Clare is a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) a Mentor Coach and a Certified Coach Supervisor. She has a Masters in Training, and a Certificate in Coaching and has received multiple awards for ground-breaking leadership development. For over 25 years, Clare has focused on maximizing individual, team, and organisation effectiveness. Clare's purpose is to enable people to express their needs, in service of a more caring world.
She is also the published author of three books:
- The Transformational Coach (2022)
- Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide (2020)
- Cultivating Coachability (2024)
"You leave an incredible legacy at this organisation that will live on"
Companies come to Clare to support their people to grow through big changes, rather than being knocked for six. They also call on Clare to coach great leaders to create a ripple effect in the organisation’s engagement and productivity. Clare coaches passionate people to live their best story in times of change and in times of stability. People come to her to make high-impact transitions from one company to another, from one role to another, and in stepping up to more senior leadership levels – or any other change they are making. They figure out what to leave behind and what to take with them; how to work through uncertainty; and how to make a great new beginning. They want to get clearer about their way forward, grow through the changes, manage their wellbeing, and enhance their own and others’ ways of being. Most importantly, they want to discover and honour their true, fully loving selves.
Clare’s approach to coaching is simple, non-directive, and client-centred, encouraging clients to work and think in an adult way with themselves and towards others. She helps people to look at things from different perspectives and explore options creatively. Clare contracts for results with her clients and their organisation, and holds her clients accountable for their actions, pinning them down and following up. Couple that with her use of intuition to say what she sees, and you get a transformational blend. Individuals say that Clare helps them to think deeply for themselves, brings greater degrees of balance and purpose to their work and life; and provides a safe environment in which to make sometimes uncomfortable changes happen.
I have worked with Clare in a variety of forms of the last few years. For individual supervision, group supervision, individual mentor coaching for MCC, group mentor coaching for MCC and for training as a mentor coach. I have also attended Mastery with Soul which she runs with Anna Springett.
I fully recommend Clare as a mentor coach and supervisor. As a mentor coach, she was instrumental in helping me achieve my MCC on my first attempt. Clare definitely embodies clear is kind in her feedback and focuses both on strengths whilst helping me see where I needed to strengthen my coaching or indeed stop doing things!
In groups she pays attention to contracting, ensuring individual and group needs are met. She is generous with her knowledge and resources and totally embodies an ethical coach, constantly seeking for herself to continue to learn and inspiring others to. I highly recommend her. - Helen O'Grady MCC
Meet Clare...
Our Outcomes
It’s easy to relegate “people development” to a low priority. After all, operating the business and creating value are urgent needs that demand our attention. There’s rarely a deadline around developing people… until it’s too late.
We cannot, however, just add “develop people” to our to-do list and check it off when we’re done. Developing people has to be integrated into everything we do. Every interaction, every conversation, every piece of work is an opportunity to develop our people – in service of themselves and the business.
As we operate the business and create value for our internal and external clients, developing our people has to be an integral part of it. In other words, it’s not something we do in addition to our business. Developing People Is Our Business.
That belief informs the way I look at the outcomes of coaching, which can’t be measured in Return on Investment alone. Return on Humanity maybe? Making meaning, improving well-being and mental health, and increasing engagement, whilst often the side-effects of coaching rather than the major focus, ultimately all have an impact on business results.
Please see our Case Studies for the outcomes of our work.
