Resources
The resources and coaching exercises below are available for you to access free of charge when you sign up for Positivity Bites, my monthly message. I hope you find them helpful.
Book Recommendations and Reviews
The Career Change Guide: Five Steps to Finding Your Dream Job
Rachel Schofield
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Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
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Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed
Harvey J Coleman
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Susan Jeffers
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Simon Sinek, Stephen Shedletzky, et al.
Four Thousand Weeks : Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life.
Oliver Burkeman
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The Good Life and How to Live It
Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
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Gravitas: Communicate with Confidence, Influence and Authority
Caroline Goyder
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Grit: Why Passion and Resilience are the Secrets to Success
Angela Duckworth
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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back
Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith
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The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
Dorie Clark
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Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring
Davina McCall with Dr Naomi Potter
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Mindset : Changing The Way You Think To Fulfil Your Potential
Dr Carol Dweck
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work
Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie R. Weingart
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Power of Love Leadership: 7 Proven Strategies to Drive Success, Maximise Results and Inspire Compassion and Trust
Sarah Higgins
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The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
Who is in Your Personal Boardroom? How to Choose People, Assign Roles and Have Conversations with Purpose
Zella King and Amanda Scott
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Working Parents-to-be: Your guide to parental leave and return… what to expect and how to make it work for you
Catherine Oliver
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You, Me, We: Why We All Need a Friend at Work (and How to Show Up as One!)
Morag Barrett, Eric Spencer and Ruby Vesely
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168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Book Recommendations and Reviews
The Career Change Guide: Five Steps to Finding Your Dream Job | Rachel Schofield | Author Focus
Dare to Lead | Brené Brown | Read More
Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed | Harvey J Coleman
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway | Susan Jeffers | Read More
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team | Simon Sinek, Stephen Shedletzky, et al
Four Thousand Weeks : Embrace Your Limits. Change Your Life. | Oliver Burkeman | Read More
The Good Life and How to Live It | Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz | Read More
Gravitas: Communicate with Confidence, Influence and Authority | Caroline Goyder | Read More
Grit: Why Passion and Resilience are the Secrets to Success | Angela Duckworth | Read More
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back | Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith | Read More
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World | Dorie Clark | Read More | Author Focus
Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring | Davina McCall with Dr Naomi Potter | Read More
Mindset : Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential | Dr Carol Dweck
The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work | Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund and Laurie R Weingart | Read More
Power of Love Leadership: 7 Proven Strategies to Drive Success, Maximise Results and Inspire Compassion and Trust | Sarah Higgins | Author Focus
The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career | Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action | Simon Sinek
Who is in Your Personal Boardroom? | Zella King and Amanda Scott | Read More
Working Parents-to-be: Your guide to parental leave and return… what to expect and how to make it work for you | Catherine Oliver | Read More
You, Me, We: Why We All Need a Friend at Work (and How to Show Up as One!) | Morag Barrett, Eric Spencer and Ruby Vesely | Read More
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think | Laura Vanderkam
7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R Covey
Podcasts
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Trusted Associates
Where appropriate, I recommend a small number of trusted associates for coaching, speaking or consulting. They are all individuals I have personally worked with, and rate highly. Click the email button to contact them directly and learn more about their services and prices. Please tell them I sent you!
Kate Faxen
Kate is a culture and leadership coach with decades of experience empowering individuals and organisations to create thriving workplaces where people can flourish. She specialises in helping clients uncover unconscious aspirations, guiding them from feeling “stuck” to experiencing genuine joy and fulfilment in their careers.
A passionate advocate for neurodivergent individuals, being ADHD herself, Kate creates safe, inclusive spaces that foster self-awareness, confidence, and authenticity. She supports clients through challenging moments and introduces fresh perspectives that enable growth and transformation.
Kate also works closely with senior leaders, helping them reignite their passion, deepen authentic and empathetic leadership, and unlock their full potential. Her coaching programmes are entirely bespoke – thoughtfully tailored to meet the unique challenges and goals of each client.
At the heart of Kate’s work are the values of trust, altruism, fairness, and joy – principles she brings into every interaction.
Beyond coaching, Kate is deeply committed to volunteering. She holds roles with organisations supporting SEND families, women in higher education, and parents and carers of neurodivergent children. She is also an Ambassador for GFS and a leader within The Wonderful Women Movement.
Carrie Barber
Carrie is the founder of Work Wobble, a movement dedicated to helping people navigate life’s biggest career and identity shifts with clarity, confidence, and balance. With a C-Suite HR background and expertise in biology, psychology, and neuroscience, combined with years of leading organisational change she combines brain science with real-world strategies to help people get unstuck, rewire their thinking, and move forward. Known for her relatable and engaging style, Carrie breaks down complex ideas into practical, no-nonsense tools that actually work. Whether tackling self-doubt, decision paralysis, or the infamous inner critic, she brings a mix of humour, insight, and science-backed strategies to help people get out of their heads and into action. Her talks inspire audiences to rethink the way they approach work, life, and success – because if you’re feeling stuck, chances are your brain is playing a bigger role than you realise. Carrie spoke at one of The Wonderful Women Movement events.
Email: workwobbleteam@gmail.com
Niamh Cull
Niamh is a performance and professional development coach who works with individuals and organisations to enhance career clarity, confidence and capability. She has a background in senior HR roles and is great at supporting others to grow and succeed at work. She offers one-to-one and group coaching to help clients define their own version of career success, navigate progression barriers, and prepare for their next step, all while balancing professional and personal priorities. Her team coaching focuses on boosting collaboration, trust and performance, particularly in environments navigating complexity or change. She holds a Postgraduate qualification in Business and Personal Coaching and is an ACC-accredited member of the International Coaching Federation. She is also a Strengths Profile Practitioner. Her coaching is professional, energising, and perspective-shifting. She actively supports causes close to her heart, volunteering with charities including Pregnant Then Screwed, Young Women’s Trust and Tommy’s. We trained together at Barefoot Coaching and has been one of my own coaches since.
Email: niamh@niamhcull.com
Catherine Oliver
Catherine is a coach, mentor, advisor and speaker. She works with organisations from start-ups though to globally listed companies to help them support working parents and improve their gender balance. She is also the author of Amazon bestseller Working Parents-to-be. She has developed a highly successful programme to support the leave and return of working parents (pre, during and post parental leave) and their managers.
Prior to this, Catherine had a 20-year corporate career, most recently at Sky in Group Strategy. During her time there, she also became mum to a little girl and subsequently founded and ran Parents@Sky and co-founded Sky’s Women in Leadership initiative, alongside her “day job”. Sky won the 2016 Working Mum’s Overall Top Employer Award and made The Times Top 50 Employers for Women list in 2016, and every year since and was awarded first place in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers 2019/20 list.
James Edgar
James is an excellent Chief People Officer. He is also an experienced Executive Coach who works with senior leaders navigating transition, organisational complexity and change. He brings warmth, insight and challenge to his coaching. He supports leaders in a range of areas including stepping into new roles, leading with authenticity and building confidence in uncertain environments. His coaching creates space for reflection and growth, enabling clients to explore their leadership, relationships and impact, and move forward with clarity and purpose.
I have known James since my headhunter days and he has been my own coach. He has worked in a range of industries and ownership structures from Plc to PE backed, and has experience as a Trustee. He mentors Chief People Officers and HR professionals, and supports high potential talent through programmes with Aston University, Warwick Business School and Digital Catapult. I admire his ability to juggle many things including giving time to good causes, being a father to two daughters, running a coaching practice, all alongside a full time executive role.