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
You hold the vision, the clients and the team. Your business has grown, and the way you run it needs to grow too.
LEADERS
Your results speak for themselves. You're ready for the next level, and you want your value seen clearly.
CREATIVES
You're full of ideas. You want a frame around them so they become steady work, income and a plan you can act on.
YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
YOUR FRAMEWORK.
YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE.
IS THIS YOU
8 Week Performance Framework
ONE TO ONE · PERFORMANCE COACHING
The framework is the strategy. Beneath it is the person carrying the vision and we begin with self care, and grow your universal intelligence.
MIND: Noticing the patterns in your thinking, and choosing your response.
BODY: Listening to what your body tells you about your pace and your capacity.
ENERGY: Knowing what fills you up, and placing it at the centre of your week.
CONNECTION: The relationships that hold you, at home, at work and in your community.
SENSES: Coming back to the present moment, where your clearest decisions are made.
$8,000 NZ + GST
In-person, online or hybrid over 8 weeks
- 5 × 1.5 hour fortnightly coaching sessions, one to one
- Techniques to strengthen your performance mindset
- An open line between sessions for texts and voice notes
- A framework to build and track your progress (yours to keep)
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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
One conversation can turn thinking into clear performance.
WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY
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"I walked into my next interview knowing what set me apart. I got the job, and because I could clearly name the value of my skills, I negotiated a higher salary."
Ariel Mareroa, New Zealand
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“She was the support I needed as I built strategic partnerships and collaborations, and created multiple income streams alongside my writing.”
Rhea James Fox, Writer, Malta
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"I always left our calls feeling energised, capable and ready to back myself to take the next step."
Aime Carter, South Island Super Yacht Services, New Zealand
Frequently Asked Questions
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Performance coaching is dedicated space to look inward and understand what's really driving your decisions.
It helps you work through what's getting in your way, and make better decisions as a leader.
Often what's really going on is people get stuck on one way of solving a problem, without seeing that what they actually need underneath could be met a completely different way. Just seeing that clearly changes what's possible.
Most people are so deep in the day to day that they never get time to step back and see it. That's what these sessions give you, room to think properly with someone who has the expertise to support you to get there.
This is a dedicated profession, with its own methodology.
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You're moving into new territory. Something is ending. Priorities are shifting. Your body and energy levels may be changing shape too. You may be:
Stepping up in your role
Stepping out of your industry
Restructuring your role or business to match your life
A bomb has gone off and you need support as you ride this next wave
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No, just like you don't need a nutritionist or a fitness coach. But this journey you're on, or about to start, is bloody tough. The value of the programme is having an expert coach and facilitator there with you throughout, for as long as you need, placing strategy and focus into the actions you take toward your next chapter.
If the cost would strain your business or family, wait until it won't.
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This is where the prepared thinking work happens. We reflect, reset your focus areas, and challenge unhelpful beliefs while promoting healthy, innovative ideas. From there we move into planning, breaking down and prioritising what matters most.
You leave with a clear focus for what's ahead. And the communication line stays open between calls, for disruptions, celebrations, and re-setting yourself.
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Texts and voice notes between our structured video call.
Plans will always be disrupted. When something comes up, you can get a message to me and I can either note or we work through.
Wins don't wait for the next fortnight either, let's celebrate them as soon as they happen.
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Coaching moves you forward. We work with where you are now, capable and ready, and build toward transformation, your vision, and what's next. Therapy looks back, working through past experience and emotional healing with someone trained to hold that ground.
Both matter, they just serve different moments. If something surfaces in our work together that calls for therapeutic support, I'll raise it with you.
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8 weeks.
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Everything shared stays between us. This is a private container for thinking something through, held with the same discretion you'd expect from your own profession.
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The methodology draws on a few different frameworks. There's a goal-setting structure called GROW, which helps map out where you are now and what you actually want.
There's work drawn from CBT, cognitive behavioural approaches, which looks at the thought patterns driving your decisions.
Mindfulness is woven through, building your ability to notice what's happening in the moment rather than reacting on autopilot.
I also offer karakia, a Māori incantation, which helps set a clear intention and frequency for the work we're doing.
And there's Nonviolent Communication, which helps you get clear on your real underlying needs versus the strategies you've been using to meet them.
This is coupled with my own experience starting and growing businesses, and working in the regulatory change space as a professional project manager, leading and advising teams of two to two hundred.
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The programme is $8,000 NZD + GST, and we can convert it to your local currency
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Yes. Sessions run over video, so you can be anywhere in the world. Clients are currently based across New Zealand, Australia, and North America, and I can invoice you in the NZ equivalent of your local currency.
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📚 I use AI for many activities... but my coaching programmes and communications are developed by myself without the use of AI.