Challenging, thoughtful and immensely useful
Coaching was new to me and has come late in life, but I found Zoe’s approach challenging, thoughtful and immensely useful in helping me understand where I am in my career and leadership development. Always extremely well prepared, she is an expert listener, provokes personal understanding through apposite questions, and comes equipped with numerous tools and […] Read More...
A fantastic start-point for future career path
I found it really useful to have an independent expert consider my military background and experiences to identify strengths, weaknesses and areas of opportunity as I look to move my career forward – in or out of the military. What I found really valuable was the in-depth analysis of my MBTI scores, leading to very […] Read More...
Beneficial to my development as a leader
“I started working with Zoë at the end of 2018 after a major restructure and consolidation. I was appointed General Manager and had limited leadership experience. Zoë worked with me and the ‘drivers’ – the people I identified as being crucial to business success – as we established a vision and objectives and started engaging […] Read More...
Raising awareness of impacts of own behaviours
Three quotes from executive team leaders following individual coaching and two team days: “The coaching has really assisted me in reflecting on my work practice and exploring different ways of dealing with things. As my golf coach put it – don’t be surprised, if you keep doing the same things, that you get the same […] Read More...
Invaluable insight to my leadership and management
“I have worked with Zoe over the last 3 months and found her insight invaluable as I seek to develop my career and leadership/management. Working on understanding personality types, motivation, direction and conflict management has been very insightful within my workplace but also helped me in my overall approach to life. I recommend her to anyone seeking […] Read More...
Thought provoking and inspiring
“The coaching session I undertook with Zoe was exceptionally valuable. She managed to help me to understand some key goals I need to achieve to help move my business forward in a thought provoking and inspiring way. It was extremely useful to spend time out coming to conclusions with practical solutions in a relaxed and professional environment. […] Read More...
A purposeful plan in hand
“Zoe has just helped us greatly in preparing for our latest recruitment drive. Before her coaching we had been struggling to define our requirements from a practical and emotional perspective in order to help us identify the perfect person for the role. Our time spent with Zoe helped us draw this all out very naturally […] Read More...
Helped me action jobs and prioritise
“Zoe Whitby presented a workshop to our local business group, Business Ladies of Knaresborough on Managing our Priorities for Success in 2016. The session was engaging and interesting and got us all thinking. Clear explanations of goal planning terms alongside visual images and the use of props and quotes really helped us to analyse and […] Read More...
I am already standing more proud!
Zoe is such a lovely and warm person the coaching session was really personal yet not at all intimidating. Everything that she said was really useful and helpful and catered towards building my confidence. I’m looking forward to putting it into action – it will change the way I think about some things for the […] Read More...
Shining a light
Once again I would like to thank you for the coaching you gave me. I felt that you really listened and you were able to ask the questions of me that reached to my feelings and truth; and in so doing, facilitated my journey, with a guiding statement, clear goal, and overarching purpose to […] Read More...