In a nutshell
I am a systemic coach.
As we move through life, our needs and focus points can change. In my coaching, I include elements of lifespan development, an area of psychology considering how adults develop and change throughout their life.
Career and life coaching allows you to focus on what you need right now from your career and how this fits with the rest of your life.
Working with a certified career coach allows you to assess how your career and work life interact with other areas of your life. Has it changed and if so, what changes would be beneficial to you?
Maybe you have the opportunity for a promotion to a managerial or leadership role but feel you need some help to “get ready” for this step up?
Or you want to work on your personal brand as a leader – how do you want others to perceive you? How do you want others to remember you? How do you get the most out of your team?
Maybe you would like to explore a change of career?
Have a brilliant business idea and would like to have coaching to help you setting up your own business?
What are your skills, your strengths, your personality and values and beliefs that influence how you experience the world? What job and occupation would be best suited to that? What is the best culture for you to work in?
OUR life systems
In my experience life and career are entwined and decisions we make in terms of our career development and choice affect other areas of our life.
our work and career system
Our careers provide us with more than an income – we also receive a sense of identity from our work life so disentangling how our work life and our personal life connect and what changes are possible and needed can be part of our coaching work.
Learn more about my unique approach
At which point of your career are you?
how cambridge thinking space can help you:
- Are you starting out after training or finishing a university degree? Speaking with a career coach helps you to clarify your values and how they influence your career and choice of employer . What skills and experience are you able to offer, what industries do attract you and what is your working style? A career coach can help you to find employers offering you the career development and training opportunities to match your preferred working and learning as well as personality style.
- Have you had a few years work experience and are wondering what next? How do you see the world now? What have you enjoyed in your first years and what do you know now about what motivates you? What support do you expect and want to ask for from an employer to support your career development? What non-work aspects do you want to consider and incorporate into this next step?
- You love your job but you feel that you could benefit from increasing your soft skills bring out the best in yourself and others? Success in your career is dependent on your ability to manage yourself and understand the preferred working style of others. Creating a safe and fair environment, providing your staff with autonomy and setting clearly defined and measurable goals will take you a long way. You may have read books and attended training sessions. But how to go about embedding them in your daily work life? A career coach can help you to assess the work system you operate in, evaluate your strengths, discover how to use them to overcome challenges and invite feedback from others. I am able to signpost you to helpful reading materials. We can run through scenarios and practice your managerial and leadership skills either through role play or by reviewing real-life situations you have encountered and reflect what you could do differently the the next time.
- Are you starting to focus on family life and needs, looking after elderly parents? How does this interact with your work life and career development and other areas such as health, fitness and time for personal interests? Working with a career and life coach allows you to step back and evaluate how work and personal life interact.
Trust and a non-judgemental approach are the key prerequisites for a successful coaching relationship.
My role is to:
- Provide a safe environment based on respect and free of judgment to explore your options, what works well at the moment and what you feel would benefit from change
- Support you in the process of deciding on a coaching goal
- Support and, at times, challenge you to identify blind spots and raise awareness of what your needs, your preferred ways of behaving and how they impact on those around you and vice versa
- Allow you to explore options as you are the expert in your life knowing what works for you and what not.
- Be there and use coaching interventions to help you to explore options, design action plans, consider possible challenges and work out alternatives.
- Hold you accountable through regular reviews of actions and outcomes and help you to reflect on what needs to be adjusted so that you can deal with challenges and unforeseen obstacles.
Your role is to:
- Be open to reflection on what is currently happening in your career and life, what is helpful and consider what the ideal future looks like.
- Consider and share possible options to achieve the goals and the future ideal
- Be open to challenge and consider feedback from the coach and other people to learn about blind-spots and development areas. The coach will be able to hold up a mirror to allow you to see how others experience you.
- Choose and trial action plans, take responsibility for implementing actions and be open minded to adjustment in the plans whilst embarking on the journey for change.
Free inital consultation
The coaching relationship is often considered the most important ingredient to a successful coaching outcome. I therefore invite you to meet me for a free initial consultation to see whether you feel that we will be able to build mutual trust and rapport. I invite you to meet with a number of coaches to find the one you click with.
Have a look at my coaching approach page to learn how I coach and what to expect.