Ash Taylor

Leadership coach · LMI Licensed Director · Founder, The Business Clubhouse


 

I’m Ash Taylor. For more than 30 years I've coached people through performance, pressure and change.

First through sport. Now through leadership.

 

Common questions

You don’t have to figure this out alone

Most people are closer than they think. The first step's a private conversation.

No commitment. No pressure.

Just a chance to talk about where things feel difficult and whether any of this would help.