Areas of Expertise
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Career Coaching
A career move can take many forms. You may be deciding on your next career steps and looking for a role which feels more aligned with you and your values. Or you may be navigating promotion and seeking your own authentic way of stepping up into a new role. Perhaps you have recently returned from maternity leave and are finding yourself spinning many plates, with little space for you and how you can balance your work and family with your own ambition. Or you could be feeling like you have outgrown your current career and are contemplating a complete career change. You have some ideas, but you really want to get this decision right.
One to one coaching gets you right to the heart of what is right for you, your life and what you truly value. Drawing on my years of experience in the corporate world in marketing, entertainment and recruitment as well as extensive experience in navigating personal and professional change I bring an understanding, supportive, empathetic and whole self approach to my coaching relationships.
What we’ll work on together :
CV Tuning
LinkedIn optimisation
Job search strategy
Interview techniques and role play preparation
Expatriation
You have taken a giant step to leave your ‘home’ country and adventure awaits! Moving abroad is an incredible experience and probably one of the biggest growing experiences of your life. But it is not always easy. Leaving your friends and family, career and support system behind takes guts and grit. Becoming an expat for the first time (or even for the 10th time!) can be both exciting and challenging. Leading up to an international move you’re excited and nervous about the possibilities but it’s hard to know what’s coming. Once you have got over the initial honeymoon phase, life begins to feel a bit meh….you are starting from zero, not only with the communities and networks you have left in your home country but often with a new language too. Nobody knows you, and even communicating on a basic level can be a challenge. You’re wondering how you can fit in, where to start to build a life and career abroad that makes the most of all the opportunities you have while overseas.
Stay connected to yourself and your values to create a life abroad that you will love using my MOVE framework. Tap into your:
Motivations
Opportunities and Objectives
Vision and Values
Empowerment
Work with me to focus on either integration, or your overseas career plan. I have found myself in this position many times, having lived and worked over three continents over the past 10 years and I understand the challenges and opportunities that moving overseas can bring. Bringing my own experiences and passion for helping people to make the best of their time abroad I have created a framework to help you stay connected to yourself and your values in order to create a life abroad that you will love.
Portable career
Are you tired of your career stopping and starting every time you move on an expatriate assignment? Unsure of your transferable skills and strengths and how you could use them? Have you and your life changed so much since moving abroad that you can’t imagine going back to your previous career. Do you dream of creating a portable career that is compatible with your globally mobile lifestyle? A career that fits around you, what you love to do and your life overseas.
“The fine art of a successful career in your suitcase doesn’t mean having a big bag, but having a big imagination and the enthusiasm to carry it out.” – Huw Frances
Having navigated these challenges myself, I know how key unlocking your own purpose can be during an expatriation. The journey to creating your new unique career starts from within. Work with me to develop your portable career. You will explore your options, deepen your understanding of your career narrative and take a deep dive into yourself looking at your passions, your strengths and life’s calling using these to create your own portable career.
Emotions
Our emotions accompany us through every moment we live, but for many, understanding our emotions and the relationship we want to build with them can be challenging.
“The quality of our emotions, is the quality of our life” – Tim Robbins
Working with the emotions is key to helping us unlock transformative change from within. Whichever journey you are on, learning how to harness your emotions can help you build greater self awareness and create a deeper connection with yourself. This can be pivotal in helping you tap into your own voice and navigate the change you seek.
Emotions coaching is part of all the coaching work I do as emotions are present in all big moments of change in our lives. If you want to go deeper, I can offer emotions specific programme to guide you through big moments of change.
A three month coaching programme will guide you through the Six Principles of Emotions:
Principle One:
Emotions are neither good or bad
Principle Two:
You are not your emotions
Principle Three:
Emotions are unmet needs
Principle Four:
Emotions aren’t always authentic
Principle Five:
Emotions are Interlinked
Principle Six:
You can choose your emotions
I use proven coaching tools to deepen self awareness, aid the release and movement of emotional blocks, and develop strategies for managing unwanted emotions. You will learn to embrace and connect to chosen emotions, empower courage and build resilience.
What my clients are saying...
"Working with Holly has been a truly inspirational journey. I have appreciated her authentic, deeply relatable and approachable self."
"Having moved abroad, started a family and left my career back in the UK, I felt a little bit lost ... Holly really helped me focus my mindset on exactly what it was I wanted to achieve next. With Holly’s guidance and support I’ve now secured a role within an industry sector I’ve always wanted to work in, as well as identify a business idea that I’m hoping to launch next year."
"Holly was a brilliant career coach and someone I would recommend to anyone feeling unsure about which professional direction to take."
“I felt very seen and understood. Holly is excellent, balancing the need for reflection and action.”
