Testimonial

As the Deputy Head Educational Development at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, Ronnie Reading has seen her role evolve significantly over the past eight years. What began with a focus on teaching and learning has expanded into a broader mission: shaping the organizational climate, enhancing staff engagement, and leading comprehensive training initiatives. Despite having received professional coaching through various organizations, and practicing some techniques herself, Ronnie felt that something was missing. She craved a deeper, more structured understanding of coaching—one that would elevate her skills and allow her to become a truly impactful coach. This desire led her to ...

Embarking on the path to earning the ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential has been a transformative experience, both professionally and personally. As I reflect on this journey, I recognise how it has profoundly shaped my coaching practice, fuelled my passion for continuous growth, and set me on the path toward coaching mastery. Validating My Skills Achieving the PCC credential is more than just a milestone; it’s a significant validation of my coaching skills. This certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) acknowledges that I’ve met rigorous standards and demonstrated a high level of competence. It’s a powerful testament to ...

How Coaching Education Transformed Me as a Professional and a Parent As a sceptic of coaching, I never imagined it would play a significant role in my life, let alone enhance my skills as a parent. In my last corporate environment, my only experience of coaching, was fruitless and unhelpful. Why? Firstly, I was given Executive Coaching when I was at my lowest point. Even though I was in the final two, I didn’t get that top director role — something I had been striving for and worked towards my whole career. I was devastated, and I felt there was ...

Linda Stephens, PCC (United Kingdom) is founder and Managing Director at Cobalt Red, an international executive coaching business geared toward senior C-suite professionals and those aspiring to become C-Suite. Alongside her paid business, Linda offers pro bono coaching to alumni of the African Leadership Academy (ALA). “These are the creme de la creme from all over the African continent. They go to Jo'burg, to go to university, they get an internship, they then go to Harvard, Stanford, or Oxford, and when they graduate with their Ph.D., that's when I meet them. They're usually in their late twenties or ...

Kate Jennings, PCC (United Kingdom) is an executive coach for Kate Jennings Coaching based in Stamford, just north of Cambridge. Kate works with a range of organisations in the UK and throughout Europe helping their leaders excel through developing leadership skills and behaviours. Kate come into coaching through counseling. Through her post-grad therapy qualification about 25 years ago, she decided she didn’t actually want to work as a therapist. “I've always been fascinated by how people tick, what makes us ‑ us, what we can do to bring out the best in ourselves,” she explains. In 2007, Kate ...

Kim Jooste, ACC (Netherlands), a chemical engineer who once saw coaching as a hobby, has now taken up coaching as a career. Through her coaching, she supports female executives in male dominated industries, helping them exceed their career goals and gain more confidence along the way. She also supports entrepreneurs in the renewable energy and circular economy sectors to help ensure that the new technologies they're developing can be deployed as quickly as possible to help save our planet. Kim enrolled in Coach Advancement’s Science and Art of Coaching programme in 2021, seeing it as an interim solution ...

Kate Adams (London), is a Director at the Forward Institute, a Board member at ParalympicsGB and also offers coaching to sustainability professionals to support their important work for current and future generations. Familiar with sports coaching and mentoring, it wasn’t until the last 18 months that she really became familiar with coaching through her coach training and practice. A good friend recommended Coach Advancement’s Science and Art of Coaching programme for her coach training. She says, “I really enjoyed it and it really helped me have the space to think about what it means to be a coach. ...

Carl Huelin is a men's coach from Jersey, Channel Islands. His company, The Rebooted Man, is a play on his journey—starting in the corporate world and over the past few years transforming his own life and seeing the need to help other men live their lives more powerfully. Carl is passionate about helping men prioritize themselves. He says, "I feel like if they can show up for themselves more powerfully, they can certainly show up for their family and friends in a much better way." When the opportunity to complete coach training in Jersey with Coach Advancement came ...

From SCRUM Master to Professional Coach Femi Odelusi, a SCRUM Master and Agile coach, found the world of professional coaching and hasn't looked back since. "I’m a people’s person and love making a difference in other people’s lives. Through interactions and the encounters of people, I have one motive, and that’s to leave people better off than when I met them." He credits the Science and Art of Coaching programme for drilling "a lot of discipline and ethical ways of behaviour and values. It enabled me to actually deepen my self-drive to bring out the best in everyone that I ...