As a late career senior executive I felt as though I had reached the end of the line professionally. I was telling myself a lot of stories about my work and was consumed by the more negative aspects of it. I was craving a change but didn’t know what change looked like, or whether I even had the courage to make changes to my career.  It was very easy to just keep “doing the doing” even though I wasn’t happy.

Janelle was able to do two quite different, but related things – she created a space where my mind could “breathe” and she also held a mirror up to my career so I could see things more clearly.  She challenged my assumptions in a gentle and supportive way. Almost every session I found I was seeing more possibilities – and when I started seeing possibilities, I started finding them all around me……

I’m still in my role, but now I’ve got a career plan I’m excited about, and am starting to execute it.  I know what I want to do more of and what I want to do less of.  I think the next two years could, just maybe, be the most exciting of my career

I engaged Janelle’s coaching services as I was preparing to go back to the Corporate world after a year-long break prompted by my first ever lay-off. I was feeling overwhelmed, confused and fragile and was looking for someone who could support me and help me gain clarity on my next professional move.

I was hoping to find a coach I could relate to and feel comfortable sharing my feelings and thoughts with and was very pleased to find Janelle,  a smart, accomplished, corporate leader who could seamlessly “speak my language” and provided me with very impactful, relatable, thought-provoking discussions and practical tools.

Each one-hour session I had with Janelle was revelatory and exposed aspects of my belief system that were clearly holding me back, along with techniques to overcome those.  I was shocked, and humbled, to learn how much self-doubt I was carrying with me and how much protection I had built around me to project myself from rejection and judgement – Janelle was quick to uncover these and help me let them go.

It is hard to adequately express the amount of weight this has lifted off my shoulders and heart.

During my sessions with Janelle I was also able to go deeper into my passions, allow myself to explore areas that excite me tremendously and establish my anchoring criteria for my ideal corporate job.

Overall, my sessions with Janelle have provided me with all I was looking for and much more – and I know that the amount of clarity, confidence and excitement I feel at this juncture is in large part due to these conversations with Janelle.