I have just completed a series of coaching sessions with Sue over the last 7 months which could not have come at a more appropriate time for me both professionally and personally. Through her coaching, I have gained complete clarity regarding my vision, my brand and my personal and professional objectives. Prior to my time with Sue I was in a state of limbo and now feel much more confident about the future. She has taught me tools and techniques that I will use in all walks of life. Highly, highly recommended.

I’ve just worked with Sue on defining my purpose. Sue has a fantastic framework to achieve this, that is simple and enjoyable but that also made me think on a much deeper level. Sue has a unique ability to hear you and to make sense of your thoughts and synthesise what she is hearing quickly; and to support you through this process too. I really enjoyed this session. It was an energising, clarifying and grounding experience that has given me renewed understanding and focus. I would highly recommend exploring and defining your purpose with Sue.

Sue has been helping me define my purpose and personal brand. I found the whole experience extremely enlightening - but also challenging (in the right way). Sue calls on a whole range of tools and techniques to really probe what makes you tick. The process opened up a lot of avenues for future development. All in all I have found working with Sue to be a hugely positive experience at a time when I have been investing heavily in my personal development. 

"Gamification in this challenging time is more than an opportunity and should be embraced by businesses, universities and schools. I found Sue's Remote Collaboration Challenge a brilliant ice breaker for a remote team to start working together, and find it particularly useful for online teaching in higher education as students can be based in different continents, have different learning habits and would certainly benefit from interacting and achieving goals from the beginning of their module by participating in this unique Challenge."

"Our current sporting environment at the club is centred on achieving team goals in performance, knowledge sharing between staff and players and most important of all, unity. We have a diverse number of skills sets in governance, administration, coaching and leadership and as a collective group we found the online collaboration exercise as the perfect way to analyse our adaptability in a fun virtual environment. Energised and already looking forward to our next one!”

Sue’s workshop will remind you of three simple things we tend to forget in the complex worlds we so often need to navigate:

we don’t need to have all the answers to find our way your instincts are usually right, trust them success is far more likely (and far more fun) if you work as a team

I spent 3 hours, with people I had never met before, testing this team activity in the virtual world we now see as our new norm.  It worked perfectly in this environment, a task so few team exercises could stand up to. 

Sue was an excellent facilitator for this event with just the right balance of interventions verses letting the team find their way.

I would recommend this event for a few scenarios:

Helping a new team come together in a virtual environment (although I understand Sue also runs this in the “real world”) Reminding an established team how they can have fun together and leverage each other’s strengths, even virtually Supporting colleagues who are unsure or struggling to move to working virtually As a coaching tool for colleagues who are working on their personal development in areas such as assertiveness, self-belief, self confidence

I wanted to thank you again for all the coaching sessions in the past couple of months. I’ve found the sessions extremely helpful in building up my confidence and leadership skills, and most importantly, reminding me to energise and focus on myself first. I really appreciate all the tools you’ve equipped me with and will try my very best to keep them top of mind.

Sue facilitated another great session for my leadership team today, taking us through a day on agile management. We all walked away from the workshop having a toolkit we can use in our everyday jobs. We have also identified a few key priority areas where we want to apply the agile principles we learnt. I am amazed at what we were able to accomplish as a team, with Sue’s excellent facilitation and the game we played not only helped us apply what we learnt but we also had a lot of fun doing it! It’s amazing what you can accomplish in a day - a truly transformational experience for us all.

When I signed up for coaching with Sue it was because I had recently transitioned from a long-term agency role to an in-house marketing role. I found this transition quite difficult. Sue helped me understand not just physically what I was doing wrong but mentally what obstacles I needed to overcome. In just one session I felt like I had been unravelled but gradually Sue helped me unpick my old skin and grow into my new role. Once this had happened, Sue then started assisting me with much more hands-on skills that would help me develop as a leader and company director, such as stakeholder management, effective time management skills and leadership. Sue’s experience meant she was able to help me not just tackle the problems I was facing but address the source of those problems both mentally and physically. As a coach and mentor I cannot underestimate the difference she has made to my well-being as well as my career. She is calm, collected, approachable and extremely knowledgeable, not just relying upon what she has studied but through her real experiences both as a coach and a professional.

Sue worked in our business for 10 years supporting our development as leaders. She coached us both individually and as a group introducing us to different aspects of leadership including how to encourage innovation and lead in an agile way. She made sure that we applied what we learnt to real situations and projects so that the business really benefitted.

I enjoyed the coaching. You challenged me and helped me to frame my own situation. You guided me to figure out what was holding me back and what I needed to do to make that better. You provided concrete things to do to change my mindset. I have more confidence, am able to show more leadership and put myself out there. As a result I have been promoted from Associate to Associate Partner.

I am now better organised, have a better sense of my purpose and leadership style and more confidence in my ability as a leader. I have learnt what proper leadership is and have more awareness of when I am in expert mode and when I am in leadership mode. I am more in touch with leading others to deliver rather than feeling I have to deliver everything. At home I have become slightly more assertive and clearer about what I want. You have been brilliant bringing a combination of both ends of the spectrum – warm, friendly, kind, generous and empathetic creating a safe space that inspires confidence and at the other end skills/techniques, knowledge and expertise. You bring the best of both worlds.

You have been a gift, a joy. You have been probing and patient. You have brought other examples to bring things to life but it has always been about me. You have created a safe space to explore how I feel in a respectful way. This is something I will always really cherish. The most important thing I have learned is that instead of putting other people first I need to put myself first in order to effect the level of deep change I am being asked to deliver. It starts with me. Also before the coaching I was either living in the past or the future and now I have really embraced being in the moment. I have learnt a lot about who I am and what my brand is. I also realise that my EQ is a plus for an organisation going through this amount of change. We are dealing with people first and foremost and how we make them feel is really important.

I’ve become much more self-analytical emotionally – I’m able to read my emotions better and also acknowledge them when they exist. I’ve become better able to coach other people about how to develop their management skills. I suspect the most useful thing from the coaching will be a certain amount of self-confidence in my ability and value to others. Overall I’ve gained a lot of perspective and self-awareness.