What is coaching?
Coaching for athletes and sports teams is well understood and is considered critical to growth and performance. A sports coach uses a variety of methods, including technical, tactical, physical, and mental training to set and achieve performance goals.. The best sports coaches know their athletes well, they understand that to help them be their best, they need to work with the whole human. They provide support, encouragement and challenge in a personalised way that works for each unique individual or team.
You don’t have to be an athlete to benefit from this multi-faceted approach.
Coaching is a development process that enables individuals and groups to grow skills so that they can achieve their professional and personal goals.
Why work with a coach?
Engaging a coach is an intentional commitment to your priorities, goals and yourself. In the same way you might dedicate time and resource to your personal fitness, your diet, or your reading and education, working with a coach represents deliberate effort and action in your growth and investment in your potential.
A coach plays a role that can otherwise be hard to find. They can provide a safe place to explore your thoughts, ask you questions and lead you through a process of self-discovery and broadening of perspective. Working with a coach can help you accelerate your goals, hold you to account and provide tools and suggestions along the way. Coaching allows for space, time and connection, and provide a thought-provoking and creative process to help you build insight and see possibility.
Working with a coach provides connection, clarity, encouragement and perspective, and maximises your true potential.
Specialist Coaching
Leaders & Entrepreneurs
Executive leaders and, entrepreneurs are super-heroes. You bear immense pressure, from investors, board directors, employees and customers. You balance limited resources, intense timeframes and unexpected challenges daily. You must switch from administrative and practical, tp innovative, big picture thinking without pause. You bear the burden of maintaining hope, belief in the dream and managing risk. Leaders are often alone, despite all the company.
Coaching provides space to reflect, clarify priorities, take new perspective and grow as leaders.
Working Parents and Carers
Balancing work and life is hard. But when you face the additional demands of children, solo parenting, ageing parents, additional needs like disability or poor health, it can sometimes feel impossible. . Time is the enemy, everything is precarious. One unexpected change and everything can fall apart. Burn out is real But there are many ways to manage better and find a balance that works for you.
Coaching provide the opportunity to pause, breathe, look at the whole picture with fresh perspective and identify practical solutions that lighten the load.
ADHD & Neurodivergence
Awareness and understanding of neurodiverse conditions such as ADHD is growing fast. In particular, older individuals are discovering their own unique brains, after diagnosis of their children. The new challenge in parenting can be overwhelming. While children receive support from therapists. adults are often left with the information, but lost as to what to do with it.
ADHD-specific coaching provides a way to get to know your kids, or your true self, and work out what you can do to manage your struggles and harness the incredible strengths you’ve always known are there.
Types of coaching
Individuals
Working with individuals to clarify purpose, strengths and goals. Together get clear on priorities and goals. We reflect on what works well and what might be getting in the way. We discover possibilities for growth and we try new approaches with courage and confidence.
Groups & Teams
Working with groups and teams who share goals and challenges together. We build insight into the strengths and opportunities to engage effectively together. We develop shared and individual approaches that serve your combined goals.
My coaching approach
I work in the context of the full picture, in consideration of the complex challenge of juggling career, family, personal passions, and responsibilities. I believe everyone is doing their best with what they have and know and I start from here. I am told my energy and enthusiasm are palpable. My coaching sessions bring insightful perspective, innovative problem solving and foster a true sense of support. Together we get clear on purpose and goals, and illuminate opportunities to build insight, perspective and a practical approach to achieving your goals and potential.
We start in the present. Slowing down enough to take the time to see where you are. When you are living a full, intense, high-speed life, we rarely do this, but this is where the magic begins. With your lead, we work together and following proven process from inspiration and hope, self-reflection, and exploration, to solutions and action.