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Leadership development
Six sessions designed to land one real shift — whether that's landing in a new role, naming a stuck decision, or finding your rhythm at the top of a bigger thing. 1:1, team, or intensive day.
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Infinity Learning · Est. 2024
A coaching practice · Hiral Kelly · ICF ACC
Creating invisible strings to support you.
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The leaf above is held · by something you can't see.
That's the work.
Most leaders carrying a heavy season aren't short on information, courage, or capability. They're short on quiet — a place outside the org where they can hear themselves think.
I'm not the answer. I'm the thread that keeps you suspended long enough to find it.
Hiral Kelly · ICF ACC · 20 years in education
— Our commitment
We are committed to creating an environment that encourages growth, curiosity and excellence. By nurturing leadership skills and promoting inclusion, we help organisations build lasting success in an ever-shifting landscape.
01 / About
Twenty years inside the work. Now alongside it.
Hiral Kelly
Founder · Coach
"I help leaders build cultures where people feel valued, supported and empowered to perform at their best."
Over 20 years' experience supporting leaders and managers across a range of settings, with particular expertise in education. Through tailored coaching and development programmes, I strengthen leadership capability and embed coaching-driven behaviours that transform teams from within.
I'm a fellow traveller, not a guru. My job is to ask the question that unlocks what you already know.
20+
Years supporting leaders
ACC
ICF certified coach
3
Core sectors served
02 / Programmes
The work, in three shapes.
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Emotional intelligence
Practical work on the inner architecture leaders need — self-awareness, relational range, and the cultural literacy to lead well across difference. Often paired with 1:1 coaching.
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Creating a coaching culture
Train your senior team in coaching skills, redesign your CPD around growth conversations, and build in-house capacity that lasts past my involvement. Most often used by MATs and larger schools.
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03 / Who
You might be here because…
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A new role
You've stepped into something bigger — headship, MAT leadership, senior management — and you need a thinking partner who isn't on your payroll.
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A stuck decision
You know what you want to do but can't quite see it. You don't need advice — you need someone to ask the question that unlocks it.
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A culture to build
You're leading a team that needs more honesty, more alignment, more space to think — and you want to model it yourself first.
Voices from the practice
Hiral created a supportive space where I could openly explore my leadership strengths and challenges. She helped me recognise the skills I already had, build confidence, and make meaningful changes that strengthened my practice.
Katie
Senior Leadership Team
Hiral's insightful questioning challenged me to consider all my options. The most enjoyable aspect was having the time to unpick issues — it was empowering to come up with solutions myself.
Hiral's coaching has been transformative. She helped me gain clarity, confidence, and a stronger sense of direction. Her insight has made a meaningful difference on a personal level too.
04 / Engagements
Three ways to work together.
30-minute call
Free
Google Meet
An honest conversation about what you're carrying — and whether coaching is the right next step. No pitch, no obligation.
- Honest read on whether coaching fits
- Suggested next steps either way
- Recommendations beyond me if useful
- Follow-up notes if you want them
Six-session programme
Bespoke
Quoted at discovery
A complete arc of leadership coaching — enough time to land a real shift, not so long it becomes a habit you outgrow.
- Six confidential 1:1 sessions over several months
- Session structure agreed at the discovery call
- Support between sessions when you need it
- A clear handover at the end of the engagement
Day-rate engagements
Bespoke
Quoted per brief
Team coaching, full-day intensives, CPD facilitation, curriculum support. Scoped to your context — every brief is different.
- Half or full days, on-site or remote
- Programme designed around your goals
- Schools: aligned to SDP & CPD cycle
- Reduced rate for primary schools and small charities
No contract · Engagements paid session-by-session · Stop whenever you need to
05 / Process
What actually happens.
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Step 01
Discovery call
A 30-minute video conversation about what you're carrying. I give you an honest opinion on whether coaching is the right next step. No pitch, no obligation.
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Step 02
Map the territory
In the first session we agree what you want to be different. Not a goal in the abstract — a concrete change you'd notice in how you lead.
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Step 03
Do the work
A series of sessions at a rhythm that suits you. Each one ends with one or two specific things to try before we meet again.
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Step 04
Land it
What's shifted, what's still in motion, what you'll carry into the next phase. A clear handover so the work doesn't dissolve when we stop meeting.
06 / Honest
What coaching is and isn't.
What it is
- A thinking partnership. You bring the situation, I bring the questions.
- Forward-looking. What to do next, not why the past happened.
- Confidential and outside your organisation. Nothing said in session is shared anywhere.
- Action-oriented. Every session ends with what you'll try this fortnight.
- Rigorous. Evidence-based practice, not woo.
What it isn't
- Not consulting. I won't tell you what to do. The answer almost always lives with you — my job is to help you find it.
- Not mentoring. No "here's what worked for me" stories on repeat. Different leader, different context.
- Not training. Skills work is what the educational training service is for.
- Not therapy. Therapy looks backward to heal; coaching looks forward to act.
- Not a forever subscription. Six sessions, then you decide. No retainers by default.
Read the six reasons I might not be the right coach for you →
07 / Journal
Notes, quietly thought through.
The first 90 days
as a new head
as a new head
The first 90 days as a new head
What I've watched go well, what I've watched go badly, and the four questions worth sitting with in your first term.
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Transferable skills
"But you're not from this background — how can you help?" The skills you develop as a leader travel between industries.
Read
You're braver
than you believe
than you believe
Braver, stronger, smarter
Christopher Robin's quiet promise — and the transformative pause that good coaching protects.
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A clear, authentic vision
Rocks in a stream, or someone kneeling to read? Clarity and authenticity decide how a leader's vision is perceived.
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Quiet self-check
Are you ready for coaching?
Six honest questions. Two minutes. Your answers stay on your device — nothing is sent anywhere.
Question 1 of 6Imagine the quarter ahead
When you imagine your next quarter at work, which feeling is loudest?
Question 2 of 6What's being deferred
Is there a decision or conversation you've been putting off for more than two weeks?
Question 3 of 6Who do you think with
Do you have a confidential thinking partner outside your organisation right now?
Question 4 of 6If you weren't afraid
If a coach asked "what would you do differently if you weren't afraid?" — would you have an answer?
Question 5 of 6What can you protect
Your capacity to commit to a fortnightly 75-minute conversation for the next three months?
Question 6 of 6Last time you paused
When was the last time someone asked you a question that made you genuinely stop and think?
Your reading— / 18
Free download
Five questions every leader should sit with.
An eight-page PDF guide for headteachers, senior leaders and managers carrying more than they admit. One question per day for five days. Honest, useful, free.
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