Taking my influences from humanistic, positive and transpersonal psychology, coaching to me is about the development of a person beyond the everyday fulfilling of objectives. I believe that each individual is capable of much more than their current performance, and that given proper opportunity, with the promotion of learning, development and personal growth, coaching can empower an individual to become truly effective, achieving greater meaning and purpose in their life (not just their career).

My approach to coaching practice ultimately centres on building an effective relationship, and by putting the client at the heart of the whole process, I am able to create the conditions in which they can explore their present situation, and move towards taking positive action.

Testimonials:

• “Stepping back in a safe environment and being asked some really simple questions had a significant impact on how I approached areas of work that were unclear and difficult to get a handle on.”
• “Her impartial perspective, excellent questioning and prompts have helped me look at a problem with a fresh pair of eyes.”

Valuing personal growth, I have a curious nature, believing that life is full of possibilities. I value being able to support people to achieve their full potential by helping you move your thoughts to action with clarity and focus.

As a coach I am supportive and encouraging although where appropriate I will challenge your thinking to raise self-awareness, leaving you feeling empowered and motivated to achieve more.

Having a passion for learning, I have over 25 years’ experience of working in both the private and public sector within learning and development as a manager, coach and facilitator.

Testimonials:

• “Barbara has provided me with a safe space to challenge my thinking to enable me to reflect on what the reality is versus what I think.”
• “You made me feel supported and listened to, I left the sessions motivated to put new thinking into practice – thank you!”

I have recently completed the ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring and I am looking for coachees to work with to continue my coaching journey.

I am interested in supporting people through coaching approaches to find their own solutions to unlocking their potential. Having been a coachee previously myself, I understand how powerful coaching can be.

I am particularly interested in the areas of personal effectiveness and growth, and maintaining health and wellbeing while balancing commitments of work and life. I favour a collaborative approach to coaching, where the coachee has the space and flexibility to explore and identify their own solutions through the coaching conversation.

My coaching style is open and honest. My aim is to create the space for you to explore your thinking and assumptions, to enable alternative perspectives and actions to take place.

I specialise in organisational change and development with a philosophy of understanding yourself and your networks first, to enable the right engagement with people, to inspire the best result.

• Leading yourself and understanding what holds you back
• Leadership behaviour and complex systems
• Team Development
• Engaging others for effectiveness
• Change Management and application for positive results
• Personal resilience and wellbeing

I have over 20 years’ experience of coaching and mentoring and 25 years of being a mentee. I have mentored people to help them prepare for their next steps, refine soft skills and help overcome obstacle in their career path. In the last 15 years I have mainly focused on mentoring people who are new to leadership and as well as offering mentoring support for people within diversity and inclusion networks.

All of my formal mentoring experience has been within the private sector. I joined the NHS in 2018.

I personally have utilised mentors to help me refine my leadership skills and in particular to help me work on being a vulnerable leader. My mentors have helped challenge and support me to experiment with my leadership style and take risks that I may not have taken on my own.

I am an experienced leader and a Situational Leadership trainer for over 20 years. I have managed small and very large teams and developing others has been what has fulfilled me the most in my career.

I have a background in sports coaching, secondary education, and children’s health and wellbeing. Over the past decade, I have worked across education and the NHS, supporting programmes and partnerships that improve outcomes for children, young people, and communities.

My coaching approach is supportive, reflective, and down-to-earth. I create a safe space where people can pause, think things through, and explore what matters most to them. I use curiosity, active listening, and gentle challenge to support clarity, build confidence, and identify practical next steps.

I am particularly interested in supporting people through change, developing in their roles, and strengthening their leadership approach.

If you are unsure about the coaching process, please feel free to get in touch for an informal chat to explore any questions you may have before deciding whether coaching is right for you.

Helen commenced nursing in 1984 and worked as a nurse for 17 years, mostly in cancer care, culminating with managing a 27 bedded radiotherapy ward. Moving to Cumbria in 2000 enabled a change into non-clinical management roles, which involved leading the introduction of patient choice. In 2006 Helen progressed into a senior commissioning role, a continuation of her performance role alongside working in localities and leading on re designing patient pathways. Since 2013 Helen has worked as Head of Assurance and Delivery for NHS England covering Cumbria & North East. In 2017 she moved into a north regional role leading on Integrated Urgent Care focusing on supporting people to stay out of hospital. During covid she led the Cumbria health response and now works as an Improvement Lead across the north.

Helen is an experienced mentor who has worked across the NHS for nearly 40 years; she continues to be registered as a nurse and has held a variety of roles across trusts, commissioning and the north region. Helen completed the ILM5 coaching training in 2017, but unfortunately was not able to complete the assignments, therefore she is revisiting the training to gain the qualification in 2023/24. She is an advocate for staff and believes relationship and teamwork is vital to delivering outcomes for our patients. Helen is a keen listener who believes individuals and teams are able, with encouragement, to problem solve. She enjoys helping individuals and teams to set realistic goals after full discussion around the options. She is happy to share her experience when appropriate and make active suggestions. Helen’s style is person centred, energetic and enthusiastic alongside compassion and empathy.

Testimonials:

• “Helen is a true leader bringing both fun and reality to the workplace. As a result of working with Helen I have gained real insight into my areas for development and have been supported to build on my strengths and develop areas of improvement, within a time of great organisational change. Helen strengths include leader, clinical advocate, team worker, adviser and always available to listen and support all.”
• “Helen has been an inspirational and supportive mentor. She has really helped me establish and focus on my career goals, as well as manage my work life balance. Helen always lead our session so I came away feeling focussed and raring to take on the challenges in front of me.”

I understand the power of coaching to engage and empower individuals to be able to move forward – both personally and professionally. This comes from my own first-hand experience of working with a work based coach and using a coaching style within my leadership roles to explore areas of performance and supporting staff to realise their own potential. I see my role as coach as being an aid to help individuals identify what they want and how they can achieve it and provide focussed time to reflect on the resources available in order to move forward. I am people centred and passionate about supporting individuals to gain greater understanding, develop their potential, grow in confidence and take positive steps to improve performance.

My experience of coaching includes developing other to have coaching conversations as well as taking on the role of an accredited coach.

I am based in North Cumbria and am happy to coach anyone across the North Cumbria area.

I have varied background in other professions, including being a veteran and working in non-health care environment and private sector.

My style of coaching is to open to listening, with calming and intrigue to allow you to find your desire goals and objectives. Utilise curious questioning and to help reframe challenges. By using various techniques along your journey, to develop greater understanding of yourself to achieve your aims. Your goal and objective may change along the way of discovery, this is your time to grow. As coach you will be supported with honesty and trust, just be curious on this journey together as I will be. This will be bespoke to you, to help gain your own insight for progression.

I have always worked for the NHS starting off as an administrator and working my way up to a Project Manager. This journey has enabled me to work with a lot of different professionals at all levels.

As a coach I use a lot of different styles and techniques to enable the coachee to achieve the goals they have set.

Testimonial:

• “I’m so grateful for everything you’ve done for me and so glad I met you, you’ll forever hold a special place in my heart”

I have been working as an accredited coach for 8 years and really enjoy supporting people at all levels with performance and personal wellbeing goals.  I like to think that I am grounded in my approach and incorporate a sense of fun into my sessions.

I have worked in senior roles within the private and public sectors as well as working in a community setting and as a volunteer.  I am able to bring this experience into my coaching when supporting individuals to achieve work-based goals that link to wider, strategic outcomes.

Coaching can provide you with the space to reflect and help you to make sense of an issue, and find a way to move forward. I hold a genuine interest in supporting people to reach their full potential and I approach my coaching with optimism and integrity. I listen to identify the key drivers behind an issue and offer constructive and supportive challenge to help you reach your goals. With a focus on personal development, as a coach I aim to support you to learn more about yourself and make steps towards improving your performance, to positively impact on your resilience and decision making when faced with challenges at work.

Please get in touch if you would like an informal chat to find out more.

I have been the clinical lead for paediatric physiotherapy across Cumbria for the last 3 years. Prior to this I was the Lead Physiotherapist at Beaumont College in Lancaster for 7 years. I also worked as a team leader for Cumbria Cerebral Palsy for 5 years and early in my career worked on a development project in India for four and half years. I love the clinical element of my role, working directly with families and children but I also enjoy working with my colleagues to facilitate individual professional development as well as leading my team to work collaboratively and respectively to achieve goals.

Whilst I have only recently completed my formal coaching training with Northumbria NHS, I have used coaching techniques frequently over the years to support individuals and teams to address challenges and make progress towards individual and team goals.

At this point I need to gain experience of coaching so that I can take the next step towards gaining my Level 5 in coaching.

I love to hear about the different roles people have within the NHS and supporting people to find their own solutions to challenges or questions they may have around their professional development and progress.

If you think I may be the right coach for you, please get in touch.

My aim, as a coach, is to support individuals to develop and enhance their own confidence, skills, experiences and practices ultimately improve the patient experience and enhanced team working. By using a simple coaching model I adopt a relaxed and informal approach in order to gain trust and results.

I am Laura, Programme Lead working in the Medical Directorate with a PMO background, experience of working in both a provider and commissioning setting with over 25 years NHS services.

I have completed ILM 5, and offer a transformational and cognitive behavioural approach to coaching within the NHS.

My strengths include being empathic and compassionate; I listen to understand and am non judgmental; I am trusting and focused. Through coaching I aim to help coachees set and achieve their identified goals, develop new skills, gain self awareness, overcome challenges and find their own solutions and strategies for success.

My passion as defined by Sir John Whitmore is “to unlock people’s potential to maximise their own performance”.

Testimonials:

• “I have been working with Laura over several months and cannot thank her enough. Following a restructure, I was in a stressful and fragile dynamic, which resulted in me questioning my abilities and affected my confidence. Through coaching Laura quickly helped me to recognise and re-establish my self worth, confidence, resilience and the wide breadth of skills and knowledge I bring to the table. Coaching has helped me become equipped with new skills to help address conflict resolution, be able to de-emotionalise myself and see things from other people’s perspectives and move my mindset to a more solution focused perspective. Laura is supportive, listens and prompts me. She has a presence in a room and I always felt that she was genuinely interested in my situation and loved coaching.”
• “Coaching with Laura has moved me into a better place both professionally and personally. I have been able to set and achieve all strategic goals, embed new cultures, unpick my communication styles both to myself and those around me. Laura is warm and empathetic. She listens at a deep level and provides challenge like it’s a super power. From my first session, I have never left without feeling like there is more and more hope – its rather inspiring. I have learned so much, even adapting some of the techniques she used with me with others. I couldn’t recommend enough. A safe place to work through things at your own pace with the expertise of a professional.”

I am passionate about supporting others to reach their potential through challenging their perceptions, and acting as an enabler to discover their own solutions. I have worked in collaboration and co-production throughout my career, which shines in my passion for personalised care and networking. Therefore, my approach to coaching is to create a safe, encouraging, and empowering space for the coachee to share and develop their ideas in a constructive and supported way.

My experience of embedding culture, mindset, and behavioural change programmes has given me the key communication skills for a successful coaching relationship – such as listening, questioning, use of appropriate language and the ability to build trust and rapport.

I am based in west Cumbria, however I am happy to accept coachees from across the North East and North Cumbria.

Testimonials:

• “The sessions with Laura really helped me to clarify changes I needed to make and made work generally much better.”
• “I was more focused, having coaching sessions has been valuable to me and instrumental in me changing careers.”

I currently work in the patient and carer involvement team with peer supporters using lived experience of mental health and disability to help others. My role focuses on wellbeing and development of individuals, as well as overall project work and service design.

Before this I spent 10 years working in talking therapy services, offering talking interventions to people with common mental health difficulties including anxiety and depression.

My approach to coaching – and relationships in general – is one of honesty and compassion. I am offering personal coaching which is a collaborative solution-focused process aimed at enhancing work performance, life experience, self-directed learning and personal growth.

I am a pragmatic and reflective learner and will consider your learning preferences to help you get he most from the coaching opportunity.

Having worked in both Primary and Secondary care I have seen first-hand the pressure teams are under to deliver a fantastic service in a challenging health climate. As a coach, it is my hope to develop individuals to fulfil far more than their day-to-day tasks and develop their practice to improve both their personal wellbeing and professional performance.

I currently work in Primary Care, seeing patients face to face as a Social Prescriber and working alongside them to achieve their wellbeing goals, often through a varied range of complex social factors. I am also a Local Advisory Board Member for Cumbria Education Trust and an active volunteer for Guide Dogs for the Blind. I’m passionate about working in, and supporting public sector and VCSE organisations to deliver improved outcomes for everyone.

I am especially interested in supporting marginalised groups to achieve their full potential both professionally and personally.

I consider my approach to be simply around helping individuals and teams to tap into their inner strengths and help identify what skills are already available so change is possible

Unlocking an individual’s potential, instilling confidence and self-belief is enough to help change and I believe can be transformative.

I have worked in the NHS for 22 years, and therefore I have been part of organisational change and restructures on several occasions and as part of several teams. Throughout all of those changes I have managed people in both small and large organisational teams, and have applied coaching techniques to team meeting as well as working with individuals.

In each of my roles, I have always use assertive models of behaviour in terms of self-reflection, knowing that my behaviours have a direct impact on those around me. My coaching style therefore aims to support and encourage people to find their own answers to the issues they present during their coaching sessions. I use the IGROW or OSKAR models to guide and inform the coaching discussions and to help people structure their thoughts and ideas to create a plan of action.

I have directly coached two people since completing the coaching certificate, although I use coaching skills in my everyday line management of staff built in to their one-to-one and supervision sessions.

I provide a calm, supportive space for individuals to think clearly, explore challenges and take practical steps forward. My approach is grounded in curiosity and active listening with well focused questions and gentle challenge.

By creating a safe environment and encouraging new perspectives, I will help you to work towards career or other goals whilst we remember to enjoy the journey. Naturally seeing the best in people, I will help you to recognise your strengths, capabilities and potential for yourself.

I have a background in the varied world of communication, marketing and engagement, with specialisms in multi-media, websites, design, social media and presentation.

Although new to coaching in my career I have found the process to be an encouraging and positive experience, especially watching clients grow in confidence, overcome issues and develop their goals.

At my core I’m a very creative person and my approach to coaching is to make the whole process as comfortable, natural and informal as possible to allow individuals to share their thoughts and challenges in a safe space which encourages the exploration of their ideas from multiple angles.

My coaching is very much driven by positive conversations which explore the client’s ideas and help them to build personal strategies (underpinned by the GROW model). With a combination of coaching tools, metaphors and creative narratives I help support clients to discover solutions to their challenges.

The client’s development is at the heart of their ‘journey’ as objectives are set through sessions to working towards their new horizons. I also have an expansive knowledge of pop culture which on occasion can be drawn on to help client’s connect, visualise and ‘paint pictures’ of relevant solutions within more positive backdrops, related to their own interests and passions.

The goal is to help with both professional development and career goals but also to support the crucial work life balance and find meaning and purpose within their personal life as well.

My influences have also further developed following my studies of coaching theory which include an interest in philosophy as well as practices around wellbeing, mindfulness, manifestation and positivity.

Testimonials:

• “Paul has a gift in his ability to allow someone just to ‘talk’ and ‘be themselves’. I valued that I was able to speak freely, in confidence and with ease. Paul took the time to ‘listen and hear me’, he didn’t share his opinions and ideas unless he was invited to do so. Paul enabled me to come up with my own personal strategies to identify solutions to make things better to improve my life both at work and home.”
• “I want to express my gratitude and thanks for the incredible positive impact Paul has had on my life as a coach. My work-life balance and confidence suffered as a result of career uncertainty. Paul’s coaching helped me regain control of my life and find a new direction by giving me tools, perspective, and clarity. As a result, I’m now more focused on achieving what I want. By providing a safe and comfortable environment, Paul allowed me to gain deep insights and take action towards my goals. Paul has provided me with tremendous guidance, support, and tools throughout my coaching journey, and I highly recommend him.”

Recently completing my ILM Level 5 Certificate in Effective Coaching and Mentoring, I have a background in health and care transformation enabled by digital innovation. My delivery style has always been to consider and develop people, processes, and technology to successfully achieve the right outcomes.

Helping people develop and grow their own ideas and approaches through constructive and open dialog has also helped me become a more rounded individual which I will bring into any coaching relationship.

I am passionate about my job, the NHS, and the people that work within our organisation. I love when people feel happy and content in the workplace, and coaching for me provides an opportunity for both personal and professional development. I believe that coaching provides space for authenticity and growth, and helps individuals to be effective and achieve their full potential.
I have just passed my L5 Coaching Professional qualification (April 2025), so am a new coach and developing my style and approach to coaching. As a coach, I aim to be supportive, encouraging, positive and present to help you get to where you want to be.

Testimonial:

• “I’ve really enjoyed this time. I’ve been able to reflect and focus on what matters to me most.”

Sarah has over 25 years’ experience as a learning and organisational development specialist working in both the private sector and local authority. Sarah specialises in helping staff and managers, to transition through change positively and to survive and perform in complex organisations and systems. Challenges addressed typically include work overload, delegation, organisational skills, handling conflict, team development, confidence and decision making, to name just a few. Sarah is known for her supportive approach and strives to leave her coachees feeling empowered and motivated to achieve more and to deal with the issues that face them.

I have been involved in coaching and mentoring in the NHS and local government for over 15 years, and really enjoy supporting people with their professional and personal goals.

I have experience of working in a front-line peer-support role in Mental Health, and as a volunteer and bring this experience into my coaching.

I use a variety of styles and draw on a range of development tools, to suit the needs of my clients to ensure they reach their goals.

Testimonial:

• “Creating the time and a safe space for me to be able to articulate my requirements, work through situations and reframe them is very helpful.”

I first took an interest in coaching in 2010 when a session helped me unblock work issues I was struggling with. Since then my coaching skills have developed both informally and formally with Boost and AQuA North West. I have been supporting people with formal coaching relationships since 2014 and have been accredited since 2019.

My style is to provide you with time and space to enable an honest and constructive conversation to help maximise your potential. I’m a naturally creative and will work with you to ensure our conversations are effective for you. I am perceptive and consider all angles of a situation before acting and take this approach into my coaching enabling me able to support a wide range of people.

As a naturally curious person I’m always happy to work with any subject area, however I regularly coach those new into leadership roles, managing change, managing difficult working relationships and experiencing dissatisfaction or burnout.

I believe coaching relationships need to be a good fit for the coachee as well as the coach, if you would like to have a conversation to see if I could help you please do get in touch.

Testimonial:

• “Vicki’s approach was very responsive to the challenges I faced at each session as well as offering a different perspective from my own – I felt that we worked together very well. Her coaching support helped me to increase my self-awareness and increased my confidence in my own strategies for learning from challenges. She has also helped me to work with some of my less helpful ways of framing situations. I think without Vicki’s input I might have succumbed to the inbuilt stress of the work and inter-personal dynamics and politics involved, so her impact on me and my team has been significant.”