Personal formation for people navigating high stakes moments or high influence lives.

Sold a business.
Promoted to the top.
At a major crossroads.
Thrust into the spotlight.

What high stakes
moment do you face?

Family Office. Athlete.
Executive. Politician.
Actor. Entertainer.
Soldier. Entrepreneur.

What high influence
life do you lead?

High stakes moments and high influence lives require robust personal formation to navigate it successfully.

To maximise its opportunities…
Big decisions. Discerning between many good options. Meaning and purpose. Entering new seasons.

And overcome its risks…
Isolation. Legacy. Identity and role fusion. Resource guilt. Emptiness of achievement. Non physical burnout. Personal failure. Family cost.

You are your own Everest: life’s most challenging and rewarding adventure is yourself.

After all, when all is said and done, you will be remembered for who you are and how you impacted those around you, not just what you did.

“I’m John Featherby. I have spent 20 years helping people like you navigate extraordinary lives.

My approach blends a unique background that spans a lifetime weaving between global commerce, land stewardship and the christian monastic traditions. Working with me ensures a pathway that is not only relevant but also rooted in the wisdoms that your peers have leant on for thousands of years.”

Trusted. Discreet. Experienced.

In person. On line.
Or on retreat, tucked away
at our farm in Cornwall.

  • Principal, Family Office

    “John has helped me to re-define the long-term ambitions of our family businesses. I now feel set to generate not only a marked improvement in what we will achieve but also the character with which we will pursue it. Importantly, I am also now enjoying my personal role and am excited about the future.”

  • Chairman, Institutional Investor

    “Being able to have a discreet conversation with someone who isn’t working alongside us on a day to day basis yet understands the landscape is of great personal and strategic benefit. It’s also a relief to have someone available that isn’t only interested in selling me a project.”

  • Head of New Department, Top 4 Consulting Firm

    “John is a uniquely gifted coach and advisor. He brings a warmth and wisdom that combines a deep and practical understanding of senior business challenges with a profoundly human empathy. John's counsel, support and practical guidance was absolutely invaluable at a time of major professional and personal challenge and I would have struggled to navigate it without him.”

  • Managing Director, Global Executive Search Firm

    “Over years of discussions with leading board Chairs, NEDs and global CEO’s, I have witnessed this paradox: a conviction that things must change and yet a personal brain-freeze and gutlessness that perpetuates the status quo. In meeting John Featherby, I found a highly articulate advisor already inhabiting the future of business and the inherent re-imagination of leadership. I recommend him to any leader brave enough.”