180 day
Executive Mentoring Programme
FINANCIAL COST
FTSE 100 CEO bse salary
£800k–£1.5m+; median total package £4.58m (High Pay Centre, 2024/25).
Retained search fees alone: 25–33% of first-year total compensation.
Total replacement cost, globally benchmarked: up to 213% of salary, or 1.5–4× once disruption is included — on a £1m base, roughly £1.5m–£4m.
180 Day Executive
Mentoring Programme
Organisations invest significantly in attracting, developing and retaining senior talent. Yet precisely when the stakes are highest, pressure can prevent those leaders from accessing their best thinking and leadership.
The 180-Day Executive Mentoring Programme
Five pillars. One arc. Leadership built to last.
A structured, assessed programme addressing the full range of what sustainable leadership under pressure requires — from establishing authority in a new role through to building a culture that holds without you in the room.
The five pillars
1. Leadership Transitions - Leaders are constantly transitioning, evolving. Reactive leadership creates instability. Navigating the specific pressures of being accountable while establishing direction and generative influence in a role or mandate is essential for productivity and sustainability.
2. Strategic Decision-Making - Building clear, confident judgement in uncertainty, so decisions get made deliberately rather than reactively or by default.
3. Communication & Influence - Leading people who follow trust rather than title — communication that holds a room under pressure, not just in calm conditions.
4. People Management - Building and managing a team that performs consistently, without relying on unsustainable personal output to compensate.
5. Sustainable Performance - Leadership that holds across a career, not just a quarter — the capability to keep performing without burning out.
How the programme is structured
Every engagement opens with a structured intake interview and assessment battery, establishing where you currently stand across all five pillars. From there, the 180-day arc moves through three broad phases: an initial foundation phase addressing the most pressing pattern identified in assessment, a development phase working systematically through the relevant pillars, and an integration phase consolidating the shift into lasting practice.
Exact phase timing and pillar sequencing is calibrated to each client's assessment results — the above describes the general shape of the arc.
Investment
Available as a fixed-fee engagement for the full 180-day arc, or as an ongoing retainer for leaders who want continued support beyond the initial programme.
180 Day Executive Mentoring Programme
“Veronica is an exceptional executive mentor who builds enriching relationships with her clients as they develop their IQ and EQ.
I engaged Veronica to help me build resilience in a high pressure industry. Surprisingly I found it helped me across the boarder context of my life.
The clarity of my thinking and decision making improved.
At first I was apprehensive about being mentored, I felt it was a sign I was not at the cutting edge of my game. I could not have been more wrong........ I look forward to every session. Tony CFO