Hamada Els
Psychologically-Informed Executive Coaching
25+ Years of Experience
Available Tuesdays-Fridays
I work with purpose-led leaders, founders, and professionals who are trying to build something meaningful in the world for the benefit of people, animals or the planet. Many of my clients work in psychology, healthcare, animal welfare, sustainability and other ethical or mission-driven sectors.
My work combines Executive Coaching with Clinical Psychology, offering a more integrated and sophisticated approach to workplace development, performance, and wellbeing. In practice, that means helping my clients build leadership capabilities, navigate organisational dynamics, work through psychological barriers that limit effectiveness such as self-doubt, conflict or burnout, and find a way of working that's sustainable, not just high-performing.
With 25+ years experience spanning clinical psychology, executive coaching, business and leadership, I bring both deep psychological expertise and real world organisational insight. This exposure has taught me that leadership challenges rarely exist in isolation. Performance pressure, self doubt, stress, strained relationships and difficulty influencing others are usually tangled up with deeper patterns, emotional responses and system-level complexity.
As such, my programs focus on a whole-picture approach: the individual, their role, relationships and the broader environment they are operating within.
I support clients with:
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Leadership growth and career transitions
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Sustainable high-level performance
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Burnout, stress, anxiety and overload
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Workplace conflict, communication and difficult workplace dynamics
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Influence, confidence and executive presence
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Career crossroads and promotion into leadership
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Neurodivergent leadership and inclusive ways of working
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Navigating complexity, pressure and competing stakeholder demands
A key part of my work is the support available between sessions: check-ins, early intervention and practical guidance when challenges come up, so change actually sticks.
My approach is warm, collaborative and outcomes-focused. Clients often describe me as both a strategic partner and a trusted confidante, someone who brings psychological depth, practical direction and honest challenge.
I also introduce a strong neurodiversity-informed lens to my support, shaped by lived experiences of ADD and years of working with neurodivergent leaders and teams. Together, the goal is to provide strategies that allow senior executives to thrive more effectively within their workplace systems.
My support programs seamlessly combine evidence-based modalities from both coaching and psychology, selectively tailored to each individual, their industry, leadership context and psychological needs. Some of the key frameworks I draw from are:
Psychology
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Schema Therapy
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
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Narrative Therapy
Coaching
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The GROW Model
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OSCAR Model
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CLEAR Model
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Organisational Systems Theory
If you're a leader doing important work in the world and want an approach that's both psychologically informed and outcomes-focused, I'd love to support you and your team.
Together, we can build not just better performance, but healthier, wiser and more sustainable ways of leading.