Coaching
Coaching is a thought-provoking, action-orientated process that inspires you to reach your maximum potential. It is a self-reflective journey of personal and professional development that empowers you to gain greater self-awareness, clarity and direction and to move forward in creative, inspiring and impactful ways.
Coaching empowers people in social and climate justice spaces to reach their maximum potential, become more effective catalysts for change and stay well.
Coaching provides you with the support and accountability you deserve to move beyond challenges, take brave decisions and action and be a more effective catalyst for change. Get ready to be inspired and excited. Get ready for change!
Find solutions to challenges. Navigate change and uncertainty. Be more strategic and mindful and make your work more sustainable by creating healthier boundaries.
I understand the challenges you face. I have been there. I have over 25 years of experience working in social justice spaces in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. I am an activist and I have held leadership positions with NGOs, the UN and academic institutions, rising to the level of professor of international human rights law. I am an International Coaching Federation accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 3000 hours of coaching under my belt and I am a Solution Focused Practitioner as well. You can find out more about me here.
Coaching helps you to make the tiny shifts that change everything.
What I do
Supporting social and climate justice activists to strategise, maximise their impact and take wellbeing seriously.
Empowering non-profit leaders take their leadership ability, presence and management skills to the next level.
Helping mid to senior-level professionals make brave personal and professional changes and map out their careers.
Guiding change makers to set up social impact consultancies, organisations and enterprises.
Liz has given me invaluable tools to navigate a challenging phase of growth in our organisation. She has been a critical and unwavering source of support and has helped me to keep our challenges in perspective. I’m extremely grateful that I have her as a coach.
Liz is an incredibly talented coach. She is caring and understanding. She creates a positive, supportive and motivating atmosphere which is conducive to sharing, learning and growing. Coaching with Liz increased my self confidence, decision-making ability and helped me to develop my leadership skills.
After 10 years working in conflicts, I thought there was nothing else I could do. Yet, I was burnt out and needed change. Liz helped me to clarify my values and what’s really important to me. Coaching empowered me to see a way forwards and understanding I have a life to live! Working in an operational humanitarian context, it made all the difference to work with someone who really gets it.
Coaching Packages
I spend 50% of my time offering pro bono leadership coaching to activists. My fee-paying clients facilitate my pro bono work.
Discovery Session
If you are interested in working with me please get in touch to set up a complimentary Discovery Session. The session lasts for an hour and we will explore your goals, see if we are a good fit to work together and you’ll get all the practical information you need.
Pro Bono Leadership Coaching for Activists
If you are a social or climate justice activist looking for support to help you strategise, take your work to the next level and make it more sustainable through a focus on wellbeing and burnout prevention, please get in touch to set up a complimentary Discovery Session.
Pro bono support is not for international NGO or IGO professionals pursuing a career. It is for activists and leaders of social and climate justice movements.
Get in touch to join the wait list.
Leadership Coaching
Leadership coaching empowers you to take your leadership presence, ability and skills to the next level and map out your leadership path.
I offer you a self-reflective, confidential and non-judgmental space to explore how you can be a better, more confident and impactful leader and manager. You will gain practical tools to deal with common leadership challenges such as navigating conflict and crisis, people and performance management and fostering healthier environments for yourself and your team. Leadership coaching is an investment in yourself and your organisation. When you take your leadership game to the next level, you also make the work of your organisation more strategic, impactful and sustainable.
I work with people at all stages of their leadership journey, from those taking their first steps in management roles to senior leaders running organisations and/or large teams.
This package consists of between six and ten 1.5 hour sessions over a period of between found to eight months. Fees are on a sliding scale (e.g. NGOs are charged lower rates than IGOs and/or foundations and enterprises). Please reach out for a quote letting me know how you propose to fund your coaching.
I spend 50% of my time providing pro bono leadership coaching to activists in the social and climate justice spaces. When you work with me as a paying client, not only are you investing in yourself and your organisation, but you are also contributing to my values driven pro bono work.
Please get in touch to set up a free Discovery Session.
If you are interested in leadership training you can find more about my offerings here.
Professional & Personal Change
This offering is for mid, to senior-level professionals (more than five years experience) working in human rights, humanitarian, development, international legal and climate justice spaces who know that something is not quite right and that it’s time for change.
I offer you a self-reflective, non-judgmental and confidential space which empowers you to formulate a vision and set exciting and inspiring new goals for your life and career. You will gain greater self-awareness and clarity and receive the support and accountability that you deserve to help you map out a clear direction, formulate an action plan, navigate road blocks and move forward in creative, inspiring and healthy ways.
Coaching is not quick fix career advice. It’s a deep dive process of professional and personal development and change. I do not offer stand alone job advice, CV reviews or interview preparation.
This package consists of eight x 90-minute sessions plus online support over a period of four – eight months. The rate for private individuals is 2000 GBP.
I spend 50% of my time working pro bono with activists and leaders. If you work with me as a fee-paying client, not only are you investing in yourself, but you are also contributing to my values driven pro bono work.
Get in touch to join the wait list.
Social Entrepreneurs and Start Ups
I empower extraordinarily creative and committed change makers and social entrepreneurs to conceptualise, plan and launch their independent dream project.
The package offers you a unique blend of coaching, mentorship, strategic and technical support and advice that is tailored to your practical needs, and empowers you to overcome the practical and mental blocks to setting up your own thing!
I have helped change makers and social entrepreneurs vision, map out and start up creative social good projects and establish NGOs, values driven consultancies and/or a social enterprises.
This is a bespoke package designed to meet your specific needs.
This package consists of between six and ten 1.5 hour sessions over a period of between found to eight months. Fees are on a sliding scale depending on your circumstances and source of funding.
Please get in touch to set up a complimentary Discovery Session and get a quote.
One-off Consultation
One-off sessions are only available to returning clients. Please reach out to me if you would like to set one up!
I am so thrilled I decided to go ahead with coaching with Liz. Her support was outstanding. It was incredibly helpful to work with someone with a detailed understanding of the human rights sector, which informs her approach. She’s flexible, practical and engaged throughout, working around my own sometimes changing goals and circumstances. Our work has greatly improved my leadership ability and the overall impact and wellbeing of our organisation and my team. I highly recommend coaching with Liz.
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My goal was to get clear about my career and life direction. I couldn’t be happier with the results! Liz helped me build my confidence. The frank conversations challenged me to think things through step by step, without rushing in foolishly. The process has saved me a lot of money, time and pain! I’ve more confidence and I now see my true value and recognise my skills. Liz is honest, practical and caring and helps you work through challenges in a constructive way. If you are willing to make significant changes don’t hesitate to work with Liz.
Finding a coach with the depth of experience Liz has in the social justice sector is not easy. Liz brings to her coaching not only her skills and professionalism, but her life wisdom borne out of years working in the human rights and humanitarian sector. Working with her took me to the very heat of the issues and challenges I face. Her questions are challenging and the process infused with her great knowledge of the sector. This is the trusted space I’d been looking for!
