1 to 1 Coaching with Suse
Leadership | Career | LifeRegaining your confidence and gaining clarity
“If you’re always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be”
– Maya Angelou
Allow yourself the breathing space and thinking time to really get into what you want from your life and what you want your future to look like. Coaching conversations with me are confidential, ethical, honest, joyful and yes, often challenging. It takes work to see a change in your life and then to follow through to reach that vision, no matter how big or small the change is.
Life is short, how can you live it to the best of your abilities and your self?
Are you ready for change?
Do any of these statements ring true for you?
You want to enjoy your job
You want to have more time to do the things you enjoy
You want to show everyone the real you, the confident you!
You want to truly Lead Your way
You want to find out who you really are (not just Mum/Daughter/Carer/Partner/Friend)
You want to get clear on the next steps in your career journey
You want to feel confident again!
What do you want to work on?
Career Transition
Supporting you through a seamless transition to a new role, company or career change, focusing on mindset shifts, boundary setting, and building the confidence to start fresh without ‘new girl’ fears.
Leadership Development
Empowering you to redefine your leadership style, set healthy boundaries, and lead with vision and authenticity, while motivating and engaging your team
Personal And Professional Growth
Encouraging self-reflection and self-compassion, helping you to recognise your strengths, celebrate your achievements (ALL the Gold Stars!), and build your path to continued success.
Coaching For Women in STEM (Science, Tech, Eng, Maths)
Tailored for women in STEM fields to help you navigate the unique challenges in your sector, including addressing biases and barriers in male-dominated teams, leadership strategies and confidence building.
Tailored Coaching
What do you need a thinking partner for? It might be a specific goal such as prepping for a keynote speech, developing leadership skills such as collaboration, communication or negotiation. Or, you know you want to make some changes in your work or life but just don’t know where to start. Tailored coaching is for you.
How long have you got?
Empower Hour
A one-off, 60-minute session where you can dive deep fast and get a clear action plan created just for you and your career/life/leadership adventure.
3 Month Adventure
Go deep with 3 months of coaching sessions to help you figure and take action on living and working with your values and rebuilding your confidence.
6 Month Quest
Honest challenge, space to create new thinking and time to help you move through career, leadership and life challenges.
TIRED OF TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN?
It’s time for a shift, and it starts now. Let’s redefine what confidence and happiness mean for you.
Choose Your Adventure
Adventure 1
Empower Hour- 1 x 1:1 coaching session
- Preparation sheet
- Printed Action Planner
- 30 days of Voxer support
Adventure 2
3 Month Adventure- Deep-dive worksheet to get you started
- 6 x 1:1 coaching sessions
- An array of printable worksheets including values, career definition and action planning
- 30 Day Reflective Journal
- 30 days of Voxer support
Adventure 3
6 Month Quest- 12 x 1:1 coaching sessions
- An array of printable worksheets including values, career definition, leadership styles and action planning
- 30 Day Reflective Journal
- Optional free coaching tools for leadership session
- 30 days of Voxer support
I had a fantastic session with Susan.
She provided invaluable guidance as I sorted through my thoughts and developed actionable plans, helped me confront and overcome my fears, giving me the confidence I really need to pursue my goals.
I did leave the session feeling empowered and ready to take on any challenge.
I began my coaching journey, having never been the recipient of coaching before, and therefore quite uncertain of the structure or the likely outcomes.
Immediately Suse helped me feel secure and comfortable, creating a safe space where I was able to be extremely open and candid. Suse encouraged me to look closely at some of my ingrained behaviours and thought patterns, and challenge the basis of why I felt like an imposter, like I was just lucky, that my success hadn’t been earned.
By embracing Suse’s techniques and my new realisations, I have become secure and confident in myself and my abilities. I have delivered training sessions, and presentations that have received outstanding feedback, but more importantly I’ve felt good about delivering those materials.
My Approach
I take a values based approach with clients and work from a place of intuition and curiosity. This means that I’ll be deeply listening to you and picking up on what you’re not saying as much as what you are saying! My clients tell me I help them figure their shit out, feel empowered and confident with their leadership skills and rebuild their self-confidence and belief in themselves!
Most of all, my approach involves knowing that YOU have the strength and confidence within yourself, I just help you see yourself again.
*I’m a qualified Personal and Life Coach (Leeds Centre for Psychological Development), an EMCC Accredited Team Coach at Foundation Level and a Full Member of the Association for Coaching.
“I feel so positive about the changes I have made and can continue to make and really have to thank Susan for helping me to get to this point.
She comes across as a very natural coach who is really able to pinpoint what someone might be struggling with and can also offer some very insightful comments about whatever that might be while guiding you to work out how you might deal with it.
She is supportive, non-judgmental and very easy to talk to.”
“Suse is leading the way forward with her style of coaching! Perfect for people working from home, entrepreneurs.
Suse’s coaching style has a can-do approach.
If you’re looking for motivation and a helping hand in the right direction, Susan is your coach.”
How Do I know If Coaching is Right For Me?
Here’s some answers to common questions I hear about coaching
What is coaching?
Anthony Grant, a leading coaching psychologist said it better than me:
“A collaborative, solution focused, result-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth of the coachee.”
People decide to hire a coach for different reasons: personal development, business development, career growth, leadership and communication skills etc.
What these reasons have in common is that coaching is a way to bridge the gap between where you currently are and where you want to be. It’s about the coaching assisting you on your journey by enabling you to set goals and priorities, keep you focused and help you figure out how to be your future self.
Is it like counselling or therapy?
No. Unless they have a separate counselling or therapy qualification, coaches are not qualified to diagnose or treat mental health-related problems, although if the situation arises they may suggest you see a GP, counsellor or therapist.
Whereas counsellors and therapists may focus on your history and how you got to where you are now, coaching concentrates on where you are now and focuses on looking to where you want to be in the future.
Coaching isn't for everyone
If you want to focus specifically on any mental health issues, a coach won’t be qualified to help you. There is now so much help available for any mental health issues, including the fabulous Blurt Foundation, Time to Change and just talking to your GP or Doctor.
If you’re in crisis, speak to your GP or Doctor, call the Samaritans – they are there to talk 24/7, or just speak to someone.
If you just want advice or answers given to you – coaches aren’t your teachers or your Mum. Coaching is about facilitating the answers from within you through powerful coaching conversations. A good coach will challenge you but will not tell you what to do.
If you’re not ready to make any changes to your life. That’s okay, change is really scary and this might not be the time for you to make any changes.
If it's not counselling, why don't I just talk to a friend instead?
Friends are great to have but they’re not always the answer.
Coaching is not about telling you all the answers or just agreeing with you. See coaching more as a conversation that invites you to explore your goals for yourself. A coach is non-judgemental, does not offer unsolicited advice and uses open-ended questions to enable you, the coachee, to set the agenda and determine your goals and priorities.
What are some of the benefits to coaching?
You may gain several benefits from coaching, varying from having a specific time and confidential space for reflection, helping you clarify your goals, raise self-awareness and help you set direction. Read about some of the benefits and outcomes from my clients here.
What do I have to do?
Above all, be motivated to engage in coaching and be willing to embrace change. The gap between where you are now and where you want to be in the future may be very small or may be quite large – it’s the coach’s responsibility to support you but you will be setting the agenda and determining your goals.
How long does coaching last? Is it something I have to do forever?
You don’t have to be coached forever!
Coaching is most effective when it’s time limited.
I offer different programme commitments with my one-off ‘just in time’ Power Hour session to my 90 day coaching journey of fortnightly sessions. Even if you choose to ‘add on’ 1, 2 or 3 months of coaching at the end of your 90 day coaching journey, an additional 3 months is the limit for coaching with me.
The choice is yours. When you book coaching with me, you’ll also receive my 30 Day Reflective Journal for you to download and use to help you beyond coaching.
I have an accessibility need, can you provide this?
I am to be as inclusive as possible in my coaching. I can provide session recordings, transcripts as well as closed captions if we meet on Zoom. Coaching can also be undertaken by phone.
Do contact me with any other specific accessibility requests.
What happens in a coaching session?
What we will focus on in each session is entirely led by you.
Typically, a session includes where you’re at in that moment, what you want to focus on in the session, how you want to focus and we will then look at that focus point in detail (through a series of “powerful questions” to you).
You won’t feel rushed to find a solution by the end of each session (or even by the end of the group of sessions) but you will hopefully feel enabled to move forward with your goals.
Clients often talk about a ‘lightbulb moment’ when they realise through coaching exactly what they need to do to achieve their goals but this isn’t an expectation of every session!
Coaching is led by the client so I offer creative and practical coaching tools as well as us talking.
What's your guarantee?
There are no guarantees with coaching as the answers come from you.
I can confirm I’m an EMCC Accredited Team Coach at Foundation Level and a qualified Personal and Life Coach through the Leeds Centre for Psychological Development. These qualifications total nearly 3 years of training and learning with peers and training clients, both in-person and online. As part of my EMCC accreditation and my AC membership, I also commit to regular professional development and supervision. I also have completed over 100 hours of coaching.
I’m a Full Member of the Association for Coaching and I work within the Global Code of Ethics as signed by the AC and the EMCC.
Ready for some lasting change?
Let’s go!
