As two entrepreneurs each running a successful business, we hadn’t realised there was something missing until our regular coffee dates had become creative, coaching and accountability sessions. Both our businesses took a step forward.
Experiencing first hand the positive impact of supporting each other, we knew this would be powerful for other small businesses too.
Helena
With 11 years experience running businesses in the health and wellbeing sector I have done it all. I love this sector, and my passion is to help the people and businesses that support people to be well, flourish. I want to live in a society where there are lots of successful wellbeing and lifestyle businesses, for one because I want to buy from them!
Over the years I’ve been repeatedly told I should be a coach (I would find myself doing it with friends and colleagues over coffee naturally), and that if I could bottle my energy and enthusiasm I’d be a millionaire.
I love supporting people in business, I also love the science of business itself. I like to get stuck in and solve problems, build better processes, help launch projects. I also love to hold space, build confidence and be there keeping people accountable. What do I love about doing this? I see people get totally empowered in their businesses.
I had no idea what this blend of business and personal was until I started reading about Accountability Coaches and Fractional Leadership and I finally had a name for how I wanted to support business owners.
Get in, make things happen, get out. It’s like bringing me on as an Operations Manager, without having to employ someone.
And my skills blend perfectly with the other half of Office Hours, Jo, whose expertise will make her your ideal Marketing and Community Manager.
Jo
After years of running a thriving holistic wellbeing practice, I was ready for a change. Through bringing together peers in my industry I developed a skill and passion for community building, which later became the main focus of my expertise.
They asked how I’d grown my own business and how to put in place the practical steps to achieving consistent results, followed half-jokingly by the question “Can you come and do that for us please?!”
This prompted me to expand my services to provide high-level business support and bespoke marketing services to small business owners.
I love supporting business owners on the path to realising their goals and potential. It’s the transformational sense of empowerment that laser-focused coaching and practical support provide that motivates me as a coach. I thrive on the process of turning ideas into reality and creating sustainable models of working that build strong foundations for business owners to use as a springboard to success.
This is what my work as a business coach and consultant is all about – helping you create a thriving business that works for you, not the other way around.