Your strategy is right.
Your leaders are carrying too much of it.
Connected Peace helps board-governed organisations fix where pressure sits, so growth scales without exhausting the people making it happen.
When ambition outpaces structure, pressure doesn’t distribute evenly. It concentrates on your most capable leaders. They work longer. Decide faster. Stay closer to delivery than their role requires.
It works until decisions stop settling. Until the same topics keep resurfacing. Until your best people start thinking about leaving.
Connected Peace intervenes before that point. Through diagnostics, team resets, and executive coaching, so delivery holds under scrutiny and leadership capacity grows with the business.
Trusted by leaders at:
BP | Deutsche Bank | Boots Alliance | Greene King | Greggs | Superdry | M&S | New Look | Kraft/Mondelez | Castrol | Moto Hospitality
Performance Doesn’t Fail Loudly. It Erodes Quietly.
On paper, things still look fine. The strategy makes sense. The leadership team is strong. Results are broadly on track.
But underneath:
Decisions land but don’t stay landed. The same topics resurface.
Escalation has become habitual, not exceptional.
Two or three people are quietly holding everything together.
Delivery takes more personal effort than it used to.
This isn’t a capability problem. It’s a pressure problem. The system isn’t set up properly and your most critical leaders are absorbing the cost.
That’s what Connected Peace exists to fix.
Three Interventions. One Problem. Different Entry Points.
Pressure shows up at different levels. The intervention needs to match where the strain is sitting.
1
Service Name
Strategy-to-Delivery Review
System-level clarity
When the strategy is sound, but delivery is getting heavier than it should be.
This is a diagnostic: where is pressure landing, why are decisions reopening, and what needs to shift so execution holds without relying on individual heroics.
Best for: Boards, CEOs, and sponsors who need confidence that strategy will convert into delivery.
2
Leadership Capacity
Accelerator
Team-level capacity
When a capable leadership team is stretched thin, delivery slows as a result.
This programme redistributes pressure across the team — resetting delegation, decision ownership, and the habits that create bottlenecks.
Best for: COOs, MDs, and People Directors whose leadership teams are over-functioning under sustained pressure.
3
Executive Leadership
Coaching
Individual-level judgement protection
When disproportionate pressure is sitting with a specific leader and their decision quality needs protecting.
This is not development coaching. It is targeted support for people whose judgment the organisation depends on.
Best for: CEOs, COOs, and senior leaders carrying strategic weight in high-scrutiny environments.
Assad Malic,
Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer
“Nic brought authenticity and a clear vision to a complex transformation portfolio. Her commitment to customer-first solutions and her strong, empathetic leadership style made a lasting impact, driving operational improvements, team performance and enhanced customer experiences.”
Rachel Smith,
Managing Director
“I would strongly recommend the Leadership Capacity Accelerator to any leader managing under pressure. I know the leader I want to be and I have the intention and tools to change.”
Why Nic
Calm Under Pressure. Direct When It Matters.
Nic McDonald has spent more than 20 years inside complex, high-pressure organisations, leading strategy, transformation, and delivery work where decisions carry real commercial consequences.
Her work has contributed to over £500m in direct business benefit across organisations, including BP, Deutsche Bank, Greene King, Kraft/Mondelez, Superdry, Greggs, and Boots Alliance.
She knows what it looks like when strategy quietly stalls. Not because intent is wrong, but because pressure has moved into people instead of sitting in structure, roles, and priorities. She’s been the leader, absorbing too much. She knows the cost, and she knows what to do about it.
Now, as an ICF-accredited executive coach and Henley Business School-qualified strategist, Nic works at the point where most strategies quietly falter: not in defining intent, but in translating it into decisions that hold under pressure.
Clients describe her as calm, direct, and commercially grounded. The person you want in the room when the stakes are high and clarity is low.
When This Work Is Needed
Recognise Any of This?
The strategy is right but delivery feels heavier than it should
Two or three leaders are holding everything together, and you know what happens if one of them leaves
Decisions keep reopening. The same conversations are happening for the third time
The board is asking questions about pace and you’re not sure the current structure can answer them
A new strategy or integration is about to land and you need to know it won’t break what’s already stretched
You’ve got the right people, they’re just carrying too much
If any of this sounds familiar, a conversation with Nic will help you see what’s happening and what to do about it. No pitch. No obligation. Just clarity.
Connected Peace