About Andrew

I do this work because I’ve seen what happens when people lead without space.

When responsibility keeps increasing, and no one teaches you how to carry it without becoming harder, narrower, or less yourself.

I’ve lived the cost of that hardening, in sport, in leadership, in life, and I know it doesn’t fail loudly.

It fails quietly.

Judgment erodes.
Relationships thin.
Decisions become defensive.
People keep winning while slowly losing themselves.

I do this work to interrupt that pattern.

Not by teaching.
Not by fixing.
Not by motivating.

But by creating conditions where:

• urgency loosens
• intuition can be heard
• proportion returns
• decisions are made without armour

I walk with leaders by the Vltava River because walking slows the nervous system enough for truth to surface without force.

I write stories about The Stag, the Wren, the Rat, and the River because explanations usually arrive too late, after the decision has already been made.

And I stay quiet because I trust that the right people recognise themselves without being convinced.

If you recognise the quiet erosion, the tightness that returns under pressure, the decisions that distort, the energy that leaks into defending what feels personal, and you carry real stakes in your leadership, I work one-to-one with a small number of founders and executives each year.

We spend a day together in Prague, noticing the same mechanics I once carried.
The day is quiet, demanding, and consequential.

If this resonates, write to me directly:

No sales call.
Just an honest conversation to see if the fit is right.

More About Andrew Sillitoe

When Andrew was sixteen, his father died suddenly of a heart attacked age 48. The loss set him on a journey he didn't choose but couldn't avoid - the kind that forces you to ask questions most people defer until much later, if they ask them at all.

A year later, his girlfriend's father gave him a copy of Plato for his seventeenth birthday. It wasn't a casual gift. In the space left by his father's absence, those dialogues became something more than books; they became a way of thinking about what it means to live well when life doesn't go as planned.

That early encounter with philosophy shaped everything that followed. But this wasn't just philosophy as theory - it became the foundation for performance at the highest levels. Andrew applied these principles in sales, in leadership roles, and, most notably, as head coach for Team Great Britain Inline Hockey, where philosophical clarity directly translated into competitive results.

Andrew now works with founders and senior executives who are exhausted from holding it together. Leaders from all over the world travel to Prague to work with him. His offering is distinctive: "Walk with me in Prague" - a one-day coaching experience by the Vltava River, where philosophical dialogue replaces traditional frameworks.

His approach draws from a lineage that begins with Socrates and moves through Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. From Socrates, he inherited the method - relentless questioning that reveals what we think we know but don't. From Plato, the use of dialogue as a transformation. From Aristotle, the conviction that philosophy happens in motion, that walking and talking are inseparable from thinking clearly. From the Stoics, the practice of examining what's within our control and what isn't, as noted in his first book, Managing the Mist (2013), and the recognition that leadership exhaustion often comes from fighting battles that were never ours to win.

Andrew's work centres on a simple recognition: most leaders are moving away from danger rather than toward anything meaningful. They've become so skilled at defence that they've forgotten what they're defending. His role isn't to provide answers but to ask the questions that interrupt this pattern - questions that create space for leaders to discover what they already know but haven't yet admitted.

The "Stories from the Vltava" emerge from this work - philosophical dialogues between a Stag (the leader), a Rat (fear and protection), a Wren (Socratic inquiry), and the River (consciousness itself). These pieces aren't coaching fables. They're thinking tools that help leaders examine their own patterns of reactivity, control, and exhaustion.

Andrew sees himself as continuing a 2,500-year conversation about how to live well and lead well. Not inventing something new, but translating something ancient for people who need it urgently but wouldn't recognise it if it were called philosophy.

The Vltava River runs through Prague as it has for millennia - constant change while remaining itself. Andrew walks alongside it with leaders who are ready to stop surviving and start leading.

Enquire here: andrew@andrewsillitoe.com