Thriving & high performing
As a manager, you’re striving to strike the balance between performance and people. And sometimes navigating change, team dynamics, collaboration and strategic leadership can feel overwhelming. Expert support in untangling these complexities can be really useful .
Hi! I’m Karen, and I specialize in empowering leaders like you to confidently tackle these challenges – and ignite success for your team(s).
Through Leadership Coaching I support managers in navigating complexity with confidence and clarity.
Through Team Development I support teams to be more cohesive, aligned and performing at their best.
Through Workplace Mediation I support people in conflict to rebuild their working relationships and get back to performing fast.
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For managers and leaders
Leadership can be lonely at times. Pressures from above and (often conflicting) pressures from below. What worked yesterday may not be working today. The wider system is complex, messy and dynamic. The context is nuanced. Expectations are constantly changing, for staff as well as customers and other stakeholders. The pressure to be in action mode is high.
Prioritising a regular time to think brings balance to action and helps us to be more strategic in navigating complexity, change and transitions. It enables us to connect with what’s important and who we are as leaders. As you think about the issues facing you today would you like to…
- be more strategic
- enhance your leadership impact
- identify innovative solutions to problems
- feel more energised
What clients say
“Karen’s unique coaching style, mainly through mindset curiosity and exploration of thinking, has kept me grounded in preparation for an executive director’s role. My sessions with Karen are both motivational and very inspiring, highlighting her profound commitment to developing outstanding leaders. “
Adeboye Ifederu
Deputy Chief of Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital
“I have benefitted immensely from coaching in the last six months. Coaching has helped me find my way around a very complex situation that I found myself in and a transition period in my job and career. Coaching has helped me to be able to make those decisions to move forward and disentangle myself from the situation.”
Manager
“Karen’s coaching came at the right time for me as I was deciding where to go to next in my career. I have just moved into a job that I never dreamt could happen when I was starting out as a student nurse all those years ago. Karen’s coaching helped me to realise my potential, get the monkey off my shoulder and to know that we all get imposter syndrome and the success is about how to manage it.”
Angela Star
Interim Exec Director of Nursing and Quality
I bring expertise in leadership development, my experiences as a mid-level manager and my learnings from over 600 hours of coaching. All of this to support you in navigating the challenges you’re facing.
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For teams
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb
There’s so much for a team to deal with in addition to the ‘day job’. Change, workload pressures, tight timelines, staffing shortages, hybrid working, team members leaving and joining. The list goes on. Over time these challenges can lead to low level conflict and under-performance. There’s a sense that the team could achieve more and somehow is stuck with mediocre performance. There’s an appetite for the team to be more than the sum of its parts, but how?
By regularly paying attention to team effectiveness a team can ensure cohesiveness, wellbeing and resilience is consistently high. And when these are high innovation, mutual support and constructive feedback are high. Then performance and adapting to change improves. The team is now so much more than the sum of its individual members. The team is thriving, innovating and flying!
Support for managers and leaders 