Leaders, join us to...
We can all ignore our psychology and the dynamics at play every day in every team. But what's at stake if we do?
65% of new businesses fail due to issues of and between the founding team. Whether you're resisting help, avoiding public speaking, or snapping at your team - with professional support the risks can be lessened.
85% of long term job success relies on people skills; only 15% on technical skills (of Fortune 500 CEOs, Harvard). Invest in yours.
The top skills for modern leaders? Creativity, self-awareness, agilty, analytical thinking (World Economic Forum, 2023)
Who you are and how you lead matters. It makes a difference to your work (and home) life every day.
The Secrets of Great Leadership
Your Goal & The 7 Steps to Success
Defining, blocking and creating success; establish your unique version of success, and the 7 steps to achieve it.
Cohesive teams
Learn what people need to bring them together. After one Circle Line session, a line manager described how it had transformed a work relationship she had, because she now understood how each other work and thrive.
Drivers & Blockers
We reveal how to spot the working styles and the 12 "injunctions" we receive as children that hold us back today.
Team dynamics
Discover "I'm Ok- You're Ok" leadership; a worldview based on listening and understanding your colleagues to develop more respect and empowerment.
Stress & strokes
The unavoidable and the antidote; stress and how you respond to it, and how to look after yourself through it.
Games & Conflict
Have an "a-ha moment" as you learn a transformative model for how tensions are created, our role and how to step out.
Our Expertise
Philippa Richardson
Founder & Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist
"I was a lawyer and a head of marketing, yet when I came to lead my own business, it was a whole different ball game. Our company's success depended on me to a degree I'd not experienced before. And my patterns of thinking and behaving sometimes got in the way.
Thanks to my training as a psychotherapist I could better understand what was going on with me, my colleagues and our team dynamics. I distilled this into The Circle Line so you can too.
Whatever brings you here, it's the quality of your interactions that influences the quality of your life. Master the art of the transaction and the world is your oyster. ”
The Accelerator is your own personal 360 review. It gives you a framework to understand and improve your relationships and habits, revealing the patterns that limit you.
Benefit from easy-to-understand, empirically-developed insights, revealing your style of leading and what's really going on in your team.
You're in good hands: our practitioners formally train for 3-5 years to qualify (it's rigorous - there are only 900 Transactional Analysts in the UK)
Our platform distills decades of psychology into 12 easy-to-understand Tools you can apply day to day.
Jack Pijl
Leadership Coach & Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
"I have worked in financial services, including banking, wealth management and insurance, media and law - and have over 15 years of experience working in a senior management capacity in different sectors. I have lead large, multi-jurisdictional teams and understand the leadership challenges associated with those roles.
Over this time, I have gained tremendous knowledge of work-related issues from stress, performance anxiety to leadership issues and team development."
"It’s true that being a founder is incredibly stressful... The tumultuous experience of being an entrepreneur can lead to self-doubt, imposter syndrome, loneliness and good old-fashioned burnout." - Forbes.
"81% of founders don't feel they can be open about their stresses, fears and challenges."
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"Over 80% of business leaders show fatigue, low motivation, mood swings, and sleep difficulties" - BUPA