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As a former Royal Marine, a highly qualified trainer and executive coach, 1664 Training Solutions founder Jamie Lennon has a wealth of knowledge and experience to help bring out the best leader in all of us. He has written numerous series to help those looking for guidance, whether it's to excel in the workplace or to achieve clinical excellence.

If you are looking for an executive coach to unlock your full potential and achieve your business dreams, read through his series to be inspired. If his words resonant with you, get in touch to start your coaching journey with 1664 Training Solutions today.

THE LEADERSHIP COACHING ADVANTAGE

A comprehensive exploration of how coaching strengthens leaders, teams and organisational performance.

Leadership today demands clarity, emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate complexity with confidence. Traditional development no longer meets these expectations. Coaching has become one of the most powerful tools available to leaders at every level, offering the space, structure and challenge needed to think more clearly, communicate more effectively and lead with purpose.

This series explores the true impact of coaching on individuals and organisations. It examines how coaching strengthens decision making, improves performance, builds resilience, enhances relationships and supports leaders through the psychological and practical realities of modern leadership. Drawing on behavioural insight, real world leadership experience and the evolving demands placed on today’s leaders, each article offers a deeper understanding of why coaching matters and what it makes possible.

Together, these pieces form a practical and reflective guide for leaders who want to grow, develop and lead with greater clarity in a complex world.

FROM OPERATIONAL EXPERT TO STRATEGIC LEADER

Promotion rewards competence. Strategic leadership tests identity.

This series examines one of the most misunderstood transitions in senior careers: the move from high-performing operational expert to effective strategic leader. The behaviours that earn promotion, technical mastery, responsiveness, precision, and control, often become constraints at the next level. Without deliberate recalibration, capable leaders remain psychologically operational despite holding strategic titles.

Across ten in-depth articles, this series explores the internal and behavioural shifts required to lead at altitude. From letting go of execution and thinking systemically, to delegating without anxiety, influencing without authority, allocating time strategically, developing successors, and exercising judgement under ambiguity, each piece addresses a predictable friction point in leadership progression.

At its core, this is not a series about management technique. It is about identity expansion. Strategic leadership demands maturity, restraint, and integrative judgement more than technical brilliance. Those who recognise the transition early adapt deliberately. Those who do not often plateau quietly.

Excellence opens the door. Intentional development determines what happens next.