"A coach is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist. They're for people who value unambiguous feedback"

The Business Journal, April 10, 2000

Imagine having your own personal mentor supporting you to be successful in your career?

If you are a motivated and ambitious executive or professional choose Denise as your career mentor

Top athletes have personal trainers, wealthy people have financial advisors, and successful people have their own personal career coach.

Denise had a successful career with Royal Mail - climbing the career ladder from clerk to assistant director in less than 13 years. She quickly learnt what it takes to be successful and can help you do the same.

You may already be successful but would benefit from executive coaching, having your own confidant to discuss business issues. With a counselling background and adherence to the British Psychological Society Code of Ethics Denise appreciates the need for business sensitivity.

From helping you prepare for a new role, to support and challenge all aspects of your business Denise can help.

• • Do you need to make a quick impact in a new role?
• • Would an external perspective provide a useful sounding board?
• • Are you technically brilliant, but need support in developing your interpersonal skills?
• • Do you need to review the balance between work and family?

As an outsider with no investment with your organisation, Denise is free to address challenging and sensitive issues in a constructive and supportive manner.

Denise can be your confidante, your personal sounding board. She knows that as a senior manager it can be hard to admit you need help and to know who can you talk with to get that help. Often you don't want to burden your family and it's hard to be honest about concerns with colleagues and bosses.

Coaching sessions are focused on what’s important to you. It could be around self understanding to help in relationships with colleagues, staff and clients. You may want to discuss a business decision (Don't forget Denise was an Assistant Director and also has a MBA). You may want to discuss how best to manage your career and how to raise your profile, manage your career while you manage your business unit and become effective at job search - both planned and unplanned.

Coaching sessions can also focus on what’s important to you at work, and perhaps in getting some balance into your life.

Take some time out - even if it is just half a day to review objectively what is going well, discuss your challenges, focus on your goals, create some new ones and celebrate your successes.

Let's talk. Whilst I offer various assessments and programmes, let's take some time to discuss your objectives so we can work out what will be the best way for us to work together, so it really helps make a significant impact for yourself and your business.

Example areas:

New Job - Creating a great first impression, and finding out to your optimum on what to do

Increasing your profile - Through developing a personal brand

Keeping in balance – Being a success at work but forgetting about family, friends, health and leisure leads to an unbalanced life, let’s get the balance back

Dealing with difficult people – developing effective strategies to get the best out of personal relationships

Quotes

“Your professional experience and qualifications made a big difference in my search for a coach, but from the sessions I was pleased to learn that you had made a major career change and had real experience of the challenges faced in doing so – I felt that I was working with someone who had not simply changed career to become an “instant” coach, as was the case for many coaches that I researched”. Alan, London

Why Senior Executives choose Denise

• Denise understands business, she has held senior roles including Assistant Director, Centre for Business Excellence for Royal Mail

• Denise has an MBA and understands business issues

• Experience – Denise is called on by senior executives when they need a confidential sounding board

• Denise is a highly experienced interviewer, assessor and knows what it takes to firstly get you shorted and then increase your chance for success at interview/assessment centre.

• Denise is seen as an expert in the area of developing successful careers and job search, regularly featured in print and on the radio. She is also the author of ‘How to Get a Job in a Recession’, ‘Winning Interview Answers for First Time Job Hunters’ and the forthcoming ‘Now You’ve Been Shortlisted’.

Client Examples

Fliss had taken over as sales director for the Midlands region and whilst successful to date, wanted to make sure that she would make an immediate impact in this new role. Talking with Denise on a fortnightly basis gave her an external perspective, to keep her focussed on business and personal goals.

Barry was noted as a success, but his macho style wasn't getting the results in this new role. He chose to work with Denise for some honest feedback on how others see him, to develop effective team working, and to ensure that the strategy was accepted by all so the staff worked with him rather than against him.