What comes after the king?

The dominant model of leadership - hierarchical, individualised, built on domination and suppression of the feminine - is crumbling.

My work is concerned with what comes next.

I imagine a leadership that is relational, generative, and life-giving.

I beleive stewarding it has two parts.

First: women reclaiming their power and leading from their mature, integrated and whole selves. 

Second: collective leadership - not held by a person or role but moving through communities as a living intelligence.

Through coaching, training and retreats I work with women on the first. Through writing, speaking, and deep partnerships with visionary organisations, I explore the second.

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Organisations I’ve worked with

ABOUT ME

I'm Holiday Phillips — a facilitator, writer, and thinker working at the intersection of leadership, power, and cultural change.

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

I've spoken at TEDx and been featured in the BBC and The Sunday Times. I write After the King — a Substack publication on power, leadership and society — and share regularly on social media, reaching more than 50,000 people.

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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 power.

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

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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Ways to Work Together

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    1:1 Coaching

    Deep, long-term partnerships for women ready to become POWERFUL.

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    Private 1-Day Retreats

    Immersive work for women ready to go deep, fast.

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    POWERFUL Programme

    (Coming soon) Stop performing. Stop overgiving. Stop playing small. Become POWERFUL — with other women doing the same.

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    Organizational Partnerships

    I work with a small number of organizations on leadership development, culture, and systemic change. Current and past clients include Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Monzo, The Guardian, and many more.

    Enquire about partnerships

What people say about the work

  • "My work with Holiday has given me insight unlike any other I've experienced before - and I've experienced alot in my 20+ year career! I feel seen and deeply understood"

    Liz Dimmock, CEO and Founder Moving Ahead & Mother of one

  • Danielle LaPorte, Founder Heart Centred Leadership

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

    Danielle LaPorte, Founder Heart Centred Leadership & Mother of one

  • "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 & Mother of three

  • 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

  • A woman with curly hair wearing a pink striped blazer and white graphic t-shirt holding a coffee cup, standing on a graffiti-covered street with a mirror reflection of herself.

    "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 & Mother of two

  • Close-up of a woman with shoulder-length red hair wearing black-rimmed glasses, smiling indoors near a window.

    "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, Mother of three & Grandmother of one

  • 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

  • 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 & Father of four

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

    Sir Trevor Phillips, Broadcaster & Father of two

Read and Listen

 

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

— Martin Luther King Jr

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