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LEADERSHIP COACHING, MENTORING AND CONSULTANCY FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Supporting leaders navigating pressure, growth and complexity.
With over 25 years of senior leadership experience across health and social care, I help leaders, providers and organisations navigate growth, pressure, change and complexity without burning out the people leading it.
Psychodynamic executive coaching, operational and business development mentoring and strategic consultancy grounded in real sector experience.
The sector is losing good leaders.
Health and social care is under relentless pressure. Rising complexity, workforce shortages, regulatory scrutiny and emotional exhaustion are driving experienced leaders out of the sector at an unsustainable rate.
Too often, leadership support focuses only on performance targets, operational delivery and commercial growth while ignoring the psychological pressure leaders carry every day.
I work differently.
Having spent decades in operational leadership, business development and service growth within health and social care, I understand first-hand the realities leaders face because I have lived them.
My work combines strategic consultancy with psychodynamic executive coaching to help leaders think clearly, lead effectively and remain resilient under pressure.
“With over 335,000 people leaving adult social care roles each year, providers are facing growing pressures around recruitment, retention, burnout and leadership wellbeing.”
How I Support Leaders & Organisations.
Executive Leadership Coaching
Psychodynamic coaching for leaders working in complex, high-pressure health and social care environments. Creating space to think, reflect and lead with greater clarity, confidence and emotional resilience.
Leadership Mentoring
Practical support grounded in lived operational experience. Supporting emerging and established leaders to navigate difficult decisions, career progression, organisational politics and leadership pressure.
Strategic Consultancy
Supporting providers, developers and organisations with service development, commissioning strategy, growth planning and sustainable organisational development within regulated care environments.
Developer & Investor Advisory
Supporting care home, supported living and complex service development from design to occupancy.
30+
Years senior leadership experience
25+
Years in health & social care
Tavistock
Trained psychodynamic coach
ABOUT KELLY
A leader who understands what leadership really costs
Kelly Hodgson has over 30 years' experience across senior leadership, business development and operational roles, including Director-level positions in health and social care.
She trained in psychodynamic coaching at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
Grounding. Clarifying. Empowering.
Through coaching, mentoring and business development support, Kelly helps people and organisations unlock potential, navigate change and achieve sustainable success.