Comments from Executive Coaching clients

Director in Finance, corporate national airline:
“The strength of Elspeth’s coaching is that it is not premeditated. She picks up the way things are so accurately in this intuitive way. Elspeth was of great assistance to me in helping improve my interpersonal and influencing skills. Consistently professional, flexible and resourceful she helped achieve a fundamental reappraisal of my attitude and aims towards others, including a move away from a purely task focused approach to one designed to achieve a deeper connection. I was particularly impressed by the creativity of several of the exercises that we undertook together. Gentle but firm she inspires others to inspire others better.”

Director in Internal Audit, German investment bank
“I have learnt to ask more questions, valuable ones, through work with you, it feels more natural to ask than to tell. For eg I am able to see in my mind the questions to ask her, see the more and less useful ones for now, and choose which ones to go with”

Divisional Director Fund Management Company Referring to the use of 360 profiling of her leader influence styles
“That was a real turning point – I didn’t like what I saw in the responses of others. Then you carefully took me through it and, having acknowledged my tendency to seek approval, to withdraw in an avoiding way, I worked out things I could do something about. Although I felt really down initially your knowledge of me and the trust I had helped me face it.”

CEO Arab banking institution
“The way you described my dilemma as wizzing round on a roller coaster was spot on, but what made the real difference was you showing me so graphically how I had shifted out of this and when I saw how I could it was like a bolt of realisation. Working with the micro and the macro is intensely difficult and rewarding at the same time!”

Client Partner & Account Manager
" I have found the sessions intellectually challenging, illuminating and utterly insightful. They have been personally rewarding and practically beneficial, both to myself and my employer. I could recommend Elspeth entirely. I should add that I first came to coaching as an extremely sceptical recipient, fully expecting to have my reservations confirmed. Instead I believe these hours to have been among the most useful I have spent."

Comments from Supervision clients

Manager, coach and trainee therapist
" I was lucky enough to be one of the first members of Elspeth`s supervision group when she set this up over three years ago now in South London. We meet approx every 6 – 8 weeks and the small number in the group (5) allows each person to have quality time to consider current client work

Although the group is facilitated by Elspeth, who is a trained supervisor, as we all offer comments and reflections on the cases presented, we each become supervisors in our own right for the evening – the wisdom of 5 people for the price of one! I think this technique has allowed me to tune in more sensitively to my clients and has definitely helped me improve my own practice.

It is also interesting to note that even when you are not presenting a case for discussion, you always seem to learn from other group members` dilemmas. It is helpful to realise that you are not alone in having similar concerns or issues to deal with in client session.s

Elspeth is electic in her use of supervision models including the use of the 7 eyed model -Hawkins & Shohet. She often focuses on systemic thinking which is great for people who are coaching clients working in organizations.

In addition, I have found it such a rich experience to learn from such diversity in the group: we all have different ways of working and so seeing the world – this has helped me open up my view of what might be going on for my clients and has offered me more tools to use in subsequent sessions with them."

Coach and HR consultant
"I wanted to thank you for the insights you gave me at group supervision this week. They really helped me reflect on my identity as a coach and as “me”. I am going to work through the daisy model again to help me collate existing scripts I might not be consciously aware of and ones I would want to create to enable me develop further as a coach. I’m still determined to be equivalent to those jazz musicians we read about on the Tacit Knowing day!"


An Associate’s feedback to the MD at a consultancy where I supervise both the Associates and the MD
“Just wanted to thank you for making Elspeth available as a supervisor, and funding it, she is a tremendous resource within our community."


Comments from organisational consultant supervision clients:
"I am better at being in the moment with someone’s feeling and working with it, for eg what I felt with this client was overwhelming sadness, without going to my own place of overwhelming sadness; so I could be much more skilful”

“When I work now I will say to myself ‘I wonder what Elspeth would do’ and this helps me think up something good. Recently I recalled your voice ‘all you can do is to reinforce the positives and know that there is meaning in the system however dysfunctional’ and this helped me focus on what he was doing well”

“The crucial thing I took away was a reflection you had about my feelings getting in the way, I was too much engaged, personally, to be clear about what I was facilitating for him”