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Executive & team coaching

Lead with clarity when complexity, speed, and politics block the real conversation

Coaching for senior leaders and leadership teams in tech and complex organisations, with presence, honest dialogue, and collective leadership.

The result is a leader who can deliver the difficult message and stay connected, and a senior team that still holds the decision after the meeting.

EMCC senior practitioner · Collective Leadership Assessment · Team & executive coaching

What we do

One practice, three ways in: for executives, intact teams, and coaches in supervision.

1:1 leadership

Executive coaching

When pressure, politics, or old patterns keep you from the message you need to deliver.

You leave able to say it clearly, stay in the room, and choose under load.

Mindfulness-based executive coaching with a senior practitioner.

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Intact senior teams

Leadership & team coaching

When the room looks aligned and fragments after the meeting, or the founding team cannot have the real conversation.

The team tells the truth together and still leads as a we once people leave the room.

Team coaching and workshops for senior teams in tech, with Collective Leadership Assessment when you want a clear picture of where you are and where you say you want to be.

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Coaches & inner work

Supervision & depth work

For coaches who hold complexity for others and need a reflective space for their own practice.

EMCC supervision that keeps the work honest, useful, and sustainable.

Coach supervisor with EMCC; meditation and life coaching where that serves the practice.

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Situations we help with

Common themes, grouped so you can see yourself without scrolling a wall of bullets.

Senior teams after the meeting

  • Collective leadership that fragments once people leave the room
  • Founding or exec teams stuck in speed and politics

Leadership under load

  • Always on in high-growth or tech environments
  • Difficult conversations and undercurrents at work

Personal edge

  • Transitions, anxiety, or not feeling good enough
  • Authenticity, stress, and work-life integration

Meaning & practice

  • Purpose, creativity, and performance
  • Deepening mindfulness or contemplative practice

How we work

A conversation first, then the work that matches the client: you, your team, or your coaching practice.

  1. A free 30-minute discovery call to see whether this is 1:1 coaching, team coaching, or supervision.
  2. We name the conversation that is not happening, and what it costs.
  3. Ongoing sessions. When the team is the client, the team is in the work. Collective Leadership Assessment is available when you want data before the relational work.
  4. You leave with a way to stay present when speed and politics return.

Explore, Play, Love, Presence and Connection

Explore

We stay with complexity long enough to see new options.

Play

Sessions leave room for lightness when the stakes are high.

Love

The work honours what you care about and the people you lead.

Presence

Less autopilot, more response in the moment.

Connection

A stronger relationship with yourself, your team, and the system you are in.

What clients say

Senior leaders who needed a clear message, a team that could tell the truth, and a way through high-growth pressure.

“Amaranatho has a vast well of knowledge and uses a holistic approach to unravel the complexities in life. His suggestions of practical tools bring clarity to how and why things are. If you’re looking to get ‘unstuck’ from persistent patterns he will help leverage insight to make it happen. I highly recommend working with Amaranatho.”

Siobhan MacManus Ethics and Conflict Management Consultant

“I was looking for some guidance, someone who could help me on my deepest personal level to cope with these rising demands of building a high growth company. Amaranatho was the perfect match for me to grow further into becoming a better autonomous version of myself.”

Guus Meulendijks Co Founder of B., Europe largest startup eco-system in Europe

“Amaranatho is a strong observer and has a fast mind. He helped me amongst others to discover how my body presence and breathing can help me to bring a clear message. I work in a political environment with lots of undercurrents. Amaranatho’s techniques and coaching helped me to have a clear message and stay connected and be true to my inner self. It unleashed new possibilities that I thought were not within my reach and helped me to make significant progress in my career. I can recommend Amaranatho’s work from the bottom of my heart.”

Rik-Jan Modderkolk International Health Manager at PON
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Who it is for

Founders and executives, HR and operations leaders, cybersecurity and product teams, and intact senior leadership teams in tech and education. What unites them is intelligence, reflectiveness, and a wish to grow, often as a team, not only as a single leader.

  • Founders & C-suite
  • Senior leadership teams
  • HR & people leaders
  • High-growth tech
  • Coaching supervision

About the coach

PlayfulMonk programs are led by Amaranatho, who coaches senior leaders and intact leadership teams through complexity, politics, and the conversations that stall after the meeting. He is an EMCC senior practitioner and coach supervisor, and a certified Leadership Circle and Collective Leadership Profile practitioner. He is also a former Buddhist monk of fifteen years; that practice is how he learned to meet uncertainty with presence and clarity. Brainspotting therapist.

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Start with a conversation

Whether you are exploring executive coaching, team coaching, or coaching supervision, a short discovery call is the easiest way to see if this is a fit.

Schedule a free 30 minute discovery session