Our Coaches
Alison Richards, Career & Business Coach
Expertise - Employability, ILM Training Courses, PTTLS Courses, Social Entrepreneurship, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship
Professional Profile
Alison works with people to harness their strengths and be the catalyst for change when they are at a pivotal crossroads in their personal and business life. Her values are integrity, commitment and honesty. Her mission is to get the best out of you.As a social entrepreneur she wants beneficiaries of her services to be accessible to all groups. She is passionate about developing work with families, young people within the criminal justice system and with the staff in these sectors.
Fiona Biggins, Career and Youth Coach
Career Guidance, Youth Mentoring and Coaching
Professional Profile
Fiona is an ICF (International Coaching Federation) certified professional coactive coach and NLP Practioner specialising in career changers and youth. She has 10 years commercial experience gained in the recruitment field. Her background is working mainly in the investment-banking sector, (on-site at Deutsche Bank) and in the management consultancy sector (on-site at Deloitte).
Fiona has a strong track record in all aspects of the recruitment cycle including: business development, direct candidate sourcing, stakeholder management, supplier management and assessment centre design & management.
Fiona has a real passion for working with young people, seeing them gain confidence and direction in their lives. She regularly volunteers for youth charities and youth programmes in schools and universities, such as City University Professional Mentoring Scheme, Step 4Ward Mentoring Programme run by Barnet Education Business Partnership, youth charity Envision working with a group of Year 12s on a project to make a social/environmental difference. More recently she helped facilitate on a youth summer camp for disadvantaged 14 to 18 years olds for the charity LIFEbeat.
Fiona also has an affinity with people facing quarter-life career crisis, having been there herself before she decided to become a coach.
Gill Tate, Youth and Career Coach
Expertise - Career Coach, Youth Coach and Women's Returner's, Heath and Well Being and Business and Finance.
Professional Profile
Gill has worked with a wide range of clients and is passionate about helping people reach their true potential. From a business perspective, Gill works with clients to help them reach decisions on whether to start their own businesses, and her own experience of setting up both a book keeping an electrical business allows her to share he skills and experience of running a successful enterprise.
As a Career Coach, Gill has done extensive work with womens returners, women who face life changing decisions as well as supporting and enabling students of all ages to secure employment, education and training opportunities.
Maureen Clarke, Career and Business Coach
Expertise – Career coaching, Managing staff recruitment, Business enterprise programmes, Youth work, Business development, Marketing, Cmmunications and Fundraising.
Professional Profile
Maureen Clarke is a highly professional business consultant, career and business coach and lecturer, with diverse experience spanning the private, public voluntary and not for profit sectors. Previous experience includes her role as Director for BCS Enterprise, a consultancy offering business and career solutions predominantly to SME’s and executive personnel. Her consultancy projects include work with schools, managing their staff recruitment process; raising their profile and delivering business enterprise programmes to pupils. Other projects carried out include work for counselling and children’s services and charities, other SME’s. These projects involved business development, marketing, and advice on communications and fundraising strategy.
Maureen has sound understanding of business and the factors which impact on performance, operationally and strategically. This is enhanced by her training on the MBA programme and various training on entrepreneurship. She also possesses outstanding networking and relationship building skills demonstrated in the b2b environment and in her work with the local community. Maureen is an accomplished individual with effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Rosalyn Clare, Business, Career & Youth Coach
Expertise – confidence building, career coaching, leadership coaching
Professional Profile
Rosalyn Clare CPCC is passionate about seeing individuals reach their full potential. She is based in Birmingham and delivers life, career and leadership coaching for Striding Out CIC. Rosalyn is motivated by wanting to make a difference and helping others to make a difference. Rosalyn's background spans professional services, the public sector and now the third sector. She uses this breadth to give her a unique insight into organisational structures.Rosalyn volunteered for Youth at Risk in Dudley as a volunteer life coach on their Leaps and Bounds project in 2007. This involved working with disadvantaged young people from two council estates in Dudley on a creative arts community transformation project. She was formerly a counsellor at a voluntary young people's agency, Open Door in Birmingham, and has been counselling and subsequently coaching disadvantaged young people since 2004.Rosalyn is a graduate of the prestigious Coaches Training Institute coaching programme and also their intensive certification programme. Rosalyn is a certified Firework career coach, enabling her to help clients to discover their skills and work motivation. Rosalyn's coaching style is compassionate, yet challenging. She is direct but non-judgemental. Her counselling background builds on her natural ability to quickly form connections and build trust.
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