What comes after the King?

The dominant model of leadership - hierarchical, individualised, built on control and the suppression of the feminine- is breaking down.

My work is about what comes next.

The organisations that will survive the next decade aren't the ones that optimise the existing model. They're the ones willing to lead differently - with more humanity, more collective intelligence, and less dependence on a single person at the top.

For fifteen years I've worked inside some of the world's most influential organisations developing leaders and shifting cultures.

I do that work through facilitation, leadership programmes, culture change, and coaching.

And through writing — on power, leadership, and what it means to live well together.

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Organisations I’ve worked with

THE WORK IS PERSONAL. THE IMPACT IS COLLECTIVE.

When women lead from their full power, the world changes.

Women reinvest 90% of their income into families and communities.

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Women-led startups generate 78 cents per dollar invested.

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Countries with more women in parliament have lower levels of corruption.

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When women control income, more goes to children's health, nutrition, and education.

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Peace agreements are 35% more likely to last when women are involved.

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The Work

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    Organisational Partnerships

    Long-term work with organisations on leadership development, culture change, and the harder questions about how power moves through teams and institutions.

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    Executive Coaching

    Deep, sustained work with senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, or the next stage of their leadership.

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    Facilitation & Offsites

    High-stakes conversations, leadership retreats, and strategy sessions. I design and hold the room for the moments that matter.

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    Speaking & Keynotes

    I speak on leadership, power, and what this moment in history is asking of organisations and the people who lead them.

What people say about the work

  • I have had the pleasure of working with Holiday on an individual, team, and organisational basis for the last 3 years. She is brilliant as a coach, facilitator and speaker who has helped me become a more effective and thoughtful leader.

    Henry Clifford-Jones, Senior Director LinkedIn

  • Rebecca Hirst, Chief Operating Officer, Freuds

    "Holiday helped our leaders stand fully in their power, hold their boundaries, and do it in a way that brought people with them."

    Rebecca Hirst, Chief Operating Officer, Freuds

  • "Holiday's understanding of people, behaviour, and systems enabled us to shift our culture in ways I hadn't thought possible. She cuts through the noise, the niceties, and gets to the work with deep practicality."

    Liz Dimmock, CEO and Founder Moving Ahead

  • Danielle LaPorte, Founder Heart Centred Leadership

    “Holiday turns questions into doorways for deeper thinking. I adore her.”

    Danielle LaPorte, Founder Heart Centred Leadership

  • "I've done many different trainings designed to improve my skills, but none has been as effective as working with Holiday for creating lasting change"

    Jeyda Heselton, CEO & Founder, Fettle

  • "Working with Holiday has been the single biggest gift I've given myself"

    Jools Skeet, Writer

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    "What Holiday did for me in three months would have taken me a lifetime to understand and implement on my own"

    Laura Jane Williams, Sunday Times best-selling Author

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    "Not a day passes that I don’t use something I learned. I am on a different path, trusting my voice, welcoming intuition, and with renewed connection to my physical body. This was nothing like I expected it would be, and everything I needed."

    Katie Haddock, Retired Head Teacher, Educational consultant

  • A woman smiling and laughing at a social gathering.

    "Holiday is compassion and presence embodied. She held me through the tears, the fears, the laughter. I feel so blessed to have worked with her."

    Swiyyah White, Fabric developer, Levi Strauss

  • "Holiday is one of the brightest talents in the new generation of people leaders."

    Sir Trevor Phillips, Broadcaster & Father of two

The POWERFUL™ Framework

Most leadership development focusses on adding things - more strategies, more skills, more tactics. I focus on what’s getting in the way of our innate ability to lead powerfully.

The POWERFUL™ framework maps the eight patterns of giving our power away and our path to reclaim it.

P — People pleasing → Authenticity
People pleasing, managing reactions → Self-trust and true expression

O — Over-giving → Sovereignty
Saying yes when you mean no → Boundaries and choice

W — Worthlessness → Innate worth
Imposter syndrome, playing small → Knowing your value and taking up space

E — Emotional Suppression → Embodiment 
Limited emotional range and disconnection from body  → Full emotional spectrum and somatic wisdom 

R — Rigidity → Courage
Perfectionism and fear of failure → Creativity and experimentation

F — Fragmentation → Integrity
Living out of alignment → Wholeness and coherence

U — Unclaimed Desire → Permission 
Suppressing your wants and feeling undeserving → Claiming what you want without shame

L — Lone-Wolf → Connection
Hyper-independence and isolation → Interdependence and collective power

Discover your dominant pattern

ABOUT ME

I'm Holiday Phillips — facilitator, writer, and leadership advisor.

For fifteen years I've worked inside some of the world's most influential organisations — Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Nike, Monzo, and many more — developing leaders and shifting cultures.

I've spoken at TEDx and been featured in the BBC and The Sunday Times. I write After the King — a Substack on power, leadership, and what comes next.

I'm based in Ibiza and work globally.

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After the King

A Substack publication on power, leadership, and what comes next.

“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

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