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Our Services: Coaching

Are you ready to make a major change in your career? Working with a coach can bring a fresh perspective and help reignite your passion and sense of purpose. If you’re looking for someone to cheer you on and challenge you in equal measures, Northshore coaching offers a bespoke curriculum to help you achieve your career goals.

How do you know you’re ready to work with a coach?

While many people can benefit from the in-depth, personalised discussions that take place with a coach, we find that the most successful coaching clients are going through some type of transition or transformation. It’s a good sign you’re ready to work with a coach if:

• You’ve recently stepped into a leadership role

• You want a partner to support you in your leadership practice (establishing, scaling, maturing and transforming your practice)

• You’re looking to develop the skills that will help you land a promotion

• A milestone like a work anniversary or performance review is leading you to ask what’s next for you

• You’re no longer feeling the same passion or enthusiasm you once were in your role

• You’re experiencing burnout and don’t know how to overcome it

• You’re considering different directions like starting your own business, taking a new role, or changing industries

What can you expect from partnering with Northshore?

I offer 1:1 coaching with passionate human-centred innovators, and I’ve had the opportunity to support people from my team and clients in the space of product innovation. My coachees come from a range of disciplines, but they tend to be Heads, Directors, or Leads of User Experience, Design, Innovation, and Product Management.  

We explore topics that fall into the broad categories of: people, products, and practice. Here are a few examples of what we might cover in our sessions:

• How to shift gears to collaborate and align with your peers and stakeholders from other disciplines to achieve business goals

• How to set strategic direction

• How to increase business agility

• How to grow a happy, high-performing team 

• How to establish or mature your innovation practice

• How to create a succession plan to step up

• What’s next for you in your career? How do you get there?

My past coaching clients have used our time together to: 

• Step into more senior leadership roles 

• Set up and launch their own business

• Change the focus of their career (e.g. from UX to PM)

• Develop their innovation practice 

• Identify their next career goal 

• Land their dream job

I don’t endorse a fixed coaching framework. I draw upon my user-centred design background to identify your goals and chart our course and co-create your development plan. My style is nurturing and positive. We can work together to determine whether you prefer more open-ended, coaching-style conversations where I ask a lot of questions or mentoring-style conversations where I offer suggestions and strategies based on my experience and expertise.

How does the coaching arrangement work?

To give ourselves enough time to make progress in tackling your most pressing goals, I offer a 3-month package, which includes 6 sessions (conducted over Zoom) over the course of 12 weeks. While I’m based in the UK, I’ve worked with clients in the US, Australia, and throughout EMEA, so we can find a time that works for both of us. If, at the end of the 12 weeks, you would like to continue working together, you can opt to book ongoing coaching with me.

I’ve found that meeting every two weeks gives you time to reflect, experiment, and put ideas into practice. While I don’t necessarily assign homework, you’re likely to walk away from our sessions with lots of ideas you’d like to implement, and it’s helpful to have time to do so between our calls.

If any of this is of interest to you, please reach out to schedule a chat!