The founders
Marie Willis and Peter Willis co-founded Lequin in 2003. Twenty three years on, they're still the named partners who scope the work, sit in the room, and stay involved until the behaviour changes.
Why Lequin exists
Lequin was founded in 2003. That year, executive coaching was still a relatively unknown industry in the UK. There were only a handful of coaching firms operating at senior level. Marie and Peter were already working with senior leaders inside large private sector organisations, and the gap they kept seeing was the same: leadership development that worked beautifully in the workshop room and disappeared the moment people went back to the business.
So they started Lequin to do the opposite. Senior, specialist, hands-on. The named partner who scopes the work runs the work.
Twenty three years later there are 122,974 ICF coaches globally. As the industry scaled, many boutiques moved towards platforms, cohort volume, or competing with the global consultancies. We did neither. We stayed in the senior room. That's the work we built Lequin to do, and it's still the work we do today.
Co-founder · Coaching Lead · Team & Executive Coach
An ex-Deloitte consultant, Marie works with senior leaders and leadership teams to improve collaboration, trust, communication and organisational culture. She specialises in helping teams work more effectively together during periods of change, growth and leadership transition.
Her work combines practical leadership development with strong emotional intelligence and behavioural insight, helping teams strengthen alignment, accountability and collective performance.
Co-founder · Training Lead · Executive Coach & Leadership Facilitator
Peter works with senior leaders and leadership teams across financial services, energy, engineering and media. Combining executive coaching, psychotherapy and behavioural insight, he helps leaders improve clarity, communication, influence and team effectiveness during periods of pressure, growth and change.
Peter specialises in behavioural change, leadership dynamics and helping leaders navigate complexity with greater confidence and self-awareness. His work combines psychological depth with commercially grounded leadership development.
How they work together
Marie scopes every senior coaching engagement. Peter scopes every senior training engagement. The named partner who scopes the work runs the work. That's Lequin's signature operating discipline, and it's been true since 2003.
Where an engagement crosses pillars, a leadership programme that needs both group training and one to one coaching, or a team coaching engagement that surfaces a training need, both founders stay involved in design and oversight. They've been business partners for twenty three years.
The model is deliberately small. There's no partner-pitches, juniors-deliver pattern. The two people you meet on the discovery call are the two people in the room with your leaders.
Where to start
Most engagements begin one of two ways. Both are free or fixed price. Neither starts with a sales pitch.
Option one
A 30-minute call with Peter or Marie, depending on whether you're closer to the training or coaching question. We ask eight questions about your leadership challenge and what's happened so far, then send a written summary within 48 hours, including whether we think we're the right fit.
Book a 30-minute callOption two
A 90-minute online workshop for up to 12 of your leaders. Choose one topic from our list. We lead the session, your people take part, you watch the work. If we're the wrong fit, we'll tell you and you keep the materials. Most pilots happen within 6 weeks of booking.
Book the pilot