Karen Skehel
Walk on Waves Coaching was founded by Karen Skehel. She is a holistic executive coach who brings over 25 years of business and personal development experience to coaching. Her background spans advertising sales and marketing; commercial radio and sales promotion; and counselling and group facilitation. She founded and ran her own successful marketing agency and has led personal development workshops in relationships, coaching and in "emotional intelligence".

She has coached in front of 1.5 million people on ITV's most popular day time programme, and has also appeared on ITV2. Her tips for success in business have been broadcast on radio to 25 markets in the US. She writes for Natural Health Magazine as The Soul Doctor and The Life Coach contributing a page addressing readers' life challenges every month. She has also pioneered the use of self-healing coaching to help people reduce or overcome the symptoms of long-standing or so-called incurable conditions.

Karen holds a Management Sciences degree (BSc Hons) and a Diploma in Group Facilitation (Emotional Intelligence). She is a certified counsellor (CCST) and a certified coach (Results Coaching Systems, Australia). The “Results” training forms part of the University of Portsmouth’s MSC in Coaching and Development.

She has also received a “Mastery in Coaching” from Newfield Network, USA. The highly-acclaimed Newfield training is accredited by the International Coach Federation.

Karen has been coaching since 2001. She is also a mentor coach for executive and personal coaches.