Victoria.Golding.Coaching

I was applying for a significant promotion to head up a global team. I worked with Victoria on my approach towards the interviews and overturning certain perceptions.  I appreciated her really listening to and understanding the dynamics of the situation and the organization. She asked questions and came up with a number of alternative scenarios for us to role play. She used the information I had given her in previous sessions to challenge my assumptions and answers to the questions. In addition, she helped me synthesize my core strengths and replay them in a way that helped me demonstrate to the interviewers that these overturned their perceptions. I got the job and I have used the insight to adapt my leadership style going into the new role which has already received positive anecdotal feedback from the new team.

I had recently started a new role as Legal Director at a large organisation with no existing coherent legal function. The initial lack of work and buy-in for what I do had dented my confidence and I wanted some help with creating a meaningful and sustained role for myself in the organisation. I’ve had coaching before but found Victoria's sessions far more helpful in that they are very structured and she is very focused on moving the session forward and drawing out issues to work on. Victoria helped me identify the crux of what was holding me back and we have since worked on creating a step plan for moving my role forward and building my confidence and self-belief to make that happen. Victoria has a very empathetic style but is also extremely professional and focused on outcomes. She has an excellent understanding of how people interact with one another in a business environment and is quick to establish the underlying root causes of problems or blockers. I looked forward to my sessions with her and felt very motivated and inspired after each one.

With her incredible empathy, Victoria helped me to understand and accept my emotions. At the same time, she challenged me to move forward and focus on the future. Throughout our sessions, I have been able to figure out where my strengths lie and what sort of roles are the right ones for me in the future… Thanks to Victoria, I had the confidence to focus on those roles that are right for me and to reject others. Her coaching style is multifaceted. She is an excellent listener, a great sounding board, not afraid to challenge your ideas or to hold up a mirror. I am very grateful that I had the chance to work with Victoria and cannot recommend her highly enough.