Founder Clare Russell offers coaching and advisory services for leaders and founders navigating real change — delivering clarity, confidence, and direction that lasts.
Who this is for
You’re feeling that something shifted. Maybe it’s the role, the business or you. What worked before has stopped working, and you need to know what comes next.
You founded it, built it, then sold it. Now you’re operating inside someone else’s structure. We shape the transition, and you decide how to make it work for you.
You have a bigger role with bigger scope and bigger stakes. Coaching empowers you to rise to meet them — not just survive them.
You don’t have to become someone else to lead well. Find your own way of leading, and build the skills to back it up as your role grows.
Change doesn’t have to be something that happens to your team. We explore how to bring them into it early, so they can lead it, not endure it.
What I do
No two engagements look the same — every one is curated around where you actually are, not a framework you’re squeezed into.
For some, that starts with a feeling that something’s missing: more meaning, more alignment, more of yourself in the work you do. For others, it starts with a mountain of real work to get through — an exit to navigate, a team to lead, a strategy to land, noise to cut through before anything else can move.
One hour where nobody needs anything from you. You leave knowing what you’re doing next, and why.
Build the self-awareness, confidence and impact to lead the next version of yourself. Not the next role. The next you.
Explore this (Exclusive 1-2-1 Coaching)Strategic counsel from someone who has built, scaled, sold and integrated a business. An operator’s eye on your biggest decisions, and a plan your team can deliver.
Explore this (Outcome-Focused Advisory)Rooms built for connection first: community, honest collaboration and the trust that makes both possible. People leave closer to each other, with new routes to grow, personally and in business.
Explore this (High-Impact Group Facilitation)First we get grounded. Then we move forward.
Space for self-discovery and the freedom to test ideas before they cost you anything. To experiment, take other perspectives, and see what’s possible when you stop following how things are “supposed” to work.
The ground moves fast. The old identity doesn’t fit — and the new one hasn’t landed yet.
This is where the work happens. You rebuild direction and self around values and purpose, with someone in your corner.
You step forward as the person you’ve become — sharper, clearer, and ready for what’s next with a renewed sense of balance and joy.
Why work with Clare Russell & Linden Dawn
Coaching sits at the heart of how I work. Alongside it, I bring an operator’s eye to advisory: 20+ years at the intersection of people and systems, co-founding and exiting a specialist life science agency, and shaping integrated systems across a private-equity-backed group. My programs combine heart and empathy with the accountability and rigor that get real results.
Co-founded, scaled and exited BioStrata (2014–2024) — 200+ organizations served, and a Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Trade) to show for it.
When the work calls for a point of view, not just a question — I build trust fast, hold the hard conversations, and turn ambiguity into a plan that actually moves.
A PhD in Immunology means structured, hypothesis-driven thinking — applied to complex, human situations.
I help driven people find their unlock, then turn it into real, visible progress.
International coach & facilitator
I built a global agency. Now I coach global leaders. The work has always crossed borders.
Working with Clare has given me a really valuable space to step back and think. She is warm, thoughtful and completely non-judgmental — while being perceptive and willing to challenge me in a supportive way. She creates the space and confidence to find my own way forward.
Get in touch
One conversation. You’ll know by the end whether this is the right fit. I read every message myself.
