Stella Maris is a leadership performance and coaching firm which partners with you to succeed beyond the day-to-day.
We work with leaders to develop their unique abilities, so they communicate with clarity, engage and inspire with authenticity, and perform and excel to their full potential.
We work with leaders and their teams to help them super-charge their performance enabling them to maximise their effectiveness and dial up impactful inspirational leadership.
Through 
, our cloud based coaching platform, we enable Leaders to successfully implement strategy change and cultural transformation by engaging and supporting all their teams with 1:1 & group coaching.
We help leaders help their people, whether it’s navigating change, executing with impact, maximising their performance: all with the ultimate aim of releasing individual and collective potential.
The Stella Maris Leader Focus
Our approach, underpinned by neuro-science and psychology, is practical and pragmatic in its application. We help our clients achieve their objectives to communicate, engage and lead with impact. We draw on first hand experience of politics, media and business, synthesising best practice across the leadership spectrum.
Ruthlessly focused on outcomes, Stella Maris creates bespoke and personalised programmes, working in both one-on-one and team settings. We support you to develop and hone leadership fundamentals:
Having clarity of purpose and vision is key. Often the ‘personal’ purpose gets lost behind the corporate agenda. Successful leaders have inner clarity about their purpose. They are able to define it, articulate it as a compelling story, connect to the corporate agenda, and use it as a lever for engagement and inspiration.
Modern corporate life is challenging and complex. The expectation of transactional excellence and the need to balance demands of competing stakeholders adds to the pressure. Identifying the drivers of high performance and then leveraging them, on an individual and collective team level, is a necessity. As any world class athlete knows, high performance requires constant focus – building strengths while always improving areas of weakness, never allowing complacency to creep in, often stepping out from comfort zones of mindset and behaviour to do so.
Aspiration to be and do better is a powerful driver of successful leadership. Having clarity about what one’s potential is and then knowing how to realise is not always obvious or easy, especially in environments which reward transactional success. Constantly challenging and stretching one’s sense of what is possible or achievable is a key driver of successful leadership.
Retaining balance and composure when under pressure is one of the most challenging elements of leadership, requiring high levels of resilience. Managing personal and emotional responses to stress to ensure that you continue to lead, communicate and engage with calm clarity in all circumstances is critical to success.
Compelling, impactful and authentic communication is the fairy-dust of successful leadership. It enables you to engage and inspire audiences. It is the way you connect people to your personal vision and the corporate strategy, build trust and inspire confidence. Formulating the powerful narrative and being able to articulate it with presence and impact at all times, to all audiences, in all settings is vital.
The Stella Maris Team Focus
The success of any leader is dependent on the performance of their team and the wider business, and we work regularly with leaders and their teams to help them super-charge their individual and collective leadership.
We often support them at times of change, challenge and transformation, ensuring they are aligned around their vision, working collaboratively and generating high performance throughout the organisation.
Through our cloud-based coaching platform, we embed this support into daily life, with programmes of 1:1 and group coaching accessible whenever and wherever you are. This gives both individuals and teams the greatest chance of success in embedding and cascading change and maximising individual and collective potential and performance.
Founder
Louisa Welby-Everard
Louisa has spent the past 22 years working with senior leaders in a coaching and advisory capacity. Her clients are drawn from a range of sectors spanning politics, media, retail, pharmaceutical, aviation, investment banking, wealth management, fund management, private equity, and the charity sector.
Louisa works with leaders who operate in challenging environments, helping them navigate all aspects of their leadership, deliver beyond the transactional, and engage with impact and confidence. Her philosophy and approach are forged by her time working for the BBC in Westminster and 22 years’ coaching experience, which has provided her invaluable insight into the levers of success required to drive compelling, inspiring and visible leadership.
Louisa has designed and delivers a Leadership Communication Course at Cass Business School, is a certified practitioner of Hogan and PRISM Brain Mapping Assessments and an ICF accredited Executive Coach.