Kelly is a coach, a consultant, an artist and an activist. A multiple award winning professional and known for her incredible ability to motivate, inspire and enable people to transform potential ideas into great things.

This energy is backed-up and demonstrated by a successful and lucrative portfolio career arising from over 35 years of expertise in leadership, strategy and organisational development. She has three BA and MA degrees in Philosophy, Fine Art and Social Work, and additional qualifications in Counselling, Groupwork and Analytical Network Coaching.

Kelly has successfully moved between careers; trained, qualified, and practiced in a range of helping, counselling, and creative disciplines; run her own successful Strategy and Organisational Development Consultancy business for the last 21 years and mentored emerging and thriving leaders and senior managers. She is a parent, a writer, an exhibiting and selling artist and a local community social activist.

As a solo mum in her 50s, Kelly knows the feeling all too well of being pulled in different directions and putting our own needs on the back burner yet still having a desire to do or be more. This work brings together her passion and expertise in helping people to dream BIG and work out what happiness and personal impact looks like for them.

Your Second Act is the time for re-invention; a particular stage or moment in our life cycle when the desire and possibly the opportunity comes together for personal and/or professional re-invention. It comes at a particular juncture in our life cycle - a very personal moment when you sense somewhere inside you that it’s time for change in a fundamental way - a ‘what the hell is NEXT? moment.

The Second Act is a time for transformation - not so much as a side step, but more of a leap up and out to somewhere else. A leap out into something or somewhere that you’re not quite sure how you will do it but you know it’s time.

This moment is unique to all of us but it can be determined not only by important life events happening - expected or unexpected, but also by important shifts in our awareness or personal consciousness.

It’s the time in your life when little internal voices have become a bit louder and you’ve realised that you are not getting any younger and it is time to face these fears and see if your ideas have ‘legs’.

The Second Act is the moment when you feel like you have had enough of what you have ‘been’, you want to shed some skin and grow into a new identity

Interestingly women give this moment a series of common names. They talk about this moment as a feeling of plateauing - a moment where the future feels unclear; there’s no clear sense of direction or the possibility of going back, but moving forward seems baffling.

Others talk about their Second Act as a moment where they experience a new sense of clarity and perspective - knowing that they just cannot carry on with the path they are on any more.

In many cases women describe this as a moment when we realise we’ve served others needs or expectations for a long time, when we may have subsumed our own identity or when our sense of self has gone or been outgrown. It is a powerful moment of realisation when women notice how they put their needs to the bottom of the pile, when they realise their life has been focused on others expectations, or a relationship isn’t feeding them anymore; when a break-up might be imminent or when a health scare wakes us up to the fact that life is short and time is ticking. Second Acts can come at the point when kids are about to complete their exams or leave home and suddenly this initial phase of mothering is done and there is time and space ahead but no clear sense of direction or purpose. 

It’s a moment when women see that there can be very real barriers and obstacles that they will face in shaking up their own system and that these will need to be faced, explored, understood and disarmed in order to move through what’s holding them back.

Finally it’s the next and new chapter - a time when YOU get to decide – not your parents, school, partner, family, community or society – but the time in your life when you stand up and say it’s my time to do what I want to do. When it’s time to embody a renewed sense of self and re-find the next true nature of what is wanted or needed for happiness health satisfaction wealth and contentment; to morph into the next incarnation, the next iteration, the next layer of the onion. 

Not at all. What you do need is a positive intention to start to explore ideas and do the work that will help you move into your Second Act.

The course is designed as a process and a journey. It is the journey that will be useful to go on - you might not necessarily know what the destination will look like yet. The course is designed so that you get an opportunity and space to think about and answer incisive questions about your Second Act - how you would like your work life to be. I will lead you through a process that will open up ideas and thinking. Whatever you come on the programme with will be exactly the right place for you to be.

The course is 12 sessions long over 6 months. There is a monthly in-person group workshop in Forest Gate

2-4.30pm on Jan 20th, Feb 24th, March 23rd, April 20th, May 18th, June 15th.

In between these dates we will meet on zoom on a weekday evening once a month for 1 hour – this will be a coaching check-in and Q&A space.

In addition to this there will be a course community Whats App group where I will send materials and you can use this to check-in with questions and progress of your fellow participants.

Once you have signed up for the course and paid your deposit I will send you a short email with a short participant questionnaire. I will ask you to briefly explain what it is you want from coming on the course and where you are in your work life now. This will help me to understand the starting point for you.

I will also include my usual coaching contractual stipulations in the email such as my safeguarding and payment policies and my groundrules for good work together. You will sign to say you’ve received and understood all of this and we will discuss all of this in the first session too.

Finally I will also send you the detailed programme for the 6 months ahead - just so you can get really excited :)

This course is open to any and all women. Inclusivity is very important to me so I aim to provide a space where women of all backgrounds feel welcome. What is very important is that you connect with the information on here about the course and that it somehow describes where you find yourself to be in life and that you feel ready for your exploration of your Second Act. The course is for any women that feels a ‘YES thats me!’ or anyone who is feeling stuck, lacking purpose or direction and wants to get that spark back. I am known as someone who works with creative processes as a way to unlock ideas and new ways forward. I make no assumption about who will be attracted to the course and what your background will be. I will use creative tasks to uncover information and ideas but ALL of my methods are designed with no artistic background needed.

No, however, if you have any questions, you can reach out to me via the whats app group that we will create for the programme. If you are looking for something more bespoke and face-to-face support and accountability, please get in touch to find out about my one-to-one coaching.

Yes totally. I am happy to invoice your organisation for this course - the corporate fee is £2500.00

I can also deliver courses like this ‘in-house’. If you think your organisation would like more details about this then please email me on the contact button.

YES!

The entire course fee is £1500

I do want cash flow to be a barrier if you would like to take part in this course, so please get in touch and we can work out a plan that works for you.

You will be missed!

There will be materials sent out for the sessions so you will be able to prep for each session and have some hand outs as reference. I won’t be recording the in-person workshops but I may record and share the online sessions with participants depending on the content we discuss.

Yes - there will be materials sent out each month for you to work through. These will include written pieces and coaching prompts for you to use in your exploration and activation of your Second Act.

Sometimes this happens with courses or we decide to leave. There will not be any refunds. Before you join the course you will fill in a form asking a series of simple questions to ascertain if this course is right for you and if you are right for the course. In this way we will try to make sure that it works for all of us.

I guarantee that the course will take you through a process that will help you to think about your next steps in your work life and/or career. Of course I cannot make any guarantees about specific outcomes but what I can say is that the course will be inspirational, fun and a positive reflective space for you.

What you do with the ideas and materials that you get from the course will be up to you. As the old adage says - you get out what you put in. Please do read the testimonials on this page and my website to understand better what people say about working with me.

The group will be between 10 and 15 women.

They take place on the following Saturdays at 2:30 - 4:30pm Jan 20th - Feb 24th - March 23rd - April 20th - May 18th - June 15th.

These will take place once per month in the evening and the most suitable dates will be shared with the group at the beginning of January 2024.