Carol McLachlan, Business Coach

 

As well as a professionally trained coach, Carol is also a chartered accountant, who spent nearly 20 years with top four international accountants, Ernst & Young. She now works in partnership with individuals and organisations - quite simply - helping them to be the very best they can be.

Carol’s business range has both breadth and depth. As a Senior Assurance Executive she acquired intimate knowledge of the systems and cultures of a wide range of organisations. Then as regional Director of Resources she took a strategic role, with hands on operational experience of running a substantial professional services business.

This unique background has earned Carol expert status as a business coach. A small business owner herself, she combines board level strategic experience with creative innovative thinking, along with a sophisticated financial skill set. The result is collaboration of the highest order: understanding and anticipating client needs, finding and implementing tailored solutions and exceeding expectations with added value.

Carol has substantial Corporate coaching experience and has worked with household names including Santander, Federal Mogul, AXA, ICAEW, Iceland Foods and Princes Foods.

Her unique financial background has also earned Carol expert status as an ‘Accountant’s Business Coach’. In addition to working with professional service firms of all sizes including Jan McDermott & Co, Pickering and McEwan Wallace, Carol also coaches a wide range of accountants and FDs in industry positions across the globe.  She is also a prolific writer for the accountancy press including ICAEW, CIMA, ACCA, Accounting WEB and CareersinAudit.

Carol has worked with many Public Sector organisations including Derby City Council, Train 2000 and West Cheshire PCT. Carol particularly enjoys working within the education sector.

In addition to her FCA, Carol’s professional training includes: The Coaching Academy’s Corporate & Executive coaching programme, Christopher Howard’s Results Coaching certification and NLP Practitioner status.  Carol writes extensively and is the 'agony aunt' for an internationally circulated business magazine.

Carol has a particular interest in time management or rather the 21st century version – time leverage and she is now one of Britain’s leaders on the subject of personal productivity.  Her own work life balance is constantly under the spotlight as she manages her full-time career as business and executive coach, speaker and writer; her family - husband Andy and two young children; and achieving her own personal aspirations in the fields of weight training and stand up comedy.

Listen to Carol explaining the difference between efficiency and effectiveness on her Maximise Your Time Leverage Programme:

 

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Carol either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email her on: Carol@BusinessCoaching.co.uk

You can also download a Pdf version of Carol McLachlan’s Biography
 

 

Watch Carol talking about her Business Success Strategies audio 'Maximise your Time Leverage'

 

 

Carol’s Clients include:

Numerous SME’s plus:
Santander
AXA
Cooper Industries Inc
Iceland Foods
Mason Owen
Princes Foods
Derby City Council

 

What Carol’s Clients say about her:

Carol continuously receives glowing testimonials from her clients. Below are some examples of specific quotes that her clients have said about her.

Please note, we are always happy to supply specific references should you require them.

SME’s and Business Owners:

“One of the things I feel I have most benefited from the sessions is actually verbalising my ideas. Communications (oddly enough for my chosen path of business) has sometimes been my weak point, and just planning aloud does bring clarity and the questions do make me expand my points to fuller fleshed ideas.” Scott Middleton, Owner, DropCap Ltd

“The most useful aspect of Carol’s coaching ...... the opportunity to talk openly at length and in depth with an unbiased, objective, and positive coach who is genuine in her approach, and importantly, understands the business environment well.” Dave Ewing, Business Researcher, CMC Ltd, www.cmcltd.com

“Your guidance helps me bring clarity to chaotic thought processes and extract the nuggets of brilliance I knew were there, but just could not find by myself.” Moshe Hadari, Director, Chancery Barr Financial Services Ltd

"Carol is very positive and challenges me all the time. She keeps me focused and I can’t cheat! I would definitely recommend her; her calm but persistent manner is very effective." DA, Business Owner

Corporate and Senior Executives:

“Flexible in approach and able to draw out the real issues with you and then work with you on setting the goals to achieve them. Appropriately challenging whilst giving you the motivation and making it easy for you to achieve and take action - which is the key” Malcolm Lewis, Training & Development, AXA

“I found Carol’s coaching style tremendously helpful to build confidence and to make important decisions in an effective and sustainable way.” Lisa Sangster, Asset Manager, HDG Mansur Investment

Public Sector Organisations:

"Carol has guided me through my coaching journey with sensitivity and humour. She has helped me to understand for myself how to tackle issues and behaviours I have wanted to work on." KA, Team Leader, Derby City Council

“Coaching has helped me to consider the vision and values I have and how they translate into my working life. Talking to Carol has helped me to identify practical ways forward and gather strategies to help. It has been really useful in keeping me focussed on personal and organisational development” Cathy Driscoll, Head Teacher, The William Hogarth School

“Carol McLachlan has helped me to believe that I can become the self employed person that I want to be and is giving me the confidence and skills to make my visions reality.” Trevor Walter, Teacher, Mulgrave Primary School and Early Years Centre, Greenwich

 

What Carol says …

"Collaboration is the key to how we will work together. 9 times out of 10 you know the answers, you know what you should be doing. I’ll help you turn that should into does and provide that final 10% of....well whatever it takes........inspiration, facilitation, innovation, consultation, motivation, perspiration.......you choose."

 

 

Carol’s areas of Expertise:

• Coaching MD’s around Business Strategy and Business Growth
• Time Leverage and how to get the biggest, commercial ‘bang for your buck’ for time within business
• Accountancy practices and financial organisations
• Creative thinking, brainstorming
• Group mentoring
• Work / Life balance

 

More about Carol’s Products..
 

Carol is the expert guest on "Maximise your Time Leverage" part of our Business Success Strategies programme

In this audio, Carol discusses how your time should be employed for maximum Return on Investment and how to really leverage your time.  Included with the audio is a short coached exercise in which you'll discover what it’s going to take for you to stop doing what doesn’t make you money, and identify what it is you should be doing more of. We’re not just talking about hackneyed old ‘time management’ techniques here - this is a very powerful audio!

To learn more about "Maximise your Time Leverage" please click here
To learn more about the acclaimed business growth programme "Business Success Strategies" please click here

 

 

If you would like to schedule a no obligation ‘chemistry’ session with Carol either:

Call the office today on 0845 456 8217
or
Email her on: Carol@BusinessCoaching.co.uk