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I can whole heartedly recommend Transforming Meetings training provided by Simona.

Not only was the training tailored for the benefit of the Charity to provide thought provoking topics for the Leadership Team, it transformed the thinking of the team.

The pandemic has created a heavy workload and the team made comments of “I was dreading taking the time out of my day” to “this has transformed my thinking and given me permission to take time out to “think” and work very differently”. Not only that, it was bonding for the team, it provided humour in a much needed time of work overload.

The simplicity of the tools effectively used and breaking into pairs to do the “thinking” was inspiring and gave the opportunity to starting “thinking” and sharing the thoughts that we often have in our mind. It was clearly recognised that this technique was not only valuable for using in meetings but was valid in giving ourselves permission to take time out of the working week to collaborate.

Implementing the training was appreciated by the Team and we appreciated Simona facilitating our training sessions.

If you want to transform, inspire and transition your team, I recommend you participate in training for Transforming Meetings.

We have now booked additional training days for the other Management Teams.

Sue Murphy
CEO, Catalyst
November 2020

I was thinking of a career change and approached Simona. Our work quickly led to me realising I wanted to start my own business. Working with Simona has been very exciting as I have been guided down a path to explore my ideas, allow me to come to my own conclusions and really hone in on what I want to achieve. This was my first experience of coaching and I would highly recommend Simona.

James, Entrepreneur

I met Simona recently at the Guildford Coaching Group, a coming together of like minded individuals working in Executive and Team Coaching. Simona kindly offered to bring her talent for Social Media to the group, of which I was an interested and willing listener. She demystified how I should be thinking about Websites, profiles, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like and inspired me to think deeply about the perceptions of others. A Social Media Marketing masterclass ! Hope others get the chance to work with Simona like I did.

Paul Austin, Business Owner

I was given the opportunity to work with Simona at the end of 2016. The timing was perfect for me – the charity I had set up in 2013 was reaching a critical stage in its development and it was time for some self-reflection and preparation for the next phase.

As is often the case, I started with a very fixed idea of the areas I wanted to address but the sessions led me to different areas to consider and develop on. The outcomes therefore were different to what I had maybe expected but equally valuable. I enjoyed the opportunity to turn the lens towards me and to focus on my own development, and I found Simona to be a capable and empathic coach.

I have genuinely enjoyed the process of working with Simona and have already started to recommend her to others.

UPDATE – 12 months on : I’m delighted to say that I joined the payroll at Stripey Stork last week. I’m incredibly proud that something I created, and love so much, has become a flexible, paid role

Nicola Dawes, Chair of Trustees at Stripey Stork

I was very fortunate to have met Simona and to have had the opportunity to engage with her for executive coaching.

I have been doing the same role for many years and there were definitely a few things which needed ironing out, alongside other areas which needed time to consider and Simona offered appropriate challenge to enable me to face these.

When embarking upon executive coaching I had not considered that we may look at other aspects of my life outside of work, which I found really helpful. Simona has a friendly and confident style but at the same time not leaving obvious issues unaddressed. This was a great experience and I would wholeheartedly recommend Simona and for all other Exec’s to give Coaching a go.

Clive Stone, CEO, Oakleaf Enterprises