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Career coaching is a valuable, personalised process that helps you identify, clarify, and achieve your career goals. It’s a trusted partnership between you and your career coach focused on equipping you with the resources you need to navigate career challenges and opportunities with confidence.
Career coaching can provide valuable guidance and support as you navigate your professional journey. When you work with me as your career coach, you’ll gain clarity about your career goals, develop new skills, improve your work life, and achieve a better work-life balance. Here are some of the most common benefits of career coaching:
An essential first step to career success and fulfilment is a process of self-discovery that increases your self-awareness. Career coaching helps you identify and understand your values, strengths, skills, and interests all of which underpin your career motivations. As your career coach I’ll share with you proven tools, strategies and resources that can help you identify and explore your talents.
Lack of goal clarity is one of the biggest challenges faced by people seeking out career coaching. Which makes sense since without clarity about your goals how can you plan your next steps? As your career coach I will help you get clear on what you really want in your career now and in the future. Just importantly, we’ll identify what you need less of in your career.
Together with me as your career coach, you’ll identify any skills gaps that may hinder your progress and determine how you can address them through training or other development activities. By exploring new opportunities, you can discover potential career paths and industries that align with your interests and aspirations. This proactive approach will help you stay focused, motivated, and prepared for future challenges and opportunities.
Build a strong foundation for career success by cultivating confidence, resilience, and effective communication skills. Develop a positive mindset that empowers you to believe in your abilities and overcome self-doubt. Improve your interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships, collaborate effectively, and navigate diverse and complex work environments. Learn to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and development, building resilience to bounce back from setbacks and adapt to change. By investing in your personal and professional development, you’ll be well-prepared to navigate the complexities of the job market and achieve lasting fulfilment in your work.
Career coaching is a valuable investment in your personal and professional development. Regular coaching sessions help you stay focused and motivated providing support and accountability to achieve your career goals. As your career coach I’ll be your thinking partner and can provide personalised advice and guidance when needed, drawing on my expertise and experience to provide you with a fresh insights and perspectives. This support can help you gain clarity, set meaningful goals, and take proactive steps to achieve your career aspirations.
Career coaching can provide expert guidance in enhancing your job search strategies and navigating the complexities of today’s job market (a lot has changed!). Through personalised advice, I’ll share the most effective strategies and techniques for networking, interviewing, and crafting a compelling CV and cover letter. Additionally, you’ll gain the confidence to negotiate salary and benefits, ensuring you receive fair compensation for your skills and experience.
I'm Lisa LaRue (AKA The Career Happiness Coach), an EMCC-accredited Master Practitioner Coach and qualified Career & Executive Coach with over 20 years of international experience helping people achieve career happiness. Click on the photo above to learn more about me.
If you’re looking for a career career coach to help you achieve happiness and success, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve been coaching for over 20 years and during that time I’ve helped thousands of people get clear on what they want and how to get it. I’ve successfully coached people from around the world including the UK, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, USA, Latin America and across Asia. With specialist skills in career coaching, career counselling, mentoring and training, I will help you get to where you want to be (even if you don’t know where that is right now!).
There’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach to coaching people to achieve career happiness and success. What you’ll get when you choose me as your coach is a tailored approach that suits you and your needs. I’m available for a one-off, one-hour coaching session or book 6 or 8 sessions for more intense transformations and longer term support. Contact me today to arrange a no-obligation free chat to discuss your needs, ask any questions you might have and see if we might be a good fit to work together.
Career coaching, training and mentoring are effective ways to optimise your career. As a RCDP I use a blend of coaching, mentoring and training which means I combine powerful coaching questions that help you find your own answers, share insights when needed and provide training in helpful strategies and techniques to overcome challenges, optimise performance and thrive at work.
One of my main specialisms and something I have been doing for over 20 years is coaching people through career change. I have extensive, training in career counselling and career coaching in particular, specialist training in helping people navigate and achieve career change.
Career change can be daunting and people often come to me after thinking about changing careers for several years. Sadly, some people also come to me after already spending thousands on unqualified and inexperienced coaches who lacked the necessary specialist training in career change coaching.
Changing careers is a big life change but working with a qualified, registered and experienced career coach will ensure your career transition is a smooth and successful one.
When Justine came to me for career change coaching, she confessed she'd been stuck in a rut for over 5 years constantly day dreaming of the day she would be doing something different. Justine had spent 16 years working as a corporate lawyer and realised she had made a mistake quite early in her career but felt embarrassed to tell her family and friends. Instead, she carried on pretending to love her job when deep inside most days were a complete struggle. Once Justine had made the decision to take action and find a more fulfilling career, she found me and we started working together. Using some specific career development tools, Justine was able to recognise all the amazing transferable skills and talents she had and we identified her areas of interest and true passions. One of these was the environment. We explored options, identified the most viable opportunities that could capitalise on her skills, strengths, interests and motivations. We developed a career action plan that saw her transition to an incredible new career as a Sustainability Consultant. Justine now says she has never been happier.
If you are facing challenges at work, it can be helpful to work with a trained and experienced career coach. Whether your challenge relates to well-being, performance or any other issue, coaching can help you gain clarity and develop solutions to boost your job satisfaction, happiness and well-being at work. As a strengths based, solution focused coach, I partner with you to recognise your strengths, build resilience and thrive personally and professionally.
Kelvin came to career coaching looking for coaching to increase assertiveness at work. He'd been working for the same company since graduating university and felt that his manager kept him pigeon-holed into doing the same role forever. Kelvin was understandably frustrated and even though he was consistently achieving incredible success in his role, he wasn't being promoted into a higher level role with more responsibility and the higher salary he wanted and deserved. Through career coaching we were able to identify the value of his contributions, his skills and strengths. We built a portfolio which he took to his next career development planning meeting. His manager was impressed by how assertive and proactive Kelvin had become. Within just 3 months of us working together, Kelvin was invited to interview for a higher level role within his department. After some interview coaching his confidence was boosted which resulted in him being selected to be a key part of a new and exciting project that was engaging, financially rewarding and fulfilling.
Aside from coaching people to achieve successful traditional careers, for many years I’ve also coached entrepreneurs, freelancers and digital nomads. In addition to first-hand experience (being self-employed for nearly 20 years), I am trained in business and entrepreneur coaching up to master’s level, have a diploma in business management and am currently a doctoral researcher at Tampere University’s Faculty of Social Sciences (Psychology) researching flow-state and entrepreneur well-being and performance.
Joel had been unhappy at work for a number of years before he reached out to me for career coaching. At the age of 39 he had already accomplished so much and had a master's degree in international development. Through his work, Joel had lived and worked in five countries, gaining insights into some of the most pressing issues facing society and governments around the world. Due to funding cuts to the international development organisation he had been working with, Joel started to think about transitioning to a self-employed International Development Consultant. Together we envisaged what this could look like, did some feasibility activities and designed a transition and business plan to take his consultancy forward. Within a few months, Joel had successfully gained his first client and was working on developing the other phases of his business plan.
I’m a master’s degree qualified career coach (Master of Career Development), an EMCC accredited Master Practitioner Coach and a trained life coach so I’m well-equipped to guide you through all kinds of career and life challenges. I am a Registered Career Development Professional (RCDP) with the Career Development Institute (CDI) and a member of the Association for Coaching (AC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Aside from all of my credentials, what I offer is a genuine level of care and support. I have dedicated my career to supporting people to live their best lives – to honour their true selves. It’s what drew me to career coaching as a specialism from the beginning. Life is far too short to not live authentically and on your own terms. I do however understand the realities of life and I won’t tell to you to ‘find your passion’. Instead, I’ll help you define your values and goals and help you find solutions to living your life authentically while still paying the bills.
All coaching sessions are offered online via Zoom. This enables you to benefit from coaching wherever you are in the world. It’s up to you if you use your web camera or not. During our sessions I’ll often share my screen as we work on different things, using various tools or working online together. If you’re not confident in using Zoom don’t worry! I’ll help you get set up and show you around. You don’t need your own Zoom account to join a Zoom meeting but setting up a free ‘Basic’ account and downloading the free Zoom app enables you to customise things the way you like.
No problem! I’ve been providing career counselling and coaching sessions online for over 20 years to people all around the world. I’ve coached people in the UK, across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Asia and the Middle East. Now mostly based in France, you can find out the time difference between Paris, France and your location, try using The Time Now app which allows you to see what the time is where you are in comparison. Although I usually try and limit my working hours to between 9am and 6pm weekdays (CET), I am able to work outside of regular working hours to fit your schedule if absolutely necessary.
No problem. I accept payments via a Wise Borderless account enabling you to pay for your career counselling and coaching services in the currency of your choice. If you are in the UK, France, Sweden, USA or Australia let me know and I’ll send you bank payment details so you can pay into a local bank account in that currency. This means you’ll avoid paying international transfer fees.
Do you have any other questions? Please get in touch.
Despite my French sounding surname (from my Canadian husband), I was born and lived in Australia before relocating to Europe many years ago. While I’m working hard to develop my French language skills, I only offer coaching in my native language, English.
