Choices Coaching
Choices Coaching specialise in Youth Coaching, Personal Coaching and Small Business Coaching.
Our team consists of coaches and advisors with a strong belief that Life Coaching has a significant contribution to make in education by supporting schools to achieve their targets and students to achieve the best they can for themselves.
We have a wealth of knowledge with experience from both the public and private sectors. Some of us have achieved academic success and some of us have relied more on our natural talents; either way we have all achieved successful careers and we understand the challenges of both routes.
We help our clients achieve success by building rapport, by understanding what is important to them, by motivating them through open and honest dialogue and most importantly .... by building trust.
We believe that you deserve to enjoy what you do in your life and we are committed to enabling our clients to be the very best they can be - and to get what they deserve out of life, whether that be an enjoyable education, a calmer home life or a successful business.
Denise Nowell - Life Coach/Youth Coach
Knowing that Everyone has natural talents and strengths, Denise works to help her clients identify these personal qualities and work out how to use them most effectively to achieve the life they want for themselve.
Denise is passionate about her work as a Youth Coach and through her work with individual clients and schools she has proved that Life Coaching has a powerful part to play. Whether it is in helping the disengaged 13 year old to re-engage with school or the 18 year old to identify their path to the right career, she recognises that every young person has something wonderful in them and she knows how to help them identify what that is and how to use it to achieve their dreams.
Prior to becoming a LIfe Coach, Denise gained extensive experience working in the roles of Manager and ultimately Director in the Financial Services and Facilities Management sectors. Throughout her career she has built several highly successful teams through recognising and bulding on people's individual strengths and talents. She has coached many clients and seen them achieve success in both their personal and professional lives.
As your Coach, Denise will help you understand how to be true to the things which are important to you and how to prevent limiting beliefs from compromising your potential.
Denise describes her coaching style as professional, relaxed and exciting:
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Professional, always working within the coaching code of ethics
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Relaxed, creating a comfortable coaching relationship for her clients
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Exciting, always being excited about what her clients will and do achieve
Denise has a natural flare for Coaching and is delighted to have found a profession in which she can use her natural talents and in turn help others identify their own natural talents to achieve success and happiness.
Personal Background
Denise has dealt with many challenges in her life including being the 'child who wouldn't succeed at school', the only female in a male dominated working environment, divorce, being a single parent and redundancy.
Now she is happily married and has a family which is expanding quickly through two beautiful grown up daughters, their partners and the more recent addition of a grand-daughter. They are a family who love pets and between them they have 5 dogs and 3 cats.
Denise's interests include writing, reading, researching family history, walking the dogs and knitting! She also enjoys eating out, going to the theatre and family holidays.
Denise is a School Governor at Fairfield School in Batley and holds a CRB certificate.
Nick Baldwin – Development Director/Small Business Coach
Nick has a unique blend of talents which enable him to coach small businesses in how to identify their own unique selling points and how best to market them.
He has extensive experience in managing and developing multi-million pound contracts across a range of industries. Teamed with his graphic design skills this experience brings an innovative and superior approach to helping identify the best way to help you position your business in your market place.
Through successfully running his own businesses Nick understands the challenges faced by small companies in today’s environment and he has a particular flare for asking the right questions to encourage you to analyse your business and strategically identify commercial opportunities. Alongside this, through working closely with you Nick will support you in the building and implementation of innovative business tools which will set your business apart from others.
Nick also brings these skills to his work with schools and colleges, working closely with them to develop interactive learning tools which will engage their students and support curriculum targets whilst at the same time ensuring that the students have fun.
Personal Background
Nick describes his approach to life as being inquisitive, he enjoys finding out how things work and looking at innovative ways of developing people and businesses to meet the requirements of today’s world, basically, Nick’s description of himself is ‘nosy’!
In his spare time Nick enjoys spending his time with his wife, their baby daughter and Barclay their rather large but beautifully dim retriever. He is sports mad and unfortunately an avid Blackburn Rovers fan.
Nick read Geography at St. Aidan’s College, Durham University which resulted in a Bachelor of Science with Honours. Amongst his other qualifications Nick is a Black Belt Instructor in Kick Boxing.
Rachael Morriss - Life Coach/Youth Coach
There are times when we all need to consider our options and explore the possibilities that are open to us. Rachael uses her life coaching skills to help her clients discover their strengths and abilities to enable them to move forward and to make choices about their life and their future success.
Rachael has extensive experience of working with young people having worked for over 30 years as a Careers Adviser, prior to which she worked with young people in residential care. She understands the importance of helping a young person to remove the barriers to their success and gets a great deal of satisfaction through seeing her clients recognise that they have the potential to succeed and achieve their goals, whether they be improved attendance at school, improved grades or the career of their dreams.
As part of her role in Careers, Rachael was a line manager responsible for teams of Careers Advisers and she worked closely with schools and staff at different levels. She is also a qualified assessor/supervisor responsible for ensuring that professional standards are adhered to at all times.
Rachael describes the role of Life Coach as being rather like an artist starting with a blank canvas. Working in a relaxed, informal and comfortable environment the artist encourages the client to identify what they want to achieve along with their ideas of how they will achieve their goals. As the coach and client work together they begin to create and ultimately complete a painting that reflects the clients' aspirations.
Rachael sees her work as a Life/Youth Coach as a natural extention to her work in careers, the roles having many similarities with the ultimate satisfaction being achieved through the clients' success.
Personal Background
Rachael knows what it is like to be a late developer and did not achieve academic success until her late twenties. She has a BA (Hons) in Social Administration & Educational Studies from Lancaster University, the Diploma in Careers Guidance from Huddersfield Polytechnic, the Diploma in Guidance and Counselling from Leeds University and the Life Coaching Certificate from Newcastle College.
Rachael enjoys a range of interests, belonging to two readers groups, a sewing group and she likes photography, going to museums, the theatre and concerts - classical or jazz. She loves to socialise and has a wide range of friends that she enjoys meeting with or entertaining at home. Rachael has recently become a friend of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Rachael holds a CRB certificate.
Profiles for our team is still under construction
