My Credentials - Why Work With Me?

► I'm an experienced Trainer and multi-certified Career, Executive and Leadership Coach. I'm also an accredited Master Transformational, Mental Fitness & Self-Belief Coach and Careers Professional. Additionally, I'm a qualified Wellbeing and Embodiment Teacher and Practitioner.

► I have blended my extensive depth and breadth of experience into my pioneering coaching and mentoring methodology - The MindFlame Method^TM - a transformational framework that I use with clients to breakthrough limits, fast-track their success and rapidly achieve their desired results and outcomes.

► I have over 25 years experience of helping thousands of clients to achieve success within their work and life and supporting individuals and groups through career, personal and professional transitions.

► My eclectic background includes a professional career in Marketing, Travel, IT, Consultancy and Academia and I've also worked as a Career Coach, Executive Coach and Skills Trainer, Lectured in a University Business School and I was an Adventure Tour Leader overseas.

► I'm a Core Guide and Executive Coach for Chief.com, facilitating monthly Core groups for their powerful network that's designed for accomplished senior women leaders and executive women to strengthen their experience in the C-suite, cross-pollinate power across industries, and effect change from the top-down.

► I'm also a Consultant Trainer and Executive Coach for CABA, which supports all members and firms within the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a featured expert on careercake.com and I work with these and other organisations, specialising in Careers, Mindset, Wellbeing, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience and Leadership Development.

► I hold a Masters Degree (MSc) in Information Systems, a Degree in Business (BCom) and postgraduate qualifications in Career Counselling and Guidance and I'm a Master NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and MBTI (Myers Briggs Personality Type) Practitioner.

► Additionally, I'm an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, writing expert articles on business, leadership, career development, mindset and wellbeing for an international audience, reaching readers from over 65 countries.

► I'm trained in Positive Intelligence (PQ) and spatial referencing and find that these are very powerful approaches to use with clients to help anchor them in the present moment to enjoy increased levels of clarity, focus and enhanced wellbeing. I also work with pioneering profiling systems such as The Gene Keys to support clients who are undertaking depth coaching journeys with me to gain powerful insights and much greater levels of self-awareness.

I was recently an expert panellist speaking about Personal Brand and Resilience on the 'From Good to Great' webinar for the International Compliance Association

► My background includes over 30 years of extensive training, research and experience in careers, business, strategy and leadership. I've also studied and trained in strengths coaching, positive and developmental psychology, eastern and western philosophy and studied behavioural science and the science and research underpinning happiness, resilience and wellbeing.

► Additionally, I've undertaken in-depth training into relationships and communication, including personality, development and attachment theory and the psychological and emotional impacts of impaired early childhood and parental/caregiver attachment that continues to create ongoing repercussions in life, work and relationships.

My specialism is facilitating personal and professional transformation. This includes mindset, confidence and helping people to improve their life, business and career at every level, as well as enhancing their relationships, communication and wellbeing.

 

However, my work also goes beyond 'mindset' and cognitive approaches - and embraces ALL aspects of you

► I've trained as a practitioner in many mind-body techniques, including mindfulness, meditation and other therapeutic approaches. I focus on the conscious and subconscious mind and the nervous system to create optimum health and wellbeing and help clients understand what has shaped their patterns of thinking, emotional responses and default actions and behaviours. I use principles from neuroscience, neuroplasticity and the mind/brain/body connection and its impact on health, motivation, success and performance.

► This enhanced insight and awareness helps clients gain clarity about why they've experienced challenges and felt stuck and then clear up 'faulty thinking' or survival patterns to help them move forwards and create positive outcomes in their professional and personal lives and relationships.

► I've also engaged in over three decades of extensive personal enquiry and practice into spirituality, consciousness and physical and emotional healing to explore how these create more meaning and purpose and promote physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

► I'm fascinated by each person's story and personal history that has shaped and formed their perception and experience of life.  I help to trace the roots of the 'story' to understand how the challenges and symptoms that clients are experiencing are often a reflection of a deeper issue, upset or trauma that continues to have an impact like an open loop running in the background of their lives.

► I've explored and trained extensively in energy psychology and numerous therapeutic techniques that work with the mind-body, nervous system and energy. These include using technologies that facilitate inner balance and whole brain coherence, including Exponential Intelligence (XI), Reference Point Therapy (RPT), Spontaneous Transformation Technique (STT), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Hypnotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, embodiment practices and nervous system regulation and healing, as well as many years extensively researching and exploring trauma-informed approaches to wellbeing.  I've also studied Tai Chi and Eden energy medicine.

► I'm a qualified Nia instructor (a neuro-integrative somatic fitness method) and in 2009 I completed a 2-year Shamanic Practitioner Training as I wanted to explore indigenous wisdom, healing and energetic approaches to wellbeing from different cultures around the world - particularly to understand more about inner emotional, physical and energetic blocks that result in stress, dysfunction, lack of ease and other symptoms that many mainstream approaches find difficult to heal. 

► My approach blends cutting-edge knowledge and techniques with modern and ancient wisdom - using behavioural science, neuroscience and neurobiology and evidence-based research, alongside a spiritual underpinning and appreciation for the numinous and sacred aspects of life - gained through my own depth journey into exploring soul, shadow work, spirituality and consciousness for over three decades.

► This background enables me to create a safe and secure container for my clients and I help them to understand how they formed their self-identity and the events and circumstances that have shaped their 'reality' and lived experience.  My depth coaching and mentoring approach using the MindFlame Method^TM moves beyond techniques and 'concepts' and helps you reflect upon, then heal and shift WHO and HOW you want to BE in the world so that you can transform and recalibrate your identity and energy to align with this vision.  This provides clarity and focus so that you can create what you want from a place of peace, purpose, passion and power.