Licensed Firework coaches

I support people to feel good about themselves and to create lives that they actually like.

I help them learn to feel comfortable and confident in their own skin, to expand their self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-belief and self-trust in order to live more bravely and create more joy and satisfaction in their lives, both at work and at home.

I work with individuals who are experiencing self-doubts, over-thinking, over-working, second guessing, worrying about what everyone else thinks, feeling held back, frustrated, stuck and generally dissatisfied in their careers and lives.

My clients have mostly been early and mid-career professionals but have also included students, musicians, sole business owners and returners after a career break.

I help leaders and individuals who are in transition, finding direction, building confidence and resilience in times of change to enable clients to achieve and sustain success.

Before specialising as an executive coach, I worked as a senior HR professional for major blue chip global matrix organisations concentrating on recruitment, change management, acquisition and divestment, post merger integration, talent and performance management. I have worked in manufacturing, commercial, sales and professional services environments including well known brands such as Bayer, ICI, Syngenta, Siemens and Unigate. I also have experience of building supplies, engineering and banking sectors.

I am a Professional Certified Coach with the ICF, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Master Practitioner in NLP.

Contact me when you don't want to spend any more time looking at job ads and feeling disheartened. The jobs you're qualified for, you're not really interested in and the ones you ARE interested in, you're not really qualified for.

You've been thinking about a career change for a while (maybe years!) but you've no idea what else you can - or want to do. You might not even be 100% sure you want to make a change.

I was a psychology teacher and academic for 13 years before I made a change so I understand what it's like.

I'd no problem gathering information but I struggled to bring it all together into a realistic career option and a concrete plan.

That's why I trained as a Firework coach on top of my initial coach training: I wanted to provide a step-by-step, doable approach to career change at midlife. Firework's well-established framework, tools and techniques mean I can provide my clients with next-level support.

I coach for development and transformation. I take psychological and systemic approaches, and aim to enable lasting change by going beyond what presents on the surface so that my clients achieve the results they want with confidence. My coaching approach is characterised by: a belief in the client’s potential; building on strengths; the importance of the coach-client relationship and the trust inherent in that; focus on the here and now through awareness and mindfulness (moment-to-moment awareness of one’s experience, with no judgment); a holistic perspective; and a creative, experimental attitude. My clients speak of me as challenging and supportive, caring and tough, dynamic and deep, positive, warm and insightful.