Coaching and mentoring in the not-for-profit sector

Are you looking to improve your skills and success
in the employment market?

Whether it’s supporting personal growth, building confidence, or navigating complex change, our coaching helps leaders step into their potential with clarity, courage, and compassion.

Our approach is grounded in mindfulness, bringing greater awareness, presence, and emotional intelligence to leadership. We create a safe, reflective space where you can pause, think differently, and build the skills and confidence to lead with purpose.

We work with experienced executives and emerging leaders who want to grow their impact, strengthen their leadership style, and stay true to their values, even in challenging or high-pressure environments.

So, whether you’re stepping into a new role, preparing for your next career move, or ready to invest in your development, we offer coaching that is purposeful, practical, and deeply human.

What We Provide

Practice Interviews

Practice Interviews can help you to:

Convey your unique offer concisely and clearly.
Prepare you for your interview and teach you how to weave your research into your responses.
Provide you with a clear analysis of your strengths and weaknesses and how to maximise and minimise these, respectively.

We do this by:

Clearly understanding the role you are applying for and where you see potential hurdles.
Constructing a range of tailored questions to practice with a very experienced and skilled interviewer followed by immediate constructive feedback. All conducted by Zoom, WhatsApp or Teams.
Advice on how to deal with questions on tricky areas of your CV i.e. periods of unemployment, leaving with a settlement agreement or job hopping.

CV Tailoring

There are numerous online tools to help you design and write your CV but where many people fail in getting longlisted is that they don’t tailor their CV to the role they are applying for. Receiving a CV entitled ‘Standard CV’ is not very inspiring!

Take a fresh approach to your CV every time you apply for a job and think about how your CV and Supporting Statement can influence the hiring manager or consultant to contact you for interview. We can help you tailor your application concisely to the role you are applying for and ensure your supporting statement is hitting the key criteria. The tailoring of your CV will need to consider whether the role is

an interim or permanent role
an executive team role or other role
a voluntary role such as Trustee on a Board
a Non-Executive role (NED) on a Board

Coaching & Mentoring

If you’re searching for a coach or a mentor, we can help.
Don’t know whether you need a coach or a mentor?

Call me for a chat and by asking you a few well-placed questions I can guide you to the best option for your circumstances. So, whether it’s about career transition, bouncing back from redundancy, your first 100 days in a new job or a refresh of your leadership skills for a promotion – let’s talk in confidence.

What others say about us

“I received coaching from Hilary after a couple of difficult years in my career which had knocked my confidence, leaving me adrift, unsure how to operate at an executive director level and facing down a restructure which risked my role. Hilary’s warm, non-judgemental style instantly put me at ease. Over a number of months, we met regularly, and her coaching allowed me to step back into my power, remember my skills and talents and alter my behaviours at work to be the director I wanted to, and knew I could, be. It was life changing. It empowered and reaffirmed my sense of self and at the end of our time together I secured a promotion to run a larger department with a greater remit. I am ever so grateful for our time together and would work with Hilary again in a heartbeat.”

"Hilary’s support to me as a coach has literally been lifechanging. Her empathy and understanding of the challenges faced by women in senior roles and ability to apply the right balance of push and pull in her coaching has enabled me to transform my perspective on elements of my role that previously felt like impossible barriers. I count myself as exceptionally fortunate to know and work with a woman of such talent, thoughtfulness and integrity. Just a very special person!"

“It is almost impossible to describe the impact that Hilary has had on me personally as a professional woman, and the difference she has made to my confidence, performance and in ‘finding my place’ as a senior executive. There is no one that I trust more than Hilary in terms of her incredible insight into people and her spot-on judgement to what can seem to feel like challenging situations! She has a unique and special style which instantly creates a sense of ease and rapport, somehow managing to blend wonderful warmth and a down to earth approach with deep intellect and high levels of business acumen.”

Work with us

We are here to support you in any way we can, please give us a call on 07718 627740