Leading Change with Functional Imagery Coaching
We help leaders manage their minds to get the best outcomes for themselves and others.
Change is inevitable in leadership, but navigating it successfully requires resilience, vision, and clarity. At Unruly Minds, we specialise in coaching leaders who are facing organisational change, as well as entrepreneurs and startup founders looking to build strong, sustainable businesses. Using Functional Imagery Training (FIT), we help leaders develop the mindset and motivation needed to drive success through uncertainty.
Why Leadership in Times of Change Requires a Strong Mindset
Change - whether it's scaling a business, restructuring a team, or pivoting strategy - can create stress, self-doubt, and decision fatigue. Successful leaders don’t just react to change; they anticipate and embrace it. Our coaching helps you develop mental resilience, strengthen decision-making, and stay motivated even in the face of challenges.
How Functional Imagery Training Empowers Leaders
Functional Imagery Training (FIT) is a scientifically backed method that strengthens motivation and goal achievement by leveraging the power of mental imagery. Traditional leadership training often focuses on external strategies, but FIT goes deeper - helping you create a vivid internal vision of success that fuels action.
Through FIT, you will:
Strengthen decision-making by mentally rehearsing different scenarios and solutions.
Build confidence by visualising yourself successfully leading through change.
Enhance adaptability by preparing mentally for challenges before they arise.
Maintain motivation by emotionally connecting with your long-term vision and goals.
The Benefits of Leadership Coaching with FIT
Our coaching integrates Functional Imagery Training with proven leadership strategies to help you:
Gain clarity and confidence when making high-stakes decisions.
Cultivate resilience to handle setbacks and uncertainty.
Enhance strategic thinking to lead through change effectively.
Build a visionary mindset to drive long-term success in your business or organisation.
Who Is This Coaching For?
Our coaching is tailored for:
Entrepreneurs and startup founders who need a strong vision and the resilience to navigate uncertainty.
Executives and business leaders managing company transformations, team restructuring, or high-growth periods.
Leaders who need clarity and confidence to lead through transition.
Take Control of Your Leadership Journey
Whether you're leading a startup or navigating organisational change, the right mindset is your most powerful tool. Our leadership coaching, powered by Functional Imagery Training, helps you stay focused, resilient, and motivated to achieve lasting success.
Contact us to book a free discovery call today and take the first step toward leading with clarity and confidence.
“Most importantly working with Steve allowed me to do my job. Working as a Doctor alongside Steve in some remote and harsh environments I felt so confident in his expertise, leadership, and support, it allowed me to perform to the best in mine. His passion and focus within the field of adventure is inspirational and I look forward to seeing him stretch the boundaries of himself and others in the near future.”
“I was lucky enough to have Steve as Race Director on the Namibia 2010 Ultra-Marathon, a 126Km race across the Namib desert in less than 24 hours. He is a consummate professional, a great motivator and leader. Steve showed an ability to cope with a dynamic and changing situation in one of the worlds most hostile environments as comfortably as if he was at home in the UK. Steve inspires confidence and positivity.”
“I have worked with Steve for over 5 years and he is a highly professional and incredibly reliable person to have on your team. He never panics in a crisis, he has a great understanding about how to get the best out of people and he is a pleasure to work with. When I am leading expeditions I am always confident with the knowledge that Steve is there to provide all the support I need, in whatever shape or form it is.
Working with Steve is inspiring, you should try it sometime.”
The Leadership Challenge
A leadership role can present with many challenges. Leadership brings change on a personal and organisational level and change is often uncomfortable for most people. We use Functional Imagery Training and practical tools from the latest research on change management and motivation to help you and your organisation in the tricky moments of reaching for your goals.
Unruly Minds draws on vital lessons learnt during two specific leadership experiences.
Firstly, in leading diverse staff teams and inexperienced groups through physically challenging and high risk events in some of the harshest environments on the planet (arctic, desert and altitude).
Secondly, by leading on Social, Emotional and Mental health provision across all primary schools in a local authority, working with teachers, school leadership, along with multi-agency professional teams in health and social care, to meet the needs of pupils and manage behaviour. All whilst attempting to navigate education and mental health systems straining under current socioeconomic pressures.
The common theme that weaves it's way through these challenging experiences is that of heightened emotions and dysregulated states caused by stressful events and high pressure environments.
It is our emotions that drive our behaviours both good and bad. It is our emotions that can either drive us away or towards our personal/organisational goals.
If you would like to hear more about how we can help, please contact us to discuss your current leadership challenges.