What my clients say
Enjoy reading what some of my clients say about our work together
Below you will find a range of short testimonials from clients across sectors, industries and geographies. If you want to dive a bit deeper you can read Angela Truby's case study here.
“Following a really successful period of working with Liz in a previous role, I saw an increase in my confidence and found clarity around where I was going and what I wanted from work.
Liz guided me on my CV and application for a more senior leadership role and it was a revelation! It was such a simple layout but her questions prompted me to think differently about how I present myself in person and on paper at my level. This has helped me immeasurably ever since and contributed to me securing the promotion in 2022.
Over 2 years later and in a different institution, I approached Liz again. This time I funded the coaching myself (a pretty strong indicator of her impact). My context had changed and I was at an impasse in terms of my fulfilment in life and work. I felt like I’d lost some of my mojo, my spark and I wanted support to move forward in ways that increased my resilience, resourcefulness and joy.
The coaching experiences with Liz have helped me hugely and still do every day. I feel better resourced for the complex leadership challenges I face. What Liz has done is to help me to develop my own toolkit of techniques, reflections, and resources, and I keep all these to call on when I need them.
I think this is the best kind of coaching as it goes beyond the objectives I set for myself originally, and the meetings we have had, and instead it has built a better way forward for me, and it keeps strengthening and I keep growing as a professional. I have found our sessions to have a lasting and positive impact.
Liz has given me the ability to consider, reflect, and challenge myself.”
Angela Truby
Director of Student Services and Belonging, University of Leicester
"Liz supported me to develop my senior leadership team across the Marketing and Advancement division, which is responsible for bringing in significant income to the University. There were significant silos, a lack of understanding and cohesion.
Liz helped the team to build trust and confidence so that we could evaluate how we were performing as a senior leadership team and from this develop and embed a number of things that helped us to align, collaborate and raise our profile within the university.
We worked together to define what high performance looked like for us, agreed clear terms of reference for where we added value as a senior team and developed and embedded our own culture canvas to resolve some of the everyday tensions in our work.
Liz also helped the SLT to develop the leadership layer below, our Leadership Forum. Liz supported us to have a dialogue with the Forum about the kind of culture we wanted to create and involved the teams in developing their own ways of working within our framework. She encouraged the Forum to shape its own leadership role.”
Martyn Edwards
Director of Marketing & Advancement, Loughborough University
“I'm absolutely thrilled to endorse Liz, who was not just a coach but a true mentor during my journey in Informa's Inspire to Lead Programme.
Liz's guidance was like a compass, helping me navigate and bring out my best leadership attributes while staying true to myself. With her support, I've gained a deeper self-awareness that has translated into both personal and professional growth.
Liz's warm and insightful approach has been a game-changer for me. I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking a remarkable transformational experience.”
Basma Dawwas MIB
Strategic Event Leader, Tahaluf
“I booked sessions with Liz when I was offered a promotion at work. It was unexpected and I wanted to make sure I was prepared for the challenge.
Liz helped me recognise and articulate my strengths as well as focus on the areas I wanted to develop. Her positive and compassionate approach to the people she coaches is really helpful.
I completed our coaching with a sense of empowerment and with useful ideas of how to sustain my development. I'd recommend her.”
Christine Wilson
Director Research and Insight, British Council
"Options in many ways are a good thing, but too many can lead to indecision.
Liz helped me to figure out the next step and what I wanted. She also helped me to tease out and answer questions about ‘passion’, ‘strengths’ and ‘being ok with not having all the answers’. It gave me the confidence I needed to move forward.
Liz approaches her sessions with multiple tools, is kind, open, insightful and an intelligent coach. If you’re trying to figure something out, give her a call!”
Co-Founder and Director, Neighbourhood Property Group and Associate Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, The Manchester Metropolitan University
“I had the pleasure of working with Liz as part of the Inspired Leadership Programme at Informa Markets, where she supported me through a series of coaching sessions focused on my personal leadership development.
Our focus areas included strategic leadership, effective communication, focus, and delegation. Each session led to clear, actionable steps that I could immediately implement in my day-to-day work.
What stood out to me was the balance between a relaxed, open atmosphere and a very professional, results-oriented approach. Through the right questions, she guided me to find clarity and direction myself. Often, the solutions we uncovered were surprisingly simple, yet powerful in their impact.
Thanks to this coaching, I’ve been able to free up time and mental space to focus more strategically, communicate more effectively, and delegate with greater confidence. Every conversation delivered insights and practical takeaways. It was truly a valuable and transformative experience.”
Jorien Drost
Group Operations Manager, Informa Markets
"I have worked with Liz for the last two years now, from the hectic period of starting my own business, to settling into my new role.
Liz has come to know me very well, we have great sessions with lots of questioning to enable me to wrestle through issues and come to my own conclusions with her support.
Liz is also good at recognising if my issue is one of my own making (time management, procrastination, or fear etc!), and giving me the encouragement and the tools I need to get myself sorted. Alongside this, Liz celebrates my successes with me and I know she wants me to do well.
The coaching sessions I have are invaluable as a solo entrepreneur, knowing someone is there to support (and give me a push!) when things are overwhelming is a massive help.
I highly recommend Liz to anyone thinking of coaching, you will achieve more than you think you can with Liz's help.”
Chantelle Brandwood
Founder, Eco Action and SPP Ambassador
"I have worked with Liz for about 9 months now and have recently finished my last session with her.
She has helped me to focus on what I really want in a career, to recognise my strengths and to acknowledge my skills. I have regularly referred back to my Strengthscope results and have used a strengths-based approach when dealing with things day to day.
She has kept me to task and asks insightful questions I would never even have thought of. What's more, I know she's genuinely interested in me and my personal development.
I’ve made a number of changes to how I manage myself and my work and feel able to spot and seize new opportunities. I cannot recommend Liz highly enough.”
Assistant Academic Registrar, Manchester Metropolitan University
“I am extremely grateful to Liz for helping me settle into a new organisation as a senior executive.
She helped me to develop ways to set up and progress challenging conversations in ways that support engagement and keep the focus on strategic priorities.
Liz and I explored my beliefs, values and mindset and used them to shape how I wanted to be as a leader.
I have enhanced my reflective practice as a leader, and will continue to build in reflective and planning time.”
Eva Dixon
Chief Operating Officer, Care International UK
“I worked with Liz on a project looking at future skills and she was able to lead and develop this with ease and demonstrated her expertise in this topic.
It has been a joy to work with Liz. My experience of working with Liz, is that she will listen to issues, but also challenge where needed.
Liz has helped to drive the project and I am hugely proud of the final result. This wouldn't have been achieved without her knowledge, support and guidance. Hugely recommended.”
Daniel Taylor
Learning and Skills Development Manager, National Lottery Heritage Fund
"Liz is wonderfully full of ideas, expertise and enthusiasm, yet remains outcome-focussed and cuts through complexity like butter.
Following the development of our workforce strategy, Liz was a key enabler for the senior HR team at NICE in developing an ambitious but achievable action plan to deliver the strategy. She took time to speak to each of us to understand our culture, our hopes and concerns, then developed a focussed session which was supportive but challenging, and left us with tangible outcomes which we've taken forward.
She's also been a wonderful colleague on the CIPD Manchester committee - she's very focussed on our members, and just as importantly, she's a joy to work with. I'd have no hesitation in recommending her.”
Sarah Acton
Employee Engagement and Development / Head of HR Strategy, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
“Liz joined the Age England Association’s annual away day this month to provide some much needed opportunity to reflect and assess our collective strengths as an executive committee.
The insights and guiding hand provided by Liz sensitively steered the group to explore its range of personal and group skills and strengths and helped us call out the challenges we face in the coming year.
The sessions were relaxed but extremely thought provoking, contributing to an engaging away day, placing us ready and recognisably able to meet the tasks ahead.
We hope to be able to engage Liz again as our collective development calls for further honest reflections.
Challenging, engaging, professional, good humoured and positively encouraging. Thank you.”
John Norley
Group Chief Executive at Age UK Kent Rivers
"Liz has enabled me to recognise my leadership strengths and to see how I could use them to enhance the ways in which I work.
She provided me with the tools, let me shape the focus and direction of the sessions, and then expertly guided me through to being able to develop achievable plans.
By drawing on real-life experiences, the support Liz gave was very relevant and applicable to my everyday work and so I was able to put the techniques and approaches into action straight away.
She’s incredibly encouraging, very insightful and a really good listener!
For anyone wishing to enhance their leadership skills, I’d thoroughly recommend working with Liz. I’ve learned so much from her and she’s really helped me to change the way I approach leadership and work as a whole.”
Hannah Baldwin
Head of Corporate Communications, Loughborough University
“Liz has had a profound impact on who I am as a leader.
I’d reached a point in my career where I was absorbing who everyone else wanted me to be and I was trying to be everything for everyone. It meant my leadership didn’t appear genuine and for want of a better term I appeared more try hard and sometimes naive.
Liz helped me rebalance, to understand who I wanted to be and through self-reflection I regained my confidence.
I’m now clear on the leader I want to be and my career has gone from strength to strength since.
I would recommend Liz to anyone but especially middle managers who want to reflect to allow them to see where they need to go and especially new leaders who want to establish their own style.”
Eleanor Brown
Assistant Production Manager, Knauf Insulation
“Liz is a fantastic coach.
For someone like me who has spent their career putting others first, Liz helped me shift to focus on my own professional development and contributions as a senior leader.
With good rapport, Liz was intuitive, just the right level of curiosity and challenge, and brilliant at holding a mirror back to me.
Our coaching sessions were rich in content, deep in discussion and helpful to work through specific workplace challenges.
She introduced me to a range of tools that I still refer back to today.
Liz broadened my thinking, helped me recognise and build on my strengths and believe in myself.”
National Director, Leadership and Staff Cultural Transformation, Change Grow Live
“Coaching with Liz has been a transformational experience.
From the off, Liz ensured that I was focused on my objectives, whilst harnessing my ability to question and challenge any self-imposed obstacles in a meaningful way. I came away from each session feeling more confident, motivated and energised.
The sessions whizzed by, without feeling rushed, and were followed-up and supported by practical and sound academic advice. Liz maintains a professional and lively pace to the sessions - I took away lots of practical ‘tips and tricks’ which I have continued to apply to my everyday work and home-life.
I have also been fortunate to work with Liz in her capacity as an Organisational Design Consultant - which was invaluable.
Liz takes a non-judgemental and informative approach, offering a high level of professional expertise to aid problem solving.
Liz was great at listening and questioning, which enabled me to focus my thoughts and ‘unblock’ some challenges, which really helped me to move the project forward.
I highly recommend working with Liz in either capacity.”
Ali Freer
Head of Brand, Digital and Creative Production, Loughborough University
“Working alongside Liz for just over a year in a significant Change Programme, I was continually impressed by Liz’s approach to managing Change.
In conversations with stakeholders affected by the change programme, Liz always demonstrated a talent for clearly communicating the nature and impact of the forthcoming change in ways that were meaningful for them. Liz excels at taking the lead in getting all concerned to come together to identify the benefits expected to be realised by the change, and is able to gain people’s attention to the big picture of the positives of the change.
She ensured those most impacted on a day to day basis were represented and able to input at the right times. She was instrumental in building a number of Business User Groups who have helped the Programme to take some tough decisions and develop solutions everyone can live with.
Liz is a pleasure to work alongside. She has a big talent for sharing her experience and techniques to help improve other people’s approach to effectively dealing with issues and improving the quality of communication throughout the life of a particular change.
She is excellent at coaching team members to find particular approaches which work for them, and I can think of many occasions where she has helped me see a different perspective and approach to a problem, which I can then follow with success.”
Mark Lomax
Salesforce Business Analyst, British Council
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