MindFlame aims to support you, or your organisation to discover and evolve your potential, to feel more balanced and fulfilled in life and work, and enjoy meaningful success and enhanced results in your business and career.
MindFlame is the culmination of over thirty years of my personal and professional growth and experience. My journey has involved extensive research and study with world-class experts in multiple fields, plus wisdom and insight gained through overcoming numerous challenges in my own life, and engaging in many years of personal enquiry.
I've explored and quested to find out how to create sustainable health, wellbeing and happiness from within and to learn how to live my best, inspired life and help others achieve this too.
I have now combined this extensive depth and breadth of experience into my unique signature coaching and mentoring methodology and transformational framework - The MindFlame MethodTM to help you fast-track your success and rapidly achieve your desired results and outcomes.
★ What lights me up (my inner flame) is helping people to gain powerful insights and adopt new perspectives and behaviours to create lasting and transformative change. I also support people to build greater courage, capability and resilience in their life.
★ I’m naturally curious, very open-minded and enjoy exploring new perspectives and solutions and thinking ‘outside of the box’. I’m practical, focused and enjoy leading and developing growth and potential in individuals, relationships and teams. I combine intuition and creativity with logical reasoning, strategic vision and strong business acumen.
★ My big mission is for people to become the best, truest version of themselves - and live their lives as courageously and authentically as possible. I'm also keen to put the focus back on to the 'being' part of being human!
★ I enjoy supporting individuals and organisations to gain clarity and identify their strengths, values and purpose. I facilitate growth and change in a way that feels expansive, enlivening and positive for all involved.
★ My systems background enables me to use systems-thinking to address challenges and problems, using an integrated approach. I uncover what's working well and where there are issues to identify and resolve root causes and create sustainable change - rather than just fixing surface-level symptoms.
★ I support clients to develop their emotional intelligence in relation to self and others - and overcome self-doubt, befriend their inner critic and transcend imposter syndrome. We focus on developing your capacity for self-trust, self-worth, self-confidence and self-compassion - which are all positive and healthy forms of selfies!
★ As a wellbeing expert, I teach people how to create a healthy and strong foundation to live from and return to, no matter what is occurring in the external circumstances of our lives that we may, or may not have control over.
★ My work is evidence-based, trauma-informed and blends 30+ years of research and training in an extensive range of fields and techniques to understand the mind-body connection and how to create optimum resilience, wellbeing and performance.
★ My own journey of overcoming challenges and adversity has helped me to understand the complex relationship between our brain, mind, emotions, nervous system and interdependencies with other people and other systems and how that influences how we experience life on a psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical level.
★ I now act as an expert guide and coach to help people create meaningful success and restore balance on all levels so that you're able to enjoy lasting satisfaction in your life, work and career.
My Credentials - Why Work With Me?
► I'm an experienced Trainer and multi-certified Career, Executive and Leadership Coach and Careers Professional.
► I'm also an accredited Master Transformational Health Coach and Mental Fitness Coach.
► As an expert Wellbeing Practitioner, with decades of training and research in multiple approaches, I've gained knowledge and experience of what really works to manage and resolve stress and burnout and boost resilience and wellbeing.
► I have blended my extensive depth and breadth of experience into my pioneering coaching and mentoring methodology - The MindFlame MethodTM - a transformational framework that helps clients to breakthrough limits, fast-track their success and rapidly achieve their desired results and outcomes.
► I have more than 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 business background includes marketing, travel, IT and consultancy. I've extensive experience as a Career, Business and Executive Coach and professional development skills trainer. I've also lectured in a University Business School and I was a global adventure Tour Leader, working internationally.
► I'm a Core Guide and Executive Coach for Chief.com, facilitating groups of senior women leaders to strengthen their experience in the C-suite, cross-pollinate power across industries, and effect change from the top-down.
► I'm a Trainer and Executive Coach for CABA and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and featured expert for various organisations, specialising in careers, mindset, wellbeing, emotional intelligence, resilience and leadership development.
► My background includes a Masters Degree (MSc) in Information Systems, Degree in Business (BCom) and postgraduate qualifications in career coaching and counselling. I'm also a Master NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and MBTI (Myers Briggs Personality Type) Practitioner.
► As an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, I write expert articles on business, leadership, careers, mindset and wellbeing for an international audience, reaching readers from over 65 countries.
► I'm trained in Positive Intelligence (PQ) and mental fitness which are powerful approaches to help clients to access the present moment and enjoy increased levels of clarity, focus and wellbeing.
I was recently an expert panellist speaking about Personal Brand and Resilience on the 'From Good to Great' webinar for the International Compliance Association
► I support clients to achieve meaningful success in their careers, business, strategy and leadership, using a powerful blend of strengths coaching, positive and developmental psychology, eastern philosophy, as well as behavioural science, neuroscience and the latest research underpinning happiness, resilience and wellbeing.
My specialism is facilitating personal and professional growth and transformation. This includes mindset, confidence and helping people to improve their life, business and career, as well as enhancing their relationships, communication and wellbeing.
My work goes beyond 'mindset' and cognitive approaches and uses an integrated, whole-being approach to embrace the nuances and complexity of each individual or group
► My practitioner training in mindfulness, meditation, somatic experiencing and other integrative, therapeutic approaches helps to promote whole brain coherence and balance the mind, body and nervous system to optimise its impact on health, motivation, success and performance.
► These insights help clients gain clarity around why they feel stuck. It allows them to release 'faulty thinking' and outdated coping strategies, or survival patterns, in order to move forwards and create positive outcomes in their professional and personal lives and relationships.
► I help clients to understand how challenges are often a reflection of a deeper issue, or unresolved stress response that continues to have an impact like an open loop running in the background of their lives.
► I'm a qualified Nia instructor (a neuro-integrative somatic fitness method) and in 2009, I completed a 2-year Shamanic Practitioner Training, to explore indigenous wisdom and approaches to wellbeing from different cultures around the world - particularly to understand more about what can cause stress, dysfunction and other symptoms that many mainstream approaches find difficult to resolve and heal.
► My approach blends modern science with timeless wisdom - exploring behavioural science, neuroscience and evidence-based research, alongside an 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.
► My background enables me to create a safe and powerful container for clients. My depth coaching using the MindFlame MethodTM moves beyond techniques and 'concepts' and supports you to reflect upon and shift WHO and HOW you want to BE in the world and then align with this vision. This provides clarity and focus to create what you want from a place of peace, purpose, passion and power.
Other Life Experience.....
Discovering & Exploring
► I thrive on discovery and I've travelled widely and lived and worked abroad, through which I've developed perspective and insight from other cultures. My early career included leading small group adventure and cultural tours in Egypt and India and hiking and cultural tours in Eastern and Western Europe.
Travel & Adventures
► Other adventures have included travelling through South East Asia and staying with remote and untouched Hill Tribes when I was 19 years old, hiring my own Sherpa at 25 to trek part of the Annapurna Range in Nepal, cycling in India and spending time with indigenous Indians and native Shamans in the Amazon Rainforests of Peru.
Wisdom & Perspective
► These life-enriching experiences have helped me to learn from other cultures and gain further wisdom and understanding of how we can create more peace, wellbeing and happiness in our lives.
This ARTICLE describes my personal journey, which has inspired my purpose and informs the WHY behind everything I do
The Rest....
► When I'm not working, learning and exploring, my passions and interests include travel and adventures, hiking and biking, getting creative and sampling tasty and interesting food. I like getting into nature, sitting in a great cafe people watching and enjoy forging deep friendships, having great conversations and enjoying life with my two (almost adult!) sons.
Top Values in Life and Business: Freedom, Family, Spirit, Joy, Harmony
Top Strengths (VIA): Perspective, Social Intelligence, Judgement, Honesty, Curiosity, Creativity
Top Talents (Gallup): Connectedness, Input, Individualisation, Learner, Intellection
Sweet Spot (where my Talents and Strengths merge): Wisdom, Courage, Humanity, Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building and Transcendence.
If you are curious about these Strengths and Talent Results and want to know more, I can help you to discover these for yourself! *
* BIG DISCLAIMER! - I think that tools, techniques and profiling can be a great guide to cultivating self-awareness - but only as a 'guide' to help you find your talents and what makes you unique and helps you to shine - there is also a huge part of me that really hates labels and sticking myself or other people in a narrow and limiting 'box' - so I may also encourage you to free yourself from what you may 'think' yourself to be - to let go of labels, your personality and your carefully crafted identity so you can truly unleash your Genius, discover your true potential and start really living!
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