Hi, I’m Kelly Drake.
Coach. Consultant. Artist. Activist. Author. Parent.
I’m on a mission to help people with life’s big questions. Let me help you get back on the path to happiness, freedom, and success.
I have been coaching and mentoring one-to-one and within groups for over 30 years, helping clients identify and maximise their personal passion and purpose, move through tricky times professionally and personally and re-find their mojo.
I offer private coaching and mentoring for leaders, senior managers and career changers alongside my organisational development consultancy helping organisations make the changes they need to be more effective, focused and ultimately more impactful.
I listen with intentionality and work as a collaborative trouble-shooter, using incisive questioning to tease out issues and barriers, bringing my experience from the public, voluntary and corporate sector to inform strategy and new ways of thinking, being and doing.
I'm here to help action-takers like you face their challenges, overwhelm and confusion, disrupt and disarm those self-limiting beliefs and step into your power. To help you find your purpose, your joy and your happiness. Whatever finding your 'brand new dawn' means to you, I’ll help you find it.
Now is your time to be bold and honour your life’s calling!
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
Through coaching, mentoring and consultancy, I help my clients address the big questions and transitional moments in business leadership and life to understand and clear the blocks that stop them from finding their way to success happiness and impact.
I use my expertise gained from deep engagement in the arts, coaching, psychoanalysis, innovation and strategy and making stuff happen as well as bringing my own lived experiences to guide me in the best approach for my clients and their individual needs. I am also an artist and a creative thinker, and I draw insights and ideas from an eclectic and wide range of spaces and people including leadership and management gurus, alternative practitioners, business strategists and thought leaders in my field.
When I work with you, I draw on all of this to make your experience meaningful, dynamic and most of all useful.
Do you recognise any of these? Is this where you are right now?
Confused
Anxious
Lacking direction
Exhausted and depleted
Plagued by self-doubt
Seeking structure and accountability
Isolated and lacking a network or support
Not feeling good enough
Feeling stuck but can’t see a way forward
I get it. I've been there.
I completely understand these feelings... and I know how these 'inner nasties' get in the way of your life, your career, and your decision-making and hold you back from moving forward and going after what you really want.
Self-doubt eats away at confidence and skills and without a sense of direction – or an anchor – you might be feeling confused and unclear as to what you want your future to look like and definitely have no idea as to how to move forward with any ideas.
I've overcome these fears and challenges in my life and now work with my clients to do the same. I work in a holistic way – believing that we bring in a whole range of issues and selves to the workplace and that by tapping into all of this we can gain greater insights and information to use to move forward and understand 'what's going on' and what to do about it!
WORK WITH ME
TESTIMONIALS
“Your format of processing our ideas, thoughts and emotions in a supportive network with such amazing people on similar journeys, while being able to see real progress through creative outlets, has been invaluable in driving me through this transition.”
— Do what makes you happy course participant
“Doing Arty Mummas was a safe, brave space for me…to say the unsayable…to process the crazy ups and downs as a new mum…to be creative at a crazy time. To celebrate and to meet other incredible women too. Everyone should get this chance!”
— Arty Mummas course participant
“The coaching, support and vision that Kelly brought to our one-to-one sessions, re-energised and refocused me…I still find I am using the skills she shared and developed in me years later. I couldn’t have asked for a better mentor.”
— Helen Lloyd, Former Mentee
“Thank you again for a most meaningful programme. I feel truly blessed to have found your course and this group of remarkable people. It truly has been a godsend. Thank you for making such a huge difference to our lives.”
— Do what makes you happy course participant