About Karen

As well as being a holistic business coach, I am a holistic entrepreneur, creating businesses and projects in the holistic field that focus on helping others.

Since 2001, when I first started coaching, I have moved through various incarnations as a coach in order to meet the wide-ranging needs of my clients. As well as business, these included coaching expertise in the area of health, relationships, stress management and confidence. Today, I split my time between coaching entrepreneurs, other business leaders and their teams on both their business and personal needs; providing transformational supervision to both executive coaches and non-executive coaches who are serious and committed to their own personal and professional development, and developing new holistic businesses and projects including setting up a coaching programme to make my brand of coaching available to many more clients.

My background spans advertising sales and marketing; commercial radio and sales promotion; and counselling and group facilitation. I founded and ran my own successful marketing agency and I have led personal development workshops in relationships, coaching and in “emotional intelligence. I have coached in front of 1.5 million people on the UK’s most popular day time programme, and have also appeared on ITV2. My tips for success in business have been broadcast on radio to 25 markets in the US. Over four years, I wrote for Natural Health Magazine as The Soul Doctor and The Life Coach contributing a page addressing readers’ life challenges every month.

I am a published author having contributed to “A coaches story” (a Noble-Manhattan initiative). I have also pioneered the use of self-healing coaching to help people reduce or overcome the symptoms of long-standing or so-called incurable conditions. I have also developed a new alternative therapy called “Chikara”, and a feel-good workshop programme www.theinnerspa.co.uk to replenish body, mind and spirit.

I hold a Management Sciences degree (BSc Hons) and a Diploma in Group Facilitation (Emotional Intelligence). I am a certified counsellor (CCST) and a certified coach (Results Coaching Systems, Australia). The “Results” training forms part of the University of Portsmouth’s MSC in Coaching and Development.

I also received a “Mastery in Coaching” from Newfield Network, USA. The highly-acclaimed Newfield training is accredited by the International Coach Federation. I am a trained coaching supervisor, supervising the work of other coaches see http://www.coachingsupervisor.co.uk. I also founded The Association of Coaching Supervisors http://www.associationofcoachingsupervisors.com/

Specialities:

My greatest passion in working with entrepreneurial leaders is helping them overcome their biggest challenges and harness their strengths. My greatest passion in working as a holistic entrepreneur is to create and develop innovative concepts that will help more people in unusual and extraordinary ways. My greatest passion in working with coaches is in the area of supervision where change is often transformational and multi-dimensional.

“I have found Karen’s coaching has helped me enormously. It’s as if she’s helped me unlock a key inside which has allowed me to react to the world in a new way. The effects of this on my home life, my mood, and my business have been spectacular.”

Chris King
Owner, Kb49 Ltd
“I am going through a business coaching process with Karen. We are implementing changes in the business which will increase profitability and significantly improve my quality of life. Karen’s patient, methodical, sympathetic and encouraging approach is recommended to anyone seeking change in their business and personal life.”
Ian Marlow
Managing Director, HfM Tax & AccountsSolving the Business, Tax & Accounting Problems of Individuals and Small Businesses
"Wow, what a journey I have had this last year; it has been life changing. My approach to both business and personal issues is now very structured and objective. Thank you for taking me through this journey and I look forward to our meeting in September.”
Kevin Godden
Director at FMG Consulting Ltd
“I have really benefited from coaching; I have a stronger company, and a better idea of my own strengths and how to use them effectively. Karen has helped put me in touch with my creativity and how to use it practically. I now feel much more confident about the future."
Maggie Banks
Managing Director, Co create
"Karen challenges a coach to become even better and achieve even higher standards of performance with their clients. Supervision is a useful coaching tool and Karen an excellent example of the value an effective supervisor can add to a coaching practice.”
Martin Goodyer
Expert Business Coach & Coach Trainer
“Karen was excellent at making me sort out the Important from the urgent, setting correct priorities and holding me to account for following through on the tasks we set. I would highly recommend Karen to anyone who is thinking about using a business coach.”
Nigel Lambe
Sussex based entrepreneur
“Coaching? I was unsure about it before I started – the cost, the time, the results. But it has been easy, enjoyable and most importantly I have achieved the goals I focused on. Karen was a steady hand and I would recommend her as a coach to anyone.”
Paul Miller
CEO, Digital Workplace Group London | New York
“I used Karen to help me with business planning and personal issues. In just two sessions she coached me to achieve valuable results which have helped me immensely in all areas.I recommend Karen as someone who will get you where you want to go.”
Raz Khan
Owner, Cobalt Sky
"I have come far since meeting Karen. Her background in marketing and her generous spirit have guided me to a confident and powerful position. Although we have focused on business matters, I have noticed that my personal and home life have also improved. I can only see success ahead.”
Renee Edwards
Film Maker
“The coaching I had with Karen was life changing for me. She helped me see things in a different way and boosted satisfaction with my life and work . I am overwhelmed by the difference she has made to me personally and professionally – thank you."
Ruth Smith
Managing Director, P M Management, HR and Marketing Consultancy