I had the pleasure of having Karen as a coach and she taught me the importance of coaching in building and leading an effective team. At the time, I had just started a new role in a field which I was not familiar with, leading a new team with people from different backgrounds, a wide range of experiences, capabilities and varying degrees of ambition. Karen helped me to use coaching as a way to build trust in the team. I realised that the more I used a coaching approach, my team also started to coach each other. We started engaging and communicating a lot more and ultimately worked a lot more effectively as a team.

Overall leadership coaching was tremendously positive.  I have made significant progress as a leader, a view supported by feedback from my key stakeholders.  From the first session, the chemistry was right and Karen very quickly became familiar with me and my role.  Meetings with Karen have provided the guidance and solid structure around which to reflect and formulate development plans with clear actions and outcomes.  Karen has also assisted me in navigating through a period of uncertainty.