Executive Coach · Entrepreneur
Forty-three years building companies across five countries taught Ken Corbie one thing — the hardest growth a C-suite leader faces is their own. Coaching that turns private doubt into steady command.
The record
The approach
Confidence on the outside, doubt underneath — Ken has lived both. The work isn't about fixing you. It's about challenging what you assume to be true and discovering what you're actually capable of leading.
We surface the quiet assumptions running your leadership — the rules you never agreed to but obey anyway. Naming them is where change begins.
Coaching opens new, powerful ways of thinking and being. You keep what made you effective and add the range the next level demands.
The effort you pour into worry, avoidance, and second-guessing gets pointed somewhere useful — toward goals that once felt out of reach.
The work
Ken works exclusively with senior leadership — CEOs and the C-suite. Engagements run from a focused two-day intensive to a multi-year partnership, each shaped to the leader and the moment — never off the shelf.
A confidential, bespoke engagement for CEOs and C-suite leaders — built around the decisions, relationships, and pressures that come with the top job, and delivered through a proven, structured methodology.
Start hereFor accomplished leaders who carry private doubt behind public composure. Work on executive presence, decisive conviction, and the quiet self-assurance that lets you lead from the front.
Start hereGroup development for leadership teams and boards — turning a room of capable individuals into a team that communicates, trusts, and performs under real pressure.
Start herePractical sessions for senior-leadership audiences on the latest in leadership, communication, and strategy — grounded in real stories from the boardroom, not theory.
Start hereMy story
No formal training. No qualifications. Just a title that arrived years before the confidence to wear it. From boyhood into adulthood I carried a quiet insecurity, and for a long time I masked it behind a false sense of self-assurance.
Behind the composure was nervousness before every presentation, a fear of confronting authority, and a habit of avoiding the hard conversations leadership demands. I succeeded anyway — but the cost was real, and it was invisible to everyone but me.
Coaching changed that. It taught me to challenge my own assumptions and adopt new, powerful ways of thinking and being. I learned that weakness is universal — even among the most accomplished people in the room — and that, guided well, the energy we waste on worry can be pointed at goals that once felt impossible.
Had I found this work earlier, my own journey would have been far less painful. That's exactly why I do it now: so the leaders I coach don't have to learn the slow, lonely way.
Also the author of
Lessons From Unexpected Teachers
The lessons that shape a leader rarely arrive from where you'd expect. In his book, Ken gathers four decades of them — the mentors, missteps, and unlikely teachers — into a practical, human guide to leading with purpose, presence, and humility.
How it works
Eight steps refined over decades — rigorous enough to trust, human enough to actually move you.
A free, candid conversation about your goals, plans, and the challenges in your way.
A clear plan scoped to your situation — what we’ll work on, and how we’ll know it’s working.
Simple, transparent terms agreed up front, so the focus stays on the work.
We map the real picture — strengths, blind spots, and the patterns shaping your leadership.
A bespoke development path built around your role, your people, and your moment.
The core engagement: structured sessions that turn insight into changed behaviour.
Honest measurement against the goals we set — progress made plain.
Three months of post-engagement support, so the gains hold and compound.
Voices
The Sherpa coaching framework gave me leadership development I had not thought possible — it changed how I lead, and how I live.
The coaching experience is unparalleled. It reshaped my perception and the way I think about continuous improvement.
Ken coached with extreme professionalism and rare insight — it led directly to real advancement in my career.
An active, engaging listener who is genuinely invested in your growth — not just your results.
A true business partner. Ken delivers knowledge in a way that actually lands and stays with you.
Tremendous improvement in leadership and personal development — the impact was clear, and it lasted.
Start the conversation
Forty-five minutes to an hour, no charge, no pitch — just an honest look at your goals, your plans, and what's standing in the way.