About Priya
Priya Khan
Private transition coaching for experienced women at a significant crossroads in work or life.
Most of the women I work with arrive at the same point. Capable, senior, respected, and privately turning over a decision they have not said out loud yet. Stay or go. Step up or step sideways. Keep building the thing they built, or build something else with the years they have left.
They are not in crisis. That is exactly what makes it hard to talk about. From the outside the life looks right, and the cost of getting the next decision wrong feels high.
My work is to give that decision somewhere serious to be thought about. Private, unhurried, outside the reach of colleagues, family and friends who all have a stake in the answer.
What I bring to it
Lived experience, then the training
I spent years in the corporate world before I trained as a coach. I am a mother of two sons. I am UK-born British South Asian, turning fifty, and going through perimenopause.
So I know the particular weight of being the dependable one, and I know how long a woman can carry a question about her own life before she gives herself permission to examine it.
That is the part you cannot train for. Everything after it, I did train for.
What you are actually hiring
Judgement. Knowing which question matters, when to stay quiet, and when to say the thing you have been circling for an hour. A great deal of coaching is atmosphere. This is closer to thinking work done properly, with someone who has sat in this conversation many times and will not flinch at your version of it.
You should leave each session clearer about what is true, what is yours, and what you are going to do about it.
How I work
- The Energy Leadership Index. A research-backed attitudinal assessment, available only through iPEC-certified coaches. It shows how you show up day to day and how that shifts under pressure.
- COR.E Transitions Dynamics. A specialist framework for periods when the ground moves: career, identity, family, health.
- Values excavation and discernment. Separating what you chose from what you absorbed, and getting head, heart and gut to agree before a decision is made.
- Mindfulness. Used to improve the quality of the decision. A settled mind notices more, reacts less, and can tell fear from genuine reluctance.
Structured over six months, this becomes The Reclamation Programme: twelve private fortnightly sessions through five phases, Recognise, Release, Reclaim, Redesign and Rise.
Coaching is not therapy or medical treatment. If something you bring needs clinical support, I will say so and point you towards the right help.
Credentials
Training and accreditation
- ICF ACC accredited coach
- iPEC Certified Professional Coach
- Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner
- COR.E Transitions Dynamics Specialist
- British Mindfulness Institute certified
- Trained to teach .b, the Mindfulness in Schools Project
- Connected Kids certified
Cultural fluency
A good number of the women I work with are British South Asian, navigating duty, family expectation and belonging alongside everything else midlife asks. That understanding is part of the room rather than an add-on, and it never becomes the whole explanation for a woman’s life. There is more about that work here.
Where I work
Online with women across the UK and internationally, and in person in South London.
Start here
A conversation, before anything else
A complimentary call. Private, unhurried, and with nothing to decide at the end of it.