Our Coaching Services

The key purpose of our coaching programmes is to empower individuals to achieve their personal best and to produce the results they want in their professional lives. 

Coaching has traditionally been associated with sports but in recent years has been used for helping people to develop in other disciplines, particularly in business.

In essence, a series of coaching sessions can give someone a confidential space and some precious time in which they can:

• Unlock and decipher any problems or challenges they are tackling,
• Determine what is important to them,
• Identify their strengths and build their confidence,
• Assess their options, clarify their goals and plan how to achieve them.

Coaching is a partnership between coach and client. The coach does not tell the client what to do but instead asks questions, listens, encourages and prompts the client to develop ideas and determine their own course of action.

Coaching can be useful for supporting the careers of talented individuals, developing management skills, encouraging innovative ideas and new perspectives and building stronger more resilient teams.

Fundamental to our approach is listening to the individual we are coaching to gain an understanding of their issues and of what it is they want to achieve. We then encourage and challenge them to develop an action plan with tangible goals, which they own, and I hold them accountable for making progress towards their goals. 

Most of coaching is provided by Kate Le Marechal, who is a qualified coach with extensive experience of helping professionals and managers to find solutions to challenging issues such as creating good team dynamics, handling change, dealing with performance issues, or finding strategies for their personal career development or general confidence. She is a member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council and has the ILM coaching and mentoring level 5 qualification. She is also an accredited Facet5 practitioner and Facet5 TeamScape coach. 

Kate’s professional background is in HR, an area in which she has worked for over 20 years. She has been an in-house senior HR practitioner and an employment policy expert for a trade body. She now runs her own independent HR consultancy, which offers one-to-one coaching as well as advice to businesses on HR strategy and policy development. She has a degree in politics from York University and a postgraduate diploma in HR management from Bristol Business School. 

We also occasionally work with associate coaches. You will always be given a profile of the coach prior to your initial chat with them.

Yes, of course. The examples above are included for illustrative purposes. 

Our focus is on empowering professionals and managers to find solutions to challenging issues such as handling change, creating good team dynamics, dealing with performance issues, or finding strategies for their personal career development or general confidence. We will tailor the coaching sessions for the individual’s particular needs. In addition to the scenarios described in the main part of the website, some other examples of topics could include helping an individual to:

• Build a high performing team,
• Handle conflict and tackle difficult people effectively,
• Manage others’ expectations and learn how to say ‘no’,
• Consider their career options or prepare for promotion,
• Decide between conflicting priorities,
• Manage their work-life balance, 
• Develop particular skills, such as presenting to large groups or chairing meetings,
• Grow their confidence, and possibly combat ‘imposter syndrome’,
• Handle stressful situations

Plus many other scenarios - this is not an exhaustive list.

Anyone can have coaching!

We can work with individuals through their employer and can also provide coaching directly to independent clients. 

Coaching programmes typically comprise three to six 90-minute sessions over a six-month period. This allows time for you to reflect, make changes, and develop your goals with our support.

We recognise that every individual has different needs and so are happy to put together a coaching package that suits you. As a guide, the investment for a typical programme of six 90-minute sessions over a six-month period is £900. We are happy to offer payment plans. 

If you are enquiring for a company, please contact us for corporate rates. 

Before starting a programme, we have a complimentary 45-minute ‘chemistry’ meeting or call with you to explore what you are looking for from coaching, to answer any questions you might have, and so that you can assess whether coaching with us is right for you.

We are very flexible about where, when, and how we work with those we are coaching. We are also happy to meet you out of standard working hours – either earlier or later in the day - to fit in with corporate, family, or other commitments.

We work predominantly in London and the Southeast but am able to coach online for clients outside these areas.

An individual’s need for confidentiality during a coaching session is, of course, extremely important. We ensure that the content of one-to-one coaching discussions with us remains confidential and we do not share anything with a coachee’s line management or HR team unless we have had their explicit permission.  Our business is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. A copy of our privacy policy setting out how we treat personal data can be found on our website.

We work primarily with Facet5 but can also provide access to a range of other psychometric tools and can offer 360-degree evaluations should you find it beneficial to get input from your team and/or peers. 

Facet5 can help you to understand the strengths of your personality – and how to leverage these – as well as those risks that keep turning up and getting in the way of you realising your potential. 

Facet5 is founded on contemporary, trait-based personality theory – making the data credible, robust and reliable. The Facet5 profile provides a ‘snapshot’ of an individual’s personality. A profile details the five major building blocks (the Facet5 factors) of an individual’s personality. These factors are then broken down into 13 sub-factors.

We all have varying amounts of each factor within our personalities – the amount/score will differ depending on our personal preferences and beliefs. It is the pattern of ‘scores’ we see across each of the factors which provides an overall picture of our personality. With this in mind, there is no right or wrong profile. Facet5 is not a test, which you can ‘pass’ or ‘fail’. We call it a personality profile – often referred to by others as an inventory or scale. 

We can also provide the personality-profiling tool and debrief sessions for the individuals you manage so that you can understand the working dynamics of your team and identify opportunities for wider team development and improvement.