I offer two 1:1 career coaching programmes, both designed for women in FE
If you know you want senior leadership but cannot make yourself reach for it, Stop Thinking, Start Choosing is for you.
If you are stuck and running on empty but are not yet sure what you want next, Career Crossroads is where to start.
Both programmes begin in the same place: with the work that makes everything else possible.
Phase 1: Foundation (Months 1 and 2)
Before we touch your career, we deal with what is underneath it. We begin with a full induction and orientation session so you know exactly what to expect and how to get the most from the programme.
From there, we move into the 6-week Positive Intelligence® programme, which combines weekly 40-minute guided sessions with me and daily practice through the PQ® app.
The app is where the real work happens. Each day you will complete short, focused exercises that build your mental fitness and start quietening the saboteur voices that have been running the show.
Think of it like going to the gym: one session a week is not enough, but ten minutes a day changes everything. That is exactly what this does, but for your mind.
Your access to the PQ® app continues for up to a year, well beyond the programme itself, so the habits you build do not stop when the coaching does. This is how the change sticks.
Phase 2: Direction (Months 3 to 6)
With your mental fitness foundations in place, we turn to the real questions. This phase works from the inside out: starting with who you are, moving through what the reality actually looks like, and finishing with a clear, confident plan that is yours.
Your leadership identity. We identify your top three values and use these to shape the leader you are going to be, not the cold, hard, corporate version you are scared of becoming, but a leader you recognise and are proud of. This includes creating your personal Leadership Point of View.
The reality of senior leadership. We find out what senior roles actually involve day to day, based on evidence not assumption. No more imagining the worst. Just facts.
The conversations you have been avoiding. We work through the family conversations you need to have, with your partner, your children, your parents, whoever matters most, and help you build the practical support around you.
Your non-negotiables. We get clear on your boundaries before you need them, not after. What are you prepared to flex on, and what is completely off the table?
Your next step. We build your action plan, whether that is applying for senior leadership, choosing a different path, or deciding to wait. All three are valid. The point is that you choose, clearly and confidently, without guilt.
Your investment of £1,500 includes:
Payment plans are available: 3 monthly payments of £500.
Phase 1: Foundation (Months 1 and 2)
Before we look at your career, we deal with what is getting in the way of you thinking clearly about it.
We begin with a full induction and orientation week so you know exactly what to expect and how to get the most from the programme.
From there, we move into the 7-week Positive Intelligence® programme, which combines weekly 40-minute guided sessions with me and daily practice through the PQ® app.
You will identify the saboteur voices that have been undermining your confidence and dismissing your own instincts for years. The inner critic that tells you every idea is wrong. The voice that says you should be grateful, you chose this, you knew what FE was like. The one that has been making you distrust your own judgement.
Each day you will complete short, focused exercises through the PQ® app that build your mental fitness and start quietening those voices. Your access to the PQ® app continues for up to a year, so the habits you build do not stop when the programme does.
You cannot make a clear-headed decision about your future from a mind that is working against you. This is where we fix that.
Phase 2: Career Crossroads (Months 3 and 4)
With a clearer, calmer mind, we move into an immersive 8-week journey into who you are and what you actually want from your working life.
From day one you will open your Ideas Bank, a space to capture every career possibility that surfaces, however unlikely it seems right now. Nothing gets judged at this stage. Everything goes in.
Working through the programme, we uncover your values, your strengths, your motivators, and the kind of work that genuinely energises you. Not the version filtered through years of institutional thinking and sector conditioning. Your real answers.
As we work, you will build your Work Star, a rich, personalised snapshot of who you are and what you need from your career to feel satisfied and motivated. By the end of this phase, your Work Star becomes the measure against which every career idea or opportunity gets tested.
In the final week we bring it all together: the self-knowledge from your Work Star, the ideas from your Ideas Bank, and a concrete, realistic action plan for what comes next. Whether that is a different role within FE, a move into a new sector, going self-employed, or something you had not previously considered, you will leave with a decision you trust and a plan you can act on.
Your investment of £1,500 includes:
Payment plans are available: 3 monthly payments of £500.
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Frequently asked questions
It depends on where you are. Stop Thinking, Start Choosing is for you if you already know you want senior leadership but cannot make yourself reach for it, caught between your ambition and your guilt. Career Crossroads is for you if you are stuck but you are not yet sure whether senior leadership is the answer or whether you need something else entirely. Both begin with the same Positive Intelligence® foundation. The difference is what we build on top of it: a clear, confident decision about stepping up, or a wider exploration of what you actually want next. If you are genuinely unsure which fits, that is exactly what the Discovery Call is for.
Positive Intelligence® (PQ®) is a mental fitness approach. Mental fitness is simply your capacity to meet a challenge with a clear, calm, focused head, rather than being hijacked by stress, self-doubt, or the critical inner voices it calls your Saboteurs. The work quietens those voices and strengthens the opposite part of your thinking, your Sage, the calm and creative part that handles pressure well.
It matters because most leadership training and most coaching work on strategy and skills, and then six months later the same old fears creep back in. That happens when the foundations were never solid. You cannot build lasting change on a mind that is working against you. The seven-week Positive Intelligence® foundation deals with that first, so everything we build on top of it actually sticks.
It is a neuroscience-based approach, developed by Shirzad Chamine and tested with over a million people worldwide. If you would like to understand the research behind it, you can read more on the Positive Intelligence® website https://positiveintelligence.com/science/
Both programmes move through two phases, and the sessions feel different in each. In the foundation phase, our weekly sessions guide you through the Positive Intelligence® work and help you apply it to your own situation. In the second phase, the sessions become deeper coaching conversations: in Stop Thinking, Start Choosing we work through your leadership identity, the family conversations you have been avoiding, your non-negotiables, and your next step; in Career Crossroads we explore your values, strengths and motivators, and build a career direction you trust. Throughout, this is a genuine coaching relationship. I will challenge your assumptions, ask the questions you have been avoiding, and hold you to what you say you want.
During the seven-week Positive Intelligence® foundation, expect around two and a half to three hours a week: a 40-minute guided session with me, roughly an hour of video content, and about ten minutes a day on the PQ® app. The daily ten minutes is where the real change happens, the same way ten minutes a day at the gym beats one long session a week. Once we move into the coaching phase, the PQ® commitment drops to around 10 minutes a day. Your coaching session is 90 minutes every 2 weeks to a month plus whatever focused work you choose to do between sessions. It is a real commitment, but a manageable one, and it is designed to fit around a full working life, not compete with it.
We find out together before you commit. It starts with a Discovery Call, a straightforward conversation where you tell me what is going on and I tell you honestly whether I think I can help. If we go ahead, you will also complete your Saboteur Assessment and we will talk through the results, so you have a real sense of the work before you begin. And because I want you to feel secure in your decision, there is an early-exit checkpoint: if, after your induction and first coaching session, you feel this is not right for you, let me know and I will refund the balance, less the cost of any assessment or PQ® app access already activated. I am confident in this work, and I would rather you were too.
Both programmes include a free Saboteur Assessment before you begin, a full induction and orientation session, the complete seven-week Positive Intelligence® programme, up to twelve months of access to the PQ® app so your daily practice continues long after the coaching ends, a comprehensive toolkit of exercises and resources to work on between sessions, and unlimited WhatsApp and email support throughout.
Then the programme has done its job. This is not a programme that tells you to go for the promotion. It is designed to help you make the right decision for you, clearly and without guilt, whatever that turns out to be. Going for a senior role, deciding to wait, or choosing a different path entirely are all valid outcomes. What matters is that you choose it with a clear head, rather than staying stuck because you were too tangled up to decide.
Life happens, and I would always rather you moved a session than pushed through when your head is elsewhere. If you need to rearrange, just give me as much notice as you reasonably can and we will find another time. All I ask is that we keep things moving, because the momentum between sessions is part of what makes the work effective.
