MCC-credentialled · 14 years of practice
Coaching support for coaches who are doing serious work
Supervision, practice mentoring, and marketing that does not insult your intelligence. For career coaches in Manchester and across the UK who want the conversation that makes the work better.
From coaches who have worked with me
These are not promotional quotes. They are what some of the coaches I work with said when I asked them to describe the work.
I was sceptical about supervision for the first two sessions. By the third I could see it was doing something the solitary practice of coaching could not do for itself. Having someone examine how I was working, not just what I was working on, changed things. I did not expect that.
Marcus P. Career coach, four years in practice
The practice mentoring was plain talk. Not a lot of concepts about it, which was what I needed. We looked at where my clients were actually coming from, what I was charging relative to the market, and what I was doing that was making the whole thing harder than it needed to be. That last one was the useful bit.
Diane W. Career coach, two years in practice
I came with a marketing problem. What I actually had was a positioning problem, and a mild aversion to saying clearly what I do. Those are not the same thing and the marketing conversation surfaced both. The site I built after that session converted better than the one I had spent eight months on.
Rohan S. Career and leadership coach, five years in practice
What I offer
Three areas of work for practising career coaches. Each one is a proper engagement, not a one-off consultation.
Coaching Supervision
Individual and group supervision that meets ICF and EMCC CPD requirements. The kind that actually examines your practice, not just the presenting case. Monthly or fortnightly, online or in person in Manchester.
Practice Mentoring
One-to-one mentoring for coaches who are building a practice or rethinking one they have. Covers client acquisition, structuring your offer, fee setting, and the parts of running a solo practice nobody tells you about.
Marketing for Coaches
Practical marketing support. Not courses, not funnels, not personal-branding advice. Actual help with the question of how someone who has never met you decides you are the right coach for them.
I've been doing this work for over 14 years
Before coaching, I spent 11 years previously in investment banking. I came into coaching the way a number of people do: I was on the receiving end of it at a difficult point, found it useful, started asking how it worked, and eventually trained.
I now work almost entirely with coaches: people in early practice, people who have been coaching for years and want a thinking partner for their harder cases, and people who are trying to build a business around something they are genuinely good at.
The work I do with coaches is not different in kind from the work coaches do with their clients. It is the same attentive, careful conversation. It just happens to be about practice rather than career.
Full backgroundA twenty-minute call, no pitch
If you are not sure whether supervision or mentoring is what you actually need, that call is where we work it out. I do not sell from that conversation.