Building Brave Leaders.
Transforming Organisations.
Most organisations don't have a talent problem. They have a leadership pipeline and readiness problem and the structures, capability, accountability and sponsorship that let the right people progress simply aren't in place.
I'm Monique Carayol. I spent 20 years in NHS leadership (15 in leadership roles, 5 at Board Executive Director level) navigating my way from PA to the boardroom. I've seen this pattern play out again and again: talented people held back not by ability, but by the absence of the right environment to grow into brave, inclusive leaders.
I founded Your New Avenue to close that gap. We work with senior leaders and organisations to build brave, inclusive leadership capability that drives real, lasting change.
What We Do
We help organisations understand what's really sitting underneath their leadership challenge — and build the right support around what we find.
That means diagnosing the specific gaps in your leadership pipeline, capability and sponsorship structures before we recommend anything. Then building the coaching, development and consultancy around what that diagnosis reveals — practical, future fit and designed to create lasting change.
We work in partnership with you. And we stay alongside you through the change.
Why choose us
I started as a PA. I ended up in the boardroom. Everything in between (the complexity, the politics, the transformation, the pressure) is what I bring to this work.
That journey is what makes this work different.
When you work with us you can expect:
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Honest diagnosis
We start by understanding what's actually happening in your organisation before we recommend anything.
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Real outcomes
Stronger leadership pipelines, more confident leaders, better succession planning and leadership capability that holds under real pressure.
Genuine partnership — we stay alongside you through the change, not just for the session.
03
Lived credibility
We've been in the rooms where the real decisions get made.
We understand the complexity, the politics and the stakes because we've navigated them ourselves.
Who we've worked with
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