Experienced Life Coach
Life Coaching - What Type of Person?
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Life coaching is effective for well-functioning, outwardly successful (perhaps inwardly empty) men and women, partnered or single, aged 20 - 55 who are ready and willing to change their lives.
My clients do not tend to be celebrities or big-shots (though even they are only human and are most welcome!). My natural approach to Life Coaching is effective for responsible, intelligent, motivated and successful people.
With alacrity, I partner with intelligent, successful people who want to excel at their passion, gifts and unique talents. My clients include CEOs, entrepreneurs, executives, lawyers, directors, managers, professionals, freelancers, creative people and people who are not aware of what they are here for. I have personally been involved or exposed to many professions and businesses; it often it helps to have some insight as to how their career or industry works when coaching clients. Get in touch if you have an unusual business idea, I am always ready for new challenges!
Are you Coachable?
Yes, if...
You want to be responsible for your life.
You are intelligent, enthusiastic and committed to getting more out of life.
You realize that if you "Do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten."
You know that change will put you on the path of your dreams.
You are action-oriented about improving your life.
You are committed to being the best you can be, not just in one area of your life, but in your entire life.
Some of us are aware of the way that our authentic nature manifests in our lives – as a direct result of the challenges that arrive on a daily basis; while others wander through their lives, oblivious.
Feedback and references of great life coach clients can be found here.
Experienced Coach -- Some of the Careers that I have Coached
The following table is a partial list of client careers to illustrate the diversity of careers and backgrounds of the people that I have coached.
Personal Assistant, Catering FMCG Global Manager IT Manager
Owner/MD, Advertising Agency Book Publisher, VP ER Nurse
Investment Analyst Property Management Accountant Owner, Events Company
Contract Accountant Programmer CEO, Newspaper Publishing
CEO, Property Investment Empire Social Worker Investment Manager
Retired Ad Agency Exec Office Manager NHS Executive
Owner, Management Consulting Firm Online TV Editor IT Contractor
Telco Security Executive, EMEA Returning to work Mother TV Personality
Telco Executive Oil Industry Regulator Millionaire Inheritance Recipient
VP Venture Capital Partnership Retired Telco Executive Theatre Producer
Graphic Designer Software Engineer DJ
Headmaster, Secondary School Hypnotist Entrepreneur
Advertising Agency VP Lazy wastrel IT Executive
TV Producer IT Solutions Project Manager CEO, Investment Bank
Nightclub Owner Owner, Furniture Business Owner, Software Company
Television Personality Executive PA Investment Portfolio Analyst
Owner, Graphic Design Agency Primary School Teacher Massage Therapist
CEO, Magazine Corporate Finance Attorney Software Technology Consultant
FMCG Sales Executive Telecoms Executive Advertising Agency Department Head
Insurance Industry Executive Media Sales and Marketing Inheritance Beneficiary
Medium / Clairvoyant Insurer Deputy CEO Music Teacher
Trainee Barrister Travel Business Owner HR Manager
Management Consultant Hairdresser Lap Dancer
Oncology Consultant Goddess PR Executive
Divorcee Full Time Mother Returning to work
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Experienced Coach -- Some typical Life Coaching assignments
So what do people use a life coach for? We are all pilgrims. Have you ever stopped to think… Where am I on my journey?
We all awaken to different aspects of ourselves at different times in our lives. The following scenarios outline some of the types of life-coaching engagements that I have worked on (modified for confidentiality). You can see how clients are at different stages of their unique journey. In each case I was able to align with, and then work as a catalyst for my client; helping them find their own answers so that they could move onto the next phase of their unfolding life-journey, comfortably. My customised work in all cases took place at a spiritual, revealing, nurturing, supporting, purposeful, intuitive, strategic, realistic and loving level of discovery and self empowerment. Perhaps you can see yourself in the following examples? It is not important. Every one of these assignments is about change. More of something, less of something. I can help you make changes, if you are ready.
Work and Career Assignments
I have been working at this job for 10 years. I am very successful. I am very unhappy…. And I need to change.
I need to stop being bullied at work and go make my dream business happen
I am just starting my career... what shall I do?
I have been climbing this ladder for the last 20 years. I feel empty. I cannot spend the next 20 years of my working life in this state. Life is passing me by.
I want to start my own business... what if I fail
I need to get out of this monster company I have created.
I am going to become a sail boat charter owner... how can I make it happen?
I am ready to start my restaurant bar.
I am a burnt out workaholic entrepreneur, I need to simplify things.
They just keep piling the work on; I am at breaking point. I need a way out, but I'm stuck.
I want to be a Life Coach (life Coach training)
I need to get out of the career; but I do not want to let anyone down.
I do not like this career, get me out, I do not know what to do.
I hate myself. I hate my job; but it supports our lifestyle... and I cannot let that go.
What shall I do with my retirement?
I have so many options. I am so capable. But I am stuck.
I need to get appointed to the board... but they won't let me.
I am a life coach and I need a coach?
They are about to fire me. I need to be fearless. I'm off to France
I need to create a business plan and attract new business to my new practice
I always wanted to be a priest, but never followed my calling... should I?
I am head of a large law-practice. There is no time for ME. What about me?
I am ready to maximise my potential. Make life rock!
I need to bring my career success into my personal life.
I am ready to start work after being a mum for so long. I want to start my own business in nutrition.
How do I leave this fantastic lifestyle... but I have had enough of this job.
Unhappy with Life Assignments
I need to stop watching Friends re-runs and get a life
I need to stop being so work focussed and find my life-partner, settle down and have babies
I need to love myself (more)
I need to be loved. I need to set boundaries.
I need to get out of the house and get a job. I am lazy.
I have read all the self-books. I have attended all the self-help seminars. I still do not know what I am here for.
My wife tells me I'm having a mid life crisis, is that true?
I just need to know what to do next. This isn't right.
Who am I? I am not so sure any more.
How can I break out of being a PA? I want to start my own company.
Do I stay in the UK or move to the sun? I want to travel.
I am a keenly intelligent. Successful. Working 12+ hour days, I am burning out… and this is not what I am here for.
I am so unfocussed, always late, and unsure what is next.
I am ready to bring awareness into my life. Simplify. And live my life authentically.
I have lost everything. I need to reinvent myself after a major illness.
Family and Relationships Coaching Assignments
I need to stop crying all the time. Will I ever fall in love?
I am lonely. I know it is because I am so unhappy at work that I am so miserable… nobody wants to get to know a miserable person.
I want to have fun with my children
My wife says I'm boring... and I believe her.
I have been married for 30 years, I am retired. I am unhappy.
Should I stay or should I go? Do I divorce?
I have just realised how much I want a love-affair, but all I do is work work work.
DO I settle down and make babies?
Do I remain a partner in my company or devote myself to my kids (who never see me)
My partner just left me. I am devastated. I do not know where to start.
I need pushing over the edge to make my life change
I have been with an abusive partner for way to long. I am ready to get out and reinvent myself.
My kids are in Spain. I am here. Where should I be?
I just feel so empty.
The list goes on… Where are you in your life journey? Could you use a life coach to unblock your thought patterns and release you into the next chapter of your precious life?
When you wake up to a deep-felt knowing that you have to make changes, perhaps now is the time to work with Great Life Coach?
Experienced Coach -- People from all around the world
England is a beautifully cosmopolitan place to live. Many world travellers and relocated workers wash up in the UK. Often the life-situation that arises when we find ourselves out of our usual comfortable environ gets us to re-evaluate what we are doing with our lives.
Travellers, Relocations, Immigrants, Foreigners, Visitors and Citizens of Planet Earth
When we take up the challenge of a journey away from our homelands, we become our own hero and we tend to be more attuned to the way that life unfolds out of the present, creating paths, options, opportunities and lessons for us on-the-fly. Travelling is so often one of the freest and exciting times of our life. It also reveals to us that we have a will, our own will. We get to experiment with our will to make choices for ourselves both in the micro-sense – shall I go to that bar again tonight, and in the macro-sense – shall I settle down in this country, establish my career and make the next phase of my life here? Sometimes the latter becomes overwhelming and the help of a lifecoach can profoundly help you establish the right choices to make (for you).
I often work with folks from other countries and have helped people unravel the following sorts of life-challenges.
Shall I stay in the UK?
relocating to the UK and starting a new life
Shall I marry my beau and settle and have 8 kids?
Shall I extend my trip?
Shall I go back home… and then what?
How do I reconcile my home-sickness?
My husband was relocated and I need a life here!
How do I quit the bar and party scene (get a life!)
How do I juggle being a bohemian and an executive?
What is the right career path for me, I can’t temp for ever?
My travels have made me spiritually aware of myself, how do I embody that gift into a working life?
I have worked with Americans, Australians, Austrians, South Africans, Canadians , Egyptian, French, German, Polish, Italian, Kiwis, Dutch, Greek, Sri Lankans, Greeks, Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Scots, Irish and Yorkshiremen to name a few. If you are a guest to the UK, feeling uncertain, lost, stuck in a fog or in need of some supported strategic thinking get in touch!
If you live outside the UK, I also offer Telephone based coaching worldwide.