Thanks for all of your well wishes for my new business. It’s funny – it’s new and yet it’s not new, if you know what I mean. I’ve been coaching for 13+ years now, and would class myself as an experienced coach; so what I do isn’t new. What’s new is running my own company, and I am learning about all the other pieces that run alongside the delivery of the service. It’s fun to be challenged in that way.
But why do I do what I do?
I am passionate about helping people to achieve their personal and professional potential, in service of a better world.
Transition and leadership coaching; action learning and team coaching; supervising coaches – these all connect to that purpose because they enable people to step up to that potential; and to knock down the barriers – whether those are internal, limiting beliefs, or external.
I am particularly fascinated by transition coaching since I went through my own huge transition from 23 years in corporates to this new life running my own company. I’ve been there, done that, am getting the t-short printed now! Of course, transitions happen to us all the time – it’s just that this one has been particularly challenging for me, and has enabled me to grow in ways that I couldn’t have done had I continued with the homeostasis of my old role. I’ve experienced the highs and the lows.
And I’m drawn to leadership coaching because that’s my background, in leadership development. I know what it takes to move up the leadership pipeline – what a new leader needs to let go of, new attitudes to embrace, new ways of spending their time. And I have helped many leaders to make those kinds of transitions from independent contributor to first line manager to team leader to functional leader to global leader etc etc. Every level requires a different set of skills and values. I love helping leaders to discover that path for themselves.
This kind of work serves the individuals, and it serves the organisations of which they are a part. I try I bring a set of systemic questions too, so that the individual figures out what their stakeholders outside the organisation need from them too, so that their actions lead to a better future for the world.
In years to come, I’d love for people to say that I was the torch that shone the light on their discovery of their passion and potential, and enabled them to shift their behaviours for the good of the world. That’s why I do what I do.
