ANNA GORDON
Career & Executive Coach
My Mission
I am on a mission to walk alongside you and help you experience the freedom to be yourself, have the career you long for and develop as an authentic, successful career professional and leader.
What is holding you back from finding a job or career that energises you, lets you work to your strengths, feeds your passion and aligns with your values?
Do you feel that you lack a sense of congruence?
Are you perhaps living the life that someone else wants you to live? Are you feeling unfulfilled, inauthentic and "stuck"?
When you feel "stuck", it is so easy to say, I'll do something about it tomorrow or another day. The Power is in the Now- what we do now in the present moment is what matters.
Who do you want to be as a leader?
As a leader in today's VUCA economy, how you show up is subject to intense scrutiny. The Pandemic is proving to be a test not only of your leadership but also of your self-leadership; how well you know yourself, your strengths, your values. How self-aware you are and how you pace yourself will impact how you respond to challenges and the quality of your decision making.
I became a coach because I realised that I had a passion and skill for helping people understand themselves and have always loved helping people succeed. It is incredibly fulfilling to walk along side my clients and support them through my coaching and creativity in their powerful and transformational experiences.
Throughout my career, I have helped many hundreds of different people at all stages of their careers; from university graduates to those in more established careers to career changers and those in leadership roles. I have worked with them to make sense of their lived experience, to be their best professional self and to get an authentic understanding of who they are, what they want to achieve and develop a focused plan to making it happen.
I can help you too.
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” — Maya Angelou
So what is your story?
Many people don't stop and give themselves permission to pause and reflect on what is truly important to them, on where they really want to be. Life happens; they fall into careers or careers fall onto them. They typically end up feeling stuck, dissatisfied and fake. Covid-19 has changed that dynamic and made us all pause and take stock.
As your coach, I will help you on your personal journey; challenging your thinking and assumptions opening up new perspectives for you, helping you connect the dots of your personal and authentic career narrative. The coaching work we will do together will help you to identify and develop the skills you need, find your own solutions and take ownership of your decisions moving forward to achieve your goals.
What do your personality, dreams and hopes say about you?
My Coaching Approach
I believe people are multidimensional and complex and use a variety of coaching models and tools to work with my clients in order to assist effective exploration and deeper understanding; I never put people into boxes. I believe that a person's Career is a unique facet of their life and identity and I love helping people tell their story.
My coaching style is holistic, and challenging, emphathetic and warm yet focused
As a Career & Executive Coach, I will work collaboratively with you to provide a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space for you to think deeply and express yourself freely. I act as a sounding board to reflect back your thinking, gently challenging and unpacking assumptions. I can help you gain insight into what drives you and any unhelpful patterns of behaviour which may be holding you back.
I will help you think differently about your situation to better serve yourself, expand your possibilities, act more effectively and design the future you want.
I use creativity to go work with you at a deeper level to help you explore unconscious drivers, unhelpful emotions that may be blocking you and keeping you "stuck".
I will open up a deeper conversation and connection to help you peel away the layers, crafting a story around what has led you to where you are today, and how you can align yourself with what you want to be part of in the future.
You are the architect and the author of your story- no one else.
You may not know exactly what you want to achieve at the start, but goals can emerge organically in the coaching work. This involves getting you to look at things from different and unexpected perspectives - I coach indoors, and outdoors in Nature. Fear and assumptions can keep you tethered to a comfort zone and stop you exploring new opportunities and generating new ideas.Any tools or techniques I may use are designed to get you to think in new and different ways.
Inviting Nature into the Coaching Experience
I coach indoors, but I may also offer clients an invitation to experience coaching outdoors.
There is a wealth of scientific research underpinning the positive benefits and impact of being outdoors in Nature. It reduces stress and cognitive overload, is a catalyst for more creative and divergent thinking, improves mental, emotional and physical well-being. Diverse environments and landscapes boost new ways of thinking and provide new experiences.
Coaching in Nature is always based on client preferences, comfort levels and contracting. It is an invitation to walk or sit together outdoors in Nature, or to be together virtually outside in Nature in separate geographic locations. It can include bringing Nature indoors working with Natural objects, using the Nature you can see through a window, a solitary intention walk where you walk and sit in Nature carrying a question you want insight into. It can involve being outside in green and blue urban spaces, or more especially, being out in more open landscapes, seascapes and soundscapes.
However you invite nature into the coaching experience, reconnecting with Nature is a powerful way to get out of your head and drop into your body, reconnecting with yourself psychologically, somatically and emotionally so that any decisions or insights you make are more integrative, systemic and holistic.
My Coaching Credentials
Experienced Coach Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) whose code of Ethics I follow.
Qualified Coach in the theory, models and practice of coaching.
Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching
MSc in Coaching Psychology
Certified Business Coaching Psychologist CBCP
ChrisLin Method Creativity in Coaching Practitioner
Member of the Association of Business Psychologists ABP
British Psychological Society Register of Qualifications in Test Use (RQTU) .
Affiliate member of British Psychological Society Division of Coaching Psychology
Experienced workshop facilitator and trainer
Anna Gordon
Career & Executive Coach
Certified Business Coaching Psychologist
Experienced Member of the International Coach Federation (ICF)
If you could write a new story, what would it be?
“If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
― Robert Fritz,
EXECUTIVE COACHING
As a Leader, do you want to:
-Move past goal achievement to working with uncertainty and complexity?
-Explore relationships and connections that influence your organisation?
-Discover how you are influenced by the systems and people who surround you?
-Do you want to develop as a Leader that contributes and inspires teams?
-Are you looking for insight in working with challenging relationships?
-Do you want to boost your Emotional Intelligence?
Do you want honesty, trust and to be challenged in your thinking?
Career & Coaching Services
Currently via Zoom, Skype & Telephone
What challenges are you facing right now?
HypnoCoaching
HypnoCoaching organically and holistically combines Coaching and Hypnotherapy techniques to help you deal with stress and burnout, achieve your goals and make the deeper changes you want.
As well as being an experienced coach, I am also a certified Hypnotherapist and offer HypnoCoaching to support my clients. HypnoCoaching works with both what is within your conscious awareness but also with what is outside of your conscious awareness. If you have had self-development work before but find yourself eventually repeating the same negative, self-sabotaging behaviours, thinking and patterns, working at a deeper subconscious level may be what helps you make the positive changes you need; that is after all where your beliefs, drivers and emotions sit.
To find out more about my HypnoCoaching Services, and how Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis can increase motivation and boost the development of new, healthier thinking, habits and behaviours, please visit my sister site https://www.annagordonhypnocoach.com/
Who I have worked with
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy:
Early Talent Programme
Impact Programme
Birkbeck College, University of London
Your Career Development Credit bearing Module Lead
Career Coaching Programme
Graduate Summer Programme
Summer Bootcamp
Mentoring Pathways Programme
School of Arts Programme
Ability Programme
Upskill Programme
UAL Central St Martins MBA Programme with Birkbeck
MBA Coaching & Workshops
UCL Astrea Women's Network
The Coaching Pod
JS Group
Portal Careers lead
