How We Work

Empowering Leaders to Rise with Purpose and Impact.

Navigate challenges, align with your values, and achieve meaningful growth through our proven, values-driven approach.

How We Work

At ArêteQuest, we offer professional and personal coaching and consulting services designed to support you in aligning your life and work with authenticity and purpose.

While our services are tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of each client, we believe in being transparent about the values and principles that guide how we work. This openness is central to ensuring that we serve you with integrity. 

Our Coaching Philosophy

At ArêteQuest, our philosophy is rooted in arête—an ancient Greek concept that embodies excellence and virtue aligned with one’s highest purpose. This philosophy underpins everything we do and inspires a way of being that calls leaders to step into their roles with integrity, courage, and the pursuit of excellence.

For us, leadership is not just about achieving goals. It’s about how you show up: grounded in purpose, acting with intention, and stewarding your gifts in a way that inspires and empowers others. Drawing on ancient wisdom and a Christian ethos, we bring a holistic, values-centred approach to our coaching, walking alongside you as you navigate your journey in work and life.

Our Coaching Frameworks

The 3Cs of our Coaching Conversations

For us, leadership coaching is an accompanied path. We journey with you as a guide on your purposeful ascent, walking alongside as you navigate both the inner terrain of identity and the outer landscapes of context and contribution.

Together, we explore three dimensions that frame the work:

  • Context: the systems, seasons, and settings that are shaping you
  • Capacity: the resources, energy, and responsibilities you are holding now
  • Contribution: the impact you long to make and the difference you feel called to leave behind

With client agency as the compass, these Three Cs are orienting points of every coaching conversation, helping us discern where to begin and how to travel the path ahead.

The 5Rs of Soulful Leadership Transformation

At the centre of my practice is a transformational arc called the 5Rs of Soulful Leadership. This is a rhythm of growth that mirrors the contours of inner work and outward expression. It creates space to listen deeply, to move intentionally, and to lead with integrity and courage.

Rooting: We begin by tracing your way back to what still feels true: identity, purpose, and the values that hold. This is the ground beneath your leadership, the centre you return to when the path feels unclear.

Releasing: As we listen, we notice what no longer fits. Roles you have outgrown and narratives that keep you small. This is the stage where you lay them down with honesty and grace, making space for what wants to emerge.

Resting: Here we pause to notice where the tension lives. In this still space, integration begins to take root. You begin to embrace the limp—the hard-won wisdom that allows you to lead from presence, not pressure.

Reimagining: With space reclaimed, vision begins to rise. We step into wonder, possibility, and joy—catalysts for imagination and creative response. This is where quiet, bold what if questions begin to surface, pressing against both the internal and systemic realities that shape your leadership context.

Realigning: Here renewal unfolds as vision takes form. A program, an offering, a strategy, or a clearer voice may emerge. Each step anchors your capacity and calling within your context, while stewarding your vision in ways others can receive and respond to.

The Coaching Shifts That Mark the Ascent

As you walk this arc, certain shifts often emerge. These are milestones of transformation, not imposed from the outside but arising from within the journey itself.

  1. From Fragmented to Integrated Identity: You gather the parts of yourself that have been scattered across roles, cultures, and expectations, and begin to lead from a coherent and trustworthy self.
  2. From Performance to Embodied Presence: You release the need to prove and begin to inhabit your leadership with presence. Your body, your values, and your voice align, and your presence itself becomes a source of influence.
  3. From Misaligned Roles to Stewarded Leadership: You step into leadership marked by stewardship rather than obligation. This may mean entering new spaces, or it may mean leading differently in familiar ones. Either way, you offer what is truly yours to give.

This is coaching for those who sense a turning.

It is a space for leaders, founders, creatives, and vision-holders who want to move with clarity without losing themselves in the climb.

We walk this journey together.
At your pace. With focus and intention.
Always toward what is true.

Our Core Values

Our work is guided by the FIERCE Leadership Framework—a set of six values that anchor our commitment to transformational growth and leadership:

  • Faith: We ground our work in a vision of hope and possibility that transcends individual ambitions, enabling us to serve clients with humility and purpose.
  • Integrity: We prioritise alignment between actions and values, ensuring that our coaching honours both your aspirations and our shared commitment to authentic leadership.
  • Excellence: We strive to deliver the highest standard of service, honouring the trust you place in us by helping you achieve meaningful growth.
  • Respect: We build genuine, empathetic connections that honour the diverse experiences, perspectives, and dignity of every client.
  • Courage: We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and gently encourage our clients to do the same, always guided by core values.
  • Ethical Stewardship: We lead with care and responsibility, committed to creating a positive, enduring impact for the generations to come.

How We Connect and Consult

Guided by these values, we engage with you as a trusted partner. We listen without judgment, ask powerful questions, and create a safe, supportive space where you can discover solutions that resonate deeply with your goals and aspirations.

Our role is not to prescribe answers but to work alongside you as you develop the tools, mindset, and strategies needed to navigate challenges with clarity and confidence. Together, we aim to empower you to move forward with purpose and conviction.

 Our Coaching Frameworks

At ArêteQuest, we offer professional and personal coaching and consulting services designed to support you in aligning your life and work with authenticity and purpose.

While our services are tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of each client, we believe in being transparent about the values and principles that guide how we work. This openness is central to ensuring that we serve you with integrity. 

Our Coaching Frameworks

The 3Cs of our Coaching Conversations

For us, leadership coaching is an accompanied path. We journey with you as a guide on your purposeful ascent, walking alongside as you navigate both the inner terrain of identity and the outer landscapes of context and contribution.

Together, we explore three dimensions that frame the work:

  • Context: the systems, seasons, and settings that are shaping you
  • Capacity: the resources, energy, and responsibilities you are holding now
  • Contribution: the impact you long to make and the difference you feel called to leave behind

With client agency as the compass, these Three Cs are orienting points of every coaching conversation, helping us discern where to begin and how to travel the path ahead.

The 5Rs of Soulful Leadership Transformation

At the centre of my practice is a transformational arc called the 5Rs of Soulful Leadership. This is a rhythm of growth that mirrors the contours of inner work and outward expression. It creates space to listen deeply, to move intentionally, and to lead with integrity and courage.

Rooting: We begin by tracing your way back to what still feels true: identity, purpose, and the values that hold. This is the ground beneath your leadership, the centre you return to when the path feels unclear.

Releasing: As we listen, we notice what no longer fits. Roles you have outgrown and narratives that keep you small. This is the stage where you lay them down with honesty and grace, making space for what wants to emerge.

Resting: Here we pause to notice where the tension lives. In this still space, integration begins to take root. You begin to embrace the limp—the hard-won wisdom that allows you to lead from presence, not pressure.

Reimagining: With space reclaimed, vision begins to rise. We step into wonder, possibility, and joy—catalysts for imagination and creative response. This is where quiet, bold what if questions begin to surface, pressing against both the internal and systemic realities that shape your leadership context.

Realigning: Here renewal unfolds as vision takes form. A program, an offering, a strategy, or a clearer voice may emerge. Each step anchors your capacity and calling within your context, while stewarding your vision in ways others can receive and respond to.

The Coaching Shifts That Mark the Ascent

As you walk this arc, certain shifts often emerge. These are milestones of transformation, not imposed from the outside but arising from within the journey itself.

  1. From Fragmented to Integrated Identity: You gather the parts of yourself that have been scattered across roles, cultures, and expectations, and begin to lead from a coherent and trustworthy self.
  2. From Performance to Embodied Presence: You release the need to prove and begin to inhabit your leadership with presence. Your body, your values, and your voice align, and your presence itself becomes a source of influence.
  3. From Misaligned Roles to Stewarded Leadership: You step into leadership marked by stewardship rather than obligation. This may mean entering new spaces, or it may mean leading differently in familiar ones. Either way, you offer what is truly yours to give.

This is coaching for those who sense a turning.

It is a space for leaders, founders, creatives, and vision-holders who want to move with clarity without losing themselves in the climb.

We walk this journey together.
At your pace. With focus and intention.
Always toward what is true.

Our Core Values

Our work is guided by the FIERCE Leadership Framework—a set of six values that anchor our commitment to transformational growth and leadership:

  • Faith: We ground our work in a vision of hope and possibility that transcends individual ambitions, enabling us to serve clients with humility and purpose.
  • Integrity: We prioritise alignment between actions and values, ensuring that our coaching honours both your aspirations and our shared commitment to authentic leadership.
  • Excellence: We strive to deliver the highest standard of service, honouring the trust you place in us by helping you achieve meaningful growth.
  • Respect: We build genuine, empathetic connections that honour the diverse experiences, perspectives, and dignity of every client.
  • Courage: We embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and gently encourage our clients to do the same, always guided by core values.
  • Ethical Stewardship: We lead with care and responsibility, committed to creating a positive, enduring impact for the generations to come.

How We Connect and Consult

Guided by these values, we engage with you as a trusted partner. We listen without judgment, ask powerful questions, and create a safe, supportive space where you can discover solutions that resonate deeply with your goals and aspirations.

Our role is not to prescribe answers but to work alongside you as you develop the tools, mindset, and strategies needed to navigate challenges with clarity and confidence. Together, we aim to empower you to move forward with purpose and conviction.

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Our Distinctive Approach to Leadership and Purpose

Clarifying Your Leadership Quest

At ArêteQuest, we view leadership as a sacred journey. It begins within, in the work of self-understanding, alignment, and presence, and extends outward into a legacy of contribution and impact. True leadership is not measured by external success but by the integrity with which you steward your gifts, values, and vision in service of others and the world around you.

Through coaching and consulting, we walk with you as a guide on your purposeful ascent. Together, we explore your context, capacity, and contribution, moving through the natural rhythm of transformation: rooting in identity, releasing what no longer serves, resting to integrate, reimagining bold possibilities, and realigning with action

Discerning Your Purpose

Discovering your purpose or calling can be a deeply personal and sometimes elusive process. That is why our work begins with your story. Through reflection and guided exploration, we help you bring every facet of yourself into alignment so you can lead with clarity and conviction.

As this journey unfolds, leaders often experience profound shifts: from fragmentation to integration, from performance to presence, from misaligned roles to stewarded leadership. These movements ripple outward, shaping not only your own life but also the systems and communities you touch, leaving a legacy that is both authentic and enduring.

Leading with Soulful Presence

Soulful leadership begins with rooting in identity, values, and vision, and finds expression in how you respond to systemic realities with imagination and integrity. The journey moves inward toward alignment and outward toward contribution, creating impact in service of others and the world around you.

At ArêteQuest, we walk with you on this ascent, offering courage, clarity, and care as you scale the mountains that matter most and clear a path for others to follow.

Why Work With Us?

Navigating a volatile, uncertain, and complex world requires resilience and clarity. At ArêteQuest, we understand that leading from a place of purpose is key to overcoming challenges and driving growth. When you are clear about who you are and what you stand for, you build an unshakable foundation for transformation.

We listen with empathy and ask powerful questions to truly understand your story and context. With you in the driver’s seat, we act as your guide—reflecting your values and aspirations—helping you tap into your inner strength, align with your core beliefs, and lead with confidence, conviction, and authenticity. That’s where true transformation begins.

Our Distinct Advantage 

Our service is grounded in the extensive expertise, spiritual insight, and lived experience of Alberta Stevens, our founder and lead coach. This combination of professional, academic, and personal depth allows us to provide you with a holistic, tailored coaching experience:

  • Professionally Trained Coach: ICF – ACC trained-coach, equipped to deliver transformational results by fostering clarity, purpose, and alignment.
  • Academic Credentials: A Master’s degree in Leadership, complemented by a solid foundation in Theology, Political Philosophy, Human Rights and Marketing, enhances my understanding of leadership, values, and human complexities.
  • Spiritual and Philosophical Depth: A unique ability to incorporate spiritual and philosophical insights, guiding you towards purpose, fulfilment, and aligning your values with your aspirations.
  • Corporate Expertise: Over two decades of leadership experience in CSR, business, and sustainable impact across the tech, banking, and education sectors.
  • Lived Experience: As a Black British woman of African descent and working mother, I bring a nuanced perspective on overcoming cultural biases and systemic barriers. My global experience spans Europe, the Middle East, and partnerships across Africa, South America, and the Americas, offering a diverse lens through which to support clients.
  • Holistic Perspective: My blend of professional expertise, spiritual depth, cultural awareness, and personal lived experience enables me to empower leaders to realign their work and life with their core values and aspirations.

Alberta’s unique combination of expertise enables us to create a compassionate, strategic, and reflective coaching environment—helping you uncover your true purpose, navigate challenges with courage, and achieve lasting transformation.

“Start your ascent to purpose-driven transformation.” 

ARETEQUEST COACHING AND CONSULTING LIMITED (16193201)

Registered Company Address 86-90, Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE

© 2025 | All Rights Reserved

About Us

At ArêteQuest, we recognise that leadership is a transformational journey, shaped by both the peaks of success and the valleys of challenge and change. It is a path fueled by the courage to grow with intention, guiding you towards your highest summit- your purpose and fulfilment.

ARETEQUEST COACHING AND CONSULTING LIMITED (16193201)

Registered Company Address 86-90, Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE

© 2025 | All Rights Reserved

About Us

At ArêteQuest, we recognise that leadership is a transformational journey, shaped by both the peaks of success and the valleys of challenge and change. It is a path fueled by the courage to grow with intention, guiding you towards your highest summit- your purpose and fulfilment.

aretequest.co.uk