Client Testimonials

"I have raved about how wonderful I've found the coaching process so far and I will pass on your contact details to my boss as she may be interested."
Senior Marketer – Major Healthcare Company

"Coaching? Well, I was pretty unsure about all this before I started. The cost, the time, the real results...etc. But it has been both easy to do, enjoyable and most importantly I have achieved the two goals that I focused on. Karen was a steady hand on the tiller and I would recommend her as a coach to anyone."
One year later “The value of the coaching support you gave me has lasted. I had (and continue to have) achieved the two primary goals we settled on. Can we work together again?"
Paul Miller - Chairman, Intranet Benchmarking Forum, www.ibforum.co.uk

"Having an independent coach to work with served as a very valuable external sounding board that helps to keep you focused on achieving your goals. Karen says that, irrespective of their confidence levels, all her clients come away with raised confidence levels and this was certainly true of me too.
At the end of the coaching programme, as well as many other learnings, I can certainly say I got exactly what I wanted - a role that allows me to develop a great network and live the lifestyle I am looking for. This has certainly set me up for a very bright future."
Shaun Orpen - Marketing Director, Business Solutions, Orange

"I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Karen. She has stimulated my thinking and helped me to keep focused on overcoming issues. She has opened my mind to new ways of thinking about myself and I have changed my behaviour considerably as a result. I also feel that I am closer to achieving my goals (which were stretching) than I have been for years. Thank you for all the help."
Mark Wickens, Chairman and Creative Partner, Brandhouse WTS www.brandhousewts.com Design Agency

"I have experienced for myself the power of life coaching and been rewarded by the achievement of my goals.
Karen helped me to identify my true values in life and I am now living my life according to these values.
Karen is very encouraging and her beliefs that I could achieve my goals made me determined to succeed. Having had an illness for 7 years taking medication, I am now completely free of the symptoms thanks to Karen's beliefs, her wonderful exercises that allowed me to focus on the causes of the illness and my own determination to get a result.
I have enjoyed working with such an extraordinary coach and feel rewarded by our success."
Lisa Bailey, Consultant – Leading Marketing Recruitment Firm

"So many valuable things across the board came out of the coaching I did with Karen. I developed a closer and more bonded relationship with my 10 year old son than I have ever had before. I learnt to really value my free time, to live in the moment and to slow down. My impatience has largely become a thing of the past. I can also say that my intuition is serving me extremely well in all areas of my life.
As Alliances Director Europe for a software company, I have certainly achieved my goal of feeling happy, proud and fulfilled earning the six figure salary I wanted."
Alliances Director Europe, Major Software Company

"Karen Skehel has enabled me take the steps to make my dreams come true.
Together we pin point the missing links between my actions and my success and by identifying them, I can take action to bridge the gap and move on towards my goals. I have come far since making her acquaintance. Her background in marketing and her generous spirit have guided me to a more confident and powerful position in life. Although we have focused on business matters, I have noticed that my personal and home life have also improved. Everything in my life is poised on the edge of success and I can only see success ahead."
Renee Edwards - Film Maker

"Karen has given me the confidence to do things that I have never been comfortable doing. With her help, the uncomfortable became comfortable and part of what I do. She structured things so that the impossible seemed possible and was possible to achieve. The coaching that we did together was invaluable!"
Nick Duckett - Managing Director, TVMusicUK

"Well I guess you can add me to your list of success stories. I took away a couple of the things you said and worked on those.........."
Helen Ratcliffe – KPMG

The coaching I had with Karen was in many ways life changing for me. Karen helped me to see things in a different way and boost my satisfaction with my life and work immeasurably. In many ways my life and work didn't change but my approach and attitudes had a complete paradigm shift. Karen helped me achieve this by her astute questioning and objectively clarifying what the real situation was. By building a good rapport and being very perceptive I felt a huge positive change when she focused on a negative habit which has held me back in a number of situations and coached me to a more positive approach - I am overwhelmed by the difference that has made to me personally and professionally – thank you.
Ruth Smith, Managing Director, P M Management, HR and Marketing Consultancy

"I have really benefited from coaching in that I have a much stronger company, and now have a much better idea of my own strengths and how to use them effectively. I have learnt about my fear and how to overcome it and Karen has been really helpful in this area as she has helped me to look at the fear directly and see it as the sham that it is. She has also helped me to see that it is the excuse for not being my successful self. Karen has also helped to put me in touch with my creativity and see how to use it practically. I now feel much more confident abut the future.
Thank you for the coaching over the six months which was very helpful, life changing and life enhancing."
Maggie Banks - Managing Director, Co create
www.co-create.ltd.uk

"The coaching boosted my self-esteem, confidence and consequently changed my life."
SF- Part ownerof a major international retailer

"Coaching provided me with the right motivation to make the changes I wanted to make and enabled me to tackle issues one
by one."
Bill Downing – formerly VP, TK Max

"Karen is an outstanding coach who has an innate ability to empower people to reach new goals, maximise their potential and live life to the full."
James Drury - Market Intelligence Manager, Interdec Working Spaces

"Wanted to say your coaching session was great, I have taken on board so much of what came out and now following my true passion....Thankyou!!"
Jennifer M. Fall - Business Development Manager, Business Intelligence, IBM

"The experience was valuable. Coaching was an effective means of achieving things I knew were within my grasp but needed a little discipline in achieving. The coach was very effective in providing this discipline and helping to form strategies to achieve the goals."
City Fund Manager

"Working with Karen has been very helpful in several areas of my life. She has helped me to focus, break problems down and be more methodical in how I resolve them. I have carved out a lot of time to really think some things through. More over, regular sessions with Karen have helped to ‘hold my feet to the fire’… I’ve got on and done things I would otherwise have put off, knowing that I had a follow-up session in a few days. And that is incredibly valuable.."
Stuart Jackson - Management Consultant

"I have found the experience of coaching to be valuable and to have developed certain skills that I hope will benefit me in my future life. I have more focus, positivity, acknowledgement of myself, my achievement and my capabilities. The key is how to continue these."
Grant Calton - Entrepreneur

"I was pretty sceptical about the value of coaching before I started with Karen. Now I am a firm believer in its value and I have seen real benefits. Not only have I realised that I have the power to achieve my business and personal goals, but I have also learnt how to self-coach in the process".
Chris Ellis - Managing Director, Netspace Kingston

"I began my coaching fairly sceptical about the process, I didn’t really believe I needed it or that it would be of any use. How wrong I was! My coaching experience has been invaluable. I didn’t realise until I began the process, how unhappy I was with parts of my life, or that the parts I thought were a disaster area could be easily rectified. By looking at things differently and by being open minded I began to discover that my life really was in my own hands. I have achieved a different way of life, a happier existence and an improved mentality. It has been a learning curve which I would recommend to anyone. My coaching experience has purely been a positive one."
Louise Graham - AA

"Karen is both intuitive and practical in her coaching, providing not only plenty of opportunities for valuable insight but also a good sounding board for ways to move forward. As well as her great motivation skills I found Karen's constant enthusiasm a great lift and always felt focused and ready to go after a session with her!"
Bridget Adams - Marketing Manager, Lycos

"Karen applied all the relevant skills of a Life Coach in a wonderfully
professional and empathetic way. She knew just when to encourage me, nudge me along, challenge me or help me be more kind to myself. I felt empowered to make the changes I wanted to my life and supported on the journey. Karen's intuition and integrity helped me uncover many true insights about myself during our coaching relationship, which I have been able to learn from and use to my advantage. After every session with Karen, I felt inspired to take control of my life and move forward in a direction which would ultimately end in real achievement and happiness.
I highly recommend Karen as a Life Coach for anyone who truly wants to live that life they've always dreamt of."
P.S. "Thanks SO much for working with me over the past few months. It's been a wonderful experience and an enormously positive influence on my life."
Deena Khodeir- Marketing Consultant

"When I first met Karen, I had just been diagnosed with secondary cancer and was in the 'oh my God, how long have I got to live' state of tears, anger, resentment and victimisation.
Over the past 6 months, Karen has worked with me, enabling me to regain control of my outcome.
I have found new positivity that gets stronger by the day; I have realised that my personal mind, body, spirit connection is so strong that what I believe, decide or trust can effect me within 24 hours. I have learned to appreciate all the wonderful things that nature has to offer and in doing so, heal myself. I truly believe that I will be free of cancer again and continue to live a healthy, happy life."
SK – London

What other coach clients say about Karen’s coaching:

“This coaching did change my life. I now totally believe in myself – your encouragement helped me enormously, I think you are brilliant. I am energised and on my way. Thank you very much for unblocking me and empowering me to be the me I always knew I could be."
Shirley Caldwell - Motivational Speaker and Life Coach

"Karen is a great coach and I have recommended her to one of my dearest friends... She is flexible, practical and a great facilitator of insights. I always change more than I thought possible as we
talk! I leave sessions light, energetic and proud of what is happening. She has accelerated my life process and I am grateful for this relationship and having Karen as my coach."
Dr. Harry Waters - Medical Doctor and Business Coach

"Having been her client, I can honestly say that Karen Skehel is a great life coach. I chose her having contacted 14 other potential life coaches, including some of the most famous in their field. Karen's consistent and forceful support was tangible and spurred me on to achieve a great deal more than I would have done on my own. Karen is wise, gentle, caring, adaptable and has much experience in this field. I recommend her."

P.S. "The benefits of your coaching will no doubt keep flowing through my practice for many years to come. Thank you."
Sam Deane - Life Coach

"From our first session Karen created an atmosphere of trust and understanding that enabled me to fully embrace our coaching sessions. Her empathy was unconditional and genuine without being indulgent, ensuring I stayed focused on achieving my goals. Karen’s focus was entirely on me: who I really was, what mattered to me and how I could create the life that would bring me the greatest joy and fulfilment. This entirely non-judgemental approach was liberating, for the first time in my life, only my voice mattered, it was OK to listen to only my voice, my heart. She gently supported me to learn how to listen to this voice and discover what I really wanted and, even better, that if I listened to myself I would discover what I really wanted in my life.
In working towards my goals we covered a wide range of issues. Karen’s experience and intuitive style enabled her to adapt to how I was feeling that day - sometimes I needed a lot of support, other times we could have fun, either way making progress. Perhaps the most powerful aspect of my coaching partnership with Karen was the confidence I gained from knowing that through her coaching there was no problem or opportunity that I couldn’t face and deal with. Issues that in the past would have stumped and troubled me for days, weeks or much longer were worked through in a matter of minutes with Karen’s guidance and support. I always left each session feeling empowered and encouraged, knowing what I was going to do next to create more happiness and peace in my life.
By way of another "mini reference" for you I have found that I'm still learning from the work with did together. In the same way that you learn as much in the year after you pass your driving test as you did when you were with your instructor, I can still hear your voice in my head when I'm in certain situations and I just feel (generally!) so much calmer and more capable than I did before our coaching. I've definitely now found my voice and I'm really enjoying listening to it and using it to guide me, rather than looking elsewhere. The way I've summarised the experience to friends is that I knew that I came across as a very capable, determined, confident person, but like most people I rarely felt that that way inside. Now what's going on inside matches what I project to a much greater degree."
Katherine Leedham – Marketing Consultant, Life Coach

"I've noticed your immense generosity towards the coaching community and obvious professionalism - what a great role model you are!
Marion Ryan - Life and Business Coach

"Karen, thanks to your coaching I have the health and energy I have always wanted to live my life to the full, together with balance in my working and personal life. Your intuition and encouragement has set me firmly on the pathway to success and fulfilment emotionally and physically."

"One year later, my overall health continues to improve, and I'm a lot more relaxed than I've ever been"
Joanne Philip - HR Director and Executive Coach

“Karen has challenged me to take a long hard look at what I really want from my work and where I really want to go with my business. This was an important objective to me. I’ve always felt both supported, encouraged and accepted by Karen and she has the knack for quickly getting to the heart of the matter."
David Simmons – Corporate and Executive Coach turned Financial Coach