Carroll Macey

About Me

As a coach I enable people to thrive at work and in their life. We live in a fast paced fast changing world and from time to time it helps to be able to gain clarity on where you are and where you want to be.

My area of expertise is in business coaching; leadership and management development;career coaching; personal development; confidence; motivation; well being and health; stress management and managing work life balance .


Helping people to understand their strengths, build confidence and self belief and  use these to achieve their goals, is my area of interest.

My coaching practice has evolved over past 20 years, encompassing experience gained through roles as Sales Director, Senior L&D positions within large organisations, consultancy and my own business. The focus in all of these areas has been in helping people to enhance their performance and results in all areas of their life.

My background? I trained as a psychotherapist and integrated those skills with business and life coaching so that I could work in a more integrated way with people. I am a Mindfulness Teacher , trained at the world renowned centre for Mindfulness,Bangor University and hold 8 week MBSR programmes to help people develop skills that bring balance,  better perspective, develop better relationships with themselves and others and enhance well being.I am accredited to deliver a range of psychometrics, an NLP Practitioner; voice dialogue practitioner amongst other skills aimed at unlocking people potential.

What is Life Coaching

The world is changing faster than ever before. Every aspect of our lives is changing, the way we shop, work, are educated, communicate, socialise. When there is so much change happening it is easy to lose our sense of direction and purpose.

Most of us are aware of what it is we don't want in our lives, but we are not always clear on what we do want, or what we need to do in order to make changes.

My Coaching Style

Coaching is a confidential 121 relationship between two people. I will work with you to clarify your goals and help you to determine how to best achieve them.

It sounds simple and indeed it is, however in this increasingly busy world very few people have time to stop for long enough to reflect or “see the wood for the trees”. This can result in feeling stuck in a rut, repeating the same mistakes, having a poor work/life balance and feeling out of control.

Coaching is about many things, however, principally it is about behavioural change that benefits you at home, at work and the results that you achieve. In effect it addresses the whole person which tends to result in sustainable change rather than short term fixes.

Coaching is not therapy or counselling. I will have faith in you, listen to what you say and also what you don’t say. I will challenge your thinking with questions to encourage deeper self awareness. I will be flexible and am able to offer tools or models where appropriate to help you explore your personality, thinking or problems.

The agenda is always yours and you should always feel that you have been truly heard although you may have had to work hard along the way.

Your Programme

Once I receive your enquiry I will send you a Discovery Questionnaire so that I can learn a little about you before our first session. The questionnaire will also enable you to focus your thinking and increase your self awareness. We will then begin with an initial free, 30 minute telephone or Skype session, where we will explore your responses to the questionnaire and discuss your goals and how us working together will help you achieve them. We will then agree a contract that will enable us to stay focused and support you in moving towards your goals.

The coaching programmes are delivered in sessions of four - the first session will be a 60 minute face to face session ( if practical) in which we will clarify your goals and establish the outcomes of coaching for you; followed by three 60 minute face to faces or 45 minute Skype or telephone sessions ,approximately 2 weeks apart. The real coaching happens between the sessions when you take the understanding and increased awareness gained through our conversations and you take actions that we will build on in each session.