Steve tells you what you need to hear, even if it's not always what you want to hear!  He's supported me through some major changes at work and increased my confidence in my own abilities as a leader.

Steve has used his skills and experience to develop senior leaders to improve their impact in our charity.  His pragmatic and iterative approach encourages quick progress and a balanced and measured response to every type of challenge.

Steve’s outlook on leadership is refreshing and based on realistic outcomes with authenticity high on the agenda.  I would recommend every senior leader or CEO in the Third Sector to have a session with Steve!

My goals are becoming achievable. My reality is less foggy. The options are clearer and my will to work towards my dream of ultimate career fulfilment has been invigorated!

What I appreciated about my sessions with Steve was his ability to ask sharp questions to get to the heart of an issue.

He also has a sense of ‘been there, seen it, done it’ with regard to the charity CEO role, which was a tremendous support for someone in my position.

I felt comfortable being fully open and honest with Steve and (although it’s a cliche), he did create that ‘safe space’ for the coaching work to happen.

Steve also has a wicked sense of humour (in a good way), that both puts you at ease, but also challenges you.

Arriving at the end of 2022, and stepping into 2023, I have some clarity on my goals for the short & middle term.

Steve provided one to one coaching over a series of zoom sessions during a lockdown.  I found the sessions very useful throughout and it gave me the opportunity to actually learn a lot about myself and the way I work just through Steve's engaging discussions, his questioning and his ability to listen and encourage.  Each session was very relaxed but after each one I found myself growing in confidence.  I would certainly recommend Steve for any individual or organisation.

The coaching I had from Steve over a six-month period was genuinely transformational.

I’d found myself at a mental crossroads in my career, having spent several years in a mainly fulfilling senior management role but not clear on how, or whether, to take my next steps.

I felt an instant affinity and rapport upon meeting Steve, which developed into a real sense of trust and empathy as we began coaching.

His openness, integrity and willingness to share his own personal and professional challenges, along with his strategies for overcoming these, helped me understand and appreciate the interdependencies between our personal and professional lives, how anxiety in one can compound the other, and how these are best considered in unison rather than in isolation.

Although relaxed, informal and frequently very humorous, Steve’s coaching style is one of supportive challenge, with the focus firmly on helping individuals draw on their own innate abilities and experiences to help themselves, rather than imposing solutions.

Feeling I had someone’s undivided attention and genuine interest in me and my career felt like a real luxury and was a potent catalyst for me to implement some meaningful and lasting changes in my personal and professional life.

One of Steve’s skills which I found particularly valuable is his ability to identify and propose small, practical and incremental changes to my behaviour and thinking processes, which in turn have had a positive impact on my emotional well-being and professional confidence.

I would refer to three of them in particular as ‘Eureka moments’:

• A small change to my morning routine helped me overcome significant anxiety around my teenage son’s school refusal, and feel better placed to understand and support him through this.

• Alternating my home workspace, including time working from the garden and a local cafe, revitalised my energy levels and proved to me that a change of environment really is as good as a rest!

• Steve’s stern admonishment ‘What’s the point of looking at emails and worrying about them outside office hours? What are you actually going to do, other than not sleep, if you get bad news at 10 ‘o’clock at night…?’ led to my personal imposition of a ‘no peeking at emails policy’ which has been genuinely liberating for me.

10 months on from meeting Steve, I’ve completed my coaching sessions and find myself with a new lease on life and an abundance of ideas and plans for enjoying and developing my current role, and, most importantly, the confidence and self-belief to make this happen.