
South Africa / Online
Degree in Psychology; Postgraduate Diploma in Executive Coaching (PGDP - SACAP); ICF's Professional Certified Coach training; Foundations in stress science, behavioural psychology & human performance, applied to senior leaders and C-suite executives
Siro Naidoo, an executive coach specialising in stress and burnout for senior leaders and C-suite executives.
The leaders I work with are still performing well and paying for it privately: excelling on the outside but quietly depleted underneath. My work is not about slowing you down or asking you to step away from the work you love. It is about being resourced from within, so that clarity, calm, energy and high-functioning capability are what you draw on rather than what you perform.
I bring together psychology, stress science and human performance to help leaders move from running on reserves to leading from vitality: clear, calm, energetic and resilient.
Unruffled World’s Coaching services:
I offer one-to-one executive coaching for stress and burnout, and coaching programmes for organisations supporting their senior talent.
With individuals, coaching begins with an honest read of where you actually are, drawing on validated stress and burnout instruments alongside my own assessment frameworks. From there the work is precise and practical: restoring what has been spent, re-tuning how you meet pressure, and protecting the judgement your role relies on.
With organisations, leader steadiness is treated as a performance and risk variable, not a wellness perk. A composed leader decides better under load and settles the system around them, because steadiness travels downward through a team just as strain does. The programme is built to read as elevation, not remediation, and to be measured accordingly.
My Experience:
My foundation is in psychology (BPsych), followed by a postgraduate qualification in executive coaching (PGDP). Behind that sits more than two decades in senior leadership in the technology sector.
I understand this terrain from the inside. I know what it is to deliver at a high level, for a long time, while carrying more than anyone can see. Having experienced and witnessed chronic stress and burnout first hand, I coach as someone who has walked the same road, not from across a desk.
Typical clients:
I coach senior leaders, executives and C-suite professionals across the UK, Europe, South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region.
By every external measure they are doing well: respected, capable, trusted with more each year. The strain is invisible, which is exactly why it goes unspoken. Some come when the distance between how they appear and how they feel has grown hard to carry. Others come earlier, wanting to protect their judgement, presence and energy while all three are still intact.