Career, Leadership and Life Coaching
Welcome to Cambridge Thinking Space
Helping you to achieve personal and professional growth
Life is full of options and change.
Sometimes we want change and need help to make sense of the options and path to achieving our goals.
Sometimes, our life circumstances change triggering the need to embrace change. Maybe your children are leaving home, starting school or you were promoted to a managerial or leadership role and ask yourself – how will I make the transition to being a good manager or leader? Or you decide that you have brilliant business idea but are daunted by making the next step. Or redundancy is on the horizon…
Personally, I have changed my career direction a few times. Having trained as Chartered Accountant with EY and experienced life in a large, multinational consulting and advisory firm for a decade, my following fifteen years have been spent working as CFO/COO in SMEs in and around Cambridge. I enjoy expanding my skills and knowledge set and I have trained as a certified coach with Cambridge University, followed by a Masters in Psychology. I am particularly interested in organisational psychology. What makes individuals tick? How do we best use our strengths?
Coaching is about increased self-awareness and achieving the desired change. What is holding you back, what is motivating you and what unconscious choices may you make to are not helpful? Are there any repeat patterns preventing you from reaching your goals? How do others perceive you? This is important for personal and professional growth. When we manage our impact and ensure others experience us in the way we intend, we build better relationships. It can help reveal blind spots such as how others experience you. It can help you in becoming a more effective leader by managing our impact and being clear on how we want others to perceive us.
Giving you time and space to think
I have this brilliant business idea but I have never run a business before. What options do I have to turn this dream into a reality? How do I go about this? Who can help me to fill the skill and experience gaps?
Do any of the questions resonate with you? Curious on how my career and leadership coaching could help you to grow your organisation, your team?
An integrated approach combining coaching, Psychometric and personality tests as well as mentoring
Confidential
Non-judgemental
Systemic approach
ChallengE & support
Cambridge Thinking Space offers an integrated approach to coaching by combining psychometric personality tests, 360 feedback and value assessments with coaching and at times, when agreed, mentoring.
Cambridge Thinking Space’s approach takes a systemic approach where career and leadership coaching also considers all other areas of life as our work is only one part of who we are.
Individual Coaching
Workplace Coaching
Meet Tina
I started my career at EY, one of the Big Four international accountancy and advisory firms, trained as a Chartered Accountant and worked in Tax Advisory before moving into finance and operational roles as CFO/COO with start-ups and SMEs in and around Cambridge.
My coaching focuses on career and leadership coaching where we explore career options available to you in the light of your experience, your values, your strengths and weaknesses and soft factors such as behavioural competencies. We also consider how you want others to experience you, how you can interact with others in a way that matches their preferred working and communication style.
Work is part of a wider life planning consideration and often my career coaching also will ask you to consider other areas of your life that matter to you such as family, friends, health and finances.
Proven Results
Transitioning from working full-time
C was transitioning from working full-time and wanted to find purpose and fulfilment in the third life. He felt that he had achieved a lot during his working life and built a successful career as a senior executive. He came to coaching with a view to plan his retirement.
The team improvement process
M as the new MD sought coaching as he felt that after he was promoted to MD he felt that there was tension in management meetings. His successor had been able to make the team gel but M felt that as he was promoted to MD and others retained their positions in the senior team, there were different agendas and friction at times.
Setting up on your own
L had dreamt of setting up her own boutique B&B for a while but whilst she had enjoyed working as a travel agent she had never written a business plan to present to the bank, become an employer and work out how to market her business.