Grow your business, protect your wellbeing
WELCOME TO PORTALL
At Portall we specialise in coaching business owners, founders and leaders in small and medium sized businesses across the UK and beyond. As an ICF-accredited Business and Personal Coaching practice with 20 years of experience in fast moving start ups and SMEs, we help you grow your business without sacrificing your wellbeing or risking burnout. Our structured, action-focused approach is rooted in psychology based coaching, enabling you to find the solutions that work for you and while being fully supported by us.
Our Approach
Portall is a coaching practice built on psychological insight, practical experience, and a deep respect for the complexity of our lives. We’re passionate about supporting people through personal and professional change whether that’s navigating career transitions, managing leadership challenges, or making sense of what’s no longer working in our personal lives.
Our work stems from evidence based approaches and shaped by each person we work with. It’s reflective, person-centred, and always tailored to the individual or business challenge at hand.
We don’t offer quick fixes or easy answers. Instead, we create a space where clients can explore what’s really going on beneath the surface, and begin to understand the patterns that shape their decisions, relationships, and direction. From there, we build an action plan together: one that supports meaningful, sustainable progress over time.
Common challenges we help overcome
“Why do I keep hitting the same patterns in my working relationships?”
This kind of work often means looking beyond surface behaviours to what’s happening underneath - learned responses, assumptions, past dynamics. We explore these patterns thoughtfully and constructively, so clients can develop new ways of showing up.
“I can’t let go. If I don’t do it myself, it won’t get done to my standards”
Holding on to everything is often what got you to where you are, but it’s also what stops you going further. We help you examine what’s really behind the reluctance to delegate, build genuine trust in your team, and shift from being the person who does everything to the person who makes everything possible.
“There’s no-one I can be completely honest with about what’s really going on”
Boards, investors, teams, partners - everyone has a stake in what you say. Being the leader of a business can be lonely and isolating, so coaching can be the conversation that you can’t have with any of them. Confidential, direct, and entirely in your corner.
“I’m taking on a new leadership role and want to hit the ground running”
The first 90 days set the tone for everything that follows. We work with new and evolving leaders to think clearly about their priorities, their approach, and the kind of leader they want to be, so they can make an immediate impact without burning through goodwill.
“I’m always working in the business. I never get time to work on the business”
This is one of the most common, and most commercially costly, positions a business owner can be in. We help you step back, identify what only you can do, and create the space to think strategically again in a way that plays to your strengths. Not as a one-off exercise, but as a permanent shift in how you operate.
“I need to make a big decision but can’t seem to move forward.”
We don’t tell clients what to do, but we do help them get clear on what matters, untangle competing priorities, and test different options in a structured, reflective way. We’ll use a combination of visualisation exercises and critical thinking to support your decision making.