Whether you’re an individual entrepreneur starting your own business, a graduate entering the working world for the first time, or a seasoned manager or corporate executive looking to further your career, I will guide, support and encourage you in growing yourself to achieve a career that is deeply meaningful to you.  

In coaching with me you will find the work you completely love, without compromise. You will identify the values core to you, and how to honour them in what you choose as your work.

Together we will learn how to turn your unique qualities and experience into expressions of you in ways that impact the world around you, making a valuable difference to you and others.

Background

Over the course of my career, I have helped individuals, teams and organisations (such as IBM, Microsoft, The Economist, Nokia, and multiple SMEs) achieve incredible results, exceeding initial goals. (link to testimonials)

Before becoming a coach, I was a software engineer and product development manager. I worked with many organisations, environments and across multiple industries – all of them high pressure and high stress. I quickly came to realise that capability and effort alone are not enough for true success.

Approach

“Shane’s coaching style is both intuitive and adaptable.”

My approach is to listen and understand you and your situation. You know your business better than anyone else. I do not assume anything. I ask questions that allow you to lead us both to a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities ahead. My coaching is based on hard-worn experience — the actual messy stuff of reality without the assumptions of knowing and giving you a prescribed solution.

I will partner with you to understand the unique contexts and challenges of your situation. Together we will form approaches and solutions where nothing is taken for granted, focusing on what you already have and know. 

My coaching is underpinned by my core values of curiosity, courage, clarity, creativity and commitment.

My promises to you:

• Ask the questions for you to find your answers and insights

• Respect your perspective. It is yours and true to you. I won’t take it from you or try to convince you otherwise

• Guide, support and challenge at the level that works for you

• Not to give the answers

• Explore. This is an adventure, you will decide the path and we will walk it together

• Find what you’re not yet seeing and discover the potential you already have

My Why

In 2014 I was stuck. I had reached a point in my career where I wasn’t progressing. I was losing interest in work and feeling disengaged professionally. Peers and colleagues were passing me by. I felt I was slipping backwards. I was in a rut of lost confidence and lack of direction. The situation was also beginning to impact my personal life. I was beginning to get scared by it all. 

I took the decision to seek help. With the suggestion of a friend, I opted to engage with a coach. I didn’t know what to expect. But I was curious enough to try it. I was sceptical at first. However, through the course of the first few sessions, I began to find my passion again. Funnily enough, it was a passion for helping others find what they are passionate about and how to express it.

I connected with what makes me tick and feel alive, particularly in a professional way – working with others creating a vision and devising a plan for it. I discovered what my core values are: Curiosity; Compassion; Clarity; Courage and Creativity. I learned how to work with these values and turn them into expressions of who I am professionally: I took the jump and started my own business helping others define and develop their own careers.

How I Use My Skills to Get Results

“Simply put, working with Shane and having him ‘on your team’ is game changing. He is kind, compassionate and authentic.”

For a truly successful career – one you can look back on and say, “I did my best”; “I did myself proud” and “What I did deeply fulfilled me.” – it must be aligned to your purpose, something you believe in because it matters to you.

I can help you achieve this.

I support my clients to develop the self-awareness, confidence, skill, and capability to create thriving, values-based relationships for themselves, their teams, and organisations.

Today through my work I am able to bring a wealth of insights, knowledge, and experience to others in coaching and facilitation services.

My commitment is to help you do the same and create a fulfilling career in whatever is your chosen area of work.

Qualifications

“Shane has an exceptional gift for seeing what people don’t see in themselves and providing them with the tools to achieve their dreams.”

I am a professionally qualified Co-Active Coach (CPCC), certified with the International Coaching Federation, an Arbinger Institute certified facilitator and a certified ICAgile Enterprise Coach and Trainer.