I specialise in Personal Development, Life Coaching, Career Coaching, Management Development, Psychometrics and Executive Coaching.
My coaching style is personal and warm, professional and purposeful, flexible and focused, fun and real.
I help leaders and individuals who are in transition, finding direction, building confidence and resilience in times of change to enable clients to achieve and sustain success.
Before specialising as an executive coach, I worked as a senior HR professional for major blue chip global matrix organisations concentrating on recruitment, change management, acquisition and divestment, post merger integration, talent and performance management. I have worked in manufacturing, commercial, sales and professional services environments including well known brands such as Bayer, ICI, Syngenta, Siemens and Unigate. I also have experience of building supplies, engineering and banking sectors.
I am a Professional Certified Coach with the ICF, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Master Practitioner in NLP.
I love it when clients connect with a sense of a higher purpose or calling, when they tap into and honour their most deeply held values and let these be the shining light that guides their onward passage in life, whatever that might be.
Working with me, you can expect to be both challenged and supported, to gain new insights and perspectives, to be partnered and championed in finding and pursuing your path. You will identify your skills, strengths, abilities and talents and the different ways they can be realised, creating practical plans to achieve your chosen direction.
I use the GROW model and my style is straight forward and to the point. I use a background questionnaire right at the start to set the scene and we can then agree on the key areas to focus on. I use models to facilitate our conversations, and the tools from Firework.
I am a career coach working predominantly with mid-career women who want to find ways to work well and live well.
I’ve been a licensed Firework Career Coach since 2011 and am a CoActive Certified Professional Coach (CPCC). I specialise in career transition and leadership development coaching. I really enjoy supporting my clients to envision that “bigger” version of themselves which is lying just under the surface, waiting to be discovered. And then nudging them to step into that expanded and more dynamic space.
I have a corporate communications background, so I also like coaching my clients to find their authentic voice, to develop their personal brand and to communicate with impact and confidence. I often work with people in the high-tech industries – that’s been a major feature of my own background.
My clients tell me my coaching style is exhilarating, motivating, insightful and supportive. They get fired up and inspired as a consequence! I like to bring energy to a session and to support my clients in moving forward and in taking action in their careers and in their communications with others. Coaching can help you develop and articulate your career vision, but it’s even more powerful when you also use it to build that bridge to make it happen.