Andy Carr Lawyer
"Thank you for equipping me with useful and simple tools to help me with my communication and growth with my business. I have much more confidence that I can help my team grow by using these skills."
Claire Finn
'I wanted to leave my job as I felt my career was going nowhere. Madeleine helped me take back control. First we clarified what I really wanted to do. Then, we worked on strategies to build confidence, unlock my creativity and develop leadership and communication skills. Now I've got a great new job and I honestly believe I wouldn't have done it half so well without my Life Coach.'
Joan Herbert, PhD, Business Development Manager
"Madeleine helped me to develop personally which in turn benefitted my career and management skills. She individually tailored each session to my needs, this was incredibly helpful in gaining confidence and exploring ways of challenging my belief systems. Her support enabled me to be more curious and allowed me to learn how to challenge in a mutually beneficial way to other managers and colleagues."
Harriet Lovegrove
"Madeleine was a helpful, creative and professional source of advice as I contemplated my next steps after many years building up one organisation. She took time to understand me and my aspirations, helped me break those down and offered some great tools to assist my thinking and actions. I'm pleased to say I've since found exactly the kind of role I was looking for and feel well-equipped to make the transition to a new organisation!"
Robyn Munford
“Over several years a relationship had built up between myself and a member in the company that had resulted in many working scenarios becoming demoralising, aggressive and unproductive because of our poor working relationship. We didn’t gel and would put each other’s backs up either intentionally or unintentionally.
This started causing problems throughout but especially where big decisions were concerned and we also found focus was on this relationship and managing it rather than on progressing the company forward.
An important meeting was coming up and it was necessary that I get the agreement of everyone. The meeting came and went and everyone was on board. I received a particularly positive response from the individual I had the problems with. This was all down to using the tools that Madeleine had given me in our sessions.”
So, 10 months on and I am still using the tools Madeleine gave me. Our company is progressing well. I cannot recommend Madeleine highly enough and she is now my first port of call when tricky situations arise.”
Lisa White, Manager
"It was Madeleine's brief coaching sessions that 'made the difference' in my securing an Associate Director role a few years ago with a global organisation, which involved me undergoing three hefty interviews!
Madeleine is calm and perceptive, builds your self-belief, she draws out positive attributes you didn't know you had, makes the complicated simple, tailors her coaching to your needs and personality, kindly honest in her appraising.”
Andrew Wilkinson
"Over the months I worked with Madeleine, I built greater confidence and was able to make some bold moves in my business. I benefitted from the mix of tools and techniques that helped me get past some patterns of thinking that although decades old, were keeping me back. I highly recommend working with Madeleine!"
Eli Shine
"When I got my first job I was a classic introvert programmer with a garnish of lacking confidence. I felt it wasn't my place to say certain things or nerves just got the best of me and prevented me from putting my points across. I didn't know this at the time, I just thought that this was just me and that was that, but after working with Madeleine she very quickly started breaking down the barriers that prevented me from stepping up to the plate, and regularly challenged me to practice my skills. The benefits of this were immense. I was able to build genuinely strong relationships with my clients, and internally I gained the respect of my colleagues. I went from Junior Programmer to acting Lead Developer in a very short period of time, and the company benefited from my combination of technical and interpersonal skills. Madeleine gets a high level of recommendation from me, and my thanks for her time developing what I now believe to be my most valuable skill, win-win communication."
Luke Stagg
"I consider myself to be a successful, focused person and resourceful person. I still found I need coaching to achieve my goals. The coaching has helped me to work more efficiently with other colleagues, manage my time better, deal with difficult situations confidently, understand others better and deal with stress. The weekly sessions have helped me to achieve my potential. I would have no hesitation in recommending Madeleine’s services."
Rebecca Wooderson, Business Owner
“Following the trauma of being made redundant Madeleine helped me see that I was capable and resourceful when I had just experienced criticism and challenge. Not only that, she gave me some simple tools and techniques to give me confidence in stressful situations. Thanks to Madeleine's techniques I am about to embark on a new job.”
Ann Hunter
“Madeleine has a holistic approach to coaching in that she offers life and business coaching. This was a particularly helpful combination for me, who needed to deal with and sort out both areas of my life simultaneously.”
Trina Hill, Consultant
“Madeleine, thank you for the Confidence for Women at Work workshop you delivered for our Cambridge University WISETI scheme which supports women in Science, Technology and Engineering.
You quickly got the delegates engaged in lively discussion and problem solving. You answered their burning questions and helped them understand the key obstacles to building confidence and how they could overcome them. The delegates went away certain of what steps they would take next to improve their professional confidence and career prospects.”
Sarah Dickinson, WISETI, Cambridge University
“I have enjoyed working with Madeleine – she has provided focus, ideas, structure and achievable action plans to help with my business progression.
Going from corporate life to running my own business was difficult. Helping me to overcome the obstacles blocking my thought processes, meant I achieved significant progress in a relatively short period of time, rather than procrastinating and getting bogged down with trivia.
Madeleine has provided a number of great ideas to enhance my business plan, drawing on her knowledge and experience. I have also learnt some valuable tips to enhance my business tool kit through the NLP techniques she uses.
One of the most powerful lessons learnt, is how to deal with difficult people. Working with Madeleine will enhance your business and give you more confidence to deal with life!”
Aegean Thomson
"Talking to madeleine was a refreshing experience, her ability to make me think outside the box was excellent. I am a successful business owner but I needed more tools to help me earn the income I really wanted from my business. I realised how to make more money out of my experience, knowledge and qualifications in less time. After the session with her, I had clarity and focus of where I wanted to be and an action plan of how I was going to get there. The penny dropped and all the pieces of the jigsaw fit. Thanks a million."
Satvinder Sokhi