Why Would You Consider a Coach?

James Flaherty says that a Coach is able to alter the structure of interpretation of the client by providing new distinctions and practices that become permanently part of the client’s structure of interpretation… the client, after being coached, takes new action because she is able to observe something that she was not able to observe before… Coaches take on the task of intervening in this consistency of response which we call habit. 

My clients come to me when they need direct support and encouragement to help them achieve, clarify, or act on their goals. Society places unrealistic expectations and burdens on women; often affecting their ability to advance their personal vision. My clients may need a coach because they are stuck in the overwhelm of day to day life; unable to act to achieve the big dreams they have for themselves. Other times, they may feel stuck in an unfulfilled job or life and need help to take concrete action to move forward.

As a Coach, I support women to know themselves deeply: to achieve their goals of personal growth, leadership, and professional success by focusing on building their strengths; addressing their limiting beliefs about their own abilities; and taking clear steps to move forward in their business, career and life. In a world that undermines their value and contribution, I coach women to reach their highest level of success by moving beyond technical competence to growing confidence, embracing boundaries, and implementing self-care practices that allow them to be courageous, decisive, and self-aware. My approach recognises that understanding yourself and addressing behaviours and habits that keep you stuck, is essential for your enduring success. I have a deep understanding of how to support women’s goals, and I supplement the coaching with access to resources and networks needed to accelerate progress.

How I Came To Be a Coach

As a Coach, I use my skills and experience, as well as my deep understanding of societal systems and what that means for women trying to live a meaningful life. Through my own experience of working with a coach and my work to dismantle inequality, I offer women support to thrive despite the odds stacked against them. I give my clients a cocoon of loving-kindness that protects them from the contestation and toxicity of the world outside, and I provide a supportive challenge that nudges them from complacency to action. My own journey as a Coach is founded on:

• the understanding of social and organisational dynamics allows me to be a more effective coach, and my coaching and personal knowledge of what it means to be a female leader in these contexts enable me to bring a more effective approach to organisational interventions. They are the interlocking pieces of the same puzzle, they reinforce and add momentum to each other.
• the somatic (body) work that I have been doing has given me a powerful tool with which to work with others. Who I am as a coach, and how I treat myself as a coach enables what I bring to my clients.

How We Work Together

• Deeply understanding who you are, and using assessment and coaching tools to enhance your capacity for self-awareness and self-reflection.
• Addressing the habits and behaviours that keep you stuck.
• Building the competencies required to move you to the next level.
• Leveraging your voice and agency to advance your leadership goals.
• Prioritising boundaries and self-care as the foundation that feeds your better self.

Actionable steps to realise and maintain progress and success; and to sustain your personal growth path.

What you Get from working with me

I have a deep passion for enabling women’s agency in the world. Through my career, I have developed a deep understanding of, and experience in the systemic changes that need to be made at both a societal and an organisational level to change women’s lives. As I have developed my coaching practice, and through my own coaching journey, I have a growing appreciation for how those structural and historical forces shape individual agency.

My Approach To Coaching

Our work starts with you. I help you to identify patterns, strengths and gaps in your skills, experiences, and ways of being. We co-create strategies, tactics and actions that enable you to achieve your goals. This includes building a strong foundation of self-love and wellbeing. You will get to know yourself deeply and strengthen your capacity for observation and insight to act more effectively in both your professional and personal life. My approach recognises that understanding yourself and addressing behaviours and habits that keep you stuck, is essential for your enduring success. We set concrete goals and track milestones to ensure that you meet your coaching objectives.

In my approach to coaching, I offer my clients both the tools for agency and an intimate understanding of the terrain that they need to operate in. Our initial interaction will be an introductory session, at no charge, for you to establish whether you believe you would get value from working with me. If you decide that you do want to work with me, I will ask you to commit to a minimum of 8 sessions to be able to see progress. The process will unfold as follows:

• I will ask you to complete an assessment that will help me gain insight into who you are and why you want to embark on the coaching journey now.
• In our first session, we will dig deeper into this feedback, allowing me to learn more about you, your challenges, and your vision for your life.
• I will provide you with a coaching goals template to record and keep track of your goals. This will be our guide to help you stay on track with your goals.
• We will meet every 2 weeks for 60 minutes. In these conversations, we develop a deeper understanding of the areas you wish to work on and explore possible paths to your desired future. We co-create actions and strategies that will enable you to start moving from the current moment in your life or business to a place that opens new possibilities for the future.
• In between sessions you will be given exercises or actions to implement to enhance your learnings and enable you to move forward on your goals. It is extremely important that you do this work like this, with the coaching conversation is what moves you forward.
• The coaching programme is a mix of self-reflections, observations, exercises, and practices designed uniquely for you. In this phase, you start to experience a new way of being; building new habits, new observation patterns and new knowledge.
• We will continuously assess where you are in the coaching journey and adapt strategies and tactics to meet you where you are.

Your coaching programme is unique to you – and is designed to challenge you and support you, accompanied by practical action that will lead to growth in attitude, behaviours, knowledge, and competencies.

A few reasons you can be sure of working with me

• As a women’s rights expert and advisor, I support clients like funders and UN Agencies to implement strategies that advance women’s rights and challenge structural inequality.
• I have a deep understanding of how to support women in a world that undermines their value and contribution.
• I will actively support your goals by supplementing coaching with access to resources and networks needed to accelerate progress.
• I am an experienced Executive and Board Leader, Business Owner and Certified Coach with the lived experience of growing up as a woman and facing all the personal, relational, family and professional challenges that go with it.

Group coaching

My group coaching programmes respond to trends I identify through my coaching and consulting practice. I work with groups of women to build new skills and behaviours that allow them to grow personally and professionally. Where appropriate I collaborate with relevant experts to bring added value.

Recent programmes include:

• Building a practice of self-love: 21-day Challenge
• Financially Free – supporting women to understand their money mindset and build new habits and goals that advance financial freedom.
• Productivity Prowess – building practices and actions that support productivity and wellbeing.

Upcoming group programmes are shared on the Events page.