Suz Allen
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About me
Understand yourself. Unlock your best self.
I’m an ICF-accredited Executive, Career & Life Coach with over 20 years’ HR experience. I offer relaxed, supportive and non-judgemental coaching designed to help you understand yourself better, gain clarity and confidence, and make choices that feel right for you. I work with clients navigating both personal and professional change, including:
- Career and life decisions, including CV and interview support
- Workplace challenges (redundancy, restructures, grievances, difficult working relationships)
- Understanding your strengths, values, needs and sense of purpose
- Building greater self-awareness and creating your own personal blueprint
- Exploring limiting beliefs, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, confidence
- Burnout prevention/recovery and creating a healthier relationship with work
- Preparing for or returning from sickness, maternity or parental leave
- Feeling stuck, overwhelmed or unsure what comes next
- Understanding neurodiversity including ADHD or Autism
- Getting to the root of what’s holding you back and creating meaningful momentum
My approach is warm, practical and personalised. I’ll help you make sense of what is going on, understand what makes you tick and reconnect with your own sense of agency.
Alongside my coaching qualifications, I am neurodiversity and trauma-informed and bring extensive HR expertise, which can be particularly helpful when coaching involves workplace situations or organisational change. I am also in my final year of training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, which continues to deepen my understanding of people, patterns, relationships and change.
Coaching is available by the hour or through a range of individual coaching programmes.
Find out more at www.suzallencoaching.com
Training, qualifications & experience
As well as being an ICF PCC-accredited coach, I’m an experienced HR and Talent professional with more than 20 years’ experience working across large global organisations. Supporting people to understand themselves, develop their potential and navigate change has been a consistent thread throughout my career and is what ultimately led me into coaching.
I understand the realities, complexities and pressures of corporate life and bring that context into my coaching. My HR experience means I can support clients not only with personal development, but also with navigating workplace situations such as redundancy, restructures, grievances, difficult working relationships, flexible working requests and returning after sickness, maternity or parental leave.
I also have extensive experience in recruitment, talent and development, so can support with career transitions, CVs, interviews, confidence, identifying strengths and values, and working through the mindset barriers that can sometimes make change feel harder than it needs to.
My coaching style is relaxed, empathetic and non-judgemental. I place wellbeing at the heart of my work and take a person-led approach, creating space to explore what is really going on while gently challenging you towards greater clarity, confidence and practical action.
Clients often describe my style as natural, supportive and gently challenging — helping them see things differently and find solutions they may not have reached on their own.
My qualifications and training include:
• ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• AoEC Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner (ABNLP)
• Trauma-Informed Coaching Certificate
• Insight Coaching Practitioner
• Diploma in Hypnotherapy
• Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice — Final Year
• Advanced Diploma in Human Resource Management, CIPD Level 7
• Introduction to Personal Coaching, The Coaching Academy
Professional memberships:
• International Coaching Federation (ICF)
• Association for Coaching
Member organisations
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.
The International Coach Federation is the professional association for personal and business coaches worldwide. Coaches can become accredited by the ICF, who have three grades of membership: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Master Certified Coach (MCC), with the different categories standing for different levels of training and experience. Master Certified Coach's have achieved a substantial level of training and experience. Members of ICF are accountable to a professional code of ethics.
Areas of coaching I deal with
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Fees
£60.00 - £495.00
Free initial online session
Additional information
I offer a range of different options including bespoke packages depending on need.
Coaching hours:
- Individual coaching hours priced at £60 per hour (discount for bundles)
- CV audit and debrief call - £99
1:1 Coaching Programmes
- Empower: a 3 x 1hr session programme to create a personalised blueprint of who you are and what drives you. This is used to shape career or life goals with CV and interview support if needed. (£295)
- Discover: a 6 x 1 hr session version of the above to facilitate self-awareness around who you are, what drives you but with more depth and focus around future goal planning and mindset changes (£495).
- Parental Transition programme: a four x 90-min session programme to support you as you prepare to go on maternity or parental leave right through to return. It focussed on handover planning, communication strategies, goal planning, return options and mindset (£495)
- For all programmes I offer the option to continue with a rolling 1 hr monthly coaching hour to help maintain Momentum and accountability (£50)
When I work
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Hours are flexible and agreed by arrangement
Further information
I primarily offer virtual sessions although in-person sessions at my premises in Mid-Sussex is possible by arrangement.
All of my programmes offer contact in between sessions if needed and I provide the option for ongoing coaching and accountability support via a monthly coaching hour.
