1-1 leadership coaching
The step from doing the work to leading the people is the hardest one in any career, and the least supported. Ploomo’s coaching is the deep work behind it: a structured program of one-to-one sessions, senior, personal, and built around the real situations your leaders are facing right now.
The pivot
You take your strongest individual performer, make them a manager, and leave them to figure out the rest. Most do, slowly, at the cost of a few good people and a lot of stress along the way.
The skills that made someone great at the job are not the skills that make them great at leading it. The two are barely related, and almost no one is taught the difference. Middle managers are often the most under-invested layer of leadership in a business, and the most critical to its momentum.
Every career hits this point. What gets built next decides which line they follow, and coaching is how you build it deliberately.
How it works
Not a course, a webinar, or a slide deck. A structured program of one-to-one coaching with senior people who have built and run teams, focused on the decisions your leaders are facing this week.
Eight 45-minute sessions, fortnightly across three to four months, with a dedicated senior coach. Two of them are with founder Josh del Rio.
Real situations don’t wait for the next session. On-demand 20-minute calls for guidance while something is actually happening.
A dedicated Slack or Teams channel for quick questions, context, and check-ins with their coach.
Tools, prompts and guided reflection between sessions, chosen for the situations they’re working through, so new habits hold.
Growth themes can be shaped with you or your HR lead at the start, so the coaching pulls in the direction the business needs.
What changes
They stop avoiding the difficult ones, and have them with strength and care.
They raise the bar and hold people to it, without losing the team’s trust.
They manage relationships up, across, and down, instead of only managing down.
Better leaders make better hires and keep better people. The work compounds long after the program ends.
Who it’s for
At the centre of execution: leading a team for the first time while answering to the stakeholders above them. The early habits set the tone for years.
Carrying a lot, with few people they can think out loud with honestly.
Good at the job already, and wanting to get sharper rather than coast on it.
Who’s behind it
Josh del Rio became Deputy CEO of a $1bn hedge fund at 29 and has been in boardrooms since he was 26. He has spent his career building businesses by getting the best out of people and teams, and has coached hundreds of leaders and founders on leading under pressure.
And it isn’t a solo act. He leads a team of senior coaches who deliver every program together: a dedicated coach for each leader, support between sessions whenever something is live, and Josh in every program directly. The result is one standard of coaching, not one person’s capacity.
Working with Josh del Rio has been transformative for my leadership journey. His mentorship and guidance helped me develop the skills needed to create a great culture and a better working environment for my team.
I have known Josh for almost 20 years and over many roles. His focus in people and innovation has always set him apart from others. I can highly recommend Josh and his team.
During our one-on-one discussions, he pushed me to think more critically and at different levels and leveraged Ploomo to gain a deeper understanding of my team dynamics. Josh proved to be a great mentor who brought out the best in me.
Josh brings a unique blend of strategic thinking and creative problem-solving to his own teams, colleagues and other organisations via Ploomo. He is genuinely invested in helping others recognise and leverage their own potential.
Coaching is the deep work. Hiring gets the right people in the door in the first place. See how hiring works.
Start here
Pick a live role, or one you’ve been trying to fill. In 30 minutes we’ll show you how we’d approach it and what you’d see at each stage. If it’s not a fit, we’ll say so.
For anything else, reach us at contact@ploomo.io