Who We Are

Our Mission & Values

Our mission is to deliver superb group peak performance coaching — with genuine empathy — to help our clients regain a sense of clarity, energy, love, and focus.

Love, you say? Yes, love. According to renowned leadership researchers Kouzes & Posner:

“Of all the things that sustain a leader over time, love is the most lasting.”

Over the past 19 years, we’ve supported clients aged 25–60 who hold leadership roles — whether as entrepreneurs, CEOs, or directors. Many come to us during a period of personal or professional struggle:
depression, anxiety, burnout, relationship issues, trauma, or addiction.

Our mission is to support the healing of these wounds by offering a powerful 12-week group coaching programme — a safe, structured space that nurtures vulnerability, accountability, and the creation of a compelling future.

I co-facilitate this work with Chris Braitch. Our coaching is deeply informed by our own lived experiences — growing up in challenging home environments, attending boarding school, navigating loss and bereavement, and experiencing breakdowns (and breakthroughs) while working in high-pressure sectors. I (Piers) spent years in the financial industry in London and Paris; Chris worked as a managing director and consultant.

Together, we bring a unique blend of:

  • Business and commercial acumen

  • Trauma-informed coaching

  • Life experience

  • Deep empathy

Our approach is not just about performance — it’s about real transformation.

Piers Cross – Founder and coach

Piers Cross is a transformational and leadership coach, founder of Compassionate Leaders Global, who helps leaders — corporate, community, and personal — to perform with clarity, live with integrity, and lead with purpose. He works with people who are craving more than just results: those who want deeper meaning, sustainable impact, and a compassionate presence in every area of life — work, relationships, community.

Piers brings a powerful mix of lived experience, attending one of the top business schools in Europe, working for several Fortune 500 companies in London and Paris, psychology, coaching and holistic healing into his leadership work.

Having endured personal trauma, burnout, and a journey that includes being a novice Buddhist monk for a number of years, he understands what it means to be hurt, stuck, and yet capable of profound change.

Compassion changed his life. The empathy and understanding the monks showed him allowed him to find that quality within himself. From the brink of addictions, self-harming and suicide attempts this helped to begin the path of transformation.

Over many years he has immersed himself in inner work — from Jungian analysis to practices such as NLP, EFT, hypnotherapy, shamanism, Qigong, tantra, and metaphysics — gaining tools not only for healing, but for cultivating resilience, purpose, and clarity.

He is the author of How To Survive & Thrive in Challenging Times and one of the producers of the documentary, Boarding on Insanity. He is also the host of a leading podcast called, An Evolving Man.

At Compassionate Leaders Global, Piers leads The Compassionate Leader Pathway, a 12-week programme designed for leaders who want to thrive rather than just survive. The course blends:

  • weekly one-to-one coaching

  • peer-group support and accountability

  • video-based learning modules covering emotional intelligence, inner work, relationships, purpose, and legacy

  • ongoing community support beyond the core programme

Piers’ mission is to support people to reconnect with their core purpose, to lead from integrity, to sustain high performance without sacrificing wellbeing, and to be sources of compassionate leadership even under pressure.

He is also a keen runner, artist, poet, musician, gardener and nature lover, and devotes himself to giving back through community work. He lives in West Yorkshire.

Chris Braitch – Coach

Chris comes from a business background working in sales, marketing, management and consulting for 20+ years in the food industry within blue-chip multinationals, as well as UK-based SME’s. Having gone as far as he could go in that world, and following an emotional breakdown and breakthrough in 2021, he has changed his life, retrained, and is now a 1-2-1 and organisational coach specialising in emotional health and peak performance, as well as co-founding not for profit Seen & Heard.

Chris is passionate about emotional healing work, psychology, self development and supporting others. Drawing personal experience from a 23-year mental health journey on the client-side that started at University counselling services in 2020 with anxiety and a drink problem. This journey took him through 10+ counsellors and psychotherapists over 20 years, to finally finding the right trauma and boarding school informed coach, men’s work, healing retreats and the use of Emotional Freedom Technique, that have changed his life. He is now committed to supporting others to heal and unlock their true potential.

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