Helen Hanison Coaching

I started with a coaching trilogy, the course and cohort. I loved the course but access to Helen, made me feel inspired so I extended the Trilogy with more 1:1 coaching later. I came into coaching feeling beaten up from a difficult business break-up and feeling defeated. I was out of work and thought I had nothing of value to offer the market. With Helen's help, that changed to knowing I wished I could merge my earlier career in IT with entrepreneurial insights and my passion for fashion. Helen encouraged me to collect conversations with professionals I envied to understand their pathway. Along the way I attracted an offer to consult within a fashion brand, working in my aspired-to role of project manager because it brought my IT experience back into the present but in a fresh - and ambitious - way. It has been a steep learning curve and very far from straightforward but this kind of growth is well worth some discomfort. Helen was incredibly committed to supporting clients through pain points, and it meant a lot to know I had a career therapist in my corner. Helen's formula really works.

I love working with Helen and being part of discussions with other members of her redesign community. It helps to realize that there are others in my same position – I’m not on a desert island. Working with Helen has helped me tune into those things that I have lost track of over the last several years, as I focused on my family, and gain confidence in what I can do professionally. I’m about to complete a certification that supports the pivot I want and am successfully steering towards a business intelligence role, with the support of a corporate advocate. I finally feeling the grasp of being so stuck letting go! Thank you, Helen!

Helen helped me gain clarity through to creating a new role at my company. On the other side of the country, in lockdown! She worked with me to build a plan to ensure I was taking advantage of the trial opportunity and then once I moved into my new role, helped me work through some challenging communication issues that might have seen it all unravel. I am also now running my side-hustle helping other women in my professional lane succeed. I think Helen gives just the right level of encouragement, empathy and insightful direction and I found her coaching to be right on the mark. Her cohort coaching will only help you get there faster and in good company. It would be a miss not to give yourself that support network.

Helen is not a yes-person; she knows that growth comes from being put in uncomfortable positions and challenging current thinking. When we started our coaching relationship I had recently up-rooted my life to move from TX to CA and gone from client side to consultancy. Huge changes that matched my aspirations. I had terrible imposter syndrome feelings but also felt I was not recognised - or renumerated - for my experience. It was eroding my confidence. I opted for a mix of 1:1 and cohort coaching along with the course and it was a potent blend of support. Helen encouraged me to write, apply to be a speaker at a conference, ask overtly for feedback - all things I avoided for fear of rejection. She taught me strategies for quieting my inner critic and reframing those feelings. Her redesign formula goes far beyond the strengths and values tests I've done before - really synthesizing those findings for you, individually, until they form a career compass that's actionable. I own my own business now. I don't get paralysed any more. Helen will challenge you but I think crafting the future you want deserves time and effort.

The group sessions came at a very critical time in terms of current events, when I knew I needed the camaraderie and support it promised. It would have been interesting just to hear other people's perspectives but since the whole premise was we were all there because we needed some direction and help, it felt comfortable sharing actual struggles where other career-focused groups I've been part of can make 'struggles' seem more like humble-brags. I remember our first session where I just felt so STUCK, so unable to get out of it on my own and my confidence in my abilities was very low. So that was the first hurdle we had to get over. Identifying my strengths showed I had lost touch with them - then our work around values helped me understand commonalities between a lot of seemingly disparate occurrences in my professional and even personal life. The online course material leads you through the work and Helen is really good at asking thought-provoking questions in the cohort that help your thinking along. I also like how she makes me feel like things are possible, then in a practical way helps figure out a path even where one isn't obvious. I made change happen. I absolutely recommend working with Helen - just come into it with an open mind and willingness to be vulnerable and you will get a long way from stuck!