I manage a busy regional sporting organization & before the coaching with Stephanie I could only get on average about 14% of my clubs to get information back to me on time. This meant I would have to stay up till all hours to get draws prepared & get the season organized. It would take up hours of my staff’s time to follow up on outstanding information throughout the year when they could have been working on things that developed the organization. Although I was managing the organization, I wasn’t really leading it. I lacked the confidence and belief in myself to be a truly great leader in my own right. I had been with the organization for 9 years and felt like I was just going through the motions. I wasn’t being a leader in my home either! I was always on “high alert”, never fully connecting with my needs or my family. My children seemed to drain me and I felt guilty because I felt like I wasn’t giving them the attention they needed. Coaching helped me realized that in order to get my members to cooperate with me, I had to change my thinking. I have since developed great relationships with them and got the best feedback from them in my whole 9 years with the organization – even from members who don’t usually say anything positive! Because of the coaching, I gained an 81% improvement in the return of incoming communication by the due date from my 37 clubs, increasing from 14% to 95%! Also, I finally made the decision to step up and be the leader I really am. I actually now run our delegates meetings, rather than sitting back in the shadows and taking the minutes! Since the coaching with Stephanie, I now play in a netball team with my daughter and am able to separate work from home and am much calmer on all fronts. Words really can’t express what an impact Stephanie’s coaching has had on me. I would highly recommend this life-changing experience.

Throughout the coaching process I have been able to establish some understanding of myself. My strengths and areas for improvement, while also starting to become comfortable with who I am right now. I think this is an important point, because there is no such thing as being perfect. Being comfortable with the here and now, has allowed me to have my confidence build. I have a new level of confidence in what I am, what I can achieve and personally where I am heading. It is empowering to have the self belief, then some new tools for my ‘kit bag’ in life and in management. This experience directly and indirectly has allowed me to see a new side of myself. What more could I be wanting!

I highly recommend the services of Stephanie Gill. She is a very smart and well organized coach with an extraordinary instinct to detect roots of potential problems/blockages. She has a good mix of being direct and compassionate and she easily switches perspectives to put herself in your shoes. Thanks to her well designed sessions and her ability to "dig deep", I learned a lot about myself and was therefore able to take many things on board to improve as a person.

Leadership coaching with Stephanie has been an amazing experience. I never expected it to change my life, or make me so excited about my new future. It did both. Before coaching, at least 80% of my time was dedicated to my work responsibilities. My work/life balance was non-existent. I was frantic all the time. I went from being frantic, behind and late to being calm and focused 90% of the time. Stephanie helped me shift my focus; I decided what’s really important to me, I set some big goals, and I stayed focused on the big picture. I learnt great strategies to ensure that I achieve my goals, and I realised that I really can achieve anything. Stephanie is amazing! And she helped me realise, so am I!

Kellie Pritchard-Pescheck, PhD Research Associate (Swimming) Swiss Federal Institute of Sports Magglingen SFISM Section for Elite Sports, Switzerland

I cannot thank you enough for your support Stephanie. I am unrecognisable to myself, and you have smoothed over this transformation for me with guidance, knowledge and wisdom. I honestly believe I would not have lasted one week in this new role without your support, as every achievement and success is only a result of the skills and behaviours I have learnt through this coaching process with you. Never before have I worked at such a high level with many pressures and responsibilities. Every professional skill I have, you taught me, and assisted me in developing. Your insights, passion, knowledge and wisdom have inspired me to become a better professional, leader and people manager. I admire and appreciate your honesty, strength and forthright manner, as it has taught me to act in the same way. Through your support I have created a sports science unit from scratch, developed the communication skills to build relationships with high level directors, and as a result was invited to be in a leadership group responsible for the development and implementation of the High Performance Sport Development Project in the two national elite sport centres in Switzerland. I look on you as a professional mentor, and I look forward to keeping you involved in my professional development. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!