A free 60-minute masterclass for experienced leaders who've started second-guessing themselves.
You've been doing this for years. You're good at it. People come to you for answers and trust your judgement.
So why have you started questioning whether you're good enough?
Perhaps you've stepped into a bigger role and wondered whether you're ready. One decision didn't go to plan, and now you're questioning every move. Or years of pressure have gradually chipped away at the confidence you once had.
You're still capable of doing your job. You've just stopped trusting yourself to do it.
What if confidence isn't actually the problem?
Most confidence advice focuses on how to appear more confident. Speak up, be assertive, look the part, fake it until you make it.
Yet there's a big difference between appearing confident and genuinely trusting yourself.
Performed confidence says: "I need everyone to believe I know what I'm doing."
Self-trust says: "I may not know everything, but I trust myself to work things out."
One takes enormous energy. The other allows you to lead without constantly questioning yourself.
In this session, you'll:
Understand why you're doubting yourself. Discover how pressure, expectations and experiences can gradually undermine your self-belief, even when you're doing a good job.
Recognise the confidence trap. Understand why overpreparing, seeking reassurance and trying to have all the answers can actually make self-doubt worse.
Start rebuilding trust in yourself. Use my practical Confidence Reality Check to recognise the capability you've been overlooking and identify one small change you can make straight away.
You'll leave with a different understanding of confidence and a practical way to start trusting your own judgement again.
Why I'm running this
I know what it's like to lose belief in yourself after years of being a capable leader.
When I left my corporate career, I was exhausted and had lost trust in my own abilities. When I eventually returned to senior leadership, I realised something important - I didn't need to know everything or have all the answers. I needed to trust myself to work things out.
That realisation changed how I experienced leadership, and it's something I now help other experienced leaders discover for themselves.
I'm Niki, a former People Director, accredited leadership coach and author of Exhausted, Not Broken.