Connected Peace
Coaching & Consultancy
Helping ambitious, investor-backed organisations turn direction into delivery — equipping leaders to focus, perform, and sustain results without bureaucracy or big-consultancy prices
Connected Peace helps organisations deliver a strategy that lasts through The Performance Framework — a proven system for turning strategic clarity into leadership capacity, cohesion, and measurable performance.
Trusted by BP, Deutsche Bank, Boots, Greene King, Greggs, Superdry, Moto Hospitality and more.
The Performance Framework
Turning clarity into capability — and strategy into results that last.
Most strategies don’t fail in design.
They fail in delivery.
This is the framework that makes yours work.
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Clarify What Matters – Define priorities everyone understands and owns.
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Equip Leaders to Deliver – Build capability and cohesion under pressure.
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Embed Habits that Sustain – Create rhythm and accountability that keep performance strong and focused.
Before:
'Firefighting State'
Even the best organisations can lose momentum.
Leaders are stretched, priorities blur, and growth feels slow.
Strategy sits on slides while people firefight through the week.
Building leadership capacity and organisational performance
The Performance Framework.
One Connected System.
The Framework connects everything — from strategic clarity to leadership capacity and sustained performance.
Each phase builds on the last, creating lasting focus, energy, and accountability.
The Performance Framework™
A proven process to turn strategy into sustainable performance. Every transformation succeeds or fails on four fundamentals.
Our framework guides you through each one — aligning your strategy, leaders, and systems so performance lasts.
What You Will See When
Within Weeks: The fog lifts. Priorities are clear, meetings shorten, and decisions move faster.
Leaders reclaim bandwidth and focus time on what drives enterprise value.
By Month Three: Teams lead with calm authority. Ownership is clear, collaboration strengthens, and execution speed rises.
Leadership time is freed by 10–15% — equivalent to £500k–£1m+ in reclaimed capacity across a 10-person exec team.
Within 6-12 months:
Strategy becomes a living system — performance improves, margins rise, and confidence builds across the board.
Delivery performance uplifts by 15–25%, talent retention improves by 15–25%, and leadership rhythm compounds results quarter after quarter.
Measured ROI:
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3–5 strategic priorities defined and owned
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10–15% of leadership time freed within the first quarter
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15–25% uplift in delivery performance within 12 months
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£500k–£1.2m in reclaimed leadership capacity value
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20–25% reduction in duplication and rework, directly improving EBITDA margins
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Strengthened investor confidence through visible traction and delivery momentum
This isn’t about new slides or another offsite.
It’s about installing a framework into day-to-day business that protects pace, performance, and business valuation.
About
Clarity first. Composure always. Performance that lasts.
Nic McDonald is the founder of Connected Peace and creator of The Performance Framework™ — a system that helps leaders and organisations deliver strategy with clarity, capability, and consistency.
With more than two decades leading complex business transformation across brands including BP, Deutsche Bank, Greene King, Kraft/Mondelez, Castrol, Superdry, and Boots Alliance, Nic knows what it takes to turn ambition into sustained performance.
Her work starts where most strategies falter — at the point between clarity and execution. She helps senior teams cut through noise, prioritise what matters, and align people around meaningful direction. From there, she equips leaders to deliver under pressure through The Resilience Method for Leaders™, strengthening capability, composure, and cohesion across teams.
An ICF-accredited executive coach and Henley Business School–qualified strategist, Nic combines academic rigour with lived experience of delivering results in complex environments.
Her strength lies in bridging the gap between strategic intent and real-world delivery — helping organisations not just design strategy, but make it work day to day.
Clients describe her as calm, insightful, and commercially grounded — a partner who helps them think clearly, lead steadily, and sustain success.
Assad Malic,
Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer
"Nic brought authenticity and a clear vision to the role, a complex transformation portfolio with precision and focus.
Nic’s commitment to customer-first solutions and her strong, empathetic leadership style made a lasting impact, driving both operational improvements, team performance and enhanced customer experiences.
She is an inspiring leader who delivers meaningful change"
Rachel Smith, Managing Director
“I would strongly recommend The Leadership Capacity Accelerato to any leader (and their leadership teams) who are managing under pressure.
I know the leader I want to be and I have the intention and tools to change."
Zoheb Shariff,
CEO
"Nic is a natural in creating space for reflection, exploration, and clarity of thought. It's space I didn't know how much I needed and how transformational it is becoming. I am really relishing the space, the support, the challenge and the journey. Truely impactful personally, and without a doubt a catalyst for a world of good at Mosaic 1898"