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A coach for coaches & consultants

Coaches spend their lives
on everyone else.
I work on you.

I'm Nathan. I coach coaches and consultants. People who are genuinely good at this, who hold the mirror up for everyone else, and have nobody holding one up for them.

I do this work because I spent years on the wrong side of it.

10+
Years coaching
5 1:1
Max clients per quarter
1st
Project is always you

Why coaches

Coaches change lives.
They just rarely have anyone doing it for them.

My very first client in this business was a coach. Since then I've worked with business owners, professionals, an Olympic athlete, and a lot more coaches.

Coaches are the ones I keep coming back to. I like serving the people who spend their days serving everyone else. Helping them do it more powerfully, more often, and with more clients actually paying them for it.

I get the struggles because I've lived all of them. Being solo. Being alone in the business. Being very good at this for other people and having nobody doing it for you.

"I know what it's like to leave a session where a client has just had a huge breakthrough, and wish someone was doing the same for me."

This is what I know. It's the work I'm built for.

"What worked best for me with Nathan, directness. Because to me, I don't have time for fluffiness. I don't want rudeness. I want directness, openness, and I want a challenge."
Michelle, Coach

Why I do this work

I built this because I needed it first.

In my twenties I was selling coffee in Canberra and quietly coming apart. I'd pull into side streets on the way to client visits and sit in the car in tears, unable to walk through the door. From the outside I looked fine. I'd been performing most of my life by then.

One afternoon I came home, walked straight past my wife without a word, got into bed and fell apart properly.

"I asked myself the question I'd been avoiding for years. Is this all there is? Something answered back. No. There's more."

That was the start. Not fast, not clean, but it started. Everything I do with clients now came out of closing that gap in myself, then closing it again every time it came back.

That's why I work with coaches. You already know how to do this for other people. Doing it for yourself is the hard part, and most of us never get anyone to do it for us. Read the longer version →

Nathan Hawken

Who this is for

Built for coaches who've been at this a while.

Not beginners. Not people still figuring out their niche. Coaches and consultants 3–5 years in who know their work is good, and still can't close the gap.

You have clients

You're not starting from zero. But you're not where you expected to be either. The ceiling is real and it's frustrating.

You know the theory

You've done the courses. You've read the books. The information isn't the problem. You know what you should be doing.

Something's still stuck

There's a gap between what you know and what you actually do. It shows up differently for everyone. That gap is the work.

You're tired of waiting

Another year of almost. Another quarter of should-haves. You're ready to actually move, not plan to move.

What we actually work on

Most coaches don't have a visibility problem.
They have a conversion problem.

"You are always the first project. Until you close that gap in yourself, you can't close it for your clients."

It shows up differently for everyone. For some it's pricing. For others it's follow-through, consistency, or the inability to back themselves in a sales conversation. But underneath it, almost every time, is a gap between who you are and who you're performing to be.

That's not a motivational observation. It's the mechanism. Over a decade working with coaches and consultants, this is what the work is actually about.

Online coaching session
"I believe coaches should have coaches. Nathan is the reason I'll never question that again."
Sarah, Career Coach

The HAWKEN Method

A six-stage framework for closing the gap.

Not a course. Not a template. A structured process for getting from knowing to doing, and staying there.

H
History
Where you've been shapes where you're stuck. We start here, not to dwell, but to understand the pattern.
A
Ambitions
What you actually want, not what sounds right in a bio. The honest version of the vision.
W
What's stopping you
Name the real block, not the surface one. Most people are solving the wrong problem.
K
Key moves
The two or three actions that actually change things. Not a long list. The high-leverage moves only.
E
Energy
Sustainable execution, not another sprint that burns out in three weeks. The right pace matters.
N
Next level
What becomes possible when the gap closes. This is the north star the whole process points toward.

This is the framework. The work happens in 1:1 engagements. Structured, direct, and built around you. See how we work together →

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