YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO CHANGE SOMETHING.
We have the know-how you need.
Maybe you want more self-confidence, or you want to boost your career. Perhaps you want to grow your business. Whichever, you’re looking for support to help you do it.
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Online learning is a good way. Online learning plus online coaching is an even better one. Because, when you combine them, the overall benefit you get is greater than for online learning alone.
How can coaching help you?
Online coaching will help you in lots of ways. Your coach can be someone you’re accountable to, as well as yourself, so they can help you stay motivated and keep your learning on track.
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More importantly though, an experienced coach will help you turn your learning into effective practice. They’ll help you change both what you think and – crucially – what you do.
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They’ll help you apply your learning to what matters to you and use it to drive the change you want to see. And they’ll help you embed your new skills and knowledge into the things you do every day. All of which means you’ll continue to enjoy the benefits long after your programme has ended.
INTRODUCING YOUR COACHES, GORDON AND ALUN.
Gordon and Alun both have many years of experience working as coaches, and receiving coaching themselves. They’ve both also worked in learning and development – including online learning – and run their own businesses.​They have first-hand experience of the benefits of online coaching and the change it can help inspire.
We set up our business to help people move forward from where they are to where they want to be. We’ll help you develop your skills and knowledge so you can grow your business, get a promotion, or gain the confidence you need to try something new.
We’re both committed lifelong learners. We built our careers by studying in our own time through remote learning, rather than the more conventional route of sitting in a classroom. And we’re still learning now.
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We always gain more from our own learning when we have the support of an experienced coach. Having a coach means you always have someone to bounce ideas off. You have someone to empower you, to help you remember what you’re doing it all for and make sure you never feel stuck or isolated.
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This is why, when you join our coaching programme, you can be sure you’ll never be learning on your own.
Our approach
We aim to inspire everyone we work with to exceed what they consider to be their potential. Our approach is positive, open and understanding as well as friendly and cheerful. We’ll support and challenge you and hopefully share some laughs along the way. This all reflects who we are as people, what we believe in and what we value in our lives.
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When Alun was completing his PhD he saw how the process encourages thinking, experimentation and learning. These are endeavours we encourage in everyone who enrols on one of our programmes.
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We won’t help you simply collect knowledge. We’ll help you apply what you learn to your personal situation so you can bring about the change you want to see. We’ll help you set your goals – and then we’ll help you achieve them.
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And of course, we want you to enjoy your learning and be excited by the possibilities you’re creating for yourself. So we’ll help you see the value in it and the opportunities it can bring.
Our experience
Genuine experience comes when you try new things and learn from your mistakes. It doesn’t come from doing the same thing, over and over, year after year.
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We’ve both worked for other people, in large and small organisations. We’ve experienced being part of a team and working our way up.
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We’ve both also run our own businesses and employed other people. We understand the pressures this brings and the skills you need to help a business and its team succeed.
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And we both have years of experience of learning remotely ourselves. We know from personal experience how lonely it can sometimes feel and how important it is to have support from someone who’s able to answer your questions, talk through your ideas and help you stay motivated.
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Because we’ve been supported by coaches ourselves, we know what makes a good coach: someone who’s there to listen, help you come unstuck and move forward with confidence. Crucially, a good coach will help you break the tension when things get tough so you can enjoy the experience.
After all, learning should be fun. You’re doing it for positive reasons - so you can open new doors and create new opportunities for yourself.
After a degree course and a number of years of remote learning, I qualified as a chartered accountant at Deloittes. During my time with Deloittes I spent two years on secondment with one of the UK’s largest enterprise agencies where I was tasked with advising around 900 entrepreneurs on a wide range of business issues. This resulted in my experience of business development being taken to new heights.
I then set up my own accounting practice – which became so successful that I was invited to speak at the ICAEW’s Practitioner Conference. I was also a founding member of the Expert Witness Institute that enabled me to undertake forensic accountancy work for many years.
However, despite this success, I didn’t feel fulfilled and sought new horizons to develop my knowledge of business and entrepreneurship and to become a more effective business coach. In 2000 I began a 3 ½ year training programme under the guidance of best-selling author and world authority on entrepreneurship, Michael Gerber, to become one of only a few business coaches fully qualified and accredited in Michael Gerber’s “E-Myth” methodologies and techniques. I also worked with Michael Gerber for a time to develop his concept of the Dreaming Room – an innovative, online 12-week programme to initiate, develop and validate business ideas.
I joined the Australian-based Mindshop network in 2003 and have become an accredited Mindshop facilitator which has further developed my skill set and broadened my knowledge.
I now use my experience, combined with all of the insights and knowledge gained over the years, to help people make the very best of their opportunities and maximise their success.
I left school at 16 and went straight into an apprenticeship. Since then, all in my own time
and while I was working, I’ve achieved a degree, an MSc and a PhD.
I had to overcome the feeling that I wasn’t clever enough to study at this level, a feeling I think a lot of people share. Lots of us create a barrier that limits what we think we can achieve and therefore
what we do achieve. Coaching helps people break through these barriers.
We all work better when we’re relaxed and happy so
I always like to have fun at work. There’s humour everywhere and in everything. Having fun keeps you motivated and changes the way you think. It loosens your brain and helps you put things in a different
perspective. When I’m coaching, having some fun helps me get to know the real person and makes the serious stuff easier to deal with.
I am a qualified coach and undertake 1 to 1 coaching and mentoring assignments with a broad range of clients. I design, develop and deliver people-based programmes linked to leadership and personal development.
I have also undertaken business improvement initiatives through the development and
application of lean systems thinking.
- Alun Batley
- Gordon Sealey
Our team
Our difference is in how we mix excellent programme materials with support from an experienced coach. We have a team of practised coaches who are based all over the UK. We’ve worked with them for years and know them well.
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You’ll get the most from your learning when you’re matched with the right coach – someone who understands what you want to achieve and why. This is why Gordon or Alun will always talk to you first. They’ll get to know a little more about you, your plans and ambitions.
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Then they’ll match you with the coach who they think you’ll get on with best and who’ll be able to offer you the support you need. This may even be Gordon or Alun themselves.
