It’s no exaggeration that coaching changed my life and career for the better.
Are you looking for:
- A safe, confidential space and dedicated time to explore your goals, wants and needs?
- A chance to process and download your thoughts and experiences away from the noise and chaos of everyday life?
- A non-judgemental, trained professional to help you build your self-belief and passion?
- Someone to hold you accountable for your own boundaries and needs?
- Time and space to contemplate or go for fresh opportunities?
I’m a qualified Performance Coach with NLP and have worked with over 30 coachees since qualifying in 2020. My coachees include school leaders, business leaders, students and those embarking on new professions or preparing for and negotiating internal and external changes.
Gaining a coach of my own in 2019 led to dramatic, exhilarating changes in my own life and work, allowing me to clarify my values, understand what I really wanted and find the self-belief to pursue it. To be able to pay this forward by working with others is a joy and a privilege.
What I Can Offer
Coaching provides a safe and trusting space in which you can explore the issues most pertinent to you. It is a non-therapeutic, goal-oriented process whereby your coach uses questions and tools to travel alongside you as you question, explore and focus on your chosen areas of life, work or study.
Coaching sessions provide what for many people is a precious opportunity to reflect on their own values and needs and to truly be heard.
Sessions usually run fortnightly at a mutually convenient time and last for 60 minutes. A coaching journey might typically last for five sessions, but this can be adapted according to the individual’s evolving requirements.
Examples of My Work
Coaching Conversations with Bukky
In this interview, I talk to my own first coach, Bukky Yusuf, about my coaching journey, first as a coachee and now as a coach.
Emma combines a depth of educational expertise, a clear enthusiasm for teaching and teacher development, a gentle but direct approach, and oodles of humour and empathy. Working with her has helped me to think through professional challenges and get 'unstuck'!
Head of Department
Emma has been an incredibly supportive guide and coach throughout my ECT year. She has provided both practical and emotional support which has been invaluable to my development as a teacher.
New teacher
I just wanted to say a huge thank you for coaching me over the past few months. I began in quite a confused place and ended with real clarity of thought and practical ideas for my next steps. Your gentle and supportive coaching style really suited me and although the process was challenging, it was very rewarding. Your skilful questioning helped me to tap into my core values and reignite my sense of purpose. Since I made my decision, I've even felt a release in the tension I'd been carrying around in my neck so there have been both physical and emotional improvements!
School leader
Having coaching with Emma has changed my life! She has helped me to gain a much better work/life balance, supported me to think through difficult situations/conversations, helped me to identify my positive leadership skills and how to develop them and to identify how I would like to develop myself further. Emma does all of this in a friendly, approachable and skilful way, so that the process is fun and creative. If you are contemplating having coaching with Emma, I would urge you to do it now, you won't regret it!
Headteacher
Emma has an uncanny way of putting you at your ease so that you feel confident to talk and work with her. I knew after our first conversation that Emma was going to change the way I think about me and how I can reach my potential.
Teacher
Emma has such a positive presence and makes the coachee feel listened to and allows them to recognise their own resourcefulness.
Teacher
I loved my coaching sessions – I had no expectations before I started, but whatever they could have been, they were totally blown out of the water! Emma is amazing at putting people at ease and connecting with them instantly. It was like having a light switched on. People have commented on my different approach to life since I started, in a completely positive way.
Teacher