Transformational Coaching
Dr Ben Smith
Business Leaders
I am trained as a clinical psychologist, professional coach and more recently, personal trainer. I blend psychological and physical wellbeing with augmenting leadership performance in high achieving individuals. I have extensive experience of coaching, mentoring and providing clinical supervision across a range of corporate, legal, arts and healthcare settings. In my experience, delivering high quality individual coaching to successful and high functioning individuals can provide significant emotional wellbeing benefits, whilst augmenting leadership performance.
Jasmine Navarro
Relocation & Education
I am a certified family coach and a qualified teacher. I have lived and worked in various places abroad for the past fifteen years, which include, Venezuela, USA, Turkey, Switzerland, Costa Rica and The UAE to name a few but now reside back in the UK. My diverse background and experience has enabled me to relate to all walks of life. I work with teens and young adults struggling with self-confidence and help them to find their place in society. My mission is to create a safe space for teens and young adults to connect, share, and express themselves through kindness, creativity and humour. I believes having grit in life is key.
Lucy Fendandez
Woman in Business
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Emma Yentis
The Teaching Profession
As a primary school teacher, you are faced with so many challenges that can lead to stress and sometimes burnout. I experienced burnout in my role as both classroom teacher and in leadership as Head of Key Stage 1.
From managing large classes with so many different educational needs and abilities to finishing medium term plans, pupil progress meetings preparation, marking books, planning lessons & preparing resources and of course external pressures, it’s no surprise that teachers are feeling overwhelmed with their workload.
I’ve been through it. I get it. Everything just feels too much. You start to feel like you can’t manage and that you are not doing a good job. The job that used to bring you reward and joy becomes relentlessly draining. Other elements of your life being are affected because of the stress and overwhelm at work. As a teacher myself, I can relate to all those day to day difficulties that teachers face. The printer doesn’t work, you don’t have a teaching assistant, you can’t go to the toilet because you can’t leave your class unattended, or one out of 5 of your children with SEND is having a meltdown.
This is where I can help. My coaching will help teachers prioritise their work, explore ways to manage their difficulties and reclaim their lost passion for teaching. We will look at how to feel empowered by making decisions both at work and at home and how to be efficient with their time.
I will work with teachers in identifying what it is they can do to feel happy and enthused as a teacher again. We will work together to find strategies that work for them, to cope with or to avoid reaching burnout. I am patient and I will listen. I will let teachers offload and they will be heard. I will not judge and I will offer a safe space. We will work together so that these struggling teachers can be the best teachers we know they can be.
Andy Oldfield
The NHS
I am a registered mental health nurse with over 30 years’ experience working in the NHS in both clinical, managerial and executive roles.
I am a qualified coach and have extensive experience of coaching, mentoring and providing clinical and managerial supervision. I have developed a specific interest in providing coaching to managers and executives working in the public sector, particularly NHS, local authority and education, and have found that delivering high quality coaching, either 1+1 or in a group, can provide significant benefits in what is an increasingly pressurised environment.
During my time working in senior management roles within the NHS I have developed significant facilitation and training skills which included developing bespoke training programmes for senior management teams, delivering workshops and change programmes to support transformation projects and building and developing teams across the mental health spectrum, skills which I have now been able to successfully transfer to my current work.
Naomi Hamilton
The NHS
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