Coaching that goes beyond the surface.
Bespoke coaching for individuals and groups. Subjects often cover leadership, practice development, business development, and sometimes career transition. Grounded in thirty years of experience and a methodology that explores the whole person -- not just the professional.
What coaching covers
Leadership & Practice Development
Helping lawyers and professionals transition into leadership roles, build and manage teams, and develop their personal effectiveness. Whether you are stepping up to partnership or leading a practice group, this work addresses the real challenges of authority, influence, and culture.
Business Development
A structured, practical approach to winning new clients and growing a practice -- built around the 7 Step Business Development Process. This is not theory; it is a framework that has been tested with hundreds of lawyers across three decades.
Career Transition & Development
Supporting professionals in navigating career changes and achieving their long-term goals. This work often draws on the Lifework methodology to help clients understand what they are genuinely good at, what drives them, and where they are most likely to flourish.
The Lifework approach
Most coaching starts with goals. The Lifework approach starts earlier -- with life history. By exploring the full arc of a client's achievements, from childhood through to the present day, patterns of motivation and behaviour emerge that are invisible to conventional psychometrics alone.
This is a distinctive methodology, rooted in the Dependable Strengths tradition of Bernard Haldane, and refined over thirty years and nearly a thousand clients. It provides a more holistic and insightful foundation for coaching -- one that produces lasting change rather than short-term adjustment.
The process is supported by a suite of psychometric tools -- including VIA Character Strengths and the IPIP-NEO personality profile -- which act as lenses to confirm and deepen the insights drawn from the life history work.
Lifework -- Career Analysis
Lifework is the digital platform that supports the coaching process. Clients complete a structured life history interview, VIA Character Strengths survey, and personality profile at their own pace -- giving their counsellor a rich, detailed picture before the first coaching session.
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