Executive coaching
EMCC-accredited coach at Practitioner level, working with leaders, high-potential talent and people navigating transition or greater responsibility.
About Transcendz
Leadership development with depth, warmth and purpose.
Transcendz exists to help people grow into their leadership and help organisations become places where more people can thrive.
Through Transcendz, I work with organisations seeking to develop leaders and shift cultures, and with overlooked and under-recognised professionals who want to be seen, heard and make career moves that reflect their ability.
Our perspective
People are not separate from the systems they lead within.
That is why our work pays attention to both: the confidence, awareness and skill of the individual, and the culture, relationships and conditions shaping what is possible.
We combine business psychology with extensive experience in leadership, learning, facilitation and coaching. The result is work that feels thoughtful and personal while remaining commercially grounded and practically useful.
Founder & lead consultant
Deborah Dillon, founder of Transcendz.
“People grow when they feel seen, challenged and able to recognise what they bring. That is when leaders develop, cultures shift and belonging becomes something people can genuinely experience.”
Deborah brings more than 20 years’ experience in leadership development, coaching, facilitation, assessment and organisational change. Her style combines warmth, energy and thoughtful challenge, creating environments where people can reflect honestly and translate insight into meaningful action.
She is interested in what is really happening, not just what appears in the brief. She adapts to the people in the room while keeping sight of the change the work is there to create.
Deborah has supported people at different stages of leadership, from those beginning to find their voice to established and senior leaders navigating greater complexity, across the UK and internationally.
Work with Deborah and Transcendz →Experience & credentials
Professional depth, practical experience and a commitment to meaningful development.
Deborah brings more than 20 years’ experience supporting leadership capability across public, private and third-sector organisations, grounded in senior management experience and work with leaders from first-line management to senior executive level.
Psychometrics & assessment
BPS Test User: Occupational Ability & Personality (formerly Level A & B), and qualified to use Lumina Spark®, MBTI® Step I™ and Step II™, Growth Profile and FIRO-B®, with extensive experience of leadership assessment and developmental feedback.
Leadership development
Programme design, facilitation, coaching and assessment across government, financial services, aviation, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing and the third sector.
Lumina Spark®
Qualified Lumina Spark Practitioner, using psychometric insight to support leadership, coaching, communication and team development.
The Five Behaviors®
Authorized Partner of The Five Behaviors®, supporting teams to strengthen trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability and results.
International reach
Experience supporting leadership populations across the UK, Europe, the Americas and Asia, with average participant feedback of 4.5 out of 5.
Working with others
Working with trusted associates.
Transcendz is led by Deborah and works with trusted coaches, facilitators and organisational-development specialists.
When a project requires additional expertise, perspectives or delivery capacity, we shape the right team around the brief while maintaining consistency, quality and a shared commitment to meaningful development.
Our combined expertise can include leadership and executive coaching, psychometrics, team development, culture, belonging and organisational change.
Why Transcendz?
Moving beyond what limits us.
To transcend is to move beyond existing limits and familiar ways of thinking, leading and working.
Transcendz reflects our belief that meaningful development enables people and organisations to see new possibilities, make different choices and create lasting change.
What guides us
Human
We meet people with warmth, curiosity and respect, recognising the person behind the role.
Courageous
We make space for the conversations that matter, welcoming challenge, difference and honest reflection.
Purposeful
Every element must earn its place and connect to the outcome the work is there to create.
Lasting
We design for what happens after the workshop: changed choices, stronger relationships and sustained action.