COACHING WOMEN at changing points in their lives
Whether you are pivoting, emerging, following dreams or changing direction, I will help you. I deliver transformative coaching focusing forwards on goals, journeys and positive solutions to challenges.
I bring my unique creative skills from my arts and media experience to coaching in an intelligent, focussed and unconventional way. This can be in the office, at home, on the phone, in an art gallery or taking a walk in the park. The key is to find and tap into the energy that creates and motivates the changes:
“No two brains nor lives are the same, and you will know the answer better than I will. My role is to enable you to find those answers, and support you to make the positive changes that will improve your life.”
SUSANNAH TRESILIAN - CoACHING
I have been a coach for over twelve years now, ever since I realised that all my work thus far had all been leading towards helping people improve their performances. As a theatre director, my role in the rehearsal room is to see the person as a whole and enable them to bring their best performance to tell a story. As a radio producer my job was to help guests tell their own stories in the most effective and powerful way. I found it exciting to look further into how I can better help people to improve their personal story-telling and naturally then their own lives.
I became fascinated by the science of the brain, and how we can facilitate positive change by improving thinking. As a naturally positive-leaning person, I was and am energised by the impact one can have in a short amount of time.
MY SPECIALISM…
… and the area I really love working in, is coaching women at changing points in their lives. As a woman in my forties with two children and a busy and interesting career path, I have encountered changing points many times in my life too. I understand, I empathise, and I also appreciate how time-stretched you may well be: so we will keep to the point, and we will be solely focused on using the time to move you onwards and upwards. It is genuinely my favourite thing to do.
As a coach, I am not your counsellor, or your mentor, or your trainer - I am the facilitator of your best thinking. How great is that? I will help you to do your best thinking.
My role is…
to support you to discover and thrive in the potential you hold within yourself
to keep you focused on goals, solutions and achievements
to help you improve the quality of your thinking so that you can then better create, dream, invent, visualise and engineer your goals and dreams
to help you generate insights that will keep you moving towards your vision
My style is warm, focused and assured. I will support you and cheer you on, and I will also hold you to account and stretch you. I will be looking for the energy that we release when we have exciting, deep insights, that the brain uses to motivate and power us through to take actions. That energy is what will build new habits and embed real change.
SUSANNAH TRESILIAN - BIOGRAPHY
I have a vibrant portfolio career in the cultural sector that brings me a lot of joy. I work as a theatre director, specialising in European theatre celebrating gender equality, and founded ARIADNE, an international organisation working with women making theatre in conflict-affected countries. As a radio producer, I worked for many years at BBC Radio 4 producing Woman's Hour, before moving to The Guardian to produce their weekly Books podcast.
I trained with the NeuroLeadership Group to become a Results Certified Coach. I have since coached executives and creatives from large media companies including the BBC, Bloomberg and the Guardian, as well as from finance and business worlds such as Accenture, Cisco and Linklaters LLC.
I am really interested in the power of Compassionate Leadership and its place in this world today, and with that in mind co-founded The Leadership Collective, a coaching and training organisation that helps create empowered, inclusive and thriving work cultures. We run Leadership Development Programmes to design new ways of working and leading, and embedding that real change into the organisation. And we offer training programmes such as Managing Through Change, The Power of Happiness and Amplify Your Message.
Based in London, I work all over the world.
Testimonials
“Susannah helped me to parlay 7 years of production experience and the ACA qualification into the perfect role in film finance, a career I have wanted for a decade. She is phenomenally easy to talk to, and somehow manages to let you unlock your own potential for yourself.”
“Susannah helped me identify my career and personal goals and prioritise them. She managed to get to the crux of issues in the most warm and non-judgemental way and helped me to draw out my own conclusions based on our conversations. Since starting coaching I have been promoted, doubled my salary and have a more balanced and satisfying home life.”
“Susannah helped me to explore my inner self and find the answers to my problems. She enabled me to trust myself and empowered me to find a healthier, happier and less stressful way of living.”
“Walking with Susannah (Woman’s Hour and a Half) was the perfect way to free my mind from a constant swirl of thoughts and questions. She gently guided me through my cluttered feelings and - with perfectly-timed and highly astute prompts - allowed me to identify my strengths and come up with focused goals for the future.”