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Coaches are the perfect option if you're looking for professional career help and support. Coaches can help you to identify what you want from a new career and shape the plan you'll need to get there.

Sonia Lakshman - Careershifters Workshop Coach

Sonia Lakshman helps her clients figure out what they'd really love to do and to make it happen - a new direction, a business idea, going freelance, a better more fulfilling job . She gets her clients thinking about their work in fresh and exciting ways, to work with their talents, market themselves creatively and create an exciting way ahead.  A crusader for working happy, she also runs career change workshops and courses, writes the blog 'Happy Mondays' and has helped 100's of people work happy.

Before qualifying as a coach, Sonia worked in the music and media working including Universal Music and the BBC, then liberating herself from her office desk to strike out for a life of more freedom and fulfillment.

You can reach Sonia at sonia@onesmartstep.co.uk , read more about her transformational career programmes at  www.onesmartstep.co.uk or sign up to escape the Monday blues at Happy Mondays

Website: http://www.onesmartstep.co.uk

Andrea Perry

Andrea Perry is a psychotherapist, writer and consultant, and offers coaching to people wanting to make life changes. Contact her at apconsultancy@hotmail.co.uk
She is the author of "Isn’t It About Time? How to stop putting things off and get on with your life" and "The Little Book of Procrastination".

Website: http://www.andreaperry.co.uk/

Grace Owen

Our solutions for individuals, groups and organisations deliver results. Through learning experiences, resources and expertise we equip our clients to succeed with proven benefits....every time.

Website: http://www.grace-owen.com

Jenny Ungless - City Life Coaching

City Life Coaching provides dedicated career support to young professionals. Whether you’re looking to re-assess your career direction, improve your performance in your current role, or get that elusive work-life balance, we can help! We offer cost-effective, one-to-one coaching at our central London office, or at a location to suit you.

Jenny is the author of “The Complete Career Handbook”, published by Raleo Publishing. Her second book “Shine: How to Excel at Work” will be published by Trotman in January 2011.

Contact Jenny on 07740 623278 or by email at jenny@citylifecoaching.com

Website: http://www.citylifecoaching.com/type1.asp?id=2&type=1

Jessica McGregor Johnson

Jessica works internationally as a Life Fulfilment Coach empowering people to create the life they choose and gain fulfilment in every area of life. She offers a free introductory session to discuss how she can help you create the shift you want and feel excited about your life again. If you would like to arrange a time for her to call you please email her at jessica@jessicamcgregorjohnson.com or call 0203 239 6155. For more information visit www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com <http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com>

She is also a Certified Passion Test Facilitator. The Passion Test is simple to take, fun to do and profoundly effective. It is a repeatable system you can use for the rest of your life to effortlessly follow YOUR unique passions. To book The Passion Test or for more information please visit http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com/the-passion-test.html
 

She has recently published her first book Remembering Perfection - Everyday Inspiration for Living your Spirituality for more information visit www.rememberingperfection.com <http://www.rememberingperfection.com/>

She also offers a free monthly inspirational newsletter -'Connections' - and you can sign up for it at http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com/contact-me-sign-up.html

Website: http://www.jessicamcgregorjohnson.com

John Williams

John Williams is founder of Freestyle Success. Many of the people I work with are not content with a conventional 9 to 5 job and want to build a more creative style of career - freelance work, a "portfolio career" with a mix of activities, or running their own business. I can show you how to create a "Freestyle Career" - one doing what you're good at and enjoy as much as possible in a structure that fits you like a glove.

Website: http://www.freestylesuccess.com

Marc Jerrard - Careershifters Workshop Coach

As well as being our lead Careershifters Workshop Coach, Marc Jerrard is a career transition and professional development guru.

Armada Performance uses psychometrics to their full versatility as a tool for approaching a number of individual needs and business issues to help enable individuals to realise their full potential.

To find out more about how psychometric assesments and how they can fast track your career change get in touch with Marc at Armada Performance http://www.armadaperformance.com quoting 'Careershifters'.

Email: m.jerrard@armadaperformance.com

Call: 07920 521600

Website: http://www.armadaperformance.com

Website: http://www.armadaperformance.com

Marianne Cantwell

Marianne helps mid-career professionals (who feel 'stuck' in jobs that are wrong for them) to discover the career that will get them jumping out of bed on Monday mornings. And which will still get them excited in 10 years' time.

Marianne is happy to speak personally to readers of Career Shifters to suggest ways she can help them move forward. To arrange a call, email marianne@careerrevolution.co.uk .


Marianne runs career move coaching organisation Career Revolution (www.careerrevolution.co.uk) and writes popular career blog Free Range Humans (www.free-range-humans.com).
  

Website: http://www.careerrevolution.co.uk

Martha Cuffy

Martha Cuffy works with clients motivated by one overriding aim: to gain the courage to drop the masks to be true to themselves in whatever they do. She is a certified Fireworks career coach, a tested careers programme already successfully used by hundreds – from lawyers to social entrepreneurs. And as one of the founding guides of Gene Keys, what she calls a modern spiritual Sat Nav, she brings a contemporary reality to the truth recognized by the ancients: your consciousness creates reality.

She is committed to making the sometimes scary journey of career shifts fun, focused, spiritually fulfilling, and enlivening for people around the globe: in UK, Sweden, Norway, Canada, US and Dominica.

Martha Cuffy, 0208 123 8075 and Martha@marthcuffy.com

marthacuffy.com

Website: http://www.marthacuffy.com

Philip Bolton

Phil is a professional coach with an international client base. After graduating from Cambridge, Phil worked with Deloitte & Touche, for over 10 years, in the US, UK and India. Phil has made his own career transition and believes that everyone has the potential to create their Less Ordinary Career. Visit his website www.lessordinaryliving.com to find out more about Phil’s coaching style, or email Phil directly at phil@lessordinaryliving.com

 

Website: http://www.colosseumconsulting.com

Position Ignition

Position Ignition is a UK-based career advice and career consulting business for individuals and organisations. They offer structured and comprehensive career change services that help people get clear about what they want from their careers and how to make it happen.

W: http://www.positionignition.com
Blog: http://www.positionignition.com/blog
   
 

Website: http://www.positionignition.com

Satu Kreula

Satu is an executive and personal career coach who works with people who are externally successful but who are internally unhappy, dissatisfied or even bored.

Website: http://www.satukreula.com

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