Testimonials

Testimonials for Leadership Development Course in Spain

"I discovered I knew my direction all along, I just didn't have the courage to listen and the tools to quiet down my gremlins. Fantastic breakthrough experience physically and emotionally. Thank you!"

Nikki Watkins, Leadership Development Consultant

"This course is a fantastic resource whether you are facing a new challenge or need some new approaches to life or career. Fantastic setting and excellent coaching .. and a great group of people who share insights and practical strategies that have worked for them."

Carmel Moore, Partner at Ernst & Young

"Rebecca facilitated a very positive, nuturing and beautiful atmosphere to create a space in order to work on ourselves and one another and to come to realisations that we may not have been open to before. Every morning waking up to that breathtaking view was a centering start to every day. Met some very inspiring people and will be taking away some great skills from this course."

Shanon Miller, Graduate Graphic Designer/Photographer and Paralegal

"Rebecca helps you to understand a different view of everything you already understand but didn't know it. She keeps you safe and enables development at a pace which means change is real to you. It lasts because you can't unknow what you discover."

Joe Chambers, Chief Executive at Soho Housing

"I came here to begin a search, and after the embrace of the course, have discovered the search had already begun within me. Bex has been the light that has lit the way for me, illuminated what I need and got me in touch, the confidence to discover myself, what I need to take my life from good to great.  Thank you for higher understanding of my present that I know will lead to a truly satisfying future. The environment, place, venue, content was just right for me. I think I might just need a new suitcase to take all the good stuff back with me."

Rob Davies, MS SQL Server Consultant at Britvic

"Life changing. I hadn't realised I was so close to opening the door to enlightenment. I have learned new ways of looking at work and life which are invaluable. I feel so rested after 5 days, have met great people and feel re-energised to go back to day to day life."

Fiona Fowler, Finance Director at Thamesis Limited

"Mustn't grumble."

Anon 12/10/11

"Rebecca, many thanks for your work with me over the past four months. The business coaching sessions I have had with you have probably been the single most valuable thing I have done in my professional career development. It has given me the opportunity to identify how I got to where I was and how to break out of that cycle to develop my leadership skills."
Fiona Tyler, Head of GESBAN UK, Santander  

“I have sensed a change coming my way and after this week I’m now able to articulate and understand where I’m headed next; in inspirational surroundings and it was great to watch the breakthroughs from the other guests too.”

Laura Carr Director, Loricar PM Ltd

“I came not knowing who I was and left totally in love with me, knowing that I can achieve anything I want, success is my destiny!”

Shamela Kylassum, Management Consultant, PWC

“Lovely open safe space to make discoveries and progress.”

Jim Cheoros, Business Owner, Automated Downloading Ltd

“This truly enabled me to reconnect with myself and help me gain perspective on my life in all areas. The Group work and content was absolutely fabulous, I’ve made a huge shift. Rebecca really created a peaceful environment outside of day to day life where one can really evolve. It felt like a group of friends coming together and doing real work in a natural way. Perfect balance between structured and relaxed.”

Tara Randell, HR Director, Baker&Mackenzie

“The coaching session two weeks before the week in Spain helped me clarify what I wanted to work on while away. During the week I came to realise what were the most important areas for me to focus on, so now I know what are the most important things to change, now that I'm back in the UK.  The group coaching was great and there was coherence to it all and the one to one coaching with Rebecca was brilliant. Considering you’d expect to pay £600 for the Villa and food alone, I think the week was an absolutely excellent value.”

Anand Rao, VP of Production and Developments, Energy Equity Resources Limited.

“It’s given me time for myself that I’ve rarely done and allowed me time to think about the future. Great group of people, great mix of Personal Training as well and I feel much healthier. I’ve achieved all my goals for this week.”

Liz Robson, Head of Information Systems, Home Retail Group

“Rebecca facilitated the launch of a new senior management team; the work done over the two days has provided an excellent foundation for the team to build on. We know each other individually and as a team in a way we could never have achieved by ourselves.”

Steve Robson, Head of IT, Wesleyan

“I have just enjoyed two days of ‘work’ facilitated by Rebecca which has given me more insight into how I work and what makes me tick than any training I have attended before. Rebecca makes perfect sense. Thank you.”

Paul Kerry, IT Development Manager, Wesleyan

“Looking back over the last two days we have covered a lot of ground; setting our vision, understanding our roles and managing stress. Rebecca is a natural leader who has made it easy to cover all we planned to do and also made it fun!”

Dave Turner, Strategic Delivery Manager, Wesleyan

“Engaging, knowledgeable, and a natural leader, Rebecca led the team through a thoroughly enjoyable two days which led to direction, decision, fun and laughter. Thank you.”

Peter Wren, Operations Manager, Wesleyan

“I worked with Rebecca over tow days as part of a senior IT management team. She gave really clear guidance and advice on how to stand back and look at the goals and pressures of a team and how to deal effectively with both.”

T. Cook, IT Support Services Manager, Wesleyan

“Rebecca made me think more deeply about ways of working, of which I already knew but didn’t practice efficiently and to the full potential.”

Jennifer Starkey, IT Management Coordinator, Wesleyan

“Just starting a new job, I went on a two day workshop on how we as a management team could operate. Rebecca’s facilitation and insights into what makes us ‘tick’ really made the day a success.”

Gary Johnson, Enterprise Architect, Wesleyan

"I've been working with Rebecca for over 18 months and can't recommend her highly enough.  I've benefited hugely from her ability to combine both business and psychological insights into practical solutions - a rare commodity in itself.  She cares passionately about what she does, and what she can do for her clients, which has really helped in our developing a productive working relationship.

It's also a breath of fresh air that Rebecca doesn't peddle one particular school of thought or technique.  This has allowed the work to stay close to my own needs rather than forcing it to fit a preconceived model."

Simon Draycott, Owner, Mendas Ltd.

"First of all, a word of warning, if you are expecting any part of coaching with Rebecca to be easy or comfortable then you need to think again!  Equally, if you are looking for a valuable, thought-provoking and ultimately effective experience in a safe and confidential environment, this is just the thing for you.

Having a purpose to change and learn requires the determination and tenacity to follow through to the end.  But I have valued every minute of Rebecca's coaching and it has made a massive difference to me. 

Using NLP and coaching techniques alongside a pragmatic structered and humorous approach, Rebecca has listened to everything the language, the pauses, the hesitations, the omissions, the tone, the feel and the hidden wishes buried within the sentences.  In doing so, she was then able to drill down to the heart of each issue under scrutiny, challenging and supporting along the way."                                  

Esi Kpeglo, The National Archives, HR Business Partner

"Rebecca has played an instrumental role in enabling two key teams to identify areas for optimising their performance.  Working at both an individual and a team level, Rebecca has provided coaching and support and enabled more effective communications within the teams and between managers and the teams.  Rebecca helped the team to identify issues and solutions and a mechanism for realising change.  Her pragmatic, results focused approach has helped us move forward in a positive, cohesive manner and we are beginning to reap the rewards of her input."
Jackie Marfleet, Head of Advice and Records Knowledge, The National Archives

“Rebecca is a highly confident and competent coach and facilitator. She is able to easily gain rapport with her clients and works with great flexibility and an adept touch to produce excellent results. She constantly strives for a positive outcome and is able to smoothly guide her clients to enable them to set and achieve their own goals. I would highly recommend her to any potential clients.”  
Simon Savage, Change Management Consultant, RAF

"Rebecca has played a very important part in enabling my management team through a time of intense change. She supported, challenged and explored our motivations and actions at an emotional as well as a business level, allowing us to communicate and team-work more honestly and effectively. I'm delighted by the progress we have made through working with her."
Nick Down, Head of Information Centre Development, HM Revenue & Customs
 

“Rebecca has been my Executive Coach for the last two and a half years and during this time has also undertaken some team coaching work with my direct reports. I cannot recommend her work more highly - Rebecca has an excellent approach to coaching: using NLP techniques, she works with you to ensure you are able to clearly articulate your goals and the development areas in which you wish to improve. Having achieved this, Rebecca ensures these remain the focus of discussions and she competently guides you to demonstrate how you can maximise the best approaches and techniques to achieve your goals. Rebecca demonstrates her excellent facilitation and communication skills in a team coaching environment. She is highly skilled in collating the thoughts and ideas of the group to help guide them to work as a team to achieve their goals. I have seen significant improvements in personal development and team working as a result of the coaching guidance provided by Rebecca.”
Liz Robson - Business Information Officer - EMEA, Siemens Enterprise Communications
 

“I selected Rebecca for my company-sourced personal coaching/development in June 2008. Although I've been working in financial services for over two decades, this was the first occasion that I'd been introduced to this type of development. I am currently half-way through my 12month programme, but the benefits of working with Rebecca are already evident. Her approach and method is structured, measured, enlightening and fun, and I can thoroughly recommend Rebecca to any individual, in companies large and small, who are looking to make personal gains in the way that they operate and interact with others.” January 8, 2009
Paul Bartholomew-Keen - Business Leader - Global Products & Solutions, MaterCard UK Inc

“Rebecca worked with me at both an individual and group level during my time at UBS. She was very helpful in identifying/ analysing issues and providing steps to overcome them in a pragmatic way. She is a very good listener and despite not necessarily understanding the technology implications, asked the right questions to identify areas of issue and helped plan out an approach to overcome them. This lead to increased performance by overcoming internal roadblocks and identifying and focussing on the key steps in achieving an overall goal. I still use this approach on a regular basis when defining a task and working towards resolution.”
Rohit Nanda – Programme Manager - UBS Investment Bank
 

“Rebecca is a true professional, in a short space of time she was able to get me to focus on key priorities and get them done. Results, Thank you Wyndham Albery”
Wyndham Albery –Director – Quantum
 

“An excellent Executive coach, equally comfortable and effective working with individuals and groups, demonstrating the highest levels of integrity and confidentiality. Rebecca has access to highly effective toolkit and uses a range of approaches which has seen excellent results produced across my team.”
Steve Robson - CIO - GMAC Financial Services

Testimonials for Workshop on Interviewing Skills for Catalyst Housing Group

“This course was very good and I recommend it to everyone going through job change.”

 Yvonne Williams, Resident Liaison Officer

“Rebecca is a very good communicator. She is able to reach a variety of levels and roles. Memorable session.”

 Robert Dawkins, Housing Team Manager

“This course gave me a massive confidence boost - its better than the rest!”

 Jenny Parkinson, Customer Service Manager

“The trainer allowed me to gain more confidence and allowed me to look at things with a different perspective.”

 Yvonne Malcome

“I found the course to be helpful with understanding how to prepare your mind and body for an interview.”

Tamanda Mkdowa

Enjoyed the training! Gave me the tools to know what to do in an interview setting and more confidence!! Lauriel Clements, Housing Officer

“I learnt a lot about interview techniques and how to approach each interview. I was also able to extract my key strengths from the course, nice course.”

 Fusiso Ijits

“Rebecca uses your negative psyche and makes you believe positively in yourself again. She takes no prisoners!”

Grace Thompson, Housing Customer Services Officer

“This course was quite interesting and opened up ideas and questions on application forms and interviewing skills. I also leant a relaxing technique to use before facing any challenging situation.”

Deborah Banwo

“Rebecca was cool, calm and collected! The course was helpful and eased the pain at all angles when filling in an application and when going for interview.”

Nabil Raihani

“This course has given me more confidence for interviews and made me realise I have underestimated my skills.”

Mary Marshall, Resident Liaison Officer

“Highly motivating and informative experience. I was able to start preparing my CV with the confidence to complete it. This course I will definitely recommend.”

Larry Amoloja

“This course was very informative on how to structure a CV and applications forms. Very good.”

Marie Cole

“This course has given me a refresher boost on how to deal with interview and complete application forms.” Farah Ebrahem