Jen has an amazing ability to be able to shape sessions in just the way you need- creating the right space and conversation to get to the point, and bringing you back to what you want to do, can do to improve and achieve what you want. For me, this has often been about my emotions and feelings about myself in the workplace, and I’ve really appreciated the balance between exploring and challenging where those emotions weren’t helping and also helping me with real things I know I can do to build my confidence and focus on the real pleasure I get from my job.

Accessing coaching and working with Jen on return to work after my second maternity leave has been one of the best decisions I have made in my career to date. I now feel well equipped to deal with whatever challenge comes my way and having several useful tools at hand has increased my confidence significantly. I have learnt so much and look forward to new challenges where I can put my knowledge to the test.

Jen is really approachable and friendly and made me feel at ease straight away. Talking about your career and your successes/failures/weaknesses can make you feel quite vulnerable and I felt happy to talk all these things through with Jen.  She was excellent at making me reflect on what I had achieved to help develop my confidence and also gave me clear tangible next step actions to help develop my work readiness for a future job.

Working with Jen was like pressing the reset button on my professional confidence. During our first conversation she cut right to the heart of what I was getting at. I felt stuck. I knew I wanted a bigger challenge, but I had been trying for years to decide whether to change career, and in my indecision had grown into a rut of low confidence. I’d lost sight of the more dynamic version of myself I’d known in my pre-children career and I didn’t know where to begin in getting that back.

With Jen, I felt heard, and validated, as a professional, but also as a working parent facing the inevitable demands of a career post-children – the childcare juggle, the impostor syndrome, and the guilt of wanting something for myself.

Something clicked after that first conversation, and I started thinking of myself differently. Talking to Jen gave me permission to want more from my career and taught me how to reconcile that desire with my commitment to my family. That freedom set me off on a journey which, a short while later, lead to a new job in a different sector. Those small interventions had a big impact. She was the voice in my head as I navigated a big change.