# Piers Cross - Coaching & Therapies

Piers Cross is a leadership coaching and therapy practice based in Hebden Bridge, specialising in emotionally intelligent, trauma-informed coaching for high-achieving leaders. The business serves founders, CEOs, and senior professionals—particularly those shaped by boarding school or challenging early environments—who seek to lead with greater clarity, integrity, and humanity.

What sets Piers Cross apart is the intersection of executive coaching with deep therapeutic understanding. Rather than focusing purely on leadership techniques, the practice helps leaders understand how early experiences—boarding school, high expectations, emotionally demanding environments—have created patterns that unconsciously drive their leadership today. This isn't retrospective analysis for its own sake; instead, it's about gaining freedom from those patterns to lead with authentic presence and emotional coherence.

Piers Cross recognises a specific client profile: capable, conscientious leaders who appear calm externally whilst carrying substantial emotional responsibility beneath the surface. These individuals often built self-reliance early as a survival mechanism, and the coaching helps them transition from this defensive posture to grounded, heart-centred leadership.

The practice extends beyond individual coaching into group pathways, documentary production, speaking, and advocacy work. Piers Cross produces *Boarding on Insanity*, a documentary exploring boarding school's long-term psychological impact on children, relationships, and organisational culture, featuring contributions from figures like Dr Gabor Maté.

The work emphasises that leadership maturity requires learning to relate differently to one's inner world—emotions, nervous system responses, and ingrained patterns—enabling sustainable, authentic leadership transformation.