If you’re feeling drained, chaotic, often exhausted and completely unclear on what you might do differently – let’s talk.

You may be an entrepreneur whose growing business is evidence of your ambition or you’re an executive whose recent promotion is evidence of your performance, either way, leading a team wasn’t part of the plan – all the pushing, juggling, and figuring it out is taking its toll. All too often, we’re encouraged to accept that this is “just how it is.” Sometimes it isn’t the workload or your team making it all so tough – it’s the absence of effective strategies and proper support systems that leave you drained and your team disengaged.

When you’re ready to create a way of leading that feels authentic, intentional and sustainable – we can provide the tools, strategies, and support to build resilience, craft your own leadership style, and cultivate an autonomous and adaptive team.

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Every great partnership starts with a conversation – whether you’re refining your role as a leader, understanding how to best support your team or managing your own experience of stress or burnout – this is your opportunity to explore how, together, you might create lasting change.

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I’m Ashleigh Hayden, an ICF accredited Coach specialising in supporting leaders and teams navigate the complexities of personal development, leadership development and change management.

ICF ACCREDITED | LEADERSHIP & TEAM DEVELOPMENT | STRESS MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

I work with ambitious entrepreneurs and executives whose determination and success have, perhaps unintentionally, placed them in the demanding role of people and process leader. My clients are talented individuals who recognise that leading through growth and change requires more than just “winging it.”

Here’s how I can help you:

  • Build resilience by identifying small, actionable steps you can take to manage stress, prevent burnout, and create a sustainable foundation for long-term success.
  • Align your leadership with your values by uncovering what matters most to you, set clear priorities, and create an authentic leadership style that inspires trust and loyalty.
  • Cultivate adaptive and autonomous teams by promoting open communication and creating the conditions that enable your team to think creatively and take ownership of their roles.

With nearly two decades of experience in financial services and self-employment, I’ve worked in demanding and high-pressured environments and I understand the nuanced tension of juggling competing priorities, the critical need for strategic approaches and the challenge of balancing wellbeing with profitability.

Blending behavioural coaching, neuroscience and ACT means I can help you create meaningful and sustainable change providing you with evidence-based, practical tools and strategies, whether you’re preventing burnout or recovering, refining your leadership style or helping your team adapt to uncertainty.

Your thriving business is testament to your determination and grit – when you’re ready to move beyond the perpetual pushing, juggling and making it work, I can help, because you don’t need to keep running on empty.

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hexagon gold

RESILIENT AND ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP IN VUCA ENVIRONMENTS

Founded in 2022, Hexagon Gold is built on the belief that the most profound and sustainable change begins from within and that even the smallest, intentional actions can lead to transformative outcomes. Our name was inspired by Dr. King’s “bee fences” in Kenya – a seemingly simple innovation that uses honeybees to protect subsistance crops from migratory elephants, enabling communities to coexist peacefully elephants. Instead of relying on traditional, divisive solutions, like fences and conflict, these communities utilised a natural, collaborative and cooperative approach that facilitates safety and creates self-sustaining opportunity.

Similarly, coaching isn’t about old ideas, hard lines or controlled outcomes – it’s about creating the conditions for clarity, innovation and growth. Just as the bee fences enable communities to protect their resources and improve their lives, coaching enables leaders to build resilience, align their leadership with their values, and cultivate adaptive, autonomous teams. In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) working environments, resilient and adaptive leadership an absolute necessity. Leaders face constant change and challenge that demands decisive, innovative thinking, and teams equipped to actively respond and evolve in the moment. Coaching equips leaders with mindset and practical tools and strategies to tackle uncertainty and complexity with confidence.

Here’s how our philosophy enables resilient and adaptive leadership in VUCA settings:

  • Resilience: Your capacity to respond to change and challenge, as a leader, means managing your experience of stress through uncertainty in small consistent actions that that build emotional strength ensuring your team feels secure and confident in your leadership. Coaching helps leaders refine and develop the specific actions that serve them creating resilience in high-pressure environments.
  • Collaboration Over Conflict: The bee fences enabled harmony between communities and elephants – coaching enables harmony within teams. Instead of leading through control or fear, coaching enables leaders to build trust, develop open communication strategies, and promote adaptive behaviours within their teams – ensuring the leader and the team respond to change and challenge with ease.
  • Enabling Others: The bees have become a source of income for the communities they were built to protect. Similarly, leadership is more than managing people and processes, true leaders enable their teams to think independently, solve problems creatively, and take ownership of their roles and responsibilities. Coaching provides the tools to cultivate this kind of autonomy, ensuring teams are self-sufficient and equipped to evolve in the moment.
  • Strategic Alignment: The success of the bee fences is in their simplicity and their alignment with the community’s goals. In the same way, coaching helps leaders clarify their vision, align their actions with their values, and lead with confidence in ways that feel authentic and sustainable.

At Hexagon Gold, we use evidence-based methodologies—including neuroscience and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)—to help leaders and teams:

  • Build resilience and prevent burnout even in extremely demanding environments.
  • Lead with clarity, confidence, and alignment to your values.
  • Enable adaptive, high-performing teams that respond to change and challenge with ease.
COACHING PROVIDES SEEMINGLY SIMPLE SOLUTIONS THAT RIPPLE OUTWARD, FACILITATING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AND CREATING OPPORTUNITY IN VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX AND AMBIGUOUS WORK ENVIRONMENTS.
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our philosophy

Our philosophy is grounded in three elements that embody our values, principles, and guide every tool, strategy and partnership we offer:

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Known as the “tree of life,” baobabs thrive in the harshest conditions, providing food and shade because they are well-resourced, storing water in their massive trunks. Similarly, as a well-resourced leader, your ability to create stability in uncertain times depends on how well you care for yourself, the support you have, how well you manage your emotions, and the limits you set to protect and preserve your energy.

a six sided shape

A hexagon is viewed as a natural symbol of harmony, balance and interconnectedness representing the perfect balance between structure and flexibility. Great leaders facilitate environments where structure provides clear goals, processes, and expectations while flexibility encouarges innovation and growth enabling a culture of stability and mutual trust.

honey bees

Within a hive, every bee has clarity on their roles and responsibilties, they understand how they contribute to the shared goals of the hive and rely on consistent information sharing to stay aligned and responsive – the perfect example of an adaptive team. When challenged or faced with change, an adaptive team, clear in their roles and consistent in their communication can quickly regroup, pivot and deliver wihtout losing momentum.

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“The sessions we had have been incredibly useful, digging deep and exploring my motivations and barriers. I felt totally supported and understood, having space held to find my own answers and guidance if I wanted it. I feel like I now have a much clearer understanding of what I need for, and from, my business.”

NATALIE TREMBECKI | COPYWRITER

Hexagon Coaching Partnership: 6 months