Feel your most confident self as you step into your full leadership potential

Achieve your career ambitions & lead teams that people want to be a part of - without working overtime, fitting into a corporate stereotype or reaching burnout!

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You're here because

You want to hit the ground running in a new role but feel like you don't really know what you’re doing

You’re not sure of your leadership style and are still trying to find your feet which is affecting your confidence

You're moving from teammate to boss and trying to navigate this changing relationship with your team

You want to set better boundaries (and stick to them!) so you don't end up skipping lunch and working into the evening

You’re ready to focus on your future career ambitions and reach your leadership potential

I've been there myself.

You've always worked hard, kept your clients happy, met deadlines, and received great feedback.

You've dreamed of reaching the next level, having your own team and leading campaigns.

Finally, you get the promotion you've been working towards!

At first, things are exciting—new tasks, meetings, and opportunities. But soon, the excitement fades.

You're still doing a lot of your old job, plus managing others, and your diary is overflowing.

You're stretched thin and working late just to find some peace. You've gone from feeling like you are great at your job to barely scraping average.

Its time to regain your confidence, reset your career ambitions and

get back to feeling like you're great at your job!

With the right leadership strategy, you can stand out for all the right reasons, feel proud of what you've achieved and know you're doing a good job.

Let's work together

I'm Charlotte, a Leadership and Team coach on a mission to help new leaders feel confident in themselves, achieve their career ambitions & lead teams that people want to be a part of - without working overtime, fitting into a corporate stereotype or reaching burnout!

For more than a decade, I have developed strategies to help people, teams and brands get more of what they want.

We will be a good fit if you:

Are someone who wants to do their best at work
Have positive intentions and cares for those around you
Have bold ambitions for yourself and your career
Are ready to learn about yourself and grow as a leader

Find the right coaching option for you

“Charlotte has been such a great coach these past few months. She has instilled a newfound confidence in me, which I’m so grateful for. She always comes armed with actionable solutions/ tips & tricks, which has helped me massively progress in my role. She’s made me feel so much more empowered than I ever have before.”

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Whether you're starting a new role, taking on a promotion or looking to increase your leadership impact in your current position, I offer a selection of coaching services to suit you

Service Name

Lead Your Way

Make the most of your potential with Lead Your Way so you can stand out for all the right reasons, show up as your most confident self and lead teams people want to be a part of

6 month programme

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An intensive session to reset and review what matters most to you in your career and your future direction

Strategy Reset

60 minute session

Confident Start

Hit the ground running in your first 3 months with Confident Start so you can make a good first impression, feel confident in your leadership approach and have a positive impact from day one

3 month programme

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Are you starting a new role in the next 3 months?

Moving jobs comes with a whirlwind of emotions:

😀 Excitement as you forward to a fresh start and new challenges

😕 A little apprehension about meeting new colleagues

🤔 Curiosity to see what the company culture is really like

😬 Wondering how well the team actually gets on (and if they were honest with you in the interview!)

😱 Trying to squash down irrational thoughts that you won't be good enough and will be fired in your probation

🤗 Reminding yourself that you got the job and now it's time to show what you can do!

If you are ready to hit the ground running and make a strong first impression in your new leadership role, join my new coaching series Confident Start which kicks off later this month.

We will define your future ambitions in this role, hone your leadership style and overcome self-doubt so you can stand out for all the right reasons in your first 90 days. 🌟

Want to know more? Message me or book a free 30-minute call at the link in my bio

Are you about to start a new job and feeling like you don't *really* know what you’re doing

Are you curious to explore your leadership style and how you show up authentically?

Are you looking for a confidence boost to start you off on the right track?

Do you want to make a good first impression with your new team and build a strong reputation for yourself?

If so, secure your spot for Confident Start this summer before it sells out!

Confident Start is a coaching programme for ambitious and caring leaders who are moving into a new role in the next 3 months and want to feel confident in themselves and their leadership approach, so they can hit the ground running and have a positive impact from day one.

I will be your coach and strategic partner working flexibly with you around your current schedule so you can make the most of the summer.

You will leave with a clear leadership strategy that beautifully and clearly articulates your leadership style, future ambition and the value you bring to the table.

Start your new role feeling like you know what you’re doing and have confidence in yourself and your decisions.

If you want to know more, send me a message or book a call at the link in my bio.

#leadership #coaching #newjob #confidence

LAUNCH: Confident Start is now live! 🎉

This is right for you if you’re stepping into a new leadership role or have just been promoted and:

😬You feel like you don't really know what you’re doing

🤔You want to explore your own leadership style

😍You’re looking for a confidence boost to start you off on the right track

😃You want to make a good first impression and build a strong reputation

Confident Start is a coaching programme for ambitious and caring leaders who are moving into a new role in the next 3 months and want to feel confident in themselves and their leadership approach, so they can hit the ground running and have a positive impact from day one. 🚀

☀️ I will be your coach and strategic partner working flexibly with you around your current schedule so you can make the most of the summer.

You will leave with a clear leadership strategy that beautifully and clearly articulates your leadership style, future ambition and the value you bring to the table. 🙌🏻

Start your new role feeling like you know what you’re doing and have confidence in yourself and your decisions.

If you want to know more, send me a message or book a call at the link in my bio.

#coaching #leadershipdevelopment #leadership #career #confidence #newjob

Can I really do this?

Are they sure I’m the right person for the job?

What if it's harder than I think?

This job means a lot to me and I don't want to let anyone down!

Having just landed a new leadership role heading up a team for the first time, my client was letting these thoughts take over.

We worked together to define her leadership style based on her character, experience and strengths, explored her self-doubt and how to trust herself and her decisions so that she could start this new position feeling her most confident self.

If you’re starting a new role in the next 3 months and feel your confidence is slipping, my new Confident Start partnership is specifically designed so that you can hit the ground running.

Confident Start is launching in July with a limited number of spaces but if you want to get ahead and be the first to hear more and take advantage of a beta pricing offer, join the waitlist today.

Message me saying Confident Start to join!

#leadership #leadershipdevelopment #coaching #confidence #newjob

You’re about to start a new role in the next 3 months and already feeling niggles of self-doubt playing on your mind.

😟 You are wondering whether you’re going to be good enough, it's a big step up and you’re starting to doubt whether you’ll be able to do it.

😴You lie awake at night catastrophising and overthinking every decision, making it hard to move forward and taking up a lot of energy.

❓ You want to show your new clients and your boss that you know what you’re doing but you struggle to articulate the value you bring.

🤐 You know you sometimes hold yourself back for fear of making mistakes or letting people down but it's stopping you from being as brilliant as you could be.

Whether you're moving teams, working with new clients, taking on a promotion or starting at a new company, you are most likely to feel self-doubt when starting something new.

💥 How can you expect your new clients, your boss or your team to have confidence in you if you don’t have confidence in yourself? 💥

When you believe in yourself and your abilities, it shows in your decisions, your actions, and the way you show up at work. ✨

If you are starting a new role in the next 3 months and looking to boost your self-confidence, I am working on something is perfect for you! If you want to be the first to hear about my new confidence series and get access at a lower Beta price! 😍

Message me the word WAITLIST to join today!

#confidencecoach #leadershipconfidence #strongstart #coaching #newjob

3 myths that keep leaders stuck in the day-to-day

1️⃣Its just quicker to do it myself than show someone else - the reason you’re the boss is often because you were the expert at doing the work, now as leader its no longer your job to do the work, your job is to raise a team of people who are brilliant at doing the work.

2️⃣Its important so I cant afford it to go wrong - When you keep control it might make you feel better but ultimately it shows a lack of trust in your team, what can you do to support and empower them to get this right?

3️⃣I have a better relationship with the client/stakeholder so I should handle this issue - its great for your team to know that you are there to support them when things go wrong but if you’re always swooping in to fix things, they’ll stop trying to solve the issue themselves, keeping them reliant on you. Help them have the difficult conversations and learn to handle their mistakes.

If that sounds like you and you’re ready to step back from the day-to-day, lets have a chat! 🌟

Either DM me with the word CALL or find a time that works for you at the link in my bio.📞

#leadershipcoach #leaders #leadership #career #stuck

Are you curious about your leadership score? 👀

To improve your leadership skills, it’s essential to know where you’re starting from.

🎉I have developed a FREE Leadership Baseline Quiz to assess your strengths and reveal areas for improvement.

💥In under 4 minutes you can see how you measure up against 6 core elements of leadership.

🎁You’ll receive immediate overall and individual scores, along with feedback and tips on how to improve.

To find out your score, click the link in my bio

I like to think that being a successful leader is a lot like climbing a mountain (stick with me here!).

🌄Strong and impactful leaders stand out like the peak of a mountain, each with their own unique shape that is visible and inspiring to anyone around them.

🧗🏻At the base, the mountain can appear daunting, partly obscured by clouds and no clear path to climb.

🪨The journey to the top seems like an impossible task, filled with unseen obstacles, challenges and uncertainties.

↗️With each step upwards, the path gradually becomes clearer, the clouds seem to part and you can see the summit getting closer and pause to look out at the view.

🤩At the peak you’re able to stand tall and visible for all to see, embracing your most confident and charismatic self.

🧭As a coach, my role is to be your experienced guide who has helped people climb the mountain many times before.

🗺️My signature leadership programme is the map helping you navigate the steep inclines and avoid the pitfalls like many who have gone before you.

😍Imagine the sense of freedom, accomplishment and satisfaction as you break through the clouds and stand tall at the peak as your most confident self.

If you're ready to start climbing, message me with 🗻and we can arrange a call

🎉I love hearing clients say they have a newfound confidence in themselves and they’ve never felt so empowered after working together.❤️

As a first-time leader, knowing where to start or what to do as you move into leadership roles can be daunting.

There are endless online articles, corporate ways you ‘should’ lead and examples of how others do it, but this often doesn't feel relatable or authentic.

This is exactly why I created my signature programme Lead Your Way. We celebrate what YOU bring to leadership so you can feel confident in yourself and how you lead others.💥

We define your leadership ambitions, overcome self-doubt and build safe and inspiring team environments that people want to be a part of. 🌟

What career advice would you give your younger self?

This was one of my favourite questions from a Career Development Panel I spoke on recently.

If I could go back in time I would tell myself that the joy of a new title or a salary increase is fleeting, instead focus on what you enjoy doing day-to-day.

It took me years to identify what made me feel fulfilled at work. Having moved between agencies and worked across brands in almost every industry, I started to notice patterns.

I was happiest when working with:

❤️ Good people: Those with good intentions, that cared about the people around them and were brilliant at their jobs.

🚀 Bold ambition: Big-picture thinking and a desire to achieve a powerful and compelling vision.

Moving from Advertising to Coaching may seem disconnected, but these two elements are still at the heart of my work. In the past, they guided the brands and roles I chose. Today they are a standard I set for the kinds of people and teams that I coach.

👇 Leave me a comment to share the career advice you’d give your younger self.

#leadership #leadershipdevelopment #career #coaching #enjoywork

How I lead myself to burnout.

This photo was taken almost 4 years ago when I was finishing my coaching qualification and starting to set up my business. I was shaping a career that made me happy to go to work and I couldn't wait to get stuck in.

But I haven't always looked forward to going to work.

10 years ago I was struggling with what we now would call burnout (although there wasn't a common term for it at the time).

I was a junior manager working in a large media agency. I had just been promoted and I wanted to prove myself.

I was good at my job and took on more and more work. I worked on a fast-paced and demanding client where last-minute deadlines and late nights in the office became the norm.

There was a culture of 'just suck it up and get on with it', the client comes first and everyone struggles at some point, so I just thought what I was experiencing was a normal part of working at an agency.

I would work until I was physically unable to carry on, regularly having to take time off from flu and sickness caused by constantly pushing myself too far.

My bosses at the time cared about me and tried to help by offering awkward hugs and cups of tea but in reality, they were also drowning in work and were not equipped to support me.

That’s when I first saw a coach and realised I was actively leading myself to burnout.

Until then, I felt like I had no choice but to work in this way, but our conversations completely changed my perspective.

I put boundaries in place that stopped me from working to the point of being unwell, I learnt to listen to my body's warning signs and worked on my health.

I moved teams, focused on the behaviours I could control and got back to enjoying work.

What boundaries do you have in place to stop yourself from reaching burnout?

Whether it's a meeting your boss needs you to join, an urgent request from a client or an unexpected change to the plan, last-minute requests cause us to abandon our plans and often end up working late to fit everything in.

💥You can do all you can to be productive but unless you’re willing to have the tough conversations then you’ll find yourself in the same situation again and again ➰

It can be hard saying no at work when it might disappoint someone or worry it will affect how people see us but sometimes its necessary if you are unable to manage your workload. Here are a few tips on how to approach these conversations:

🤝Renegotiate your time. If you are to complete this urgent request, what needs to move back as a result? What can be done by someone else or not done at all so that you can prioritise this?

❓Question the request. Why do you need to do that thing so urgently? What exactly is required? Is it realisic in the timeframe? What is this feeding into and whats the ask behind the ask?

🗒Give yourself blank space. If you know you often receive last minute demands, plan time in your day to allow for it. If things take longer than planned or something else comes in you have flexibility and space to accomodate it.

If you struggle to set clear boundaries and find yourself working over lunchtime, into the evenings and weekends, leave a comment below or DM me with the word TIME and we can talk about how I can help.

It's easy to feel less confident as you transition into leadership. The more experience you have, the more you've seen what can go right but also what can go wrong. The stakes are higher and you start to doubt yourself.

My signature 1:1 Leadership programme Lead Your Way has specifically been designed to overcome leadership self doubt so that you can feel confident in who you are and how you show up as a leader.

There are a few spots available on my Lead Your Way programme so if you want to level up your leadership and are keen to know more, comment YES below or click the link in my bio

What's the best thing about your job?

For me, it's working with fantastic people ❤️

The kind of people who brighten your day, who want to keep learning about themselves and know they are capable of more.

Working with 'good' people is one of my business principles.

If you're a caring and ambitious leader who wants to level up your leadership potential, I'd love to hear from you!

👇Share in the comments what's the best thing about your job?

Congratulations you've got the job!! Now what...👀

You've finally got the promotion you've been working towards for years.

You'll have a team of your own! Something you've always wanted.

You get stuck in as you are keen to prove yourself in your new role.

Its all going well for a while, but soon your diary is overflowing and you're being pulled in all directions.

"am I really good enough for this job?"

your dream job is becoming a burden and you're feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

It doesn't have to be this way. If this sounds like you, send me a message or comment below with a 🚀to book a free discovery call

Hello! I’m Charlotte, a Leadership and Team coach on a mission to help people enjoy going to work.

I work with ambitious and caring leaders who have recently taken on their first leadership role to feel confident in who they are a leader, step out of the day-to-day work to prioritise future strategy and lead teams that people want to be a part of (no matter how under-resourced they are or how long they've been working together).

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