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You've done everything right. So why does it still feel like something's missing?

One-to-one coaching for professional leaders who are succeeding on paper and running on empty underneath. Insight-led, not framework-heavy – built on how thinking actually shapes experience, not another leadership model to add - a simpler way to navigate life.

If any of these sound familiar...

  • You're the person everyone brings problems to — and you've got no one to take yours to
  • Being approachable and being taken seriously feel like they're pulling in opposite directions
  • You look like you've made it. Some days you don't believe it yourself
  • The next promotion won't fix what's actually wrong
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Dave Hill, founder of Simplicity in Mind

Who's behind this

Dave Hill

  • 17 years as a British Army officer
  • Programmes delivered to organisations including Virgin Money
  • Armed Forces Covenant Gold Employer
  • Simple Reflections Podcast – 80+ episodes, listeners in 70 countries
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The Approach

Insight-led, not framework-led

Most leadership coaching hands you another model to apply under pressure. This works differently: it starts from how your thinking shapes what you experience in the moment – not techniques to remember, but a shift in understanding that changes decisions, relationships and energy without you having to try harder.

Dave's diverse career and passion for helping others is grounded in 17 years of making decisions that mattered under real pressure.

Ways to work together

Three ways in

The Coaching Sprint

A limited time and cost investment to test coaching out or gain quick clarity on a limited issue.

The Three-Month Journey

Around 12 hours together, weekly or fortnightly. For working through something that took years to build.

Hybrid

An intensive to break through, then ongoing sessions to embed it. Most leaders end up here.

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In their words

I am a better, more capable, balanced, and happier person for it. Dave has successfully taught me invaluable skills...

Colonel, British Army

Dave would gently guide me back to a place of inner calm, almost like a course correct which manifested as a feeling, a wonderful feeling which I took away from each of our sessions.

Financial Services Analyst, UK

Dave has a way of simplifying complex situations. He is very patient and will listen carefully until he helps you unpack your story and return to your default state of calmness.

Paediatric Consultant, UK

I found Dave has a special ability to bring calmness and order to my thoughts. His application of the Three Principles is incredibly simple yet highly effective. I always felt I could say things as I saw them; his patient and non judgmental style always made me comfortable to open up.

Financial Services Director, UK

Why this work exists

Paid coaching funds something bigger

Around 60% of Dave's time goes to veterans and their families – one-to-one mentoring, referrals, trustee work – at no cost to them. This isn't a side project. It's the reason Simplicity in Mind exists, funded directly by the leaders and organisations who pay for coaching and workshops.

About the veterans work

Simple Reflections Podcast

Fortnightly conversations about the small ideas that quietly change how people think. Running since 2023.

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Simple Reflections Podcast artwork – a biscuit with the podcast title and a polaroid of Dave Hill
Three Field Manual book covers by Dave Hill: The Leadership Field Manual, The Wellbeing Field Manual, and The Understanding Field Manual

Books

Field Manuals

Short, practical books on leadership, clarity and pressure. Two out now, two more in 2026.

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Worth a conversation?

One call, no obligation, to work out if this is useful for you.

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