In my role at London Business School ( and with my private clients), I realised the importance of coaching career changers in the practical aspects as well, once we had been through the first stage of looking at career strategy and identifying the target job. I coach the clients on how to develop a targeted networking list, how to use networking, practicing their networking skills, what your pitch should include and feedback on delivery and also, how to identify critical transferable skills for a particular role and then, how to match these with the employer's requirements to win the job. I felt that these elements are sometimes missing from career coaching programmes and they are absolutely essential. I coach clients in the topic every day and have developed workshops on these topics as well.

I am a former recruitment consultant in investment banking in the City until I discovered coaching and found my own "it"! I know how wonderful it feels like to do something that you love and how to transition careers but I also make sure that we cover the practical realities as well. Your dream job will not be a dream job for long if it doesn't pay the bills or doesn't fit in with your wider life goals. So I hope that I'm a good combination of the idealist and the realist. I know that it's possible to combine it all and really love my clients to discover this too.