Helen Hanison Coaching

I felt stuck, frustrated and impatient to make the changes I knew I couldn’t make happen on my own. My coaching with Helen helped me see I was stuck in my busy-ness because I was anxious about being seen. And why. I owe a huge thank you to Helen for her patience and relentless encouragement…and for not being taking in by any misdirection! I think the best thing about Helen is her honest and no-nonsense compassion. She spotted every single time I was hiding and encouraged me forward. Now my holistic work takes priority – and always will – and I’m doing a PhD to dig deeper into the impact of life transitions.

When I started coaching with Helen I was transitioning back from life as an Ex-pat. Life was hectic and I was struggling to balance the pressures of an emotionally demanding job with busy family life. Helen is totally committed to her clients and has a great balance between being challenging and supportive. It was just what I needed to gain clarity about what I want from my career and how to get it. So I secured my dream role in clinical genetics – and gained clarity, direction and confidence too!

I became an accountant because that seemed ‘safe’, but ultimately got frustrated when the leadership changed and the new environment felt untenable. I took a year off but got stuck. Helens’ coaching helped me understand what it was costing me to battle with inner-narratives in my head and helped me accept what I truly wanted. Helen sometimes used frameworks that are available in this course and having something to look back to has been invaluable for me. While Helen’s approach is gentle and the best thing about our 1:1 coaching is probably the rapour we’ve built, I also trust the power of her coaching system to get me where I wanted to go and know her support helped me get there.

Helen’s coaching has a finely-tuned perceptiveness. 1:1 sessions are led with intent but also time to explore. Now I have a plan to shape my professional pathway and an inner voice I can tune into to help counterbalance my ‘old’ behaviours. My business is running every more meaningful health remits and I know what I do matters. Helen’s redesign formula is no cookie-cutter approach but a totally bespoke support system. And a shared investment where Helen is totally committed to supporting change. Fast!

Helen’s coaching helped me gain clarity on my strengths, values and what brings me joy. Very quickly. I also rewound my negative self-talk which gave me confidence to proactively plan the future career I wanted…which then effortlessly fell into place. Helen is warm, wonderful and highly competent in her coaching and having seen her run cohorts too, I know her support is as intuitive as it is impactful.

Helen’s coaching is inspiring. I felt very stuck. Somehow she helped me see things from a different perspective and know how not to live in the past. During a life changing crisis I was having in my financial career Helen helped me use learnings from back then to make things better now. And it worked. I can't recommend Helen highly enough!

I was lucky enough to meet Helen at a speaker event when I was desperate to make a change in my career but wasn't sure about the cost or if I would run into internal inertia, making me unlikely to to follow through on things. I didn't need to worry! Helen's coaching helped me define the things that matter early in her redesign formula and I realised that getting a promotion was more important to me than I'd thought. Helen's coaching helped me write my wishlist job spec, advocate for the role and get given the level above! I can see now that I have worth and should ask for what I need more often. But I also have clarity about some wider interests that I am weaving into my future. Helen's coaching is supportive, effective and balances warmth with getting results.

When I started coaching with Helen, I had been thrown into redundancy after many years' service with my employer. Helen helped me understand my professional qualifications are sound, my skillset robust and my real life experience profound and unique. Helen's style of coaching was rigorous, firm, focused yet easy-going. She has the knack of being able to identify what's going unsaid! Equipped with clarity of purpose and renewed confidence to 'put myself out there', I certified as a business communications trainer and leveraged my existing networks, as well as built new ones ahead of launching myself as a multi-jurisdictional talent specialist. My income streams are nicely defined and I have a few lucrative, government level agreements in place now - with more ideas, and confidence - around what I will pursue next. Helen is highly competent as a coach and her redesign formula will help anyone become 'unstuck' and move forwards.

I lost my job just as COVID19 hit the US economy. The rejection was a shock - and blow to my ego. I felt I was no longer valued while still driven to make a contribution in the world. Initially we focused on securing corporate positions that might satisfy temporal needs while setting up a canine massage business as a side-hustle so it could build up over time. And nearly succeeded. It was being told that a company wanted to open a position for me that helped me see I no longer wanted that for my future! I have clarity and a sense of purpose today that I didn't think was possible when I first lost my job. I consciously uncoupled from a careerist pathway and now foster guide dogs for the blind and detection dogs. I completed a Fear-Free certification that my local network of vets want built-in, and will leverage those partnerships for my canine massage and behavioural advisory services with ease through their networks. I appreciated Helen's compassion, honesty and for keeping me accountable. I would still be stewing in my own juices of self-doubt and keeping myself back without this coaching. I would absolutely recommend Helen!