Fiona Biggins, Career and Youth Coach


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Expertise

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.

 

Professional Reputation

Over the last 11 years Fiona has worked within the Financial services industry building a reputation for coaching and guiding exceptional candidates through the recruitment process at major firms such as Deutsche Bank and Deloitte. Since working with Striding out Fiona has worked with numerous not for profit organisations delivering varied programs that tackle youth unemployment as well as with local and national government departments such as the DWP

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Professional Qualifications

  • Firework Career Coaching Programme 
  • LIFEbeat – Creative Facilitation Training
  • The Coaches Training Institute
  • CA – Certification Program towards ICF Accreditation
  • The Coaches Training Institute
  • London – Intermediate Coach Training Programme
  • PPD Learning – Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner
  • Contemporary College of Therapeutic Sciences – NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory
  • Integrative Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy

Education

John Moores University – BA (Hons) 2:1 Degree in International Business Studies with French 

 

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