What separates a good coach from a master?

Behind the Coaching Breakthroughs: What Master Business Coaches Do Differently

You're already a good coach. Your clients get results. So why does the leap to master feel further away the closer you get?

After thirty years coaching CEOs and leadership teams across four continents, Sharn Rayner found that the coaches who break through aren't working harder or relying on better instincts. They work from structure: frameworks designed to be adapted, made your own, and used to build a practice that is both genuinely profitable and worth being proud of.

This book hands you that structure: practical tools for sharpening your positioning, pricing your work with confidence, and turning each coaching conversation into measurable, lasting change. Take them as they are, or make them yours. Every one has been tested in real client work, with real clients and real outcomes.

If you've ever worried that frameworks flatten the human craft of coaching, Rayner argues the opposite. Used well, they don't replace your presence and judgment. They sharpen them, helping you see patterns faster and guide clients to insight with more precision.

The coaches who plateau keep refining what they already do. The ones who break through change what they're working from.

Available on Amazon, print and Kindle, from 14 July 2026.

★ #1 Bestseller Behind the Coaching Breakthroughs book cover by Sharn Rayner

30 Years 4 Continents Former CEO, Coaching CEOs & Leadership Teams

Frameworks, not theory.

Behind the Coaching Breakthroughs gives you the proprietary frameworks, structured methodologies, and field-tested tools that distinguish master coaches. Each one is actionable, adaptable, and grounded in real client work.

Triple-A Alignment Method diagram

Triple-A Alignment Method

Assess, align, and articulate your unique value proposition so you stand out in a crowded market.

Niche Mastery Framework diagram

Niche Mastery Framework

Stress-test your positioning against real-world demand, competition, expertise, and passion.

Pillars of Robust Margins diagram

Pillars of Robust Margins

The financial structures behind a profitable, resilient coaching business - pricing, margins, cash flow, diversification.

Impact Pyramid diagram

Impact Pyramid

Map coaching effectiveness from behavioural change to business outcomes to demonstrable ROI.

Sharn Rayner

Sharn Rayner

Sharn Rayner is a master business coach, strategist, and leadership partner with over thirty years of experience working alongside CEOs, senior leadership teams, and high-performing coaches across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States. A former CEO and board director, she brings rare commercial depth to her coaching work - the kind that comes only from having sat in the chair herself.

Through her practice Two Tides Consulting, Sharn works with mid-market business leaders and coaches ready to scale their impact without compromising their integrity. Behind the Coaching Breakthroughs is the book she wished had existed when she was developing her own craft - a straight-talking playbook for coaches ready to move from good to exceptional.

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