Gemma started her career as an in-house HR professional in the late 1990s. After working in senior leadership for some time, she decided to train professionally as a coach, to build on her experience and deepen her knowledge and expertise. She has been a fully accredited freelance coach since 2016, working with a wide variety of blue-chip clients across a range of sectors, including media, technology, financial services, and FMCG.
Gemma is a coaching specialist in grief training, and now uses this blended skillset to help individuals to positively address and recover from all forms of traumatic change and loss, including redundancy, divorce and bereavement.
Because every person is different Gemma’s approach is individual and bespoke. Whilst occasionally challenging, what underpins her approach is a sense of trust and respect – a safe and positive space for clients to develop, move forward and grow.
As a positive psychologist, she fundamentally believes no one strives to be average and favours a strengths-based approach to enable individuals to truly flourish, leverage their strengths and reach their fullest potential, focusing only on weaknesses where they are genuinely hindering progress.
Her values reflect how she works:
Compassionate – a belief that caring about the people within organisations is the right thing to do, that people in organisations matter and that happy, fulfilled people deliver results.
Engaging – there’s nothing worse than being ‘talked at’ or having to sit through a long, boring presentation when there’s pressing work to be done. She aims to make the coaching experience as dynamic as possible.
Action-oriented – One of her greatest strengths is her ability to simplify a complex situation into meaningful bite-sized pieces. She takes a practical, hands-on approach and has a ‘can do’ not a ‘make do’ attitude.
