The Listening Coach

day’s corporate environment is about growth, creativity and authenticity. You’ll need to break away from being dependent on others thinking, imitation and group think, and replace it with independent thinking; thinking for yourself as yourself. Connect with your intuition. Shift your mindset. Break your fixed pattern of thinking. Be the difference you want to see. Jane’s approach is based on creating an environment for you to think well for yourself. Her work is underpinned by a post graduate diploma in psychological coaching and the Thinking Environment®, pioneered by Nancy Kline, best-selling author of More Time To Think. Jane created an environment for me to really stop and think about what was holding me back in my career. She allowed me the space to not to just simply externalise issues but to understand how my behaviours (or my lack of “leaning-in”) were actively impacting the future. Shaking off these assumptions allowed me to grow in confidence and actually re-engage with the business. The impact on me, my team, and the perception of senior leaders has been transformatory – Partner, Global Consultancy. Jane’s approach is based on a philosophy that you are creative, capable, and have the resources within you to achieve what you want for yourself. These resources may be untapped or hidden. Her approach is underpinned by the fact she:

* Cares deeply with empathy and compassion to support you getting clear on what you want and making more empowering choices.
* Challenges your thinking by working at the core of what might be getting in your way. She compares this to a piece of grit in an oyster, whereby you need to capture the right piece of grit by asking the right questions, to allow it to cultivate and grow into a pearl - of wisdom. The grit itself plays a role in becoming a pearl as it demands a focused mind, strong spirit and non-waivering courage.
* Invites your feelings to be expressed in a safe and non-judgemental environment to facilitate the process of high quality thinking.
* Encourages you to go to the edge of your thinking (outside your comfort zone) to create possibilities and tap into a resourcefulness you didn’t know you had.
* Holds an expectation that you can think for yourself, as yourself, rather than being dependent on another’s thinking or what others want you to be.
* Works with both the heart and the head, allowing them to do what they do best; the heart noticing what it wants and the heard facilitating the direction and action.
* Gives you attention and is deeply curious where you will go next with your thoughts, without imposing her thoughts unless with agreed permission. Jane recognises that this approach may be uncomfortable for some. You may resist thinking for yourself with ‘I don’t know’ or ‘what would you do, if you were me?’ Jane will help you become unstuck and to think independently with rigour, courage, imagination and grace to achieve breakthroughs for yourself. As an Executive Coach for the past 15 years, Jane’s experience lies in working with individuals within the corporate environment who want to progress their career and develop their leadership. Specialisations include: Leadership Development * Leader as Coach * Communication skills * Personal Impact * Assertiveness * Confidence * Difficult Conversations * Promotion * Emotional Intelligence * Managing Emotions * Effective Meetings * Networking * New Role