Anna Darlington

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Leadership & Mindset Coach
Shipston-On-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36

About me

I’m a Leadership & Mindset Coach helping people build confidence, navigate change and create success on their own terms.

With more than 17 years of experience in HR, leadership and people development, alongside my work as a qualified coach, I bring together a deep understanding of people, careers and business with the personal side of what it takes to make meaningful change.

I work with people who are ambitious and capable, but who have reached a point where something needs to shift. You might be stepping into a bigger leadership role, growing a business, considering a career change, navigating a major life transition or simply questioning whether the way you’re currently working and living still feels right for you.

Sometimes the challenge is practical: you need clarity about what you want and how to move forward. Sometimes it sits deeper. A lack of confidence, self-doubt, stress, fear of failure or old beliefs can keep you stuck even when, logically, you know what you want to do.

My coaching gives you the space to step out of the noise and look honestly at what’s going on. We explore what you want, what might be getting in the way and what needs to change – in your thinking, your decisions or your actions.

I don’t believe coaching is about telling you what to do or giving you a formula for how your life or career should look. It’s about helping you understand yourself better, challenge the beliefs and patterns that are limiting you, and make decisions that feel right for you.

My approach combines leadership coaching, business coaching, mindset coaching and personal development. Depending on what you bring to our sessions, we might work on confidence and self-esteem, career development or career guidance, leadership, stress, decision-making, boundaries, business challenges or navigating a period of change.

Ultimately, I want you to leave coaching with more than a plan. I want you to have greater clarity, stronger self-trust and the confidence to move forward in a way that feels genuinely right for your.

Training, qualifications & experience

Qualifications:

  • Certified Life & Business Coach
  • NLP Practitioner
  • CIPD Diploma: HR Management, Level 5
  • FAA First Aider Mental Health, Level 2

Memberships:

  • Assoc CIPD
  • ANLP Professional
  • Member of Association for Coaching

Experience:

  • 15+ years HR, Recruitment, Learning & Development and Project Management
  • 7 years people management
  • 4 years leadership experience
  • 3 years Business & Life coaching

Member organisations

AC
Association for Coaching (AC)

The Association for Coaching is one of the leading professional bodies for Coaches and Organisations.

The Association is made up of a number of different membership categories, e.g. Associate Member (AMAC), Member (MAC), Accredited Member (AC Accred), with the different categories standing for different levels of training and experience. Accredited Members have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by the Association.

The Association has a Code of Ethics & Good Practice and a Complaints Procedure.

ANLP
The Association for NLP (ANLP)

The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (ANLP) is a UK Association for NLP Professionals.

Areas of coaching I deal with

Other areas of coaching I deal with

  • Mindset coaching
  • Mindfulness
  • Life changes/transformation

Fees

£90.00 - £150.00
Free initial online session

Additional information

I offer a complimentary 20-min Discovery call in order to get to know each other, discuss coaching and how we might be able to work together. I can then offer a variety of coaching packages to suit your needs. (Please find the booking link at the top of my profile.)

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TESTIMONIALS:

"THANK YOU for all your support and help during my journey to myself! Your help was priceless and I will always be grateful for your encouragement, time and efforts! You are an amazing coach and everyone will be lucky to have you in their life." -Svetlana N.

"I would highly recommend Anna as a Life Coach.  She created a calm and safe space in which I was able to explore issues within my working life, and gently led me through a process to help to find ways of building a more holistic and fulfilling future.  In every session she paid great attention to detail, listened keenly and provided feedback that consistently shed light on my situation, giving clarity and perspective. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Anna, am definitely reaping the benefits from the work we did together, and look forward to working with her again in the future." -Jules C.

"My sessions with Anna were a welcome opportunity to pause, reflect about where I am now and where I need to be and put some strategies in place around how I'm going to get there. Anna’s calm, relaxed and gentle presence set the scene, her quiet, insightful questions and confident ability to help me hold myself accountable was so refreshing. It felt like she was holding a quiet space for me to give myself permission to spend time on me. From feeling overwhelmed by having free time and choices, I now have a workable plan." -Philippa H.

"I had a few sessions with Anna over the last couple of months as I was feeling stressed and over whelmed about growing my new business and juggling family life. She was very good at helping me focus and work out what I actually wanted to do and achieve with it all. It was great to have someone to help me set goals and have targets to keep me on track. I would highly recommend her!" -Kelly B.

"Anna was so helpful to me. As a busy mum and business owner, I wouldn’t have got through without her. She provided me with such clarity and calm during a really stormy time. I would recommend her very much. She’s the resource that I didn’t realise how much I needed until after. Worth her weight in gold in all honesty." -Rosie P.

Shipston-On-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36

Type of session

In person
Online

Additional languages

German

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Anna Darlington
Anna Darlington