Hugh Loxley.
A former McKinsey partner, twenty years in independent practice, currently working with around twenty senior leaders at a time.
Hugh trained as an economist at Cambridge in the late 1980s and joined McKinsey's London office in 1991. Across nineteen years there he led engagements in financial services, energy and the FTSE-100 board-effectiveness practice. He made partner in 2002 and ran the European board-effectiveness work between 2006 and 2010.
He left in 2010 and has worked independently ever since. The practice is deliberately small: around twenty active clients at any given time, all senior leaders, almost all referred by people he has worked with. He has never advertised. This website is the first thing he has put out under his own name.
His arcs are usually six or twelve sessions, fortnightly, by video or in person at a private members' club in central London. Sessions are sixty minutes, with a standing thirty-minute extension if either of us thinks the conversation needs more time.
Who he works with
Senior leaders, mostly in their late forties to early sixties. CEOs, CFOs, chief people officers, fund partners, and a steady minority of senior public-sector and clinical leaders. He has a particular interest in working with people taking on a role that is genuinely larger than the one before, and with people considering when and how to leave a role they have outgrown.
Who he does not work with
He does not do team coaching. He does not do board observation work. He does not take on more than one client from the same organisation at the same time. He does not work with people seeking therapy: he is not a clinician, and the most useful thing he can do for someone in distress is help them find one.
Confidentiality
Everything in the room stays in the room, with one professional limit: if Hugh believes someone is at immediate serious risk he may need to act on that. This is the standard professional position and we will discuss it in the first session if it is relevant.
Fees
The initial conversation is sixty minutes and there is no fee. After that, individual sessions are £400 (sixty minutes) or £600 (ninety minutes). Longer arcs are quoted as a package; six sessions is roughly £2,200, twelve sessions roughly £4,200. There is no surcharge for in-person sessions but room hire is at cost.