Senior Executive Career Coaching Services and Executive Career Transitions Coach

Who Works With an
​Senior Executive Career Coach?

I work as an online executive career coach or face to face career coach with directors, CEOs, senior managers, consultants, tech workers and knowledge workers. Professionals I coach typically are mid career. My executive career coaching clients also include people from 'traditional' professions like doctors, engineers, lawyers and accountants. I also offer executive career coaching to people who aspire to such roles.

Why Work With an
​Executive Career Coach?

As your career progresses you may find yourself from time to time feeling less fulfilled in your professional life. Two factors often contribute this type of career dissatisfaction. Firstly, your organisation and your role and responsibilities may have evolved or changed. Secondly, you too may have changed; as you've grown and matured. As a result, you can start to feel that there's no longer a good fit between who you are now and the current reality of your role.

An executive career coach like me can work with you to identify and implement the changes you need to make to your career and working life so that you feel excited about your work again. Executive career coaching can help you gain self-awareness, boost your career success and career fulfilment.​

5 Ways an Executive Career Coach Can Help You Find
​Career Fulfilment

​Executive career coaching can include working on any aspect of your career or professional life that you would like to develop or improve. I’ve separated some of the topics and themes that my clients often choose to focus on into five executive career coaching ‘buckets’ below.

1. Executive Career Coaching for Career Planning

We’ll work on:-
  • Your career strategy and planning
  • Developing an authentic and distinctive personal brand
  • Positioning yourself for future opportunities
  • Managing career risks – like redundancy or obsolete skills

2. Executive Job Coach​

​We’ll work on:-
  • Developing an executive job search strategy and plan
  • Navigating the hidden jobs market and speculative approaches
  • Strategic networking (online and offline) to discover and develop new contacts who can help you.
  • Analysis of your professional and transferable skills
  • Crafting a compelling CV so that your application stands out
  • Creating a winning Linkedin profile so that your attract the attention of influential people.
  • Finessing your executive interview skills including building your executive presence, voice skills, presentations skills       (includes mock interviews)  

3. Executive Career Transitions Coach

We’ll work on:-
  •  'First 100 days coaching' when you take on a new role or move to a new organisation
  • Transitioning into a new more senior or leadership role
  • Returning to your professional career after a career break due to family, caring or study commitments
  • Planning your transition into retirement from your professional career 

4. Corporate Career Coach

We’ll work on:-
  • Giving you the empathic support you need to cope with managing virtual relationships across timezones in matrix organisations
  • Extra career support for you as a working parent with a professional career.
  • Role support and guidance when your boss feels ‘remote’ and you feel you’re not getting the feedback, attention or mentoring that you need to perform at your best in your role

5. Personal Business Career Coach

We’ll work on:-
  • Strategic networking, managing key relationships with stakeholders in your career and building influence in your organisation
  • Managing as an introvert professional in an often extravert working world
If any of these topics resonate with you, let’s have a chat about your situation and how executive career coaching with me can support you to make changes in your work and to achieve your goals

The Benefits of
Executive Career Coaching 

One on one executive career coaching can help you update your self-knowledge about what’s important to you in your career now and what motivates you now. You’ll start to see your career and your professional field with ‘fresh eyes’ and gain fresh insight and knowledge about your career to date. This means you’ll be career planning on strong foundations.

Specifically executive career coaching can help you to:-
  • Develop long- and short-term career plans
  • Accelerate your career progression
  • Increase your pay and benefits
  • Find more meaning, purpose in your career. Feel more motivated.
  • Reduce stress and anxiety around work and career issues.

Want these things for yourself? Let’s have a chat about your situation and how executive career coaching with me can support you to take a fresh look at your career, make changes and achieve your goals

How Does Executive
​Career Coaching Work?

We’ll have an exploratory session of transformational executive career coaching. You’ll experience the executive career coaching relationship for yourself, so you’ll know how coaching with me feels for you.

I’ll then map out how personal executive career coaching with me will support your visions, dreams and goals to become reality and help you to make the changes you want to make.

When you’re happy with the plan we’ll proceed with a series of career coaching conversations.  Below are some of the aspects we may look at :-
  • Reviewing your career journey to date, so that you understand not just the stages of your career but your decision-making processes along the way.
  • Deepening you self-awareness and self-knowledge including getting clear on your  ‘career drivers’ – what motivates you in your career, and your ‘career values’ – what’s important to you in your career.
  • Analysing your skills.
  • Your 'higher values' around service and contribution, which for many people can be key to their long term career fulfilment.​​
In addition, we'll get creative! Creative thinking is a key part of my executive career coaching. Creative thinking can help you to find new options and solutions to your current career challenges. Creative thinking can also help you to create and explore new career futures for yourself. 
An executive career coach never tells you what to do. You know yourself and your career aspirations best. Executive career coaching provides a creative space where you can gain insight and develop your own ideas and plans. I will help you by:-
  • Listening to you with empathy and without judgment
  • Helping you to tap into more of your experience - mind, body and feelings so you're moving forward from an authentic place
  • Asking you powerful questions that will help you gain insight.
  • Challenging you to you raise your game so you achieve more than you thought possible.
  • Supporting you to build your confidence and courage to make changes.
  • Helping you generate new ideas so you have more options.
  • Holding you accountable for your actions, so you achieve results

Want to Have a Chat About Creating the Future You Want?​

Why Choose Trudy Lloyd as Your Executive Career Coach?

  • My qualifications and wide variety of career coaching approaches mean I can work with you in a way that best supports how you 'see' the world and what you aspire to in your career.
  • I seek to establish a supportive, empathetic and dynamic coaching relationship with my clients. This in turn opens up an open, shared space for the creative process of career coaching.
  • With business qualifications including an MBA (Masters Degree in Business Administration) and many years of experience working at senior levels in large and small organisations, I understand commercial and non-commercial organisations. I founded and still run an innovation training consultancy which means I understand entrepreneurship and small businesses.  I can relate to many ways of ‘earning a living’ and have knowledge of a wide variety of executive, professional and knowledge-based career roles.
  • My business experience also means I understand the context and cultures of many workplaces which are important elements of any career coaching conversation.
  • In addition to my coaching expertise I have extensive knowledge of the processes and techniques of creativity and innovation. By including a creative approach in executive career coaching I can help you generate new career ideas and career directions.
  • I am a qualified psychosynthesis coach, counsellor and therapist. Psychosynthesis is an existential approach that can help you uncover new insights about your authentic personality. Psychosynthesis can also be a helpful framework to explore the 'bigger career questions' like mission, purpose and meaning.