Gail Logan - Leadership Coach - Kore Transformation

Gail Logan - Leadership Coach - Kore Transformation Helping results-driven women lead with confidence, show up with impact, and become authentically vis In reality, it’s sucking the life out of you….

Helping results-driven women lead with impact and confidence. Leading in today’s fast-paced and constantly changing world is challenging. Job expectations these days not only mean delivering results but also engaging, inspiring and motivating team members – it’s exhausting, isn’t it? Add to that worries about not being good enough, lacking in confidence to step forward for new career progressing r

oles and anxiety about speaking up in important meetings...

On paper the job is great. Well, I can help you change that…

Working with me will help you to:

⚡️ Release the grip of self-doubt and overwhelm and build your self-confidence to lead authentically, in a way that is right for you;

⚡️ Unleash your powerful strengths so that you can really focus on who YOU are, helping you to lead effectively and deliver exceptional results through your people;

⚡️ Take the first steps to become the incredible leader that, deep inside, you know you are born to be. Together we will identify actions that create forward movement and open up different perspectives to explore new possibilities. Ideal for managers, senior managers and directors who:
- lack confidence & want to have more impact
- are 'stuck' and need help to move forward
- are unclear what do do next
- are at a crossroads and want to choose the right path
- need to decide their next career move
- are struggling with stress & anxiety
- are unable to find the work-life balance they want


Over 20 years of leading high performing teams, many of which spent in High Tech, has given Gail Logan significant insight into people, relationships, personal growth, team dynamics and the positive impact that having access to the right coach can have on that. She is passionate about helping people to identify what they truly want, to get clarity and to lead their lives in balance with their values. She is also convinced that having access to the right coaching allows individuals to identify their strengths, understand what it means to be fulfilled and to move forward with confidence. Working in the UK and globally.

23/06/2026

If you think you don’t have executive presence, read this.

I used to think executive presence was something other women were born with.

The polished ones.
The calm ones.
The women who somehow spoke in meetings without mentally rehearsing every sentence like they were defusing a bomb.

You know the type.

Danielle’s over there speaking like she personally drafted the leadership strategy while you’re silently wondering whether saying “I disagree” will get you escorted out of the building by Security and Karen from HR.

Meanwhile you’re highly experienced.
Respected.
Holding half the organisation together with caffeine, competence, and pure emotional restraint.

But because your voice shakes sometimes…
Or you overthink afterwards…
Or you don’t sound like the loudest person in the room…

You assume you “don’t have executive presence.”

I thought that too.

Years ago, when I worked at Adobe, I went to a breakfast event with Nora Denzel.

Board member.
Incredible career.
The kind of CV that makes LinkedIn want to light candles around it.

And do you know what stayed with me?

Not her credentials.

It was the fact she openly spoke about the voices in her head that showed up before big moments. The doubt. The questioning. The anxiety.

That changed something for me.

Because the women we think are naturally confident are usually just women who learned how to keep moving while discomfort sat in the passenger seat.

That’s it.

Confidence is a lagging emotion.

Executive presence is not:

never feeling nervous
never doubting yourself
becoming a different personality
sounding like a corporate podcast host called Simon

It’s learning how to:

trust your experience before you feel ready
stop apologising for taking up space
speak clearly instead of perfectly
stay in the room mentally when discomfort shows up

That’s what makes it easier.

Not “fixing” yourself.
Not becoming more polished.
Not performing confidence like you’re auditioning for Succession.

Most women don’t need more leadership training.

They need someone to finally show them that the version of leadership they’ve been trying to imitate was never the goal in the first place.

You are not broken.

You’re just exhausted from thinking confidence has to come first.

I'm going to show you how to make this easy in my Executive Presence Masterclass. It's free to register via the link in the comments.

22/06/2026

You cannot lead other people well while abandoning yourself in the process.

And yet this is exactly what so many senior women do every single day.

You read the room before you speak.
You soften your opinion before you share it.
You spend more time managing everyone else’s comfort than asking yourself what you actually think.

That’s not leadership.
That’s survival.

I firmly believe you have to learn how to lead yourself before you can truly lead anyone else.

Not in the polished, corporate-development-plan kind of way.

I mean real self-leadership.

Knowing what matters to you so clearly that you stop shape-shifting depending on who’s in the meeting.

Because the truth is, most women I work with are not lacking capability.

They’re exhausted from the constant internal negotiation.

“How do I say this without sounding difficult?”
“Should I just let it go?”
“Maybe I’m overreacting.”
“Maybe this is just how leadership works.”

Meanwhile your nervous system is running a full marathon before 9am while you calmly nod through conversations that don’t sit right with you.

This is where self-awareness matters.

Not as a buzzword.
As a survival skill.

You need to understand:

What drains you
What drives you
What values you keep compromising to stay liked
What strengths you keep dismissing because they come naturally to you
What kind of leader you actually want to be when nobody’s performing for approval

Because fitting in comes at a cost.

You can spend years adapting yourself to the culture while slowly disconnecting from who you are in the process.

Saying yes when you mean no.
Holding back ideas you know are good.
Performing confidence externally while privately wondering if everyone else got handed a leadership handbook you somehow missed.

That disconnect is exhausting.

And honestly? I think this sits underneath so much of what gets labelled “imposter syndrome.”

Not because you’re incapable.

Because deep down you know you’re not leading as yourself anymore.

You’re leading as the version that feels safest. Most acceptable. Least risky.

That’s why clarity matters so much.

Not fluffy purpose statements framed on office walls.
Real clarity.

What matters to you?
What are you no longer willing to tolerate?
What impact do you actually want to have?
What kind of life are you building alongside the career?

Because purpose isn’t something you magically “find.”

It’s something you uncover when you stop drowning out your own voice trying to fit everyone else’s expectations.

And no - this isn’t easy.

But real leadership asks more of you than a job title and a polished LinkedIn profile.

It asks you to know yourself well enough to stay connected to who you are - even in rooms where it would be easier not to.

That’s the work.

I've got a masterclass coming up on Executive Presence, if this resonates then I'd love you to join me. Link in the comments.

21/06/2026

If you want to lead with confidence, there’s one thing you need to stop doing immediately.

Waiting to feel confident first.

That’s the trap.

Women in senior leadership roles spend years believing confidence arrives before the action - like some kind of internal Microsoft update that suddenly installs overnight while you sleep.

It doesn’t.

Confidence is a lagging emotion.
It follows action. Not the other way around.

What actually changes things is what I call conscious action.

Not performative action.
Not panic-driven overworking.
Not saying yes to seventeen things while quietly fantasising about launching your laptop into the sea.

Conscious action.

The kind rooted in who you actually are - not who you think you need to become to deserve a seat at the table.

It’s making decisions from your values instead of your fear.

It’s knowing what matters to you so clearly that you stop twisting yourself into whatever version feels most acceptable in the room that day.

It’s leading from your strengths instead of obsessing over your “development areas” like you’re a broken appliance waiting for repair.

I’ll never shut up about this.

Because the women I work with don’t need fixing.
They need to stop overlooking the things they’re already exceptional at.

Conscious action is also about purpose.

Not the fluffy LinkedIn version where everyone says they’re “passionate about people” while dead behind the eyes in a quarterly strategy meeting.

I mean real purpose.

The thing that makes you speak up even when your voice shakes.
The thing that makes you keep going after a setback instead of disappearing into self-doubt and over-preparing for the next six months.

Because leadership is uncomfortable.

Running is uncomfortable too.
Your legs burn. Your lungs complain. Your brain starts negotiating with you after about three minutes.

But you don’t become stronger by waiting for the run to feel easy.

You become stronger by training your nervous system to keep moving anyway.

Same in leadership.

The women who grow aren’t the ones who feel fearless.
They’re the ones who stop letting fear make every decision.

And yes - sometimes conscious action looks incredibly unglamorous.

Having the difficult conversation.
Setting the boundary.
Putting yourself forward before you feel fully ready.
Speaking in the meeting instead of rehearsing your sentence silently while Darren repeats your idea three minutes later and gets credited for it.

That’s leadership.

Not perfection.
Not confidence theatre.
Not becoming louder, harder, or more polished.

Just becoming more honest about who you are, what matters to you, and how you want to lead.

That’s where real confidence comes from.

And if you’re tired of constantly second-guessing yourself in rooms you’ve already earned the right to be in, this is exactly the work I do.

Not fixing you.

Helping you trust yourself enough to lead like you mean it.

If this resonates come and join my Executive Presence Masterclass - see link in the comments, free to join.

20/06/2026

No-one is coming to save you.

Not your boss.
Not HR.
Not the leadership programme with the laminated workbook and the phrase “lean into your authentic power” printed on page 3.

I heard someone say this recently and it hit harder than I expected.

Because underneath all the overthinking, the second-guessing, the “maybe next quarter” conversations we have with ourselves…

Most senior women already know what needs to happen.

You know the conversation you’re avoiding.
You know the boundary you should’ve set three months ago.
You know the meeting where you stayed quiet even though you had the clearest thinking in the room.

And still - you wait.

For certainty.
For confidence.
For someone to tap you on the shoulder and say, “Right. Your turn now.”

But confidence is a lagging emotion.

It shows up after the action. Not before it.

I said this to a client recently knowing full well she might hate hearing it.

But the truth was still the truth.

Nobody was coming to hand her the career she wanted while she kept shrinking herself in rooms she’d already earned the right to be in.

That’s the bit nobody tells you.

You can be wildly capable and still spend years waiting for permission.
You can run a department, lead a team, hold everything together - and still rehearse one sentence in your head seventeen times before speaking.

Like you’re watching Danielle present with the confidence of a woman who personally invented leadership while you’re sat there wondering if your point is “good enough” to say out loud.

Exhausting.

And look - organisations absolutely need to change.
A lot of leadership cultures still reward noise over substance and confidence theatre over actual capability.

But if you keep waiting for the system to magically evolve before you back yourself properly, your career will be over by the time it catches up.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stop looking outside yourself for an answer you already know.

Have the conversation.
Say the thing.
Apply for the role.
Ask for the visibility.
Stop pretending you need one more course, one more qualification, one more gold star before you’re allowed to take up space.

No-one is coming to save you.

But that’s not bad news.

Because it means the power was never somewhere else in the first place.

And if executive presence is the thing holding you back right now - not your capability, not your experience, but the way you communicate yourself in the room - that’s exactly what I’m helping women change inside my Exec Pres masterclass.

See the link in the comments.

Not by turning you into the loudest person in the meeting.

But by helping you stop disappearing in rooms you already belong in.

And for the record…

There’s no Santa Claus either.

19/06/2026

What if you’re not lacking confidence - just exhausted from always being bulletproof?

You hold it all together.
You prep twice as much.
You notice the details no one else does.
You anticipate everyone’s reactions.

No wonder you’re tired.

A lot of high-performing women think they have a confidence issue.
But what they actually have is a chronic case of never feeling safe to drop the ball.

This isn’t about learning how to be more confident.
It’s about learning how to recognise the things you already do brilliantly - and giving yourself credit for them.

Confidence starts with evidence.
Let this be your first piece.

Take the Executive Presence Indicator and find out where you're already stronger than you think. Link in the comments.

19/06/2026

You’re good at your job.
That’s part of the problem.

If you’re a senior woman in leadership and you’ve been in your role for at least 6 months, tell me how many of these feel painfully familiar:

You’re the person people trust to sort things out when everything’s on fire
You keep being handed more projects because “you always deliver”
Your feedback is glowing, but your nervous system feels like it’s running a marathon in wet concrete
You’re leading a team while simultaneously managing everyone else’s emotions like an unpaid side hustle
You look calm in meetings while internally rewriting the sentence you just said 14 times
You know exactly how your performance is measured, but no one measures the mental load of carrying the room
You’re respected, capable, experienced… and still wondering why leadership feels this heavy

This is the bit nobody talks about.

High-performing women often become so good at coping that nobody notices the cost.

You become the reliable one.
The composed one.
The one holding everything together while quietly disappearing from your own life.

And because you’re competent, everyone assumes you’re confident.

They are not the same thing.

Confidence is a lagging emotion.
It comes after the hard conversation. After the boundary. After speaking before you feel fully ready.

Executive presence isn’t about becoming louder, more polished, or pretending to be someone called Danielle who speaks in leadership buzzwords and somehow “circles back” with a straight face.

It’s about learning how to stop shrinking your intelligence in rooms you already belong in.

Calmly. Clearly. Without performing.

That’s exactly what we work through on my Executive Presence Call.

Not fluffy “personal brand” nonsense.
Not learning to sound more corporate.

Real leadership presence.
The kind that changes how you speak, lead, decide, and show up - without exhausting yourself trying to prove you deserve the seat.

If this hit a nerve, the link’s in the comments.

18/06/2026

I’ll never shut up about this:

You are not broken.

But somewhere along the line, a lot of brilliant women in leadership roles started believing they were.

Usually after years of performance reviews that spend 30 seconds acknowledging what they do brilliantly… before diving headfirst into the one thing they “need to work on.”

And if you’re already a high-achiever with people-pleasing tendencies?

You don’t hear:
“You’re exceptional at leading under pressure.”

You hear:
“You interrupted twice in that meeting in March.”

Then suddenly you’re replaying every conversation like it’s CCTV footage in a crime documentary.

I know this because I’ve done it too.

I’m intuitive, thoughtful, emotionally aware, deeply observant. Brilliant qualities in coaching and leadership.

Less brilliant when your brain decides one tiny piece of feedback means you’re secretly failing at life.

The thing is - most women I work with do not need more development.

They need to stop obsessing over fixing themselves and start understanding their strengths properly.

Because confidence is a lagging emotion.

You do not build confidence by picking yourself apart in the hope you’ll eventually become “good enough.”

You build it by recognising the value you already bring, owning it clearly, and learning how to communicate it without apologising for taking up space.

And this is why I hate leadership cultures obsessed with “fixing gaps.”

A fish does not become more successful by attending six workshops on tree climbing.

Yet somehow brilliant women are out here trying to become less thoughtful, less sensitive, less direct, less ambitious, less themselves - in the name of “executive presence.”

Absolute nonsense.

Your strengths are not inconvenient little side notes before the “real” development conversation starts.

They are the whole point.

Yes, there are skills to build.
Yes, there are behaviours to refine.

But constantly focusing on what’s “wrong” with you while ignoring what already makes you exceptional is like owning a racehorse and obsessing because it can’t reverse park.

Executive presence is not about becoming a completely different person.

It’s about understanding your strengths so clearly that you stop shrinking them in rooms that were never designed to make women feel naturally confident in the first place.

I'll be sharing more thoughts on this in my executive presence masterclass.

Not fixing you.
Helping you see yourself properly.

We look at:

How you’re showing up
Where self-doubt is quietly undermining your impact
The strengths you’re massively underestimating
What executive presence actually looks like when you stop performing and start leading like yourself

Because you do not need to become louder, tougher, or more polished.

You need to stop believing the lie that you’re not enough already.

If this hit a nerve, send me a message with the word PRESENCE and I’ll send you the details or register via the link in the comments.

No fixing required.

17/06/2026

When I worked in corporate, it often felt like I was supposed to have swallowed a dictionary before I opened my mouth.

Everyone else seemed fluent in elaborate jargon and over-complicated ways of saying simple things.

Me? I’d sit there reading the same sentence 10 times, wondering if I was stupid because I couldn’t untangle what they actually meant.

It drove me mad.

We say we care about inclusivity, but what’s inclusive about making people feel small and confused? What’s inclusive about hiding behind language that only a few people understand?

Here’s the truth: plain speaking is powerful.

Clarity is inclusive.

Simplicity makes people feel smart, not stupid.

And let’s be honest - most of the time, the jargon is just noise anyway.

That’s why my Executive Presence Masterclass is deliberately different.

No synergies. No paradigms. No “low-hanging fruit.”

Just real conversations about how you stop second-guessing yourself and start showing up with 'gravitas' - whatever that means .....

Link in comments.

16/06/2026

I used to think the hardest part of leadership was 'doing it right'.
Turns out, it’s saying it out loud - especially when the stakes are high, and the politics are thicker than the strategy deck.

You know the drill - you’ve spent three days drafting an email.
Not because it’s complex.
Because it’s political.

A restructure’s being pushed through that looks neat on paper - but you already know exactly where it’s going to break:

Tim in Ops, already drowning in escalations.

CSAT scores, still fragile from last month’s dodgy release.

Suzy, who’ll end up managing Customer Success and the office move and morale.

You, left holding the fallout.

You want to speak up.
But the second-guessing kicks in:

Will I sound difficult? Am I undermining someone? Is it even worth it?

You rewrite the message.
You rehearse imaginary backlash.
You ask your partner, who says “just be honest” - which is about as helpful as a chocolate fireguard.

And all the while, you’re thinking:

Why is this still so hard, when I’m meant to be good at this by now?

You need a safe space to say it messy - before you say it clean, where it counts.

That’s exactly what happens inside The Inner Circle.

You get a consistent, confidential space.

You bring the knotty, political, high-stakes stuff.
I help you name what’s really going on, clarify your thinking, and work out your next move.

And you’re not doing it alone.

You’re surrounded by smart, experienced women who are leading through the same complexity you are - who ask sharp questions, spot patterns, and offer the truth you won’t get from your peers or your partner.

It’s part sounding board, part strategy room, part sanctuary.
With people who won’t let you shrink, spin, or dilute yourself.

You leave every conversation knowing what you’re going to say, why it matters, and how you’ll hold your ground.

That’s what shifts things. Not generic advice. Not mindset work.

DM me or check out the link in the comments for more details.

15/06/2026

I still remember the moment my MD told me I needed to work on my executive presence.

It was like a kick in the gut, because when you're already lacking confidence, and struggling with executive presence, the last thing you want is for someone to point it out to you.

I was lucky to be offered the opportunity to work with a coach and that changed everything for me.

But often, senior women are told they need to work on the Executive Presence without any guidance or support on how to do that.

I've created a quick Executive Presence Indicator that gives you practical insights and recommendations that will help you right now without having to be someone you're not.

It only takes about two minutes.

I'll put the link in the comments.

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