About Wendy Steele
Hello!
What would your best year ever look like?
Is it a dream?
How would it make you feel if it could be a reality?
Hi, I’m Wendy.
I have a diploma in Transformational Life Coaching accredited by the ICF.
I also have a ILM5 degree in professional business coaching and mentoring.
I abide by the EMCC code of ethics and conduct. And I’m a member of the ABM (Association of British Mentoring)
I’m also a mentor on the UK Government HELP TO GROW program.
What does this all mean though?
That I am one of only 5% of qualified, professional coach – mentors in the UK. That figure is shocking isn’t it! The truth is the coaching industry is not officially regulated so it’s really important to me that I voluntarily adhere to a professional code of conduct that lets you know that:
- I’m qualified – I’ve had over 200 hours of accredited training so far.
- I have strict standards and best practices I abide by (EMCC)
You can be confident I know HOW to be a Professional Coach – Mentor AND I have practical experience with over 300 hours of client sessions to date. (My testimonials are also pretty great! Thanks to my brilliant clients – please have a read)
Who Can I Help?
People who wanted to reconnect to their authentic self, or needed clarity on where they were heading in business or their personal life or both at the same time. People who knew what they wanted but just couldn’t figure out why it always seemed to be just out of their reach.
Give you 1000% in focus, energy and openness.
I will be honest with you, give you positive feedback and challenge you to be your best version of yourself.
I will be your NO 1 fan even when you’re not.
My passion is to help people be the very best version of themselves, that they want to be.
I’m passionate about YOU, I want to know what makes you tick, what makes you happy and sad, what you need, what you believe and what you assume. And most importantly what you WANT.
Life is complicated: we pick up mindset baggage from as early as 7 years old and we can carry this around on our shoulders all of our lives – sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t and sometimes it’s simply out of date and needs an overhaul because that old mindset is just not working for us anymore.
We don’t need to erase the past, but we do need to accept it, reinterpret it, learn from it, move on from it, use it to educate us to be better, go further and do more with our lives – to achieve our biggest, most colourful and vibrant vision of our lives.
Why Should you trust me?
I became a qualified Coach and Mentor because I was being one anyway for years before I qualified, answering questions for professionals, signposting social workers, SME’s and CEOs, entrepreneurs and one man/woman enterprises.
Helping people run their businesses, running my own self-employed business for over 15 years, setting up others’ organisational strategic systems, running in house departments (sometimes several at once!) and dealing with customers daily as the face of organisations within the car industry, to retail to IFA’s and insurers.
I grew up answering phones aged 11 years old for my dad’s self-employed family business, watching my mum ‘doing the books’, learning to budget, making money stretch and even being the apprentice who was put through the window if my dad’s clients locked themselves out – Dad was a locksmith – and I stopped climbing through windows when I got too big!
The point is, I know what it takes, the hours, the emotional resilience and the passion you need to get your targets over the line in a SME. I also know how lonely it can be working alone in a room remotely and the benefits of someone to talk things through with.
Having a business mentor has real time benefits for small business owners:
- 67% of businesses reported an increase in productivity due to mentoring.’ (Source: mentorsme)
- ‘Research has shown that 70% of small businesses that receive mentoring survive for five years or more, which is double the rate compared with non-mentored entrepreneurs.’ (Source: FSB)
- ‘93% of small and medium sized businesses acknowledge that mentoring can help them to succeed.’ (Source: Sage.com)
Having a coach – mentor is like having your own mascot to support you, fire you up and peel you off the floor when you have a setback.
Why Choose Me?
As your coach mentor I will be as invested and passionate in your success as you are because it means just as much to me as it does to you.
and… I love coaching!
I think coaching is magical in its effect, it gives out more energy than is put into it like a catalyst for positivity – done well – coaching has the power to transform lives.
BUT you get out of it what you put into it.
If you’re not ready for coaching yet then it won’t be right for you.
It’s not counselling, or psychotherapy, its forward facing and it’s about finding a practical way forward – we may need to look at the foundations of what went before but coaching is completely focused on what is built up for the short, medium and long term future – Life Coaching is about WHAT COULD BE and HOW TO MAKE IT A REALITY.
If that sounds like a conversation you’d like to have – let’s have a chat and see where it takes us!
A 30 minute call could change your life forever or it could just be a chat – either way you get to spend 30 minutes JUST ON YOU. What’s not to like?