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The Coaching Academy - 14 Mar 2025

Creating safe spaces with life coaching

In this week's blog, we're catching up with graduate Life Coach and Counsellor Stasia Banto, who is passionate about supporting individuals on their personal growth and healing journey. Specialising in helping clients process complex trauma and navigate an autism or ADHD diagnosis, Stasia creates a safe and supportive space that acts as a catalyst for lasting change for the clients she helps in the UK and internationally. With Neurodiversity Celebration Week coming up next week, there's never been a better time to explore the power of truly understanding and supporting neurodivergent minds. Read on to learn more about Stasia's journey and insights.

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The Coaching Academy - 07 Mar 2025

Empowering women leaders in science through coaching

In this week's blog, we're catching up with Coaching Academy graduate Dr. Sian Rowsell, a double Coaching Academy award winner, who empowers women leaders in science to thrive in their careers and achieve the perfect work/life balance. With International Women’s Day tomorrow, Sian's story is a powerful reminder of how women continue to break barriers and inspire others. After earning her PhD at Imperial College and completing a post-doc at the University of Leeds, Sian built a successful and diverse career in the pharmaceutical industry. But her journey didn’t stop there. Inspired by a tearful January morning and a well-timed group coaching session, Sian embarked on a path of reinvention. Read on to hear her story of transitioning from a corporate career to making an impact as a coach.

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The Coaching Academy - 28 Feb 2025

From hospitality leader to coach: My coaching journey

In this week's blog, we're catching up with Manisha Vithani, a Coaching Academy graduate, mentor and associate trainer. After 20 years in the hotels and hospitality industry, Manisha retrained in coaching and now runs her own coaching business for leaders and entrepreneurs. Manisha supports individuals through challenges, helping them navigate uncertainty, overcome obstacles, and develop the confidence to thrive in their leadership career or business. Read on to learn more about Manisha's journey and insights!

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The Coaching Academy - 21 Feb 2025

Building confidence with youth coaching

In this week's blog, recent Coaching Academy graduate Angelique d’Autier-Andraud shares her inspiring coaching journey. From her early career in marketing across Paris, London, and Hong Kong, to discovering her true calling in coaching. Learn how coaching has transformed her life and how she now empowers others to achieve their potential.

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The Coaching Academy - 14 Feb 2025

From engineering in the chilly UK to coaching in sunny Spain

In this week's blog we're catching up with Coaching Academy graduate Lars Gerull. Once a mechanical engineer, Lars now specialises in guiding engineers and tech professionals through major career transitions - helping them land roles that aren’t just jobs but true passions. Read on to discover Lar's journey and insights on making bold career moves with confidence!

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The Coaching Academy - 07 Feb 2025

Coaching for Impact: Transforming HR and Leadership

In this week's blog, recent Coaching Academy graduate Gracia​ Horwitz shares her coaching journey and how it has deepened her impact as an HR leader. Believing that HR professionals directly shape business outcomes and company culture, she set out to explore how coaching can drive meaningful change. Now, as a certified coach, she’s empowering managers to lead with confidence, foster growth, and create measurable success within their teams. Read on to discover how coaching is transforming her approach to HR and business performance.

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The Coaching Academy - 31 Jan 2025

Orchestrating Change: A Journey from Musician to Coach

This week we are celebrating the success of our recent graduate Marek Tomaszewski whose inspiring journey from a 20-year musical career to a thriving role as a Life and Business Coach showcases the power of reinvention and resilience.  Now he is channelling his natural curiosity about people into empowering others - helping them to build confidence, master communication, and develop leadership strategies to excel in career transitions. Read on to discover how Marek's coaching journey is inspiring others to reach their full potential.

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The Coaching Academy - 24 Jan 2025

Winning in Your Head First: Merging Basketball & Mindset Performance Coaching

In this week's blog we are catching up with one of our amazing graduates Jack Williams.  Jack has taken his love for basketball and combined it with his passion for mindset performance and has evolved his life coaching business into an exciting multi-faceted mindset & performance coaching business.  From empowering young players on the court to transforming lives off it, his unique approach is inspiring individuals to reach their full potential in every area of life.  Let’s ‘jump’ into his journey, his mission and the impact he’s creating!

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The Coaching Academy - 17 Jan 2025

From Teacher to Coach: A Path of Self-Discovery

This week we are celebrating Coaching Academy graduate Phil Harper a teacher who has recently graduated with us.   Phil trained to become a coach alongside his role as a teacher, he is now embarking on setting up his own coaching business, Compassion Capital. Read on to find out more about his coaching journey and plans for the future.

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We run a number of free webinars from our Introduction to Life Coaching, to sessions covering coaching niches. The next of each of these webinars is displayed below.

Introduction to Life Coaching | Tomorrow, 10:00am

Power of Beliefs in Coaching | 19th March, 7:00pm

Introduction to NLP | 26th March, 7:00pm

Introduction to Business Coaching | 23rd April, 7:00pm

Introduction to Corporate Coaching | 14th May, 7:00pm

Introduction to Coaching Within Education | 11th June, 7:00pm

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