Executive Mentoring for Newly Promoted and Newly Appointed Senior Leaders.

Stepping into a senior leadership role is one of the most rewarding moments in your career, but it can also be one of the most demanding.

Whether you’ve recently been promoted to Managing Director, Operations Director, Commercial Director, CEO or joined a senior leadership team, the decisions you make during your first few months will shape your credibility, influence and long-term success.

Today’s leaders face more complexity than ever before. Economic uncertainty, changing employment legislation, skills shortages, AI, rising employment costs and increasing expectations from employees and customers mean leadership is no longer just about delivering results – it’s about inspiring people, building resilient organisations and making confident decisions under pressure.

At Lead Talent, we help ambitious leaders across Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, the North East and throughout Northern England navigate these challenges through practical, commercially focused Executive Mentoring.

Led by Patrick Maloney, Founder and Managing Director of Lead Talent, our mentoring provides independent strategic support, honest challenge and real-world commercial insight to help you become the leader your business needs.

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Why Executive Mentoring Matters?

Leadership has never been more important or more challenging.

Research from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) estimates that around 82% of UK managers are “accidental managers”, promoted because of technical expertise rather than formal leadership development. Poor management continues to cost the UK economy billions every year through lost productivity, lower engagement and reduced performance.

At the same time, businesses are adapting to significant changes in employment legislation, including reforms introduced through the Employment Rights Bill, alongside increasing pressure to retain talent, improve productivity and lead organisational change effectively.

For growing SMEs, every leadership decision has a direct impact on commercial performance.

You don’t need to face those challenges alone.

Executive Mentoring gives you the opportunity to step back from the day-to-day pressures of running a business, think strategically and make better decisions with the support of an experienced business leader who understands exactly what you’re facing.

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Why Leaders Choose Patrick Maloney?

Patrick Maloney is the Founder and Managing Director of Lead Talent and has spent more than 35 years helping businesses and leaders achieve sustainable, profitable growth.

Before founding Lead Talent in 2012, Patrick held a number of senior executive positions, including UK Managing Director of one of the UK’s top five staffing groups, giving him first-hand experience of leading large organisations, managing change and delivering commercial success.

Since establishing Lead Talent, Patrick has:

• Supported more than 50 ambitious businesses across the UK.
• Mentored 70+ senior leaders, including Managing Directors, CEOs and Board-level executives.
• Helped clients generate more than £150 million in additional profit through improved strategy, leadership and execution.
• Guided organisations through growth, succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, organisational transformation and leadership development.
• Worked with businesses ranging from £5 million to over £250 million turnover.

Patrick’s philosophy is simple:

Strategy is only powerful when it gets delivered.

His mentoring combines commercial experience, strategic thinking and practical accountability to help leaders create lasting impact, not just better plans.

There are thousands of executive coaches.

There are very few who have actually sat in the Managing Director’s chair. Patrick has.

His clients value him because he brings real commercial experience, strategic thinking and honest challenge not generic coaching models or textbook theory.

He understands what it’s like to make decisions that affect employees, customers, shareholders and the future of a business.

When you work with Patrick, you’re gaining more than a mentor.

You’re gaining an experienced strategic partner who is invested in your success.

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