Stefan - How Can You Help?
I’m often asked: “How could you help me?” here are a few words on that subject. I hope they help give a sense of who I am and a sense of who you might be, with the help of coach.
Hello, I’m Stefan - a father, son, brother, and creative problem-solver with a background in executive coaching, leadership, and change. I care about helping good people lead great things - things that sustain a thriving planet.
I’m often asked: “How could you help me?”
And you might be wondering: Why am I sending this to you?
Because you liked my content, or we connected here on LinkedIn, or I felt you were so compelling and your cause so important that I had to reach out and see if I could help you - by asking how I can help you after you’ve got a sense of how I might.
It’s a fair question - one I get asked a lot, in many different guises. So here goes.
I can help you:
Make better decisions.
Find the courage to make - and actually follow through on - the tough ones.
Bring others on the journey with you (even the ones you thought would never come).
Turn decisions into action, and action into real, visible results.
Build resilience, manage pressure, and stay grounded when the stakes are high.
Work out what you really, really want - for yourself, your life, and your legacy.
I can help you lead more effectively; to strategise, shape, and operationalise your thoughts into plans, into action, into communication that lands with your people - so you can collaborate in ways you didn’t think possible.
I can help you stay human while leading - keep your authenticity, presence, and energy, even while oiling the wheels of the machine.
I can help teams:
Work as a collective that performs, adapts, and learns.
Build a culture of trust, curiosity, and psychological safety.
Transform conflict into alignment, innovation, and momentum.
Communicate clearly, take shared ownership, and deliver together.
I can help organisations:
Translate strategy into action across functions, hierarchies, and geographies.
Embed change so it sticks - in culture, processes, and behaviours.
Build systems that connect people, ideas, and outcomes.
Align Boards, senior teams, and frontline people around purpose, clarity, and execution.
I can help you and your organisation influence beyond the walls:
Engage stakeholders and partners effectively.
Shape policy, market impact, or societal outcomes.
Lead ethically, with purpose, and in ways that genuinely matter.
And I can help you do all of this whilst staying you.
For your family, your life, your values - without feeling like you’ve become just another cog in the machine. So you can lead at work and still get out on the bike, go for that run, or just breathe, without guilt or compromise.
I can help you sell.
I can help you market.
I can help you lead.
I can help you change.
I can help individuals, teams, and organisations transform.
Why do I say all this?
Because I’ve done it - for over 24 years.
As a coach, leader, change architect, consultant, coffee-house founder, musician, and endurance cyclist - across public, private, and third sectors.
And because I care - deeply.
So how can I help you?
By packing all of that into a little case called coaching — asking the questions that actually serve you, sharing reflections and models that work in practice, not just in textbooks.
Because textbooks weigh heavy.
Positive action makes you feel alive.
And sometimes, you’ve just got to know whether you’re raging against the machine… or for it.
If you’re reading this and something in you moved - or even just whispered “I’d like to find out more” - not to commit, not to sign up, but simply because you’re intrigued… then send me a note and say, “Can we talk?”
For once, no obligation really does mean no obligation.
If you’d love to talk, I’d love to talk.
For now; thank you for taking the time to read this and see the intent with which it’s written.
I don’t like being this direct, but as my Dad used to say - if you cant speak positively about yourself - how can you expect to find others who one day will too.
And that free’s me up to talk.
Enjoyed reading this? Consider doing one of these:
Get in touch - If any of this topic resonated with you and you have something you’d like to share with me or if you’d like to discuss working with me on this topic - stefan@stefanpowell.co.uk works really well for me.
Book an inquisitive session with me to find out more about what I do and how I do it or run a challenge or thought you have passed me.
Connect with me on linked in and read my long form posts on the rotating topics of Work, Rest. Play, Sustenance and Love every Thursday
Sign up to my newsletter ‘Be The Waves” here - which collates each weeks long form post on a monthly basis and you’ll get to read it later in the month
Follow me on strava.
For now; Thank you.
I am…
An executive coach and the CEO of Be The Waves, growing stewardship for a thriving planet.
I helping good people lead great things; in other words - I empower Stewardship
Good people care about others, our planet and beauty. Great things are changes for the betterment of society and all that lives within an around it. It sounds big and fun - it is.
I'm also an endurance racing cyclist and a go getter.
You can read more about me and what I do; how I work here