Welcome

You may have many questions about coaching, particularly if this is your first time working with a coach, that are not addressed here. I would be happy to cover those in a thirty-minute introductory call. Deciding to access coaching and selecting a coach are important decisions that are, at their best, life changing. Finding the coach that is best for you, whether that is me or not, is something I would be delighted to support you with.

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When coaching, my role is to ask questions, guiding you to delve into your current challenges and possibilities. This is the typical approach when a client is considering a career transition.

Coaching

When mentoring, I ask questions and also offer potential approaches to challenges, drawing on my professional experiences and knowledge.

Mentoring

To keep things simple, I will use the term ‘coach’ to cover both approaches. Either way, my focus is entirely on you and I bring all of my skills and experience to bear to support you in achieving your aims.

Focus

Coaching is all about you

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Addressing Early Career Issues – including identifying a first role, setting themselves up for success, resigning the first time.

Early Careers

02

Managing Career Transitions – including role, organisation and industry sector changes. This has also included managing transition to ‘retirement’ and moving from executive to non-executive director roles.

Career Transitions

03

Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness - often including conflict management and handling difficult situations, building influencing and other communication skills, moving from management to leadership roles, and developing leadership presence.

Leadership Effectiveness

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Addressing areas/behaviours that are holding up someone’s career progression or damaging their current performance.

Enhancing Performance

05

Working with non-executive directors to ‘find their voice’ in the boardroom, manage their transition from executive to non-executive and improve their effectiveness.

Board Directors

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Working with startups/early stage firms often around three areas – demonstrating leadership skills; building high performing teams; building a profitable business based on a robust strategy and execution plan.

Start-Ups

Issues clients frequently want to focus on

Testimonials

"I didn’t know what to expect from coaching. What surprised me was how quickly you understood the situation and its complexity and helped me and colleagues you also coached totally change our relationships from calamitous to positive and aligned with our organisational purpose. You helped us each see things from a different, and each others’ perspective."

Client Review

"Jeannette has the ability and the wisdom to cut through complexity and identify the root cause for every situation. At the same time, she has the patience to allow me to do my own discovery and reach my own conclusions. I have had the most personal growth thanks to her."

Client Review

"I wanted to say a huge, huge THANK YOU for all of your amazing support, wisdom, guidance, advice and encouragement this year. I really appreciate everything you have done this year to help me get through the uncertainty around the acquisition, and successfully secure and navigate the step up to CEO... I definitely wouldn't have got here if it weren't for you and your expert ability to ask precisely the right question and give exactly the advice I need!"

Client Review

"I just wanted to thank you again for your time today - I have come away feeling uplifted and excited about the future and I really appreciated your feedback and suggestions."

Client Review