Dr. Ali Fenwick, Ph.D. Psychotherapy
Executive & Leadership Coaching
Sharper decisions, steadier leadership, sustainable performance.
Solutions-focused coaching with deep relational understanding. Confidential one-to-one work for executives, founders and senior leaders and for the organisations investing in them.
When your best people think more clearly and lead more steadily, everything downstream improves. Practical, evidence-based, and built around the results you actually need.
Your coach
Dr. Ali Fenwick, Ph.D.
Professor of Organisational Behaviour · Behavioural Psychologist · Psychotherapist · Executive Coach
With over two decades in organisational psychology and personal development, Dr. Fenwick brings psychological rigour and behavioural science to the challenges leaders actually face, helping people around the world work on themselves, find their blind spots, and raise their performance.
His coaching draws on a rare combination: psychological depth, academic rigour, cultural sensitivity, business and technology acumen, and clinical expertise. That means moving between the strategic and the personal in the same conversation, with the judgement to know what each moment needs.
Outcomes that move the business
Coaching built around the results senior people actually need.
Clearer decisions
Cut through the noise, think strategically under real pressure, and trust your own judgement.
Leadership presence
Communicate with authority and influence the people around you, even in the hard moments.
Sustainable performance
Protect your energy and focus so you can lead at a high level without burning out.
Difficult conversations
Handle conflict, feedback and the politics of senior roles with more confidence.
Transitions, handled
Step up, scale, or move on with a clear head and a plan that holds.
Resilience & self-belief
Quiet the inner critic and the imposter feeling that hold capable people back.
A rare combination
Coaching with a psychotherapist’s depth.
Leaders rarely arrive with tidy problems that stay on the surface. Beneath the performance question there’s often something heavier e.g. burnout that won’t lift, anxiety shadowing every decision, or an old pattern quietly running the show. Clinical training makes it possible to recognise what’s really happening and work with it safely, without losing momentum.
What clinical training adds
- The ability to recognise and work safely with stress, burnout, and anxiety when they arise.
- A deeper understanding of the patterns beneath performance, behaviour, and decision-making.
- One practitioner who can hold both the strategic and the human dimensions of change.
- The clinical judgement to recognise when coaching is no longer the right intervention and therapy is the more appropriate path.
Ways to work together
For individuals, managers and organisations.
For individuals
One-to-one executive coaching
For leaders and founders investing in their own development and performance.
For managers
Leadership coaching
Developing senior and emerging leaders — commissioned by the individual or the organisation.
For organisations
Bespoke leadership programmes
Shaped around your goals and focused on measurable change, for teams and whole cohorts.
Case study
Leadership development at Du Telecom.
A large-scale, one-year leadership development and well-being focused engagement with Du Telecom, the UAE’s largest telecommunications company.
Situation
The organisation needed to prepare its senior leadership team to execute its strategic objectives and manage change effectively in a highly dynamic business environment.
Approach
Over a 12-month engagement, we delivered organisational assessments and leadership development across the entire executive and senior management team (70 people), alongside targeted skills training to build change-readiness. The programme was tied to individual development plans and linked to key performance indicators.
Results
The programme supported a smooth leadership transition and contributed to above-average performance, including measurable gains in employee satisfaction and engagement.
Ready to lead more clearly?
Book a discovery call, or ask about corporate and organisation-sponsored coaching.
Questions leaders and organisations ask
Clear answers on confidentiality, results and how it works.
Is coaching confidential, even when our company is paying?
Yes. What happens in sessions stays between you and your coach. Where an organisation sponsors the work, only high level goals and progress are shared, and only with your agreement.
Can we commission coaching for a team or several leaders?
Absolutely. Coaching can be arranged for individual leaders, a cohort, or as part of a bespoke leadership development programme shaped around your organisation’s goals.
What kind of results can we expect?
Clearer decision making, steadier leadership presence, better handling of pressure and difficult conversations, and sustainable performance. We agree what “success” means up front and track against it.
How is this different from training or generic coaching?
It combines behavioural science, an organisational psychology professorship and clinical training, so it reaches the pattern underneath the performance problem, rather than staying on the surface.
What does a psychotherapist’s training add to coaching?
It means burnout, anxiety and longstanding patterns can be recognised and worked with safely, in the room, with the judgement to know when therapy would be the better route.
How is it delivered, and how do we start?
Coaching is delivered online to clients internationally. The simplest first step is a short discovery call. We’ll talk through your goals and design the right engagement. If you require in-person coaching or a team of coaches for your organisation, this can also be arranged.