What coaching with me looks like
It is not a coach’s job to tell somebody what they should do. You already have friends, colleagues and probably several people on the internet perfectly willing to do that for free. Coaching is different because the starting point is that you understand your own life considerably better than I do, even when you’re not entirely sure what you think about it.
My role is to listen, ask questions, challenge assumptions when it might be useful and create enough space for you to hear your own thinking more clearly. Sometimes that leads to a decision or a specific change. Sometimes it reveals that the question you arrived with wasn’t actually the question that needed answering.
My professional background inevitably informs what I understand, particularly when we’re talking about leadership, organisations, ambition or career decisions. I’ve spent more than 25 years in business and senior leadership, and I know what it is like to make decisions when the answer is unclear, manage competing priorities and navigate the expectations that come with increasingly senior roles. But coaching isn’t consulting or mentoring. I’m not there to tell you what I would do in your position. The useful question is what you want to do in yours.
