PERFORMANCE UNLEASHED

When I began working with Sandra, I felt uncertain about my next career steps, with no clear progression path available in my company. Through her guidance, I gained clarity on my goals, identified gaps in my confidence, competence and experience, and developed a structured progression plan to ensure I was prepared when the right opportunity arose.

Sandra’s support was invaluable, not only in strengthening my business capabilities and leadership skills, but also in helping me grow personally and build self-belief. As a result, when the senior role I aspired to became available, I was ready to step into it with confidence.

She has continued to be a trusted support throughout my transition into senior management, providing insight, encouragement, and challenge at exactly the right moments. Working with Sandra has accelerated my career progression and made the journey far smoother than it would have been alone.

I’ve been working with Sandra for several years, and looking back, I can clearly see how her coaching has supported my growth, both personally and professionally. Through her exceptional ability to listen deeply and ask insightful questions and be so approachable, Sandra has helped me develop key skills in strategic thinking, self-awareness, decision-making, and leadership. Her guidance has often revealed new perspectives and opportunities I hadn’t considered and equally important helped me manage and accept my work life balance. There have been moments, especially while preparing for important meetings, where just one question from Sandra has unlocked valuable areas for development and growth.

When I stepped into my new leadership role, I felt overwhelmed, unfocused, and burdened with impostor syndrome. I knew I had the potential, but I couldn’t see how to lead with clarity or confidence. Coaching sessions with Sandra became a turning point. Through our work together, I began to reframe my internal narrative, understand my value, and build the structure and boundaries I needed. The tools and insights we explored gave me language and confidence I didn’t realise I was missing. The recommended reading - especially ‘The Evergreen Executive’ - deeply resonated with me and supported me through this period of transition. Today, I feel confident, focused, and grounded in how I lead. Coaching gave me more than support - it gave me the mindset and structure to lead authentically.

I worked with Sandra over several months of change and growth in our business. Sandra offers a no-nonsense approach, whilst ensuring that she understands the people and problems that you are dealing with.Her experience as a Financial Director means that she really gets the financial implications in decision making and can identify weaknesses and assist you in decision making. I can highly recommend Sandra as a great support and guiding hand in your business.

Before I started working with Sandra, I understood my business at a very elementary level. Sandra helped build my understanding, starting at the foundations and building up from there. If I didn’t understand a concept, she reframed it in another way, always showing me different ways to think about “business”. My favourite is the “plan on a page”, which has helped to cement the idea that running a small business does not have to be complicated. Sandra helped me to create processes to monitor the business health so that I always know where the business is at. Her support and coaching techniques have taught me how to make good decisions based on forecasted income, which has allowed my business to grow at the right time and pace. Sandra has been there to answer my questions when I doubted myself and there to celebrate the big wins!

The 360 feedback was more effective than previous internal reviews. While internal reviews work well, they can be limited in candour or context. Using externally led 360 feedback helped me focus and gauge more useful responses. The questions were more specific and tailored, rather than a generic corporate approach. The results exceeded expectations, thanks to the thoughtful handling and creation of questions.

Sandra has provided excellent guidance and mentoring through some exciting and challenging times. By providing support where needed and a fresh and clear approach when dealing with several challenging situations, I have grown as a manager and a leader in my working environment. Coaching has improved my working performance, and I have been able to adjust my approach, when dealing with several potentially volatile situations in a calm and professional manner, with a positive outcome. Through improving my understanding of my own and others’ personality traits I have become more productive and comfortable in a variety of different circumstances. The coaching I have had has stood me in a position, and Sandra’s ability to provide the right support, direction and knowledge all at the right time has been immensely valuable.

Your support has been so helpful during a very difficult period of my life. Thank you for all your listening. You have a very positive way and I enjoyed you gently challenging me and making me think. I believe that many things I have learned with you will continue to be very helpful in my professional and personal life.

I contacted Sandra for some coaching for several reasons. I'd read her book and been reminded of some things that I used to know but had got lazy about putting into practice everyday. I'd also been in my job for 5 years and wasn't sure if I wanted a change or just to raise my performance level where I was. The sessions were very well structured and helped me get to the core issues very quickly. Once I'd established that staying in my current role was what I wanted, we quickly agreed what was needed to make it more rewarding. We also looked at life outside work and what was needed to improve that too. Sandra was great at holding me to account, helping me find solutions to perceived difficulties and keeping me motivated as I worked through the process. My team and my manager have all noticed the difference in my performance and I can honestly say, it has been well worth the hard work. Working with Sandra was a privilege. She has a wealth of practical and relevant experience to draw on and has a great tool kit of helpful models and strategies she employs. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her.

I have worked with Sandra, as a coach to members of my team, for the past 12 months. If I was to be asked: "Why should someone choose her to coach them or their colleagues?" ..... my answer would be "Because she gets results." She has worked with a number of my direct report managers and helped them to make positive career decisions. I believe that the step change in performance and development of one particular person was directly impacted by Sandra's interventions. She has a time-bounded approach: ideal for everyone to know clearly where they are and what the coaching will entail. She also charges very reasonable fees.

I have worked with Sandra for around three years, mainly to facilitate my own development and that of my team. Sandra is inspiring, energetic and has a genuine interest in helping me achieve my goals and overcome obstacles. I feel much more able to handle a variety of situations, can more easily identify patterns and I have grown in confidence and ability, as a result. I always look forward to my time with Sandra, as I never fail to come away with a selection of ideas, motivation and solutions to some of the challenges I encounter. I would recommend that everyone has a Sandra in their professional life!

Sandra's coaching was enormously beneficial to me during the early stages of a career transition, following a career of over 10 years. Working with Sandra in preparing the ground allowed me the confidence to take the opportunity, space and time to contemplate, try out new things and truly explore where I wanted to go next. Sandra has a great ability to enable exploration and discovery while remaining focused on taking definite steps towards achievable goals. Sandra can comfortably bring her wealth of leadership experience and knowledge to the table where it will provide useful insight. Time with Sandra is always warm, engaging and productive and I would highly recommend Sandra as a coach.

Sandra has been my coach for the past few months and the result has been incredible. Sessions with Sandra have helped me bring more clarity into the direction I wanted in life, identify priorities and define manageable steps to achieve my goals. I like her approach to coaching which makes me question my deepest doubts and fears and come up with unexpected answers and decisions. It’s been a pleasure working with Sandra and I would definitely recommend her as a coach who can challenge you. on the way to success.

I have worked with Sandra for about 6 years, in that time she has helped me develop my skills as a leader and a manager. With her vast network of contacts she matched me with a fantastic mentor who helped me develop a solid 5 year plan for my department. She is also a great sounding board for ideas, particularly in the area of employee development.

Sandra coaches each of our team leaders and runs regular high performance workshops which every member of staff attends. She has been my personal coach for the last 5 years and has helped me obtain the skills I need to grow the business.

Working with Sandra has helped me become more confident in my leadership of my Sales & Marketing team. It has helped my create a high performing team culture and manage a diverse set of strong personalities

Sandra is an amazing coach. She kept me focused and gave me confidence to take actions that personally helped me to move forward in my life.