jane woods coaching
Empowering individuals and teams to thrive, navigate the ups and downs in life
and reach their potential both personally and professionally is a real privilege
and a passion. Resilience, confidence, collaboration, trust and emotional
wellbeing (meaning purpose, strengths and values) are the areas in which I’m
most interested. My enthusiasm for coaching evolved through my 35 years of sales
and management, mostly within pharmaceutical sales with Pfizer Oncology and an
early career in recruitment. From sales performance coaching in 2018 I
progressed to personal development coaching and at the start of the COVID 19
pandemic I started coaching via the NHS leadership academy and private sector.
It was at this time that I also trained to be a cancer coach with Cancer Support
UK. Whether facilitating team and leadership development days or 1:1 coaching I
bring energy, fun and creativity to virtual and face to face interactions. As an
ILM5 coach and facilitator my approach is empathetic, encouraging, inspiring and
strengths and solution focused, drawing on a variety of coaching models and
leadership practices including Appreciative Inquiry and Brene Brown’s Dare to
Lead. I am an accredited Conversations Worth Having practitioner, an ILM
wellbeing coach, a cognitive behavioural therapy practitioner, a mental health
first aider and Mental Health Swims host. I also provide cancer coaching and
support for Cancer Support UK, Youth Cancer Trust and ALK Positive and EGFR
positive UK. Inspired by my love of the outdoors, and a Nature as Co-Facilitator
programme, I like to weave the natural world into our conversations where
possible. My top Gallop Strengths are Ideation, Strategic, Focus, Achiever &
Competition. Simply put, I love bringing people together to define the
challenge, establish the best of what has been before and explore what is
possible in the future. “Everything we need is within” is my coaching
philosophy. What can we learn from nature about resourcing ourselves and
adapting to life’s ups and downs? Identifying my clients’ purpose, meaning,
signature strengths and values is part of this process. Adapting to change can
be uncomfortable and, like trees, this can be when we grow the most. When we
create the right conditions, we can blossom.
