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I call this The Three States of Career Paralysis. Most clients I work with arrive in one of them, and identifying which is usually the first step toward moving past it.
You took the sensible path, working for a good company, with a decent job title, and reasonable money. But you somehow ended up somewhere you didn't quite meant to be. The job is objectively fine, but something is missing, and you can't quite explain what that is.
You feel it in your bones that the role or career you're in no longer suits you. Your energy is drained, the weeks become a blur, and you sometimes don't recognise the person you've become anymore. What you can't clearly picture yet is the alternative. Every option you imagine you've either researched to death or feels too big.
You've already done a lot of thinking and weighed all the options. The answer is clearer than you let on. But every time you get close to acting on it, you find a sensible reason to wait: timing, bandwidth, or those golden handcuffs. A version of you would love to move forward, but is waiting for permission.
If any of that landed, the free consultation is the right next step.
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"Before I trained as a coach, I spent 15 years in politics watching smart people postpone decisions until they were no longer relevant. Everything I do now is the opposite of that."
Having started my coaching practice more than twelve years ago, I've since accumulated 5,000+ coaching hours which in aviation terms would make me the equivalent of an airline captain. I've coached people in law, big tech, PR, politics, and the creative industries, as well as artists and founders. Coaching globally, I often work with expats and the LGBTQ+ community. I'm also fully accredited by the International Coaching Federation.
How I workI really enjoy working with thoughtful and self-aware people. The kind of people who take full accountability for the decisions that got them where they are. I very much welcome half-finished thinking, confusion, uncertainty, because that's where coaching is at its most useful. Humour helps too, because your best thinking happens when you don't get too attached to your ego and allow yourself to play.
I'll go to the deeper questions: identity, direction, what work means to you at this stage of life.
What I offer: clear thinking, honest questions, straight-up challenge, and enough structure to follow through once you've decided on something.
With one eye always on how those conversations translate into concrete career choices and action.
I'm a career coach. Whichever version of feeling stuck you recognised above, we'd usually work on one or more of these.
Make decisions about your career on purpose, instead of going with the flow. Roles, projects, priorities, all chosen deliberately.
Find directions that fit who you are now, not just who you once were. We test them in practice before you commit to anything.
Find what's actually wrong, and what to do about it, when changing jobs isn't the answer.
I ask focused questions and give you an honest read on whether coaching fits and what we'd focus on. You leave with clearer thinking either way.
Before we begin, we get specific about what you want at the end. That answer gives every session a direction, and I'll hold you to it if I feel we're drifting.
Each session goes deep on one or two things. We challenge some of the assumptions you've been making and we'll reach some clear insights, decision and/or action points you can test before we speak again.
I usually give some additional homework and offer accountability between sessions to move your thinking forward and to get you out of analysis paralysis. If something didn't happen, no drama, and we'll look at what got in the way.
Most of my clients are after consistent, visible movement toward a professional life that fits them better. A dramatic career pivot is sometimes the answer, but more often it isn't. Here are some concrete things clients tend to leave with:
You've had the conversations that needed to happen but kept putting off. With your manager, some headhunters, your partner. You now have the clarity and internal permission to move forward, or to pull back.
You've tested a few options in practice. Maybe you've spoken to people already doing what you're considering, or taken on a project to see whether you'd like it. Either way, you collected some hard data to act on.
You've taken the step. You finally applied for the roles you've been talking yourself out of, or handed in your notice. Maybe you started your business or negotiated that promotion. You've visibly moved forward.
You've built a good foothold in what comes next. Contacts in the sector you're moving toward. A project that shows what you can do outside your current role. You've built an honest picture of what a career change involves.
You're in a different gear. You no longer feel stuck because you can see and feel that you got things moving. You're no longer dreading Monday mornings, because you know what you're doing this week, and why.
After a few sessions my confidence was on another level. I came in going in circles. I left with a plan, a direction, and enough clarity to actually act on it. I'm now on the cusp of setting up my own business.
Will R — LondonIt starts with a free conversation.
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A career coach helps you think more clearly about your professional life, then actually do something about it. That means asking the questions you've been avoiding, helping you see patterns you can't see yourself, holding you to what you said you'd do, and making sure sessions end with something concrete to act on. It's not advice, not therapy, and not mentoring. It's structured thinking with someone who has no stake in what you decide, only in whether you actually decide.
People who are thoughtful and self-aware enough to know something needs to change, but haven't yet made it happen. Often they're professionals in their 30s or 40s who've done well by most measures and are asking bigger questions about what comes next. They don't need someone to tell them what to do. They need someone to help them think it through properly, then hold them to it.
A career advisor gives you information and recommendations: roles, sectors, CVs, interviews. A career coach helps you figure out what you actually want and helps you move toward it. Most people who come to me don't need more information. They need to make a decision, or finally act on one they've already made. If you need practical job-search help, I'm not the right person. If you need to get unstuck, I probably am.
Coaching is forward-looking. Sessions are anchored in what you do next, not in processing what happened. There's overlap when past patterns are getting in the way of present decisions, but my role is to keep you moving toward what's ahead. I'm not a therapist. If therapy is what's needed, I'll say so directly.
Most engagements run 4 to 8 sessions, though we agree the scope at the diagnostic call. Some clients work on a single time-limited goal and finish in a month or two. Others stay longer when the questions are bigger and the work runs deeper. Either way, you'll know what you're committing to before we start.
AI gives you frameworks. It won't tell you when you're using frameworks to avoid a decision. And it resets every conversation, so it can't notice you've been circling the same question for three months. That noticing is most of the work.
Engagements are designed around your coaching objectives. Three-month programmes start from £575/€665, with six-month engagements available for deeper work. You can find a full breakdown on my pricing page.
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