Client Testimonials & Results

Excellent facilitation

Amanda worked with me on a strategic planning activity being undertaken by Belron's central finance team. She has an extremely positive approach and together we devised a tailored process recognising the specific challenges of the team. She conducted efficient and effective interviews with the team members ensuring that she built a suitable rapport while also collating sufficient base knowledge.

Her facilitation skills were excellent during the two day event but, more than that, she also provided valuable and constructive insights into the way forward rather than merely standing on the side lines. She ensured that we ended the session with a clear plan and tangible actions. I would strongly recommend Amanda to any other business conducting a strategic planning or team development activity.

A year training our corporate management teams

Amanda spent a year training our corporate management teams. Her strategic sales and management processes were excellent, and her experience in embedding and managing change exceptional. 

Tools for our fee earners to recognise the business opportunities of client events

We engaged Amanda because we needed somebody credible to deliver our strategy regarding networking. Our aim was to give all our fee earners tools and guidelines to recognise the business opportunities of client events.

Working together with some very senior partners through to new trainees Amanda brought experience, fears and opportunities into play with experiential exercises and lively discussions. The main benefits for engaging Amanda were the co-developed design for the workshops and her practical approach.  These combined to really engage the fee earners with the topic.

Vast experience of working within professional service firms

Amanda worked with us to help create a cultural change in the way we develop our people. Her approach involved gathering data from key stakeholders and designing and facilitating workshops where we agreed the changes we wanted and identified how we might go about achieving our ambitions. Her vast experience of working within professional service firms and her talent for combining theory with practicality added significant value to us. Working with Amanda has made a positive impact within our business.

Real business results

I’ve worked with Amanda as a coach, facilitator, and strategist.  In every role she combines professionalism with a results-focused approach. As a coach, she balances deep listening with incisive questioning, guiding and challenging just enough to help achieve long-term goals. As a strategist, she brings depth of analysis and a balanced perspective that deliver real business results. And as a facilitator, she engages everyone in the room and draws out valuable contributions.

Fresh, invigorating, motivational and above all fun

Amanda has a very personable style and relates well to people at various levels of the organisation. She is able to work within tight organisational groups / constraints, challenging the accepted norms and driving individuals to push themselves and their thinking in the pursuit of desired operational excellence. She has a style that is fresh, invigorating, motivational and above all fun

Brings structure and generates quality output

Amanda has been an excellent support to me and members of my team during the last year. She helps individuals through her coaching skills to focus on the priorities and make sense of their problems. Amanda is excellent at facilitating sessions, she brings structure and generates quality output which she always follows up on.

Dynamic but with a measured style

Amanda’s ability to read people is one of her key strengths. She combines being a thoroughly nice person with a ‘steeliness’ and determination. She is dynamic but with a measured style.

Our full team have been able to develop

Amanda is professional and dedicated to helping her clients to achieve better results and improve their people and organisations. Her services are bespoke and can be tailored to any organisation or situation. Our full team have been able to develop as a result of the course.

Keeps “her eye on the goal”

Amanda is a true professional. Her approach and personable style to delivery of a programme is second to none. Amanda always keeps “her eye on the goal” to ensure the overall and tactical objectives of a programme are delivered. Her engagement with the stake-holders and those involved enables the skills, content and goals are communicated in a way to impact results. Amanda is challenging to all involved in a positive way to drive results and meet objectives. She is a real asset to any programme.

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity

I adapted my approach to leadership

Amanda provided expert coaching during a key period as I transitioned between roles. Her style enabled me to really connect mindfully with how I adapted my approach to leadership. Each session was thought provoking and very useful.

Excellent grasp of both the "hard" side of business (finance, etc) and the "soft" side

I went to Amanda for leadership coaching when I was taking on a new role. The reason that I chose Amanda is because of her excellent grasp of both the "hard" side of business (finance, etc) and the "soft" side (people, emotions, etc).

Motivated and invigorated

I have just finished the programme and I have to say it was an amazing journey. The structure of the sessions every week is thoughtfully constructed and flows very naturally. Amanda also has the intuition and skill to allow flexibility where there are specific issues that come up that may not "fit" with that week! She is an incredible individual, who has the ability to engage so genuinely and fully that it is quite humbling. I always finish a session feeling motivated, invigorated and with a positive feeling deep inside.

It is a special gift to be able to engage in this way over video - but Amanda is able to deliver on her promise. I would highly recommend joining for the next program.

Insightful approach

I have worked with Amanda on various times over the last 10 years. Her insightful approach to coaching has always been a great help.

Fresh thinking and inspiration for the future

I worked with Amanda over a period of 6 months in support of a leadership course that I was undertaking. Her coaching came at a time of significant change and her holistic approach to supporting individuals enabled us to have broad and powerful conversations identifying patterns and commonalities across all aspects of my life and work.

Her sessions gave me fresh thinking and inspiration for the future whilst being grounded in building a strong understanding of my personal leadership strengths and how to maximise their impact. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Amanda and would recommend her wholeheartedly.

I have been recognised as a strong coach of people

Working with Amanda was always a real pleasure. Her focus on my development was very focused and feedback relevant and appropriately given. I have been recognised within O2 as a strong coach of people and I put this accolade down to Amanda’s coaching of me and ensuring I was honest with my own development. I would strongly recommend Amanda to any one looking to develop their skills in a smart and practical way.

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative

The confidence to move forward

Amanda helped me not just identify my strengths and how I used them but most importantly she helped me really believe in myself and my strengths. Amanda got me to dig deep and explore actions I had taken and actions I was planning to take.

By getting me to look at things from lots of different angles, I got to know myself and have much more confidence in myself as a result. This ground work has given me the springboard I needed to take charge of my leadership and move forward with purpose.

Shift in mindset and positive results

Through Amanda' s expert and practical supportive coaching style she has helped me enormously to reflect on my personal values and life aspirations. Her encouragement to think more holistically about my whole life plan has really helped me to prioritise what is important to me. I am already experiencing a shift in mindset and seeing positive results. I would highly recommend. 

Practical hands-on advice

Amanda provided practical hands-on advice on how to approach my new role as team leader for 25 people.  This included advice regarding how to approach the role, key areas to look out for, how to motivate and deal with people and included advice on how to deal with both the top talent and under performing members of the team.  I found her insight and appreciation of the role extremely useful and her input set the role in a new perspective for me.  I took the advice on board immediately and have noticed the impact, not only within myself but also externally.

A vision for my life and my future

My coaching experience with Amanda was incredibly liberating. I gained clarity and insight into what was important to me and revolutionised the way I spend my time and energy both at work and at home. I am very grateful for this as it has helped me become a happier, more integrated, less stressed person. I learned decision making tools which I still refer to today, built confidence to navigate the situation I was facing, spoke up in a difficult interaction, managed my boundaries and much more. Amanda also helped me to create a vision for my life and my future which was very exciting and I continue to be amazed at how that unfolds even today.

From stuck and immobilised to hopeful, energised and with a clear sense of how to move forward

Amanda coached me at a time when I was considering a significant change in my working arrangements / life. The value she added was that in every meeting she stress tested my perceptions of the situation and what was possible, helping me to develop ideas that were outside my current realm of thinking, to see new and different possibilities, and always to pin down actions that I would take to progress the situation. On a number of occasions I went into a session with Amanda feeling stuck and immobilised and came out feeling hopeful, energised and with a clear sense of how to move forward. The result of all this? I successfully renegotiated my working arrangements and now feel they are much more closely aligned to what is important to me in the whole of my life.

Tools to help me structure my thinking

Working with Amanda gave me a much better insight into my core values, motivators and behaviours. She provided tools to help me structure my thinking to define and create an exciting new role for myself within our business. I'm confident that many of the positive changes that Amanda has worked with me to affect are permanent and will deliver ongoing benefits to me professionally and personally. I found working with Amanda an inspiration. I have huge regard for her insight, energy, integrity and ability to engender long lasting change in others.

Quickly moved beyond coping into creating

Amanda was hired to be my expatriation coach after my relocation from Canada to the UK. Amanda has expert knowledge of the subject material and was able to draw upon her own personal expat experience. Amanda listened to me and put together a customised program that really got to the heart of my expatriation concerns. Our sessions were very focused and quickly our coaching moved beyond coping with the move into change management and creating a life plan.

Expert at coaching and facilitation

Amanda has outstanding interpersonal skills, is truly expert at coaching and facilitation, and has an incredible ability to allow the answer to be developed by you, knowing that you would never get to that answer without her skills! Through our work together I was able to create opportunity for a secondment to Ecuador via the non-profit Pronino, transfer from the UK to the US with work, and most recently find new ways to help transform corporate innovation initiatives!

I was able to turn redundancy into a brave new start

There are definitely times in life when you reach a crossroads and things can go either way.  Redundancy can be devastating and frightening but, with the right support, can also be liberating and exciting.  I had never thought of using a coach but then I met Amanda and with her help I worked out what success meant for me and what I really wanted to achieve for the future.  I was able to turn redundancy into a brave new start and 18 months down the line I'm still thankful that I took some time get a new perspective and make the right choices for me.

Quickly gets to the real issues beneath the surface

Amanda takes a holistic approach that quickly gets to the real issues beneath the surface. She asks the hard questions, challenges you to grow, and helps connect the dots across work and life. Through her coaching, I gained clarity about my situation, the choices I faced, and the goals I wanted to pursue and moved forward with confidence knowing I was on the right path.

Better leader because of the coaching

During the 6 months of working with Amanda she helped me understand that I am an essential part of the management team and that there is great value in me focussing on my leadership skills and gaining clarity over what I wanted from my career. She asked me the right questions which lead me to solid decisions and answers. I am a better leader today because of the coaching I received from Amanda.

Invaluable in helping me tackle both simple and complex challenges

Amanda has an excellent coaching style. She is excellent at creating a few hours of clarity in which to explore and examine problems and ideas.

Our sessions were always productive and I found them invaluable in helping me tackle both simple and complex challenges in my work place and career in general.

Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity

I was able to reach clear conclusions and make difficult decisions

Amanda quickly grasps complex situations and helps put problems in perspective, providing new angles that lead to clarity and action. Her structured yet empathetic style helps you focus on the right questions, eliminate distractions, and link career issues to the rest of your life. After discussions with her, I was able to reach clear conclusions and make difficult decisions with the certainty that I was doing the right thing.

Helped me focus and make important decisions

Amanda’s capacity to listen and ask incisive questions helped me to consider issues in their totality and understand the linkages between them. Amanda cuts to the chase. Through her coaching the fog seemed to lift from over complex situations enabling me to see an effective way through. My subjective views were ‘cleansed’ and with Amanda’s help I was able to look at my situation objectively and clearly.

Amanda was instrumental in helping me focus and make important decisions comfortably and confidently in the knowledge that they were the right solution for me at that moment in time. Although the choices were not always easy, her support helped me grow, and her influence continues to shape who I am becoming.

Quickly helped me clarify my thinking, move forward and create change

As her supervisor during her coach training in 2002, I recognised Amanda’s natural talent in her very first coaching practice session and she has gone on to develop this talent into a professional skill, which she has added to her already considerable knowledge and experience in education, business and consultancy. Amanda is confident and articulate and has a natural, easy rapport with her clients, coupled with an instinct for getting to the ‘core’ of an issue.

In the coaching sessions I had with Amanda at the end of her training, I found she was quickly able to help me clarify my thinking, move forward and create lasting change. She is skilled at listening, uses incisive and perceptive questions to help her clients focus on setting timed goals and gaining real insights and has a positive attitude which encourages and reinforces her clients’ achievements.