“Working with Fiona was insightful, rewarding and enjoyable at the same time. Among the many great things to say about her approach to coaching, I would like to highlight her superb listening skills and very constructive and yet direct way of giving feedback. I never had the feeling that she followed a script or made it easy for herself. The opposite was true. Her coaching was tailored to my personality and my needs. Fiona was a coach in the true sense of the word as she worked with me on an eye-to-eye level.

Fiona helped me bring out my strengths and practically address some of my impediments. I have a better sense of what makes me successful in the workplace and how I can take my leadership skills to the next level. “

Patrick Haischer
Partner, A.T. Kearney

“I was extremely fortunate to have Fiona as a group and an individual coach.  She quickly built a safe space for an all woman’s team to grow together, and support each other on tough topics.  The framing that Fiona brought to the discussions as well as the frameworks were very applicable and useful (in fact I have them printed and they guide me daily). Fiona helped hold us accountable and hold each other accountable for a lifetime of learning.  Even after the formal coaching and women’s program formalised, our group still supports each other and we use Fiona’s wisdom to continue to guide us.  From the bottom of my heart, I thank her for everything she has given me to continue to grow personally and professionally.”

Jennifer Hooper

Vice President, Subsea Processing at TechnipFMC

“Fiona managed to create, very quickly a productive group environment, where we all worked effectively to each recognize and address our development issues in a challenging, supportive and confidential way. Fiona has a good EQ and outstanding judgment in quickly adapting to our group, mixing the warm, encouraging, supporting view with a gentle but steely resolve when one of us avoided issues. Strong IQ, an in our group that was essential to get us on board. Good humour, good judgment about when to give us some pragmatic or slightly theoretic framework (we had the two extremes in the group). Good at using silence. Good at letting / enabling us coaching each other. Overall an excellent experience. Fiona was one of the best coaches I have had.”

Yann Bonduelle
Partner, PWC

“Fiona is a tremendously gifted coach who is tough and kind, challenging and nurturing, keenly attuned and wonderfully stretching. She is well able to be with her clients in deep emotional space and masterfully supports her clients in the richness of that journey and the powerful learning’s, having the courage to know yourself more consciously, brings. Some of the benefits I experienced when working with Fiona were; intense support in in time of enormous change and growth in my life; practical “take-aways” to integrate into my life regarding specific topics I brought to sessions inspiration and confidence to be more fully ME and value the impact I have in the world.”

Heather Barrett
Client Systems Manager – CSI IBM

“I, surprisingly, enjoyed the sessions, which was down to Fiona’s coaching style. She was a good listener and picked out pertinent points to work on. She was able to change her style to suit my personality. She was good at getting the right answers out of me to enables changes and development to occur.”

Mathew Eyre
VP Operations, Cineworld

“Fiona is a warm, powerful, feminine and intuitive person who uses her skills within her coaching sessions. She is sharp, perceptive and holding and uses this to express her laser-like intuition with great effect. Her vision is creative, her methods unique and her questioning truly awe inspiring.

Her impact on me as someone who sought her out has been and still is transformational and something I can hardly put into words. She is sharp: (there is no wriggle room), spacious, accepting (of anything and everything), loyal, true, loving (deeply loving), and leaves you; every time, wanting more. Her feminine strength is something that for me is inspirational.

What Fiona, as coach has done for me is enabled me to grow and accept and even love the human being I am and am becoming. She has enabled me to step into my power and strength (rather than be intimated or afraid by it) and supported my learning to trust my body wisdom and intuition. This will continue to support and encourage my growth as I move forward. “

Amanda Livermore
Lore Consultancy

“Fiona Sturrock has been simultaneously very approachable and very challenging.

Approachable, to the point of establishing a real sense of unity in a group of people that were being coached together and did not know each other beforehand. Challenging, in terms of, keeping those being coached honest and true to the commitments made.

As a result of our ‘one to one’ coaching, I gained a rounded vision of my ambition and a sense of commitment towards achieving that vision.

I would describe Fiona’s strengths as a coach as, Tranquil; Approachable; Committed; Demanding; and Creative.

Thank You & Hope you have the same impact on others. “

João Abecasis
CEO, Carlsberg (Unicer), Portugal

“Fiona helped me to identify what I really value and ways to bring this back into my career whilst still delivering what was required in my current role. This gave me new energy to approach my job and also a chance to offer the company one of the things I am best at: supporting the development of others. In a time when the company is looking for ways to reduce cost I have been able to offer development to people across the company at a fraction of the cost we would normally need to invest.”

Fiona Belk
Employee Engagement Specialist – RWE npower

“Fiona is very good at cutting through the story and getting to the underlying issue or challenge. A great example of this was a recent conversation regarding a couple of new work opportunities that I have. Insightful questions and careful listening allowed her to reflect back to me a few key points which I immediately recognized. This insight enabled me to see a clear road forward. She is great at removing the clutter.”

Jonathan Howe
Senior Partner, PWC

“Fiona, as my coach you have held this beautiful space for me where I have been able to explore so many aspects of who I am. You have helped me to make connections to things I have never really understood that has then driven me forward. You are with me no matter what shows up, you accept me for who I am which allows me to bring more of myself.”

Ashley Ross
Country Manager, Medtronic

“You challenged and empowered me to take to the wing – why run when you can fly! I enjoyed each of our coaching sessions. Your ability to tune into how I was feeling and what might be the best exercise, were always spot on. The tasks developed at the end of each session were engaging and I’ve hard-wired some of these into my ways of working. The feedback I’ve received from my colleagues fizzes with positive energy.

A big thank you Fiona!”

Ann Freckleton
Country Director, DFID, UK Government

“My time with Fiona can only be described as motivational and transformational. Fiona has the rare ability to guide you during conversations leading you to surface critical information that perhaps you thought that you would like to avoid addressing. Once you are discussing this information with Fiona, you are lead to an action path that in my experience has always given me value. With Fiona, it has been one of those relationships that encourage you to input more of yourself and your thoughts that you would typically do.”

Mark Hunt
IT Manager RWE npower

“Many thanks again for your help in my development over the past 9 months. What I appreciated very much in your coaching was your full commitment to myself and my development. You were always open to my needs and able to adapt the coaching accordingly. There were no sessions where I felt disappointed at the end, on the contrary there was always the sense of added value. You are creative, flexible and knowledgeable and draw from a powerful intuition. You have given my development a spur, triggering new insights and behaviours. And the good thing is that the coaching is not yet over, as its full impact still needs to be realized! Happy to talk to people if they want to know more about how it is to work with you”.

Frank Uit de Weerd
Vice-President Human Resources Shell Innovation / Research & Development, The Netherlands

“- Confident and comfortable Fiona was un-phased by anything thrown at her from the group
– Fiona changed attitudes and minds of a room full largely of sceptics
– Out of my group of twelve site managers a significant number continue to work towards their goals
– Fiona believed in me and was there for me when I was truly out of my “comfort zone “

John Hutton
Company Environment Manager BAM Nuttall Limited