We are a team of professionals with diverse business experience covering the private and public sectors. Public sector clients include local authorities and government departments and agencies. Private sector clients range from blue chip multinationals that we support in all their markets to SMEs and startups in a wide range of business sectors.

Carolyn Matheson is a founding director of People Work Best. A Master Certified Coach with 25 years experience of coaching, Carolyn specialises in helping organisations, teams and individuals improve performance. In particular, she helps them create a better work/life balance, combining the enjoyment of personal and family goals with a busy and successful career. Integration of personal and professional fulfilment is often the key to lasting satisfaction and Carolyn draws on her many years’ experience in business and personal coaching to assist individuals towards an effortlessly balanced life.

Ian Matheson, a Chartered Psychologist, is a founding director of People Work Best. He has more than 20 years experience in HR strategy, management and consultancy as well as general business management. Ian has wide experience of working with clients to align their people management strategies to their business goals. He is particularly active in formulating competency frameworks that reflect client values and business objectives. Competency based assessment and development is another of Ian’s strengths, using pioneering methods in assessment centres to identify talent and the latest generation development centres and 360 degree feedback to bring out the best in people.

Jacquie Reed has been a professional coach since 1994. After a 20 year career with Reuters in human resources and corporate communications, she joined The Industrial Society to plan, facilitate and lead seminars on managing change. Using the concepts of cognitive psychology she worked with prison staff teams on culture change. She was a founder member of and Chairman for three years, of the national charity Stepfamily, now Parentline Plus. She now concentrates on coaching professionals who want to move their careers on to another level while managing a healthy work/life balance.

Jenny Silk is an NLP practitioner, coach and facilitator. For the past ten years Jenny has worked as a coach with clients ranging from families and schools to owner-managers and multinational companies. She helps clients focus on what they want to achieve, overcome obstacles, and make choices that reflect their priorities and beliefs. A member of the International Coach Federation, Jenny works in partnership with clients to support and where appropriate to challenge them, to be pro-active and extremely resourceful in recognising and fulfilling their potential.

A word on coaches and coaching
Master Certified Coach (MCC) accreditation is awarded by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the longest established and most rigorous coaching accreditation body worldwide. Master Certified Coaches must complete over 2500 coaching hours, provide extensive coaching references together with proof of approved coaching training, and pass a written and oral examination.

Because of the length and breadth of her coaching experience, Carolyn is also on the ICF’s accreditation committee and is heavily involved in training other coaches to her own high standards. The ICF’s professionalism and stringent accreditation procedure is in direct contrast to some other, more recently formed coaching bodies. In coaching, the importance of real qualifications and actual experience cannot be overstated, as coaches put themselves in a position of trust and confidence which requires absolute professionalism.

 

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