CO-ACTIVE COACHING

Working with Sue has given me a number of things, on top of supporting me to achieve my CTI Global Certification in Executive Coaching and achieve certain challenging business goals as my company grows, I gained a deeper sense of certain habits that are not serving me. I wasn’t expecting the depth the coaching would go to and what it would uncover for me – it hasn’t been easy but important (and on-going) work.

It felt like a highly professional and seamless operation and her overall delivery of the service was excellent. Her book Change Your Life in 5 is also a great source of information.

As a coach and mentor, Sue is direct, insightful, and tough at times! She’s intuitive and brave – and asks the questions that create discomfort, but ultimately the greatest learning, growth and change.

When I met Sue I was starting to think about growing my business. I wanted a coach and mentor to help think things through, be able to explore challenges, and go deeper in my use of coaching tools. I also wanted to get clear about my coaching/training biz, set timeline for doing it, and think clearly about what I need to be earning.

Through working with Sue I’ve found loads of really helpful techniques – it’s hard to even list them ‘cos I’ve immediately put them into my practice – but I know Sue helped give me the confidence in the impact of them. I’ve also learnt: the Future self exercise – I use it with all my clients now and I’m leaning into it more and more; comparing oneself both ways; the simplicity of designing an offering; Powerful Q’s for dealing with challenging coaching situations e.g. distressed client, same topics on repeat; and not getting caught up in comparison and perfectionism – still working on this one 😉

Sue is an incredibly warm, kind and supportive coach and mentor who uses the widest range of coaching tools to increase your self-awareness and enable you to grow your own coaching skills at the same time. She’s straight forward, no nonsense and at the same time sensitive and perceptive. She’s able to see your gifts, have you do the same, and encourage you to make progress in your life.

Before I started working with Sue I had a lot of uncertainty around where to direct my efforts for growing my business. I wanted to win more clients, set up my business in a scaleable way, get the systems in place, get the marketing plan rolling and to be intentional about how I could most effectively use my time whilst protecting my boundaries for work life balance. I had also spent many years of my working life helping brands successfully sell more of their products, but when it came to selling myself, I was drawing a bit of a blank.

Sue is a great coach and mentor. Having the capacity to offer business mentoring was extremely beneficial to me – some things I just needed to know, from someone who’s been there and done it, successfully, already. I also really valued having Sue be so accessible on Voxer (a voice messaging app), and so responsive every time I got in touch. She was so generous with her resources e.g. the templates she shared up front which have provided a lot of insight and inspiration for short-cutting the development of my own materials.

Sue is both professional and warm. She cuts through the crap and gets to the heart of what matters.

In terms of impact on me Sue has given me greater self-assurance as a business-owner. She’s pushed me to assess my standards, expectations and boundaries. I now have a raft of clients I love working with, I have a clear marketing strategy and a new business pipeline I’m excited to convert. I am proud of the business-owner I have become with Sue’s help.

I started working with Sue because I wanted to get help in establishing my coaching practice, get an agreement with one or two companies as clients and develop my own product/coaching packages.

Through working with her I soon realized that I didn’t have that much time to get this in place, and having since resigned from work, I now have an established a process for working with my existing network to get new clients.

I have also established a way of working with relationships/network/sales which works for me, after having previously feared the whole sales process. I now also feel confident that my product is good enough, and that I have what is needed to deliver value to my clients. I have also established a coaching product and onboarding process that I now use with my clients and I collect feedback and testimonials, which also gives me insight that I can use to develop myself as a coach. Sue also gave me a lot of materials and templates that I have used for these processes, and as inspiration to create my own packages.

Sue is a coach who knows exactly what you need and will deliver to you the whole package + more than you can expect.

She challenges you in a way that feels good, she sees what you need, and has a very good balance between mentoring and coaching.

Sue is amazing. She is a highly skilled, highly experienced coach and I am so pleased I chose her as my mentor coach as I launched my own coaching practice. After our very first session together I had already felt a big shift and the results kept coming. Sue is an empathetic listener with a direct, no-nonsense way of talking and injects warmth and humour into things. So coaching sessions are hard work (the kind of hard work that leads to real change) but the work is enjoyable not painful.

She is also a brilliant business mentor – full of practical, clear advice on setting up a solo business. 6 months later I am earning a decent living from doing something I love and a lot of this is down to the work I did with Sue. So, highly recommended and I am sure I will be back for more when I need it again.

Sue is just amazing.

I am so grateful for her CTI Business of Coaching session, where I had the opportunity to learn from an incredible mentor and coach. She is so knowledgeable, pragmatic and fierce. And also reassuring, empowering and supporting.

My coaching skyrocketed thanks what I’ve learned from her and from using some of the structures she uses in her coaching practice and so kindly shared. They are really powerful!

I recommend working with Sue wholeheartedly.

I’ve worked with Sue throughout my 6 month certification program with CTI, to gain my first accreditation as a professional coach. She also supported me as I transitioned my existing consulting business and launched my coaching practice in 2018.

I was immediately impressed by Sue’s professionalism and her practical, process-driven and highly strategic approach to coaching. This was vitally important for me and in alignment with how I work. I was also inspired by her success as a businesswoman and fellow professional coach.

As a coach, Sue is pragmatic, honest and good fun to work with! She was direct and always challenged me to step outside my comfort zone. This was balanced with plenty of championing and support as I worked towards my goals. The knowledge and experience that Sue shared was instrumental in helping me set the foundations for the success of my new business.

Coaching with Sue was worth every penny and I can’t recommend her highly enough. If you’re ready to make major, permanent changes in your business, career or life, Sue is the coach for you!

Sue supported me in making a significant career transition. I had a lot of experience in running large and complex organisations, but did not want everything else that went with that kind of job for some time. Sue helped me reposition myself, realise what was transferable and how it might be pitched to others. This was packaged it all within a new ‘modus operandi’ for living. Principally it was coaching, but that also included being held to account when there was a risk of going back to the familiar, or in doing something out of step with the values and ideals established with her guidance.

I’m now six months into a portfolio life, working across a range of clients and also now aiming to go beyond my previous areas of expertise. I am now much more in control over how I spend my time, and have a balance which has rarely been achieved for far too many years.

Recommend her very strongly!

Sue is a masterful and life-changing coach. She models what it is to be a woman truly living from purpose and as a client of Sue’s, I found that extremely inspiring. She has supported me to do the same for myself. Sue is living and modelling that which she is coaching all clients to do – as any coach should. She has challenged me where necessary and supported and championed my achievements along the way when I made progress. In less than a year, Sue has helped me figure out my life purpose and create a life of meaning. I would highly, highly recommend working with Sue.

The process of working with Sue is exceptionally structured and organised. You know that you are working with someone at the top of their game. Sue is a brilliantly focussed coach. She has a strong intuition and has the confidence & experience to follow it. As both a coach and mentor, Sue effortlessly jumps between both roles which brings great added value.

“Sue is obviously passionate about her work. Her clients have provided strong testimonials on their success as a direct result of her coaching. Sue has built a reputation that resulted in growth into larger organizations for executive coaching.”

“Sue is obviously a dedicated and experienced coach helping individuals to make significant and lasting change particularly in the area of corporate leadership – where constant change and challenges are inevitable.”

“Sue’s book, ‘Change your life in 5,’ is a reflection of her commitment to her unique method of coaching, which has obviously increased her visibility in the world of coaching.”

“Fantastic work Sue – it’s definitely obvious you’re a leader in your field!”

I was lucky enough to be the first to experience Sue’s Successful Coach Intensive and I only wish she’d had this on offer when I started my coaching business. In my opinion, it’s an absolute essential for coaches who have had training but need to understand how to make a successful business out of it.

On Sue’s one day intensive no minute is wasted, she gets straight into it bringing laser like focus to your offer, your USP, your clients, what their needs are and how you in particular can help. She helps you with a financial model and the types of products you can offer beyond one-to-one coaching. What’s more she teaches you the secrets to successful marketing as a coach.

Although I’ve had great success as a coach, Sue has given me the tools to push my business above and beyond what I thought was possible. Thank you Sue for an incredible day.

Sue demonstrates an incredible rigour in using the Co-Active model without failure. Her sharpness, creativity and raw power is poignant. Coaching with Sue really sharpened my understanding of what I want, and how I want it. She helped me identify my core skills, qualities and essence.  She also held me, and challenged me tremendously to get courageous, while also giving me ample space, clarity and openness to dream and create my plans.  I learnt from her how to use presence and voice as a powerful coaching tool, amongst many other tools.  I increased my clients by 70% and raised my fees twice while working with Sue.  I have also learnt about structure, holding the client’s agenda 100%, and being totally gutsy.  Sue herself  is gutsy, playful, creative and disciplined.  If you’re a Co-Active coach Sue is your best bet!

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Before I started working with Sue, I saw things and dreams as difficult and uncertain. I felt so doubtful. My initial goals with Sue included getting two corporate clients during certification – but through working with her I have signed up many more than that! I also now have a clear road map, direction, and connection with my purpose. I now have more self-belief and I check-in and manage my saboteurs when they show up. I am also kinder to myself and take good care of myself. I have learnt that we cannot pour from an empty cup and that WE ARE ALL WORK IN PROGRESS 🙂

Working with Sue is a mix of coaching, accountability, lots of determination, tenacity and hard work. As a coach and mentor, I would highlight Sue’s boldness, courage and transparency. I also admire her non-attachment to the results, her authenticity and her determination.

I highly recommend Sue to any coach who is looking for serious business development and/or certification coaching and mentoring.

It’s nearly ten years since Sue was my coach while I navigated CTI’s certification programme. As I now approach my MCC, its still clear the work I did with her was instrumental in developing the foundations of the successful practice I have today. She challenged me fiercely with much love and compassion, to reach for a fulfilled life, believing in me more than I did at the time. She was witty, playful and yet always utterly sincere in her commitment to my success, which made each coaching session a wonderful journey of self-discovery.