I do coach men and women – in fact, about a third of my clients are men.  I specialise in coaching women, but men suffer with Imposter Syndrome, or with struggling to define the kind of leader they want to be, just as much as women.  So I am able (and delighted!) to help them, if they feel I have the coaching skills they are looking for.

I coach and train leaders at all levels: from a first leadership role, all the way up to Managing/ Executive Director of an organisation.  While the scale of the issues might be different, the issues are often very similar: how to manage your Mindset so that you are showing up feeling confident, capable and empowered; how to plug skill gaps that you’ve now discovered you have. You can feel lost in your role at any level – and that’s where I can help.

Absolutely!  In fact I love building up long-term, deep relationships with organisations: when I get a deeper understanding of the particular opportunities and challenges of a specific organisation, that helps make coaching even more efficient.  I can place the issues raised during the coaching session more effectively into the specific context, and also use the appropriate language, which helps make coaching more relevant.

Coaching and mentoring are both very powerful tools.  Coaching is when an expert in the coaching process asks questions to help the coachee find the answer for themselves.  Mentoring is when an expert in a skillset or industry helps the mentee by using coaching questions, but also (where appropriate) offering specific guidance.  I do a bit of both: I get my coaching tools from my coaching training and experience; and I get my mentoring tools through my experience & expertise in the full range of leadership skills.  Part of the magic is knowing when to use which one – and that comes from a combination of instinct and experience, and is different for different individuals.  Even when facilitating I use a combination: both coaching the audience to find the answer; and providing an extra layer of insight from my leadership expertise.

Please download my Corporate Coaching Brochure for more information specifically on my Corporate Coaching, or my Corporate Facilitation Brochure for more information specifically on my Corporate Facilitation.  Or you can explore my Learn More section to get a better understanding of me, my coaching & training style & philosophy, and the results I get from my clients.  You can also book a free Corporate Consultation by clicking here.  This is an opportunity for you to explain your organisational needs, and for us to discuss how I might best help you achieve your goals.

Please click here to book a call directly into my diary.  If you can’t find a suitable time, please get in touch and I would be happy to juggle something to fit!

After my academic career (two degrees from Oxford University) and then my Civil Service career (a decade operating at senior management levels in the Foreign Office, Cabinet Office, Home Office, and then in the National Crime Agency), I retrained as a coach.

I chose to retrain with Dr Phil Parker to achieve a Clinical Diploma in Coaching, Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming.  When I was researching training providers, I took taster sessions to assess the benefits of different organisations’ coaching training.  Dr Phil is a world-renowned coach, and is the designer of the Lightning Process, which cured me of my chronic fatigue, so I knew the effectiveness of his tools and techniques in that field. Dr Phil Parker’s coaching training was the only one that I felt approached coaching with an understanding of neuroscience at its core.  And crucially, I experienced how effectively his tools could tackle underlying limiting beliefs when he cured me from being a “late person” to being an “on-time person” in just 20 minutes, after I’d been struggling with it ever since my teenage years.  I wanted to make sure I had the best possible tools to help my clients achieve their goals, and I know from personal experience that unless you resolve the unconscious blocks, you won’t get there, so I chose to train with him.  (And seeing the incredible results I can get for my clients using these tools, I’ve not regretted it once!)

Of course! Head to my 1:1 Coaching Page for more information or book a call.