ONE TO ONE PERFORMANCE COACHING
A larger life, by design
You’re putting in the effort, but the results remain the same
Going beyond the intellectual to design the performance framework that holds your philosophy and ideas, and supports your actions towards the outcomes you want to see.
YOU’VE ALREADY BUILT SOMETHING REAL
A business, a career, a body of work. People come to you for ideas and answers.
The question now is what comes next, and how to get there with what you’ve built, and your energy, intact.
This is coaching for people with big ideas who are ready to act on them.
YOU’RE MORE THAN GREAT IDEAS
You've had a knowing of what you want. You can see the bigger picture, but you’re more focused on what’s happening in front of you, rather than how you’re going to get there.
What you need is a bridge between what you want and the opportunities already around you.
Let’s design a framework for purposeful decisions and decisive action.
WHO I WORK WITH
ENTREPRENEURS
Sees the future forming in today.
You back your vision and accept the risk that comes with it. A structured framework gives you clarity on which ideas to run with, so the pace that built your business keeps supporting you.
LEADERS
Sees people and impact at the heart of results.
You care about results, and you lift the people around you as you get there. A purposeful framework makes room for your own health, relationships and joy alongside the people you serve.
CREATIVES
Sees the depth that others overlook.
You notice what others walk past, and you bring your values and your community into everything you make. An aligned framework gives your ideas a fluid structure, so they reach your community with value they didn’t know they needed.
YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
YOUR FRAMEWORK.
YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE.
IS THIS YOU
8 Week Performance Framework
ONE TO ONE · PERFORMANCE COACHING
Beneath every result is what you prioritise without thinking. We bring that to the surface, and disrupt what needs to shift so your trajectory moves towards life and work that’s reflective of who you are becoming.
From there, we start with a blank framework and thread in your long term vision. Reframing strengthens your mindset, and small experiments let you test your decision making and your capacity for action.
The result is a framework that moves with you over time.
In-person, online or hybrid over 8 weeks
- 4 × 2 hour fortnightly coaching and planning sessions
- Techniques to strengthen your performance mindset
- An open line between sessions for texts and voice notes
- A personalised framework (yours to keep)
Wā
(noun) time, season, period of time, interval, term, duration.
THE MIND BEHIND THE PROGRAMME
KIA ORA, I’M CLEO SHORTLAND
Since I was a young girl, I’ve been designing frameworks for myself. Morning routines, rhythms for the week. Gentle structures that gave me clarity and stability.
This later became a career in asset structuring for multi-nationals with many layers of complexity, then frameworks for business operations, risk and governance, before I returned to my passion: personal performance, and the structures central to creating a larger life.
Together we design and build your work as an expression of your philosophy, values and performance, with a fluid structure that moves with you over time.
Your work is one part of a larger life, built by design.
YOUR NEXT STEP STARTS HERE
Creating work and life that is reflective of who you are becoming.
WHERE MY CLIENTS ARE NOW
-
"I got my dream role, and because I could clearly name the value of my skills, I negotiated a higher salary."
Ariel Mareroa, New Zealand
-
“The framework we built has helped me build and track my partnerships and collaborations, resulting in multiple income streams to support me while I focus on writing.”
Rhea James Fox, Writer, Malta
-
"I am now energised, capable and backing myself as I balance family with running multiple businesses"
Aime Carter, South Island Super Yacht Services, New Zealand
Frequently Asked Questions
-
Performance coaching is focused work on how you show up each day.
Together we design a framework that makes sure your day to day is building towards the future you want.
It’s built on your philosophy and strengths, so it fits who you are. Performance here means your whole life: your work, your health, your relationships and your joy.
-
Entrepreneurs, leaders and creatives who have already built something real.
Often you’ve stepped into a new chapter. A new role, a growing business, or a body of work gaining momentum.
The way you used to work is starting to stretch, and you’re ready for what comes next.
-
You might, if you’ve been circling your next step for a while.
You’re putting in the effort, and the results stay the same.
A coach sees what’s hard to see from the inside. I reflect your strengths back to you and help you move from thinking to action.
-
Each session begins with open coaching. We explore what’s driving you and reframe what’s in the way.
Then we move into action. We build your framework and plan the fortnight ahead.
Between sessions, you test small experiments and bring back what you learn.
-
Each session has two parts: open coaching, then action and planning.
Two hours gives both the time they need.
You leave every session with clarity and a clear next step.
-
Between sessions, you can send me texts and voice notes.
Share a win, a wobble or a decision you’re weighing.
It keeps the momentum going while you put your framework into practice.
-
Coaching is focused on where you’re going.
Together we build a framework that makes sure your day to day is building towards the future you want.
Therapy is the right support for healing the past or working through mental health concerns.
If therapy would serve you better, I’ll tell you and help you find the right person.
-
Eight weeks, with four 2 hour sessions, one each fortnight.
You leave with a framework that’s yours to keep. It moves with you over time.
-
Everything you share stays confidential.
Our sessions are a space to think out loud, try ideas and be honest about what’s really going on.
The only exception is if someone’s safety is at serious risk.
-
My approach is my own.
It began as something I did naturally as a young girl: shaping my thinking into frameworks that moved me towards what I wanted. Over the years, that became a practice.
Today it draws on strengths-based coaching, mindfulness-integrated cognitive behavioural techniques, compassionate communication, deep listening and agile delivery techniques.
Small experiments help you learn quickly what works.
Everything is invitational and shaped around you.
-
Yes. Sessions run online for clients anywhere in the world.
We find times that work across time zones.
If you can travel, you’re welcome to join me in the Bay of Islands.
-
In-person sessions are held in the Bay of Islands, Northland.
Many clients make the trip north part of the experience. It’s time away from the everyday to think clearly about what comes next.
If you can’t travel for every session, we can mix in-person and online in a hybrid that suits you.