Connected Peace
Coaching & Consultancy
Helping ambitious organisations turn direction into delivery — equipping leaders to focus, perform, and sustain results without bureaucracy or big-consultancy prices.
Trusted by BP, Deutsche Bank, Boots, Greene King, Greggs, Superdry, Moto Hospitality and more.
The Performance Framework™
Proven system for turning clarity into capability and sustained performance
Most strategies don’t fail in design; they fail in delivery.
This is the system that helps you make yours work.
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Clarify What Matters – Define priorities everyone understands.
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Equip Leaders to Deliver – Build capability and cohesion under pressure.
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Embed Habits that Sustain – Keep performance strong, without burnout.
Before:
'Firefighting State'
Even the best organisations can lose momentum.
Leaders are stretched, priorities blur, and growth feels slow.
Strategy sits on slides while people firefight through the week.
When Progress Feels Harder Than It Should
The Performance Framework™.
One Connected System.
The Framework connects everything — from strategic clarity to leadership capability and sustained performance.
Each phase builds on the last, creating lasting focus, energy, and accountability.
The Performance Framework™
A proven process to turn strategy into sustainable performance. Every transformation succeeds or fails on four fundamentals.
Our framework guides you through each one — aligning your strategy, leaders, and systems so performance lasts.
What You Will See When
Within Weeks: The fog lifts. Priorities are clear. Meetings shorten and momentum returns.
By Month Three: Leaders lead with calm authority. Focus sharpens, collaboration strengthens.
Over Time: Strategy becomes a living system — performance improves, stress reduces, and results stick.
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3–5 strategic priorities defined and owned
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10–15% leadership time freed in the first quarter
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15–25% uplift in delivery performance
About
Clarity first. Composure always. Performance that lasts.
Nic McDonald is the founder of Connected Peace and creator of The Performance Framework™ — a system that helps leaders and organisations deliver strategy with clarity, capability, and consistency.
With more than two decades leading complex business transformation across brands including BP, Deutsche Bank, Greene King, Kraft/Mondelez, Castrol, Superdry, and Boots Alliance, Nic knows what it takes to turn ambition into sustained performance.
Her work starts where most strategies falter — at the point between clarity and execution. She helps senior teams cut through noise, prioritise what matters, and align people around meaningful direction. From there, she equips leaders to deliver under pressure through The Resilience Method for Leaders™, strengthening capability, composure, and cohesion across teams.
An ICF-accredited executive coach and Henley Business School–qualified strategist, Nic combines academic rigour with lived experience of delivering results in complex environments.
Her strength lies in bridging the gap between strategic intent and real-world delivery — helping organisations not just design strategy, but make it work day to day.
Clients describe her as calm, insightful, and commercially grounded — a partner who helps them think clearly, lead steadily, and sustain success.
Assad Malic,
Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer
"Nic brought authenticity and a clear vision to the role, a complex transformation portfolio with precision and focus.
Nic’s commitment to customer-first solutions and her strong, empathetic leadership style made a lasting impact, driving both operational improvements, team performance and enhanced customer experiences.
She is an inspiring leader who delivers meaningful change"
Rachel Smith, Managing Director
“I would strongly recommend this programme to any leader (and their leadership teams) who are managing under pressure.
I know the leader I want to be and I have the intention and tools to change."
Zoheb Shariff,
CEO
"Nic is a natural in creating space for reflection, exploration, and clarity of thought. It's space I didn't know how much I needed and how transformational it is becoming. I am really relishing the space, the support, the challenge and the journey. Truely impactful personally, and without a doubt a catalyst for a world of good at Mosaic 1898"
Ready to deliver a strategy that lasts?
I only work with a small number of organisations each quarter to ensure focus and measurable results.
Next openings: January 2026 (2 partnership slots remaining).
Every month of blurred priorities costs time, energy, and margin — strategy delayed today becomes firefighting tomorrow