“Working with Nicola was such a delight, she immediately understood our business needs and helped craft an experimental learning session, which cover 34 different countries with around 160 leaders learning and giving feedback on their progression...
Nicola was highly collaborative, bringing great insights and direction to the project, leveraging her experience to guide us safely in the right direction.
It’s real pleasure to work with such a passionate coaching professional, sharing ideas and concepts...validated by a solid approach and fantastic facilitation. ”
— Gary Lunn, Head of Enterprise Learning & Development EMEA, Metlife
“Nicola is exactly what you need in a coach; she listens, she asks the right questions and takes into account your own person goals and gives structure to your plan in such a way that makes taking action ridiculously easy.
I’d recommend her as your go-to person if you feel some guidance and accountability is needed to reach the next career level.’”
— Emma Swift, Senior Manager - Aviva
“Nicola has consistently been able to take a brief (which, by my admittance, can often be a bit ‘sketchy’!) and turn it into something both meaningful and engaging.
She is the consummate professional, an outstanding and natural presenter, and we have been delighted with what she produces. ”
— Lisa Giles, Director (Pearson College)
“An absolute star coach. I have had the great pleasure of working alongside Nicola since meeting her at a networking event two years ago. She has been a true find and worked within the collective on a number of projects.
There are few people I know who work as hard as Nicola and glide through hurdles in the way she does. She is such a safe pair of hands who can pivot and reset as she takes a team forward. Unflappable, tenacious, dedicated and conscientious.
If there is a way, Nicola will help you find it and that’s a great coaching skill to have. To always know there is a way and to have your back on the way there. She’s a joy to work with. ”
— Sandie Bakowski, Making Change Happen (Organisational Psychologist & colleague)
“To discuss emotional intelligence, you would assume this is only achievable in a face to face environment, but Nicola managed to create a personal, engaging and confidential environment for our Crestbridge Teams to fully engage and collaborate in, entirely online!
Nicola’s solution meant Crestbridge was able to bring multiple jurisdictions together for this training, whilst her knowledge and coaching left a positive impression on the team who felt there was plenty to take-away from the online sessions!”
— James Montgomery, Learning & Development (Crestbridge)
“‘Nicola worked wonders with my team. Company morale is noticeably upbeat since we participated in a series of her workshops.’ ”
— Melissa Corfield, Sales Director (Roundhouse Design)
“‘Thank you Nicola for your knowledge, insight, and skill to help me unpick seemingly complicated career decisions. This gave me a roadmap, tangible chunks, and generally a way ahead with positivity and ‘lifted the fog’. As a senior leader this was invaluable time and reflection which Nicola delivered with compassion and skill. Thank you!’”
— Aimee Robson - National Head of Personalised Care (NHS England)
“‘Nicola supports our London Network at Royal Mail with her wonderfully engaging and hands-on sessions.
Through practical, tried & tested techniques she gave us tools to regain and maintain our calm to focus on what’s important and, more importantly, to make this sustainable over time. Thank you, Nicola!’”
“‘Fantastic sessions - loved the dialogue throughout and your ability to get people to open up, but also to give practical takeaways to use day to day in the workplace!’”
— Amy Pantlin, Director of People & Projects (Chesamel)
“‘I would recommend Nicola in a heartbeat. The changes I made whilst working with her are priceless...’”
— Emma, London - Lead Data Architect
“‘I attended the Career Retreat Workshop last week. It was such a worthwhile investment of time and money for me and I would strongly recommend it to others who are thinking about needing to invest in themselves. Nicola is really engaging and excellent at her craft! I had a great day and I am now very clear about the what, the how and the when, I need to do things that have been swirling around for over a year.’”
— Tracy Jameson, Senior HR Business Partner (Department of Work & Pensions)
I have gone from a life-time of low confidence and internalising everything to feeling as though I can conquer the world. Amazing.’”
— Peter (TV Director), London
“‘Working with Nicola is truly transformative. I had been struggling with work-life balance in a demanding job, feeling burned out and frustrated. Nicola has quickly established balance, control and clarity back into my life and I am amazed by how she tackles a huge variety of my questions and concerns.
With Nicola’s expert help, I have tackled lack of clarity on how to achieve a major transition in my career, counteract burnout, find time to reintroduce the things that really matter to me into my daily life and better deal with chronic pain.’
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— Martina (IT Design VP), London
“‘Nicola has been amazing with our students ...
Nicola’s style is engaging and interactive and has a lovely rapport with her audience. Even in this current world of online training no opportunities were missed to enable our students to engage in the work.
I highly recommend Nicola and look forward to working with her again in the near future.’”
— Blayne Cooper, Senior Educational Consultant, Pearson College London
“‘Incredibly insightful sessions, thank you.’”
— Sam Hart (Roundhouse Design), London
“‘Nicola had been recommended to me through a work colleague. I had found that I had tied myself up in a knot over work and workloads which was impacting on my home and family life. Having met up with Nicola on several sessions, she carefully and respectfully picked apart the challenges that were confronting me.
It has literally been a win win experience where both work and home have benefitted tremendously. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience and would not hesitate to recommend Nicola to anyone.’ ”
— Tom Ricketts (Roundhouse Design), London
“‘Working with Nicola is definitely among the best investments I have ever made in my business and my personal life. I have made a number of positive changes, all to focus on what is important. I am now more productive and more content.’”
— Michael (FinTech Director), London
“‘I highly rate Nicola’s skills and feel refreshed and refocussed by our time working together. She is organised, perceptive and challenging.
I felt Nicola struck the right balance between providing practical techniques to help me to work efficiently on a daily basis while asking challenging questions to help me plan and achieve my longer term personal goals.’”
— Tom (Journalist), London
“ ‘I was very impressed with Nicola’s coaching and her down-to-earth yet soothing way of helping me come to grips with some difficult issues.
She nevertheless managed to help me through them and I made progress that I never expected to make. I recommend Nicola wholeheartedly and would work with her again.’ ”
— Corinne (Civil Servant), Brussels
“‘Nicola provided concise, helpful information that I can apply to work life & personal life. Thank you for the really positive sessions.’”
— Jane (Roundhouse Design), workshop series attendee
“‘Your passion was palpable. Thank you’”
— Lunch & Learn attendee
“So grateful to Nicola for helping me to create the steady, compassionate space I needed to reflect on and make changes in my life.
I’ve learnt a great deal from Nicola and about myself. Above all, she’s empowered me to start leading my life in the way that I choose to, based on the principles and values that I’ve come to understand are most important to me. ”
— Eleanor (Head of Dept, national charity), London
