Karen Skehel, Business Coach

Karen Skehel is a business coach who brings over 25 years of business and personal development experience to coaching. Her background spans advertising, sales and marketing; commercial radio and sales promotion. She founded and ran her own successful marketing agency, is an expert group facilitator and leads personal development workshops in a number of areas including stress managements and emotional intelligence.

Karen founded and ran her successful marketing agency which gives her vast experience in start up businesses. Thus, today she provides outstanding business coaching for MDs and entrepreneurs who want to create extraordinary results in their businesses, as well as within themselves and their personal lives.  Her clients are leaders in many different business sectors including catering and hospitality, marketing services and media agencies, retail, fashion, construction (architects and property developers) and recruitment.

Karen is the founder of the Association of Coaching Supervisors and CoachingSupervisor.co.uk and has a diploma in Supervision from the CSA. She was also the chair of the EuroCoach Conference in 2009 (the main forum for coaches in the UK).

Karen has coached in front of 1½ million people on ITV's most popular day time programme and has also appeared on ITV2. Her tips for success in business have been broadcast on radio to 25 markets in the US. She writes for one of the UK's top selling magazines and contributes a page addressing readers' professional and life challenges every month.

Karen is certified by two coach training schools; both of which are accredited by the International Coach Federation and she also holds a “Mastery in Coaching”. She is a London University graduate in Management Sciences and holds a number of counselling qualifications along with a Diploma in Group Facilitation using Emotional Intelligence models.

Karen is passionate about work/life balance: she combines coaching with parenting two teenage boys, creating papier mache and mosaic designs, playing tennis, learning to teach Biodanza (a South American dance) and spending time with her partner who builds sustainable communities.

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

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

You can also download a Pdf version of Karen Skehel’s Biography

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Karen’s Clients include:

Numerous SME’s in a wide range of sectors including:
Catering and hospitality
Marketing services
Media agencies
Retail
Fashion
Architects
Property developers
Recruitment

What Karen’s Clients say about her:

Karen 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:

“Through coaching with Karen, I've re-organised my head, brought things into perspective, achieved defined objectives and sharpened my focus. It's been enlightening!” Mark Herman, MD, Inhouse Catering

“I was quite sceptical about what coaching could help me achieve, and thought that I would never have time to fit it in! Actually, I have loved the time that I have spent with Karen. I really look forward to seeing her, she has helped me to streamline my thoughts and aspirations for the business. It is very inspiring” Rachel Riley, MD Rachel Riley 

“I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Karen. She has stimulated my thinking and helped me to keep focused on overcoming issues. She has opened my mind to new ways of thinking and I have changed my behaviour considerably as a result. I also feel that I am closer to achieving my goals (which were stretching) than I have been for years. Thank you for all the help.” Mark Wickens, Chairman and Creative Partner, Brandhouse WTS, Design Agency

“Karen Skehel has enabled me take the steps to make my dreams come true. Together we pin point the missing links between my actions and my success and by identifying them, I can take action to bridge the gap and move on towards my goals. I have come far since making her acquaintance. Her background and her generous spirit have guided me to a more confident and powerful position in life. Although we have focused on business matters, I have noticed that my personal and home life have also improved. Everything in my life is poised on the edge of success and I can only see success ahead.” Renee Edwards, Film Maker

“I have found that Karen Skehel’s coaching has helped me enormously. It’s as if she has helped me to unlock a key inside which has allowed me to react to the world in a new way. The effects of this on my home life, my mood, and my business have been spectacular.” Chris King, Joint MD, KB 49 Communications consultancy and full-service, www.kb49.com

“I was pretty sceptical about the value of coaching before I started with Karen Skehel. Now I am a firm believer in its value, and I have seen real benefits. Not only have I realised that I have the power to achieve my business and personal goals, but I have also learnt how to self-coach in the process”. Chris Ellis, Managing Director, Netspace Kingston

Supervision

“Karen is a gifted supervisor. I find the acuteness of her questioning really helpful. I highly recommend her.” Dawn Highmore Sims, Metaphizz

“Karen's particular strength as a supervisor is in creating a space for me to think and feel and she does this brilliantly. The sense of clarity, connectedness and sense of fresh perspective after each session is enlightening. Karen brings a whole new emotional dimension and after every session I feel very much like my brain's reset button has been pressed leaving me feeling focused and in tune.” Simon Crowe

What Karen says …

"As a highly experienced business coach, I am able to support my clients both to achieve and develop their goals around their wide-ranging business needs as well as in the broader context of their overall development. My approach gives both the individual and the organisation outstanding results. I really appreciate making a difference to my clients. I love working with clients who are committed to creating inspiring results and really want positive changes. If this sounds like you, contact me and watch what we can do together."

Karen's areas of Expertise:

• Coaching MD’s re Business Strategy and Business Growth
• Creative thinking, brainstorming
• Stress Management
• Emotional Intelligence

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

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