How I Can Help You

I am a professional Integral Development Coach, certified with the International Coaching Federation.

Coaching the whole person is central to my way of working and the main force behind starting up my company Expanding Possibilities. I believe that taking this wider approach affords my clients opportunities to build their capacity and wisdom in taking care of what’s important to them.

I create a space where you can feel comfortable and supported enough to explore your own beliefs and values, how they impact your life and work, and to stretch the boundaries of thinking of what you believe you’re capable of.

I invite you into a bigger world – one that you may not be even be aware of yet. By working with these new possibilities, you will be able to work towards building your resourcefulness to create sustainable growth and change.

I bring support, challenge, compassion, non-judgement and full belief in your ability to grow and change.

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My key areas of coaching expertise

Working with the whole person who’s in the middle of a life that’s much bigger than the particular topic is central to my way of working. Taking this wider, more integral approach allows the client to produce sustainable outcomes.

Career coaching to support transitions such as promotion, redundancy, job changes, retirement.

Coaching using diagnostic tools (personality profiles, motivators, performance de-railers and 360 degree) to identify and make the best use of preferred styles of working and build self-awareness.

Recent coaching assignments

  • Under represented Civil Servants (BAME, women, LBGTQ, people with a range of special workplace requirements)
  • Head of Legal Advisory Service
  • Global Managing Director
  • Service Manager – Looked After Children Service, Local Authority Social Work
  • Director – Transformation Leader
  • Head of Programme Management
  • Business Owner – Early Years Professional
  • Fast-track Graduate Civil Servants
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It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

Kristin Armstrong

So what can you expect?

Before the coaching begins, we will have an initial meeting to introduce ourselves and your issue, check out our chemistry, discuss contractual aspects and the arc of the programme. Programmes tend to run for 6–12 months, with sessions anything from every two to four weeks.

We get started by having a fact-finding meeting where we discuss your issue and the wider context within which it arises.

After this session I will propose a statement of purpose for the coaching programme, some intended outcomes, and the number of sessions and duration of coaching that I think would support you in reaching them. We talk about your response to the proposal and modify it accordingly before continuing.

Once we have agreed on the purpose, intended outcomes and number of sessions I will propose a programme of self‐observation exercises, practices, reading and other activities intended to support your development, which I will introduce to you in subsequent sessions for us to explore together. These activities will feel very integrated into your everyday life.