Reignite Your Passion: Transform Your Career and Life
Discover Your “North Star”
You’re here because you’re ready to make changes in your career or life. That’s an exciting place to be. You’re at the start of a new adventure.
Either your newly rediscovered positive mindset has inspired you to make positive change, or change has been forced upon you, perhaps through redundancy or retirement.
When we’re at our best, we are aligned with our “North star”. We clearly understand our sense of purpose, our values and our unique skills. We’re living and working in alignment with our true selves, and it can feel like we’re unstoppable!
It can take hard work and courage to get to the crux of what makes us tick and then make the changes that bring us back in alignment with ourselves. Especially if we’ve been off course for many years.
With our tailored executive life coaching, we help you rediscover yourself. We help you reignite your passion and purpose, and support you in transitioning to the next stage of your career or life.
Our Approach
Our approach guides you through transforming your career journey. Following our process, you'll clarify goals, uncover strengths, and explore careers aligned with your values and purpose. This step-by-step method leads from self-discovery to actionable plans, ensuring you achieve your career aspirations.
Expectations from Our Coaching: Unlock Your Career Potential
You'll gain deep self-awareness through tools like personality tests, clarifying your strengths and areas for growth. Understanding your career patterns reveals how your decisions have shaped your journey. Hands-on assignments help define your needs, including purpose, skills, values, and aspirations. Discovering your Career Sweet Spot—what you excel at and love—becomes a focus, addressing any limiting beliefs.
Enhance your personal brand, expand your network, and gain a 360-degree career perspective for better opportunities. Insights from my career journey offer valuable experience. With dedicated support, ensure confidentiality and focus on transforming beliefs and habits to achieve your career goals and beyond.
Numbers that matter
42%
Promotion
Promoted within 12 months
44%
Responsabilities
Taken on a new role with increase responsability
62%
Opportunities
Improved their career opportunities
Mervin Straughan
Mervin Straughan is our executive life coach. He's held senior communications and HR roles in the energy, housing, steel manufacturing and CSR sectors. He began his career as an evening newspaper journalist before taking up management roles in telecommunications. He is the author of the book Imagine Life As Three Bus Journeys published in May 2020.
In 2007, he was among the first to qualify under the national occupational standards in life coaching. He has coached executives, managers and employees from many private and not-for-profit organisations.
He holds a masters degree in marketing management, post-graduate diplomas in marketing and public relations and qualifications in HR management.
Mervin is also a certified Person-Centered therapist, and brings together his coaching and therapy skills, combined with his executive experience to create a truly bespoke offering tailored to your specific needs.
“Mervin reminded me to focus and provided me with a structure for my goals and ambitions and the routes to achieving them.”
— Michelle (Director, Retail Sector)
FAQs
What is therapeutic coaching? How does it differ from more “traditional therapy”?
We take a holistic approach to supporting our clients throughout their personal journeys, from addressing challenging mindset issues, all the way through to self-actualisation. Unlike some other therapies, we don’t focus on a client’s issues, beyond gaining an initial understanding. We work with clients in a solution-focused manner, helping them to move forward with their lives. We use NLP, CBT, Neuroscience, and Hypnotherapy, to facilitate rapid change in our clients.
Is Hypnotherapy safe? Will I lose control?
We use an element of trance in sessions to accelerate the therapeutic process, with Solution Focused Hypnotherapy being a core element of our mindset coaching. Trance is a very familiar state. All of us go into trance many times every day, for example when we’re focusing on something we love doing, driving a regular route, or out jogging. Trance is when the conscious and subconscious minds come together in focus, and you’re able to access the vast resource library in your subconscious, helping you to get the very best out of yourself. It’s a myth that anyone can make you do something against your will in trance. You’re always in control and your mind will “wake” you if it doesn’t feel safe or there’s something you need to address. Typically clients find this part of the process very relaxing and enjoyable.
What makes you different?
We have extensive experience in the corporate world, having worked in very senior, high-pressure roles. As well as being expert therapists and coaches, we understand your world and the challenges you face and can tailor our approach accordingly.