How do your offerings all fit together?

Here’s a Gantt-chart-style picture to help people who prefer a visual. Get in touch if you would like to discuss the details and explore a tailor-made approach.

The world’s going to hell in a handbasket. What can I do about it?

For starters, DON’T PANIC*

(*refer to homepage)

Notice what you are focussing on. Can you control it? Can you influence it? If not, bring it back in. Reduce the overwhelm.

There’s a reason why they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on first during the safety briefing on a plane. Only then are you in a position to help other people around you. So maybe a good place to start is with yourself and how you react in certain situations. My mental fitness intensive helps you reclaim your natural strengths without the negative impact of your saboteurs.

If you are ready to take action - start a project of some kind - and are not sure where to start, start with something which is important to you. This is why I offer the “deep dive”/career coaching option, as many of us have simply not had the opportunity to really explore this. We threw ourselves into building a career and earning money. This has lead us to a certain sense of stability, but if it feels like something is missing, it’s worth going deeper to explore.

There are so many people who have skills and resources which aren’t being used to their full potential yet. I imagine a future where more people are fulfilling their potential, feeling more alive, and making a difference in the world around them. The charismatic heroes do have their place in the world. And what could be possible if thousands of normal people stepped outside their comfort zones a bit?

How do I know if I’m ready to work with a coach?

Do you want to learn and grow, and are you ready to “get unstuck” and move forward?

Are you willing to question yourself and think differently?

To realise what is holding you back?

The lines can be a little blurry between coaching and other forms of support, so I have included below some definitions of coaching to help you see if they strike a chord with you.

• If you feel a pull towards exploring your past first, before looking towards the future, then that may be a sign that therapy may be more suitable.

• If you would like advice and top tips, this might be a sign that training or mentoring may be more appropriate.

As a certified Positive Intelligence coach, I do also offer the mental fitness programme as part of my coaching packages. This app-based programme helps you understand how your mind works and build your mental fitness. It helps you to tackle the root causes of your behaviour, so it is a fantastic way to lay a solid foundation for coaching.

What is the time commitment?

Everything I offer can be fitted in around a busy job and home life if needs be.

• A typical coaching contract is 10 hours over a 3-6 month period.

• The “deep dive”/career coaching process typically takes 3-6 months if you are in full-time employment. It includes 12 hours’ coaching plus some powerful exercises for you to do by yourself and bring to our meetings to discuss.

• The mental fitness foundation training is a 6 week intensive, with 7 videos to watch at the weekend and a weekly call, with 4 months non-intensive work to explore work and life applications. More details here.

We will agree how frequently we’ll meet in a way which accommodates your schedule and any time-specific goals you might have. Some sessions may only require an hour or less, and others may require longer, if we are doing certain exercises together. Sometimes you might prefer a shorter check-in and other times you might want to carve out 2 or 3 hours.

I work remotely (Zoom/Teams) and face-to-face (Brighton, London and further afield as required).

If you’re hesitating, ponder this:

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.

The second best time is today!

If I do career coaching, does that imply that I want to leave my job?

No!

It shows that you are ready to take things to the next level, and that may well be a “win win” for you and your employer.

One of the best bosses I ever had used to say “If you get contacted by a headhunter and are curious, I want you to follow up. That way, if you choose to stay in my team, you know why you are choosing to stay. I don’t want people just staying here by default.” I respected him for that openness and honesty, and it’s one of the reasons I stayed in his team.

The same applies here… my career coaching programme helps you explore what is really important to you and identify your options. You’ll choose a path and be confident about your choice. You may decide to leave, or you may decide to stay where you are and harness your energy, passion, network and influence to help your current employer raise their game.

What is coaching?

Here are a couple of my favourite definitions:

• “Unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them” (Whitmore 2003), and

• “Coaching is about enabling individuals to make conscious decisions and empowering them to become leaders in their own lives” (Wise 2010).

What if, deep down, you already knew the answers to your most important questions? My job is to help them up to the surface, and to accompany you on your journey.

The official definition of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) is: “partnering with clients in a creative and thought-provoking process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.”

“Coaches do not act as experts or analysts even when they have relevant experience and education. Coaches are essentially thinking partners focused on helping clients use their creativity and resources to see beyond their blocks and solve their own problems.” (Marcia Reynolds, “Coach the person not the problem”)

My privacy policy is available here.

What do you charge?

My standard rates are in line with the market for executive coaching.

I also offer a sliding scale model with reduced rates (e.g. for social enterprises and not-for-profits).

I recommend that if you like what you’ve seen so far on here, you book a discovery session and we take it from there. We can discuss why you are seeking coaching, understand whether there’s a mutual fit, and scope out the type of work we are likely to do together and for how long.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,

it will direct your life and you will call it fate”

(Carl Jung)