8 Inspiring Coaches Share Why They Chose Coaching As Their Career
To be a coach is to answer your calling. This can be very different from other professions. Most people who pursue coaching identify with a strong sense of purpose in doing so. In recent years, coaching has become a popular career choice for many individuals. Although there might be different reasons why someone chooses to become a professional coach, it’s not for everyone.
Hello I’m Lisa - I work with people who are at crunch points in their lives or careers. Perhaps you're feeling stuck, or facing a crossroads, obstacle or opportunity - something that has made you stop and think “what now?”
I personally needed a change after more than 25 years working in big organizations and was keen to find a better balance between work and home life. In my quest to find an alternative that would give me a greater feeling of purpose, I worked with some fabulous coaches. I realized that the need to change this is a common feeling for many others who may be feeling burned out or disillusioned or who know they have more to offer the world - all while balancing family life and wanting to contribute to their community. This has become more intense and as we have navigated the additional pressures of the pandemic. I love the work of Bruce Perry and Brene Brown on trauma, as well as Nancy Kline's 'Thinking Environment' and am finding so many aspects of their work overlaps - whether you're working with a client on issues with family dynamics or careers.
Although I trained in early 2020 I have recently been undertaking an ICF-accredited ACTP Diploma and have also been welcomed into the wonderfully eclectic and hugely supportive Coaching community. In my 'other' role I am also a qualified data protection officer, so I'm starting to offer support to coaches baffled by the legalese of GDPR or paralysed by the prospect of fines for data breaches. I have added a little side hustle to my packages to support my fellow coaches with their data protection compliance queries.
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My name is Ariadne, and I run The Zunzún. I identify as Cuban-USAmerican, though I've been living in Madrid, Spain for 20 years.
My coaching and training is ikigai-focused ADHD and inclusion, and it's the culmination of my social identities and lived experiences.
It's this type of facilitation that fosters resilience and growth, something that I hope to share with others while I work to put into practice myself.
My why is doing work that I believe in and that strives to make a positive impact. And my hope is that while I become a more proficient coach, it'll help me to be a more successful mom, and vice-versa.
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I am a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who works with today’s progressive thinking leaders and their teams. I especially love to use my Maximizer & Strategic Strengths to create dynamic, cohesive and productive teams. I offer team workshops that concentrate on discovering your strengths, Navigating Leadership and Selling with Your Strengths.
I also offer 1:1 Coaching for leaders. I worked 27 years in Network Marketing with 22 of that as a top leader in the company so I bring that experience to my business. I’m also the host of the Navigating Your Leadership Podcast.
When I am not working I am spending time with my growing family and eventually traveling with my husband on a sailboat down the east coast of America!
I absolutely love the power of Strengths and when really understood and embraced the impact it can make on not just the individual but the team. I feel very passionate that this is what I’ve been called to do! I’ve seen the impact Strengths can have and I want to continue to share that with as many teams as possible.
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Certified Life Purpose Coach | Mindset Coach | Personal Development Coach at Red Cape Coaching
My name is Tony Watts and I am a life purpose and mindset coach. I help individuals who might be at a turning point in their life,
feeling unfulfilled, not sure what path to choose, or feeling frustrated or ‘stuck’ in the same patterns of behaviour.
I recognize and challenge limiting beliefs or thought processes that may hold one back from achieving their goals.
I've chosen coaching as a career because I've always had a passion for helping and inspiring others to live out their purpose and achieve their goals. For years I struggled with a scarcity mindset and attempting to find my purpose. Coaching not only helps my clients, but helps me to develop personally as well.
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I am Christine Nicholson, award-winning Professional Business Mentor, author and speaker. working with +£2m turnover business founders who still work in the day to day management of their technology, engineering or product services businesses. I am proud that my clients have made me UK Business Mentor of the Year 2020. I was a finalist in the National Entrepreneur Awards 2017 – and my client actually won the award – and I’ve appeared on BBC talking about business! I have received the highest Professional Accreditation as a Business Mentor from the Association of Business Mentors and I am a Court Assistant and Freeman the Company of Entrepreneurs of the City of London.
I’ve been helping businesses for over 30 years – experiencing success and failures, making mistakes along the way and discovering how to avoid them. I built my first business from £0 to £4.5m t/o in less than 15 months. I then helped a client rescue their high-tech engineering company from bankruptcy to an 8-figure exit in 18 months. Along the way I’ve worked with every type of business from software companies to taking over the running of a zoo. Walking in the founder’s shoes and living to tell the tale enables me to help other business owners become the heroes in their businesses. My clients have always increased turnover, profitability and cash – they’ve made millions and saved themselves thousands in the process.
I’ve seen the impact of failing businesses. I’ve also seen the impact successful businesses have on their communities and society as a whole. Entrepreneurship is all about ideas and gets a lot of coverage – but running businesses, the engine room part of a business, is the poor cousin and gets almost no glory at all. It isn’t taught in schools or universities and leaves many business owners floundering when they should be thriving.
When I was a kid I saw my favourite uncle start a business he had a real passion for and was really good at but his business ultimately failed. It was only later as an adult I really began to understand why that happened and the impact it had on him and his family. If he had had better business insight and knowledge then his business could have been thriving, employing more people and creating wealth for all stakeholders. I believe that business doesn’t have to be complicated, but it’s make it that way because of a lack of knowledge, support and available business education.
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My name is Blyde. You pronounce it “Blady”.
It all revolves around humans. How we lead and inspire them, what their work preferences are, the energy we convey to our teams and the resources we provide to enable them to accomplish great things.I work with heart-centered leaders and professionals who recognise that we need to take a holistic approach to success.
Collaborating with trusted associates, Professional Coaching Solutions provides customized HR solutions across a range of industries including the public sector and commercial enterprise.
We live in a world where only a very small percentage of people make a real impact. I choose to work with kind humans who stand out as brilliant so they can unleash leadership and influence in the world. I have discovered that the real driver behind what I do is a deep desire within me to help others succeed in business and at work.
I love it when my clients get their dream job. It excites me when I can help a business achieve sustainable success. It makes my heart sing when a client breaks through barriers that are holding them back from being successful at work or when leaders find solutions to things that have been keeping them awake at night.
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I am a Transformational Life & Business Coach on a mission to let you start living life on your own terms - A life no longer dictated by circumstances, but rather directed by your own hopes and dreams. I excel in helping female entrepreneurs and those in the making whose lives have been shaken by a life-changing event, disability, diagnosis, or illness take back control of life, discover their own unique brilliance, and ultimately create a life they love.
When I awoke from surgery at 17 years of age to find that I was left completely blind I knew in my heart there was a reason why. It took me a long time to realize the reason why, and not just know it in my head, but accept it in my heart. God knew I would serve a greater purpose in this life having gone through what I did, than if I had not. A large part of that purpose has been to inspire others to never give up on life, even when it seems like life has given up on them. But now as a life coach, I am able to take that even a step further. I not only get to inspire, but more importantly I get to empower others with the tools and mental strength needed to overcome their own challenges. And in the end, I have to believe in all my heart that if I am able to use what I have been through to now be a help to someone else then all that I have been through since losing my ability to see has been worth it.
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Sukhdev's passion to positively impact a billion people helped in his vision to form The No. 1 Platform for Exceptional Coaches and Consultants Around the World - Creative Discovery Group (CDG).
I failed twice in elementary school. My grade 4 teacher told me I was so stupid that she felt sorry for my parents. Since then I /Creative Discovery Group, have worked and "LEARNED" from some of the worlds greatest entrepreneurs, speakers, and business leaders.
I love to share my vision to make the world better through Impact and help coaches stand out and level up through CDG 100.
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