Commercial leadership coaching. Think through the decisions that matter with someone who has led the change, understands the pressures and helps you navigate the way forward
Why we do this
Whether you are stepping into a bigger role, strengthening an established function or leading a transformation, the difficult decisions rarely come with a clear answer. We give you space to test your thinking, work through the options and decide what to do next, with someone who understands the realities of the role.
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Work through the decisions in front of you: market size, growth levers, coverage, organisation design, investment priorities or an important board conversation. Test your thinking and build confidence in your next step.
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Explore how strategy, operating model, organisation, process, data, technology, cadences, AI and enablement work together, so each decision strengthens the wider organisation and the infrastructure that supports it.
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Work through priorities, stakeholder alignment, change readiness and adoption. Build the ownership and management commitments that help your people understand, carry out and sustain the change.
We have done the job. Now we help the people doing it succeed.
Transformation, enablement and operations leaders carry the change while the business carries on around them. That is a lonely job, and having someone who has been in it makes a real difference.
Who we support
We work with commercial executives, transformation, enablement and sales operations leaders, alongside emerging leaders and leadership teams. Coaching is shaped around your responsibilities, experience and the challenges ahead.
What we cover
Practical support for decisions on sales strategy, operating model, process, data, technology, AI and enablement. The COMPOSE Sales Model® helps you see how these areas connect, decide where to focus and work through the changes that improve commercial performance.
Strategy, structure and where growth comes from
Message, capability and how pipeline gets created
Process, data and the rhythm that holds it
The value is usually in the connections. A pipeline problem is rarely just a pipeline problem, and knowing which of the three it really sits in is most of the answer.
The most useful thing I can be to a commercial transformation or enablement leader is someone with no stake in the answer. I am not trying to sell the next phase, protect a relationship or manage upwards. I have sat in the seat, made most of these calls, and got a fair number of them wrong. That is what makes the conversation worth having.
Umar Gill, F.ISP
Managing Partner, Compose Sales Partners
Ways to work together
Coaching built around your role, priorities and schedule. Combine regular sessions with focused support for important decisions, leadership transitions or commercial transformations. We agree the format, frequency and support between sessions at the outset, and stay flexible throughout.
Where we meet
Time together at your office or an agreed location to explore priorities, work through challenges and plan your next steps.
Focused conversations wherever you are, making it easier to keep momentum around a demanding schedule.
How often
A consistent space to reflect, test decisions and review progress with a practitioner who understands your context.
Agreed access between sessions to help you navigate decisions and challenges as they arise.
Who it is for
Facilitated conversations that help your leadership team align on priorities, decisions and accountabilities.
Coaching programmes for emerging commercial leaders, with clear development goals over an agreed period.
Alongside transformation
Coaching during and after a transformation programme, to help leaders embed change and sustain progress.
Continuity throughout
The same lead practitioner stays with you, building an understanding of your business, priorities and progress.
Our coaching network
Every coach in our network has run a commercial function, led a commercial transformation or built the operating model behind one. We match you with the coach whose experience fits your need.
The questions leaders ask before starting a coaching relationship.
Commercial leadership coaching from Compose Sales Partners is one-to-one coaching for the leaders rebuilding the commercial engine: CROs, CSOs and the transformation, enablement and sales operations leaders carrying the change. It works on the decisions in front of you this week, such as coverage, organisation design, platform choices and board conversations, not generic leadership theory.
Compose Sales Partners coaches four seats: executives such as CROs, CSOs and commercial managing directors; new leaders in their first six months in a bigger role; emerging leaders being prepared for function-level responsibility; and leadership teams coming out of a transformation, integration or reset. The relationship is built around the seat you are actually in.
Most relationships combine a standing monthly session, virtual contact between sessions, a day in person when something significant is landing, and facilitated offsites when the whole team needs one version of the plan. Compose Sales Partners also runs structured cohort programmes for emerging leaders. The same coach stays with you throughout, so context carries forward.
Yes. Compose Sales Partners offers coaching as a standalone relationship, not only alongside a transformation programme. It can also run embedded in a live engagement and continue after handover, so the thinking stays with your leaders rather than leaving with the project.
Coaching helps you reach your own answer: Compose Sales Partners asks the questions, tests your thinking and builds your judgement over time. Advisory is more direct: you bring a specific decision, such as a coverage model, an organisation design or a platform choice, and get a practitioner’s recommendation with the reasoning behind it. Most relationships use both, moving between them as the decision in front of you changes.
Work with experienced commercial practitioners who understand the pressure of leading sales transformation, operating rhythms, enablement, and revenue execution. Our coaches bring calm challenge, practical judgement, and senior support when leaders need a trusted sounding board.
Compose Sales Partners
6th Floor
37 Lombard Street
London
EC3V 9BQ
Compose Sales Partners
20-22 Venture West
Greenham Business Park
Newbury
RG19 6HX
COMPOSE Sales Partners, the COMPOSE Sales Partners logo, COMPOSE Sales Model®, the COMPOSE Sales Model diagram and COMPOSE Sales Kick-Off Model are trademarks used by Compose Sales Partners Limited under licence. PERFORM, RISE and PACE are proprietary frameworks of Compose Sales Partners Limited. All other brands and product names are the trademarks of their respective owners.
