TESTIMONIALS

“What positive impact will there be?

 This was often the question Karen asked me, when coaching me in my role as Essential Skills Coordinator, when working in an Independent Specialist College.

She inspired me to look at how to improve my own practice and would ask me questions to help me discover how to open more doors for the young people we were supporting to be the best they can be, and of course also the best I can be in my work.

Karen’s coaching skills can be described as refreshing, open and through intensive listening Karen would ask me questions that will go directly to the core of what next steps need to be taken. She listens intently and, with empathy and honesty is able to guide you to new ideas, or possibilities and how you might be able to move forward.

After a coaching session, I would come away refreshed with new energy to tackle challenges or or just continue what I was doing, but with more consciousness on what impact I can make to other people’s lives, yet also to my own life and work.

Karen is interested, inquisitive, warm, and through her questioning, brings positive energy to conversations, which resulted in me feeling excited to see what I can do when searching to bring out the best in myself and the others I am responsible for.

Karen is deeply connected to her own life experiences and the world of education, evaluating together with you on how to find meaning and answers to your search for truth, progress and how to create positive impact.

As a coach, Karen will help you to find new horizons, bringing joy and fulfillment to your work and life’s questions.“

“I worked with Karen on completing my PPD and setting-up my coaching business. Karen has a great energy about her, which really helped with building rapport. Her questioning is empathic and curious and after our sessions I always feel like I have a greater clarity on my goal and what it really means to achieve it. The sessions have really helped me with keeping the momentum going and I have now almost completed the PPD and have set-up my coaching business. Therefore, I feel like I have achieved a lot over the course of the past seven sessions. It is has been a pleasure to work with Karen. “

“I had the privilege of working with Karen recently, focussing on identifying core values and directions for personal development. I’d never worked in this context before, but Karen was able to lead me through the process, using insightful questioning and thoughtful feedback, to enable me to reflect on what’s important to me and why I react the way I do. Being able to think in this way has been so useful, and enabled me to deal with complex situations in much more effective ways. Understanding why I respond to situations in the way I do, means I have been able to work with Karen to develop new ways of thinking and reacting. I was so impressed with the way Karen was able to see through my narratives to the key issues beneath, so that she could guide me to develop a new way of thinking. These sessions have been so enlightening and enjoyable: I would not hesitate to recommend Karen’s coaching, and am looking forward to working with her again.”

“I first met Karen over a decade ago, at the beginning of my teaching career, and her coaching approaches empowered me to believe in my teaching and the impact I was capable of having in the classroom. She was a firm exponent of the process rather than the product of learning and inspired me to take responsibility for developing my own professional knowledge, as well as setting my own goals. Karen treated me as an individual, rather than a generic newly qualified teacher, and was passionate about scaffolding my growth in a way that was right for me. Forming a connection and positive, respectful relationship were the major strengths of Karen’s nurturing style and from this came opportunities for me to reach my potential, both in teaching and my wider life, during the time we worked together and in the years which have followed.“

“Karen has provided numerous coaching sessions for me over the past months.  She has supported me to develop much greater insight into how I tick: my motivations, aspirations and competencies.  She made me feel at ease straight away and ready to be honest with myself, so that real progress could be made around the establishment of meaningful goals. Having the opportunity to talk to someone openly about my life and career has been an experience that I have found really valuable; it has helped me to think and act more clearly. Through careful listening and thoughtful questioning, Karen has enabled me to identify and achieve significant personal and professional goals.  I would wholeheartedly recommend Karen to anyone looking to engage in coaching to develop themselves at a personal and professional level.”