ZenZero Services FAQ
Clear, honest answers to the questions leaders, founders, and teams ask us most.
ZeroPoint for Leaders
Executive Coaching
What's the difference between executive coaching and leadership development programs?
Leadership development programs build skills across a group. Executive coaching works at the individual level, on identity, presence, decision-making and the specific leadership challenges you’re actually facing right now. Most programs teach you frameworks. Coaching helps you figure out which ones are true for you and how to lead from that place with conviction.
For women in senior leadership who’ve already done the programs and know the frameworks, coaching is often where the real shift happens. The knowledge was never the missing piece. The story just hadn’t caught up yet.
How do I know if I need 1:1 coaching or if my team needs a leadership workshop?
The simplest way to think about it, if the challenge lives inside you, start with coaching. If the challenge lives between people, start with a workshop.
If something has shifted in how you lead, how you feel about your leadership, or how clearly you can articulate your own direction, 1:1 coaching is the right starting point. That’s identity and presence work, and it happens at the individual level.
If the challenge is relational, teams pulling in different directions, communication breaking down, a shared purpose nobody can quite articulate, a Team Clarity Lab or Lumina workshop is where to begin. That’s alignment work, and it happens between people.
In practice many leaders do both, and the sequence matters. You can’t align a team around a story you haven’t found yet.
How long does executive coaching take and what does the process actually look like?
Most 1:1 coaching engagements run 3-6 months with bi-weekly sessions, though 12 month+ engagements are available for leaders who want to go deeper or sustain the work over time. Every engagement includes a Lumina Spark or Lumina Sales assessment to create a shared language for how you lead, communicate and show up under pressure.
Sessions are structured but not rigid. The work goes where it needs to go. Most clients notice a shift in how they show up within the first few weeks. By the end of a full engagement the changes tend to be tangible, clearer decision-making, stronger leadership presence, a more confident and consistent voice, and a much sharper sense of where they’re going and why.
Team workshops run from 90 minutes to a full day depending on what the team needs. Every workshop is designed around your specific context, not a generic off-the-shelf program.
What does executive coaching cost?
It’s a fair question and one worth answering honestly. Engagements are priced based on scope, length and whether the work is individual or organizational. Rather than publishing a rate that might not reflect what you actually need, the best starting point is a conversation. If it’s not the right fit financially or otherwise, we’ll tell you, and where possible point you toward something that is.
What is Lumina Spark and how is it used in leadership coaching?
Lumina Spark is a psychometric assessment tool that goes deeper than most personality profiles. Rather than putting people in fixed boxes it creates a nuanced picture of how you naturally show up, how you show up under pressure, and where the gaps between the two are creating friction, in how you lead, communicate and make decisions.
In coaching it’s used as a foundation for the work, a shared, honest language for understanding yourself and how others experience you. Most clients find it both affirming and genuinely surprising. It surfaces things they’ve always sensed about themselves but never had language for.
Lumina Sales applies the same framework specifically to sales and client relationships, how you build trust, read a room, and adapt your communication to different buyers. Particularly useful for leaders and teams where relationship-based selling is central to how the business grows.
ZeroPoint for Brands
Marketing & Brand
What's the difference between working with ZenZero and hiring a marketing agency?
ZenZero isn’t structured like an agency. We’re a boutique practice, which means engagements are smaller, more focused and built entirely around your specific situation rather than a service menu.
We start with story before we touch strategy or execution. That means before anything is built, written or launched we get clear on what’s actually true about your brand and what the marketing needs to do to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
You also work directly with senior people throughout. The thinking and the doing come from the same place, which means strategy stays connected to execution from the first conversation to the final deliverable.
If you need a large team running high-volume campaigns across multiple channels simultaneously, we’re probably not the right fit and we’ll tell you that upfront. If you need sharp strategic thinking and execution that’s directly accountable to your story, that’s exactly what we’re built for.
Do I need a full rebrand or just a brand refresh?
Most brands don’t need to start over. They need clarity on what’s already true and the discipline to express it consistently. A full rebrand makes sense when the foundations, purpose, positioning, story, no longer reflect where the business actually is. A refresh makes sense when the bones are right but the expression has become inconsistent, outdated or disconnected from how the business has grown.
The honest answer is you won’t know until you look properly. That’s where we start, with a clear-eyed assessment of what’s working, what isn’t, and what the marketing actually needs to do next. We’ll tell you which one you need. Even if it’s neither.
What does fractional marketing leadership actually look like?
It depends on the engagement, but in every case you get direct access to senior marketing thinking without the overhead of a full time hire. For fractional partnerships we work as an embedded part of your team, joining planning conversations, owning strategic direction and making sure execution stays connected to the story.
What it doesn’t look like is a deck handed over at the end of a discovery process with no one to help you implement it. The thinking and the doing stay connected throughout. Most fractional engagements run on a monthly retainer basis and are scoped around what the business actually needs, not a fixed package designed for someone else.
Do you build WordPress websites?
Yes. We design and build WordPress websites that are built around your brand story first, so the site doesn’t just look right, it says the right thing to the right people. Every build includes brand alignment, copywriting direction, SEO foundations and AIO optimisation so your site is discoverable by both search engines and AI models.
We work with businesses who need a new site built from scratch and with those who need an existing site rebuilt to reflect where the business actually is now.
Can you create and manage marketing campaigns?
Yes. Campaign work is always tied directly to strategy, we don’t run campaigns that aren’t grounded in a clear brand story and a defined goal. We plan, create and manage campaigns across social media, email, paid and content, and we build the reporting systems that tell you what’s actually working.
For businesses who need ongoing campaign management we offer this as part of a fractional marketing partnership. For those who need a specific campaign delivered we work on a project basis. Either way the work is senior-led and execution is directly accountable to strategy.
How We Work
About ZenZero
What is the ZeroPoint Blueprint?
The ZeroPoint Blueprint is the methodology that underpins everything we do at ZenZero. It moves through four phases — Zero Point, Alignment, Expression and Evolution — each one building on the last.
It starts with getting radically clear on what’s actually true, about a leader, a brand, or a business. Then it builds the alignment, expression and systems that bring that truth to market consistently. Every engagement, whether coaching or marketing, is grounded in the same Blueprint. The entry point and the application differ. The philosophy doesn’t.
Can executive coaching and brand strategy work together?
Yes, and for founders and senior leaders who are both the face of their business and responsible for its growth, the two are often inseparable. How you show up as a leader directly affects how your brand shows up in market. When both are aligned the effect compounds.
In practice some clients come through the coaching door first and find their way to the marketing work once they have personal clarity. Others start with brand strategy and realise the leadership work needs to happen alongside it. We’re set up for both, and for the rare client who needs both simultaneously we can hold that conversation across both doors.
How do I choose the right executive coach or marketing consultant?
The most important thing is fit, not just credentials or methodology but whether the person asking you hard questions is someone you actually trust. A good coach or consultant should make you feel simultaneously challenged and safe. If either is missing the work won’t go deep enough to matter.
Beyond fit, look for someone who starts with your specific situation rather than a pre-built framework. Ask how they’ve worked with someone in a similar position to you. Ask what happens when the work surfaces something unexpected. And pay attention to whether they’re more interested in telling you what to do or helping you figure out what’s actually true.
If you want to find out whether ZenZero is the right fit, that’s exactly what the Clarity Call is for.
Do you offer virtual executive coaching and marketing services?
Yes. All coaching engagements and most marketing work is delivered virtually. Clients are based across Canada, the US, Europe, Australia and beyond. Virtual delivery doesn’t change the depth or quality of the work, most clients find the focused, one-on-one nature of virtual sessions creates exactly the right conditions for the kind of honest conversation that moves things forward.
For team workshops and intensive brand strategy work we can work in person and we’re happy to discuss these options.
How do I get started with executive coaching or brand strategy?
The starting point is always a Clarity Call, a free 30-minute conversation with Ainsley. No pitch, no pressure. Just an honest conversation about where you are, what’s shifted, and whether working together makes sense.
If it’s the right fit we’ll talk about what the engagement could look like and what would actually move the needle for you specifically. If it’s not we’ll tell you, and point you toward something that is.
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