Ongoing support · Retainer

The Long Game.

For when ongoing support is needed to sustain and build leadership growth.

Our ongoing services are for leaders and organisations who want someone steady in their corner, to help them build on the leadership momentum they have, and to have a guide on their team when they need it the most.

Why ongoing support changes things.

Senior leadership is lonely in ways that are hard to talk about. Your team needs you to be steady. Your board needs you to have answers. Your peers are managing their own version of the same job. The honest conversation, the one where you say "I don't actually know what to do here", often has nowhere to go.

Ongoing support gives that conversation a place to live. A steady relationship that runs alongside everything else you're doing. Someone who knows your context. Someone you can think out loud with on a Tuesday afternoon when something's gone sideways and you need to figure out what the heck to do next.

Leaders with that kind of support develop faster, decide more confidently, and keep growing as the business does. And we dig that.

Who works with us?

For senior leaders who want a thinking partner

Founders, CEOs, Heads of People - the leaders at the top who don't have peers internally and want a regular conversation with someone outside. Sometimes for a specific challenge, sometimes for the long-running stuff that doesn't have a deadline. Always confidential, always honest.

For leadership teams who want regular practice

Leadership teams who've done a Rehearsal Room (or want to) and want to keep the rhythm going - regular sessions, scenario-based, that build on each other over time. The shared language stays current. The behaviours stay sharp. The team gets to keep growing together rather than waiting for the next offsite.

For organisations who need senior leadership capacity

Companies in a moment that needs more senior bench strength than the current team has. A founder who needs a CHRO without the cost of one. A leadership team scaling fast and needing custom programme design. A people-and-culture function that needs hands-on senior support while it grows. We step in part-time for as long as it's useful.

"It wasn't just a leadership session. It was a moment of connection, reflection, and real growth. Thank you for creating an experience that reminded us leadership is an adventure worth embracing."

Brooke Walker · The Attention Seeker

Three services.

All three sit on the same conviction: leadership is something you do, not something you read about. Different formats, same underlying belief. Pick the one that fits, or talk to us about which would suit you best.

For the leader who wants a thinking partner

1:1 Coaching

One-to-one coaching for senior leaders. Our coaches bring different strengths and styles - some lean into traditional leadership coaching, some bring in scenario and story-based work where it would help. We'll match you with the right coach for what you're working through.

Best for
  • Founders, CEOs, and senior leaders who don't have peers internally.
  • Leaders moving into a bigger role and wanting a thinking partner during the transition.
  • Leaders who've worked with us in a Rehearsal Room and want to keep going.
Format

Fortnightly or monthly. Online or in person. 60-90 minutes per session. Minimum commitment: 6 sessions, so we can actually do the work.

Investment
From $250 NZD + GST

per session. Tailored to scope for longer engagements. Coach matched on the discovery call.

For leadership teams who want regular practice

Group Coaching

Ongoing group sessions for your leadership team. Story-based and scenario-driven, like a smaller, regular Rehearsal Room. We meet monthly or quarterly, work through a scenario built around something the team is currently navigating, and debrief our way to specific shifts they can take back. Over time, the team builds shared language, durable habits, and trust that holds.

Best for
  • Leadership teams who've done a Rehearsal Room and want to keep going.
  • Teams whose pace of change makes regular practice more useful than one-off events.
  • Teams who want the Rehearsal Room rhythm without the overhead of a full half-day each time.
Format

Monthly or quarterly. 90 minutes to 2 hours per session. Online or in person. Best for groups of 4-8 leaders, same group each time. Minimum commitment: 6 sessions across 6-12 months.

Investment
From $800 NZD + GST

per session. Tailored to team size and frequency. We'll quote properly after the discovery call.

For organisations who need senior capacity

Fractional Leadership

We step in part-time when you need senior leadership capacity that the current team doesn't have. Our team has held in-house and fractional senior People and Culture roles in scaling tech, creative, and growth-stage companies. Common engagements: leading the people-and-culture function while you hire someone permanent, designing a custom leadership development programme, mentoring an early-stage People lead, or steadying the leadership team through a period of significant change.

Best for
  • Founders who need senior people-and-culture leadership but aren't ready for a full-time hire.
  • Companies between hires who need someone in the seat now.
  • Organisations who want to build internal leadership capability and need someone to design and deliver it.
Format

1-2 days per week, depending on scope. Mostly online with regular in-person time. Minimum commitment: 3 months. Most engagements run 6-12 months. Always scoped properly upfront so both sides know what we're doing.

Investment
Scoped to engagement

We'll quote properly after the discovery call.

A team session in progress

How the relationship deepens.

Many of our long-term clients started with us in the Rehearsal Room. A monthly coaching slot followed. A fractional CHRO seat for six months while they hired. A standing group session that became a team ritual. The Long Game is how the relationship deepens, and often, how the change really takes root.

You don't have to plan it all upfront. Most clients don't. Start where it makes sense, and we'll figure the rest out as we go.

"It's a practical, on the court, safe way to enhance leadership skills."

Rachel Collingridge · Totara
Our theory of change

Why our approach
works

You've probably done a leadership programme before. Maybe a few. You took notes, nodded along, posted something thoughtful about it on LinkedIn. By the next Friday, the framework was forgotten. By the time the next quarter started, you were back where you began.

That's not your fault. It's not the trainer's fault either. Most leadership development just tries to do the wrong job, it tells you what good leadership looks like. The problem was never that you didn't know.

Real behaviour change happens differently.

It happens when you do something hard, in a place where doing it wrong is allowed, with someone helpful pointing at what you didn't notice. When you actually get a rehearsal space to practise the hard stuff before you need it.

Design

We design the work around what's actually going on for you.

01 / DesignFlip →
01 / Design

Before we run a single thing, we spend time understanding your team's real patterns, the moment you're walking into, or the change you're trying to make. Then we build the work around that, not around a curriculum we've used before.

Practice

You practise the moves in a space that isn't your job.

02 / PracticeFlip →
02 / Practice

Inside the story, the rules of your workplace don't apply. People try things they'd never risk in a real meeting, the brave conversation, the decisive call, the push back on the senior person, and find out what actually happens when they do. Brains in play mode are more flexible, more honest, more willing to take risks.

Reflect

We debrief, properly.

03 / ReflectFlip →
03 / Reflect

Experience without reflection stays at the level of a good story. Every session ends with a structured debrief that turns what just happened in the room into specific shifts, connecting what you saw to your actual meetings, your actual conflicts, your actual stuck points.

Apply

The change goes home with you.

04 / ApplyFlip →
04 / Apply

You walk out knowing exactly what you're going to do differently on Monday, and why. Shared language for things that used to go unspoken. The conversation that's been on hold for six months happens. Patterns that have held you back for years lose their grip, because you've already practised what's on the other side.

Hover or tap a card to see how each stage works.

Are our ongoing services right for you?

More than any of our other services, fit really matters here. Retainer relationships are expensive to unwind if they're not right. We'd rather you read this section honestly and tell us "no" than get three months in and feel stuck.

This is for you if…

  • You want a relationship, not just a programme. Ongoing support is built on trust that takes time to develop.
  • You're willing to commit to the minimum engagement (6 sessions for coaching, 3 months for fractional). Less than that and the work doesn't have time to compound.
  • You're open to honest conversations - including about what's not working.
  • You've got budget for ongoing support. The lower-cost services (the Audit, the Canvas) might be a better starting point if budget is tight.
  • For fractional engagements: you're ready to give us a real seat at your leadership table. While we are only there some of the time, which means we can stay out of the day to day, the relationship works best if we can still feel a part of your team.

This might not work for you if…

  • You want a one-off session or a short, fixed-scope engagement. The Rehearsal Room or Canvas would suit you better.
  • You want a fractional leader to "just execute" without strategic input. The work we do is collaborative by nature. We won't take the role if it's pure delivery.
  • You're fine with things the way they are. You don't see a need to invest in your leaders or you don't see how a one-off workshop often isn't enough. This probably isn't for you.

The Long Game FAQs

  • The Audit is a one-off conversation. The Canvas is a one-hour workshop. The Rehearsal Room is a half-day or a series of three. The services listed here are ongoing - a relationship that runs for months or years, with sessions or fractional time built into your rhythm. Different shape, same conviction underneath.

Want someone
in your corner?

A free 20-minute discovery call. Tell us what's going on, what kind of support you're thinking about, and we'll work out together which of the three shapes (or combination) would actually serve you best.

Book a free discovery call

No pitch deck. No "let's circle back." Promise.