Meet Olivia Woods

Your expert career coach

Welcome! I’m Olivia Woods, a dedicated career coach with over 30 years of experience helping professionals discover and achieve the careers they were born to do.

I expertly guide you through a transformational journey, from feeling stuck and unfulfilled to finding clarity and purpose in your professional life.

I meet you where you are - in career & life

My passion is coaching well and coaching deep. My coaching style is open and honest. I don’t pamper, I empathise. I specialise in working with people at a career crossroad. My clients are professional, well-educated smart people who feel stuck and unfulfilled. And I work with frustrated people who kno w they could be living a bigger, more rewarding life. I help them find out what a life of joy and enthusiasm would look like. I help them get there. I can help you too.

I completed my official coach training with Coaching Development Ltd, an excellent training company accredited by the International Coaching Federation.

Because I am so interested in the inner workings of the satisfied mind I have taken a number of other complementary courses which stand me in good stead when coaching a diverse range of clients.

Philosophy and Approach

My Personality Type

Through coaching I learned that I am an INFP on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Here’s a quick and simple explanation of my own traits mapped on that indicator:

Introvert
Interested in the inner world of self and others, ideas, reflection, depth

Intuitive
Concerned with what is possible and new, an orientation to the future

Feeling
The personal rather than the official, high values, warm personality and tender-hearted

Perceiving
Flexible, open, adaptable, spontaneous

Typically my type of personality loves living in the world of possibilities. This serves me very well when working on possibilities for my clients – my mind knows no bounds for what is possible!

If you would find it useful I can do a similar, though much more detailed personality profile for you as a coaching session, or it comes included in my Career Transition Programme.

Coaching works well for healthy, intelligent, sensible people who are at a certain point in their lives but want to get to a different point. It’s just that for the moment, they can’t see a way to do it because they are too busy or there is other ‘stuff in the way.

I help you look at what’s in the way. I will help you clear a path to where you know you can be happy and satisfied.

Credentials and experience

I am an extensively trained coach through Coaching Development Ltd.

I am a licensed practitioner of Firework Career Coaching.

I am a credentialed NLP Master. I undertook my training with Sue Knight, a well known and respected NLP Trainer and Author. Additionally I had the pleasure of working with Sue for 2 years helping arrange her courses worldwide.

I am a practitioner of The Work of Byron Katie. I trained in Germany with Katie herself in 2005. Known simply as The Work, it is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question thoughts that cause you stress. It is a simple but clear way to understand what is causing your stress and helps address your problems with clarity and with compassion for yourself.

I spent time in 2006 with the well-known Author and Career Coach Barbara Sher in Corfu, at her famous Scanner’s Retreat. What Barbara didn’t know about the human condition could be written on the back of a stamp! I am happy to share the benefits of her insights with you.

Your first part of life belongs to nature, the second half belongs to you.

success stories

Over the years, I have had the privilege of helping countless professionals transform their careers and lives.

Here are a few stories from clients who have found their true calling through my coaching programme:

“

I highly recommend Olivia’s career change course to anyone who is rethinking their work situation.

She is the consummate professional: utterly dependable, systematic in her approach and wholeheartedly immersed in you, your needs and your aspirations. I really wasn’t prepared for how successfully (or enjoyably) I would arrive at the point I’m at today – joyfully immersed in and
delighted with my new life-path and where I’m at.

Olivia, words cannot begin to express how grateful I am for all your help over the past few months.

The experience has been revelatory and the process unquestionably the best thing I’ve ever done.

Thank you so much! Forever grateful.

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LD, UK

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I can honestly say that my decision to meet with Olivia and have our first coaching session was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

I had come to a point in my life where working in jobs where my heart was not in it did not add up anymore. I felt I had no real sense of purpose or direction and this feeling of disillusionment not only affected me but also my family. I wanted things to change.

It was then through the excellent and insightful scheduled coaching sessions over the following 10 months with Olivia that I learned truly what my life values and passions are. For me, realising these vital ingredients gave me great confidence, determination, joy and mostly a new clarity on how I wanted to live my life.

With Olivia, we looked at the bigger picture of how I wanted my life to be in respect to my work, home, family and personal life and lifestyle. It was an exciting and thoughtful time.

I found out what I am good at and what I enjoy and what not to bother with also! With Olivia you definitely separate the chaff from the oats and start to spend your ‘precious time’ productively and more happily.

As a result of my coaching I have set up my own business and am thoroughly enjoying this adventure. In general over my time with Olivia through our sessions and goal setting and meetings I have achieved a much happier lifestyle that really suits me and my family. I feel a real sense of satisfaction and calmness now about how I spend my time. It feels fantastic to be the successful entrepreneur I know I could be!

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FK, Ireland