I first came across coaching fifteen years ago, when I made partner at CMS Cameron McKenna and was allocated a personal coach (the wonderful Frances King). I was fascinated; so much so that I ended up getting my own certification a few years later, moonlighting as a coach alongside my private equity job. What got me hooked is the way coaching empowers the people I work with and how it operates from curiosity (on the part of both coach and coachee) and from a sense of open exploration. Plus, it works!
I now work one-on-one with select clients to help them build fulfilling, engaged and values-based lives where professional success and a thriving personal life are mutually supportive (not remotely easy, granted, but also not quite as impossible as it sounds).
Oh, and if you’re thinking “I don’t know about this, feels like everyone and their dog is a coach now and I don’t really understand the value add,” I get you. I wondered about that too – here’s where I got to.