Claire Coldwell

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Goethe

Claire has a proven track record in providing career coaching and advice at all organisational levels - from shop floor, up to, and including, board members. Following earlier careers in retail management and human resources, Claire retains a positive and pragmatic approach, enabling her to balance commercial pressures with the needs of the individual.

With a degree in psychology and a keen interest in personality and motivation, Claire has extensive experience of working with individuals and teams to enhance self-awareness and working relationships in order to improve the productivity and contribution of a team, and uses a range of psychometric tools to achieve results and facilitate change for individuals and organisations.

Keen to quickly get to the heart of each individual's specific career issues, her philosophy and approach is ‘to enable people to evaluate, understand and maximise their personal resources and the opportunities around them, in order to gain greater fulfilment in their work and life experiences’.

She has developed and delivered workshops to enhance work relationships for a variety of business sectors across the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East. These include commercial organisations as well as the voluntary and public sectors.

Claire is CIPD-qualified and is a member of The British Psychological Society, the Association of Business Psychologists and with the Association of Career Professionals as a member of the leadership group for ACP in the UK. ACP in the UK has now joined forces with the Institute of Career Guidance, representing professionals working in private practice.

Claire is certified as a Career Management Fellow with the Institute of Career Certification International and is a governor of the ICCI board, representing the UK. She is committed to development of standards within the industry and demonstrates this in a practical way by enthusiastically supporting newcomers to the profession.

Claire has supported many people through career transition and has been quoted and profiled in national newspapers and magazines; she is also a regular contributor to business Web sites on career topics.

Claire Coldwell also holds a non-executive role as a board member of The Anvil Trust. Anvil Arts is the largest performing arts organisation in Hampshire, and runs The Anvil, a 1400-seat concert hall, The Haymarket, a 400-seat theatre and The Forge, a 100-seat studio spa.