Performance & Priorities Conversation
20–30 minutes
A confidential conversation to understand your situation, establish fit, and decide whether the six-week or six-month work is right for you.
Excellence, without sacrificing the life you're building.
High-performance coaching with Dr Neeraj Sharma, GP, Sport & Exercise Medicine doctor and qualified life coach.
- Confidential
- Free 20–30 minute first conversation
- Online, from anywhere
Does any of this sound familiar?
Successful, capable and busy. But stretched, overcommitted, or aware that something important is being neglected.
- “I am successful, but I am not enjoying it as much as I thought I would.”
- “I have too many competing priorities and need clarity about what matters.”
- “I perform well under pressure, but I don't want pressure to become my normal state.”
- “I know what I should be doing for my health, but I struggle to make it consistent.”
- “My career is moving faster than the rest of my life.”
- “I want a new challenge or a bigger goal, but I haven't defined it clearly.”
- “I want to be more present with my partner and family without compromising ambition.”
- “I am entering a new phase and want to design it deliberately rather than drift into it.”
You don't need to work harder at everything.
You need clarity about what matters, the capacity to perform consistently, and the habits and mindset that let you sustain excellence.
U First Coaching combines life coaching, general practice, sport and exercise medicine, and first-hand experience of high-performance sporting environments.
From the touchline to the boardroom the principles hold: preparation, recovery, focus, and knowing what you are running for.
Five perspectives, one coach
Credible on medicine, sport, performance and ordinary human life, without pretending coaching is therapy or treatment.
- Medical
- A practising GP and Sport & Exercise Medicine doctor brings a sophisticated understanding of health, wellbeing, recovery and the pressures faced by professionals.
- High performance
- Years around elite athletes and sporting environments provide a practical lens on preparation, resilience, performance and recovery.
- Coaching
- This is coaching, not medical treatment. You identify what matters and are supported to think clearly, make decisions and act.
- Whole person
- Performance is considered alongside sleep, health, relationships, family, meaning, enjoyment and contribution.
- Real world
- Designed for people who are already busy and successful. Not a motivational programme that asks you to become a different person.
Ways to work together
Every engagement starts with a conversation. From there, choose a focused reset or a deeper partnership.
The 6-Week Performance Reset
6 weeks · 6 sessions
A focused engagement to create clarity, momentum and practical change. You leave with a clear personal performance agenda, priorities, habits and an action plan.
- Six private 60-minute online sessions
- A personalised action and reflection framework after each session
- Selected recorded U First webinars and resources
- A Personal Performance Review at the end of Week 6
- Preferred-client invitation to discuss a longer partnership
The 6-Month High-Performance Partnership
6 months · 12 sessions
Premium
A bespoke partnership for sustained development, integrating performance, health, leadership, relationships and personal fulfilment. Private, confidential and clearly bounded between coaching and medical care.
- Two private 60-minute online sessions a month (12 in total)
- A bespoke programme co-created around your objectives
- Resource library of webinars, exercises and materials
- Occasional online group sessions: mobility, HIIT, meditation, recovery
- Optional in-person, wellbeing and outdoor sessions
- Quarterly review of progress, priorities and next goals
- Priority scheduling and first option on events
Executive, leadership & team partnerships
By arrangement
Company-funded engagements, team workshops and in-person performance days for organisations that want the same thinking across a leadership group.
By scope
The Performance Reset, split by split
Six sessions, one week apart. One clear agenda for your next chapter.
Week 1: The Performance Audit
Where are you now? What is working? What is costing you energy? What matters most?
Week 2: Direction & Priorities
Define the bigger game: professional, personal, health, relationships and contribution.
Week 3: Performance & Energy
Sleep, recovery, exercise, stress, focus and the behaviours that support sustained performance.
Week 4: Mindset & Obstacles
Identify limiting patterns, avoidance, overthinking, perfectionism and other barriers to action.
Week 5: Relationships & Presence
Leadership, communication, boundaries, family presence and the quality of your attention.
Week 6: Integration & Next Level
Consolidate the changes, define the next 90 days and decide what ongoing support would add value.
Who I work with
Ambitious professionals, typically 35–60, with significant responsibility and autonomy. People who have already demonstrated achievement and now want to improve the quality, sustainability and meaning of their performance.
- CEOs and founders
- Senior executives
- Doctors and consultants
- Senior healthcare leaders
- Professional sports managers and coaches
- Elite and recently retired athletes
What clients want
Greater clarity, better energy, sustained performance, stronger relationships, more presence, better habits, a new challenge, or a more intentional next chapter.
Often the moment to start is
- A transition or promotion
- Business growth
- A new sporting challenge
- A relationship or life change
- Persistent overwhelm
- The realisation that something needs to change
Dr Neeraj Sharma
- GP
- Practising doctor
- MFSEM
- Sport & Exercise Medicine, UK
- Dip. PPC
- Personal Performance Coaching
I am a life coach, a practising GP and a Sport and Exercise Medicine doctor. For many years I have been a keen student of human performance, and I have seen how specific tools consistently bring success to athletes and professionals alike.
I have also studied the relationship between success and happiness. The most fulfilled individuals are not always the ones with the shiniest trophies. Many people feel 'Now what?' after achieving something great, or wrestle with imposter syndrome.
Individuals who believe in "go big or go home" are mostly seen heading home.
I have travelled extensively with elite athletes in high-performance environments. Sustained excellence is built on preparation, recovery and presence, not on sprinting until something breaks.
My aim is simple: that when you look back, you can tell yourself you did your best and the journey was worth it.
Speaking, workshops & teams
I speak and run workshops for doctors, leaders and sporting organisations, in person and online, on high performance, burnout, sleep and recovery, and building a portfolio career.
For organisations, I offer bespoke executive and leadership partnerships, team workshops and in-person performance days, priced by scope.
Enquire about speakingIn their words
Doctors, leaders and sporting professionals on their coaching journey.
“At the start of my coaching journey with Neeraj, I felt overwhelmed at the thought of all the things on my plate. I was stretched and didn’t feel productive or that my priorities were aligned with my values.”
Dr Liza Thomas-EmrusGP and Intermediate Care Doctor, Clinical Lead Wellness Improvement Service, NHS“Excellent, incredibly useful. Dr Sharma has assisted me to make time to take a step back and re-evaluate my roles and responsibilities, my goals and how I spend my time as I near retirement.”
Dr Pam BrownGP and Sport and Exercise Medicine Doctor“Neeraj was great help for me to start looking into myself. We had 3 sessions and I was able to take away a lot of goals and some real detail in self reflection.”
Paul CarterEquipment Manager, Aston Villa FC“In all sessions, Neeraj guided me but never gave me any answers, and the feeling I came away with after sessions was that of empowerment and fulfilment.”
Peter WilsonTeam Manager, Wales U16s girls team“Very useful considering my current position. I found the process of completing the wheel of life very insightful, and it helped me make short term achievable plans.”
“Coaching made me dig deep to identify my own goals and find solutions to develop and achieve them. It made me realise anything is possible if you commit to change.”
Questions
Anything else? Write to support@ufirstcoaching.co.uk.
Coaching, not medical care
Although Dr Sharma is a practising doctor, U First Coaching programmes do not provide diagnosis, treatment or medical management. For any medical concern, please see your own GP or healthcare provider.
Ready to think differently about your next chapter?
Confidential, individual coaching for people ready to make deliberate choices and turn insight into action.