be better

& bolder

Unlocking Leaders and their teams

WITH ACTION-FOCUSED CAREER AND LEADERSHIP COACHING

I’ve coached bold Leaders and their teams at…

Career Coaching

Let’s empower your workforce and show your people that your organisation is serious about developing them and supporting their career planning.

  • Retain and engage your people. Elevate retention rates through strategic investment in career development, cultivating loyalty and minimising the cost of staff turnover. Career Coaching creates clear career pathways and helps employees to identify their next role in the company and seamlessly transition.

  • Unlock the full potential of your employees. Identify and bridge skills gaps to unleash peak performance with personalised development plans.

  • Boost your team’s wellbeing. Combat stress and burnout, common during transformation, with empowering coaching, stress management techniques and work-life balance tools. Your employees will feel confident, calm, and in control so they can thrive.

I'm in control with a plan

Jacqui’s support through the interview process helped me to land my first Senior position at a salary level that makes a real difference to my life! And now that I’ve moved into the role, I’ve been able to get laser-focused on my priorities and what success means for me and the team each week. I come out of our fortnightly coaching sessions with a renewed sense of positivity and a belief that I’m in control with a plan.

Head of Financial Control, Challenger Bank

Career Coaching Solutions:

Career Bootcamp

Unlock employee potential at any level with a group Career Bootcamp. Employees will go through a self-discovery process to:

  • Identify their unique strengths
  • Get clear on what they value
  • Set clear goals of what they want
  • Feel empowered to make that bold career move through a personalised action plan

Career Workshops

Power Hour coaching workshops for groups of all sizes on topics such as:

  • Identifying your next career move
  • The power of your network
  • CV tips & tricks
  • Get interview-ready
  • Resilience and confidence
  • Work-life balance & boundaries
  • Focus & productivity

Career Coaching

One-to-one coaching to help employees:

  • Set clear career goals
  • Find their own career solutions
  • Navigate change
  • Build confidence
  • Increase focus and productivity
  • Increase resilience
  • Manage stress and overwhelm

Add DISC Profiling to any Career Coaching package

A DISC assessment helps to identify workstyle preferences, determines how someone would interact with others, and provides insight on work habits.

Leadership Development

Let’s transform your managers into effective leaders encouraging collaboration and addressing accountability, tough conversations, the power of feedback, work-life balance and resilience.

  • Build high-performing leaders: Identify where leaders are struggling and provide targeted support to improve performance.  Give leaders the skills and tools to hold teams accountable and navigate difficult conversations with peers, managers and senior stakeholders.

  • Create a generation of open and collaborative leaders who seek feedback and lead coaching conversations in their teams to drive innovation and build teams flexible to change.

  • Develop a robust leadership pipeline, developing and retaining key talent to ensure smooth succession planning.

Highly recommend

I found the sessions are remarkably impactful and provide me with a linear and achievable action plan for future development. Because of this, I brought Jacqui in to provide a workshop to my organisation on creating coaching conversations and coaching coaches within organisations. The team enjoyed the session immensely and several expressed an interest in going on to learn more about how they can enhance their own coaching skills.

Director, Cheshire & Merseyside NHS Training Hub

Leadership Development Solutions:

First-time Manager Bootcamp

Reduce overwhelm and stress by transforming new managers into effective leaders, supporting them to:

  • Discover their preferred
    management style
  • Understand what motivates their team
  • Manage conflict through encouraging collaboration and addressing accountability
  • Manage tough conversations
  • Embrace the power of feedback
  • Build resilience to create a work-life balance

Leadership
Workshops

Power Hour coaching workshops for groups of leaders.

Participants will benefit from up-skilling in:

  • Resilience
  • Tackling tough conversations
  • Seeking feedback
  • Holding coaching conversations

1-1 Leadership

Coaching

One-to-one coaching can support each individual to:

  • Improve their leadership skills and confidence
  • Ensure they can make an impact
  • Feel seen, heard and recognised as a leader

Team Transformation

Recent events demand team development – remote work, mental health concerns and fast-paced transformations leave teams disconnected.

Leverage my expertise in organisational change and team dynamics, and let’s deliver engaging and energising team development sessions to build trust and communication.

  • Increase team engagement and connection: Remote work leads to disconnection and communication breakdown. Teams need to ‘gel’. Team development boosts engagement, buy-in, and open communication building the trust that is key to high performance.

  • Alignment with Transformational Change: Team development is vital for organisational transformation: It builds leadership, drives a culture open to change, supports agile working and builds communication and trust. It ensures teams remain flexible and agile to increase the speed of change.

  • Re-energise: Revitalise your energy during or after a period of transformation and change delivery. Bring a sense of fun back and create space for employees to reflect and connect increasing that sense of belonging.

Confident, deliberate, relevant

Jacqui understood what we wanted from the [away days] and was able to tailor the running order to that. She was bubbly and outgoing, personable, confident, deliberate, relevant and kept us on track. She was also very good at challenging us and pulling out the key points that we made during the sessions into a succinct action plan. She facilitated well, got the group dynamic and added useful observations and challenging questions during our discussions.

CIO and IT Leadership Team, Building Society

Team Transformation Solutions:

Team Away Days

Bring a sense of fun back and create space for employees to reflect and connect whilst developing as a team, increasing that sense of belonging.

  • Deepen understanding of one another
  • Establish new ways of working
  • Tackle team challenges
  • Drive an action plan of changes (that will actually be implemented back at the office)

Team Workshops

Equip teams with the necessary skills, mindset, and tools, to enhance their ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

  • Foster inclusivity
  • Support employee well-being
  • Maintain a competitive edge
  • Maximise performance through forming > storming > norming > performing

Hello, I’m Jacqui.

An an action-focused Career and Leadership Coach, I’m dedicated to transforming leaders and their teams to be better and bolder.

During 17 years as a Senior Programme Manager, I successfully led diverse teams to implement global business and IT transformations for renowned institutions like HSBC and The Co-operative Bank.

Today, I combine practical experience as a Senior Leader with a powerful and challenging coaching style, to foster a culture where people feel valued, heard and recognised – pursuing careers that ignite their passion every day.

Let’s embark on this journey together, where we’ll unlock your potential, fuel your career growth, and create a path to success that aligns with your true self!

AS YOUR ACTION-FOCUSED CAREER COACH, I PROMISE TO…

Bring calm to chaos

I combine my logical financial brain and years of project planning with powerful coaching to help you make sense of your frustration and overthinking, so you can structure your thoughts.

Tackle the tough stuff
I bring a level of challenge to my clients in a supportive way. I’ll help you navigate the tough conversations needed to move forwards and cope with the demands of a career in financial services.
Drive change

I’ll help you get clear on what you want and have a do-able action plan that you have the confidence and courage to take forwards.

EMPOWERING YOU & YOUR TEAM TO…

  • Believe you can do it!

  • Be seen, heard, valued and recognised!

  • Know your worth and not be afraid to ask for what you want!

  • Be bold enough to be yourself!

2-day Team Away Day

“Jacqui delivered a 2-day team away day event for the IT Leadership team in February 2023.  Jacqui understood what we wanted from the session and was able to tailor the running order to that. She was bubbly and outgoing, personable, confident, deliberate, relevant and kept us on track.  She was also very good at challenging us and pulling out the key points that we made during the sessions into a succinct action plan.  She facilitated well, got the group dynamic and added useful observations and challenging questions during our discussions.  It was also nice to see Jacqui spending the down time with us as it really made her feel part of our team.”

CIO and IT Leadership Team, Building Society
Corporate Workshops – Global Women in Leadership Summit

“Jacqui delivered the ‘Be Bold, Be You’ workshops as part of our Global Women in Leadership Summit. These were interactive workshops delivered separately in two different time zones to over 100 people each time which helped participants to understand their values, their strengths and what they enjoyed at work, looking at where they are in their career and where they want to be and tracked mindset obstacles that might be getting in the way of progress.

Jacqui was great to work with and organised in her approach, tailoring the workshop to our needs and responding to feedback along the way. Jacqui was high energy and engaging and the workshop was very well received, and we had a really high level of interaction throughout.”

Global Finance Director, GfK

1-1 Coaching and Workshop on Coaching Conversations

“I have been receiving some personal development and leadership coaching from Jacqui for a couple of months now. I found the sessions are remarkably impactful and provide me with a linear and achievable action plan for future development. Because of this, I brought Jacqui in to provide a workshop to my organisation on creating coaching conversations and coaching coaches within organisations. The team enjoyed the session immensely and several expressed an interest in going on to learn more about how they can enhance their own coaching skills. Highly recommend.”

Director, Cheshire & Merseyside NHS Training Hub

1-1 Coaching 

“I started 1-1 Career Coaching with Jacqui as I was looking to move into a Senior Management role within Finance as soon as possible.  We started with DISC personality profiling which really helped me to understand my strengths and what I would bring to the Senior management table. We then developed my CV to really reflect who I am.

Jacqui put me through a challenging mock interview and helped to reflect back on my answers to see how they could be improved, to really demonstrate ‘how’ I get things done and my unique skills.  Her support through the interview process helped me to land my first Senior position at a salary level that makes a real difference to my life!  And now that I’ve moved into the role, I’ve been able to get laser-focused on my priorities and what success means for me and the team each week.  I come out of our fortnightly coaching sessions with a renewed sense of positivity and a belief that I’m in control with a plan.”

Head of Financial Control, Challenger Bank
Career Coaching Programme

“Jacqui was inclusive and enthusiastic, ensuring everyone had the chance to speak.  She asked challenging questions and guided well, providing enough information and then the opportunity to reflect and connect with others on the calls.  The structure of the sessions was well explained and they were interactive, thought-provoking and fun. I’m now more clear of how I connect myself with the direction I want to go in.”

Local Authority Workshop Participant, Devliered in association with Lets Talk Talent
Financial Coaching Workshops delivered to 100+ apprentices 

“Jacqui ran a series of 3 workshops in December 2021.  Would love to see more of these types of events, around budgeting, investing and financial literacy.  The session definitely met the brief, and the additional resources were extremely useful.  Precise in delivery, very insightful and helpful. Easily understood.  Amazing presentation with plenty of useful resources to take home. Well presented with a plan of action.  It was fantastically run and informative, really helpful, well-paced and informative.”

Multiverse, Apprentices’ Workshop

Resilience and Flexibility Workshop

“Jacqui delivered a ‘Power Hour’ coaching workshop to approximately 70 people in our Women’s Network on Resilience and Flexibility.

She helped us to explore resilience, fear of failure, and fear of change and we learned some new tools to take back control and to choose empowering responses overreacting in the moment, as well as the importance of action to expand our comfort zones.

It was a really interesting topic and Jacqui led an incredibly engaging session resulting in a good level of interaction from participants.

Working with Jacqui was great from start to finish – she worked hard on the prep, collaborating with us every step of the way to ensure the session would meet the brief and she brought in some tools that could be implemented immediately so that the session was action-focused. Her high energy and enthusiasm made it a really fun session!”

Programme Manager, Global Investment & Retail Bank

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Let’s discuss you, your organisation and team, where you are, where you want to be, and the challenges you are trying to navigate.

I can then create a proposal based on a solution tailored to your needs.

Got a question?
Email me: hello@jacquiparr.uk

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