Certification:
An accredited life co ach
with The Coaching Academy,
the largest coaching training company in Europe.
For more details please visit www.the-coaching-academy.com.
Member of the
International Coaching Federation.
NLP practitioner.
PMI qualified
project manager.
Hobbies:
Playing tennis.
Trampoling coaching (started as a mother's
duty!)
Selling beautiful candles (ask
me about hosting a party!)
Coaching experience:
30 months in own small business: quite a learning
curve from large corporate!
Spare time individual coaching since accreditation
in 2004 until left
corporate job July 2005.
Group coaching of project managers 2004-2005.
Thirty years' experience in the corporate
sector (IT), including leadership
and management positions. Project manager 2000-2005.
Making career or
life changes is in many ways similar to managing
a project. Did you know
that all projects are considered unique, need
investigation of options to
define a plan, do risk management and monitor
progress to a goal?
Projects commonly cope with changes in requirements
and stakeholder thinking too!
She works with employees (company pays), individuals
and business owners, mainly in engineering/IT,
Finance industries and Sales.
Currently President at local Toastmasters group
in Bournemouth. (See www.cottonwoodspeakers.org
). 'Competent Toastmaster' having prepared
and delivered 10 speeches during 2004-2006.
Come to Toastmasters for
a great way to learn public speaking.
Background:
Farming childhood, Engineering at Warwick University,
Working at IBM (IT project management, 1st line
management, hardware and software engineering
and requirements management.) Used to analysing
complexity and delivering results.
Education:
MSc in Software Engineering in 2000
Beliefs:
Everyone is a unique individual, with unique
experience and unique ways to impose self-limitations!
Together with a desire for continuous personal
development, a supportive coach can help anyone
to make desired changes they truly want to make.
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