The role of work in your life is so important. Of course it generates in income, but I want it to be so much more; I want to do something I believe in, that gives me a sense of achievement, that is challenging and fun, and contributes to something bigger. For me I found that job ten years ago. But as time went on, I got so entangled in sooo many different things, and all important on one level for different stakeholders, that I forgot about what was important in a job for me.

Linda helped me to untangle it. We went right back to the basics: what do I want from a job, why, how, what gives me energy…. The end result was quite unexpected… For me at least! And I made some life and career changing decision that worked out splendidly! I know I did it all, but Linda supported and guided me through it.

Take it on! Will be a great step into something valuable and exciting!

In 2012 our company – which is the largest Management Consulting firm in Denmark – decided to take some of our own medicine. So all partners were asked to take part in a Leadership Development Program. The most important part of this program was to enter into a series of individual coaching sessions with outside consultants – or Business Therapists as they were called.

Along with six Danish coaches, Linda was chosen as an interesting no. 7. I had the privilege of being one of the partners, who could draw on Linda´s competences through a period of approximately 8 Months, where we had five or six sessions – each lasting 1,5 hours with a detailed memo being written by Linda after each session. The role of the memo was to help me focus on the topics, I should think about – and act upon.
I will highlight the following competences, that I experienced Linda has a great amount of:

• Empathy
  Linda listens carefully and from time to time adds up her impression of the other persons situation, as she understands it. Always to the point.
• Serious and devoted
  As a client you really feel, that you are the object for all Linda´s attention, and that she will do all she can to help you.
• Practical and knowledgeable about business life.
  It´s very easy to talk with Linda, because she knows, what professional business is about, and she knows organizational life in these companies very well.

I hereby warmly recommend Linda to any position, where the above mentioned skills are of great importance.

I have had about 6 sessions with Linda and she has been exactly as I anticipated – sensitive/in-tune, intuitive, honest, flexible, responsive, and on the ball with relevant resources, tools and exercises.

I initially asked her for help with which career direction to head in but she quickly picked up that what I was after was beyond a career move and more a whole-sale life-style change – and then factored this into our sessions. Linda worked with me throughout, considering the session design/the questions she asked and exercises she proposed to suit me and my style/approach. Essentially for me, she would challenge me (kindly) at times eg to make a decision about something, and equally would also input eg ‘I don’t think there is a definitive answer and what will work here instead is…’ or ‘I don’t think that will work because ……’.

And I’m pretty much there with it now: I’m about to change where I live, I’m still on track with other life-style changes about more time with friends, sports and so on; PLUS I have a fabulous, insightful, genuine list of qualities and skills/talents that I’ve built up over the years and on this basis identified various career directions (all of which feel right which is important to me). I have a budget so I know the various roles’ remuneration will work with the life style I’m working towards; and I’m now about to draft CVs for the different types of work about 2-3 months before I make the move to live in the countryside. I’ve another, possibly final session, in September to make sure I’ve moved this forward.

Skype sessions have worked a treat, and we did manage to have one face to face session also which was good.

Linda has been brilliant.

Linda was really able to embrace her role as a coach to help me really understand what I was looking for in a future career.

Linda had a tremendous knowledge of behavioural patterns and was able to explain them in a way that even an engineer could understand. She created an environment where I could explore my leadership skills and my own personal limiting behavior – in a ‘safe’ environment. I grew enormously as a result of our time together.