Practical Business Coaching
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Do you ever wonder whether your skills could work outside employment but worry about risk?
Where to start?
A practical online course for experienced professionals exploring self-employment and other next-step options
Starting Online on Thursday 11th June 6-7pm UCT
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Are you actively exploring new options?
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Finding the recruitment process challenging?
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Are you experienced and capable, yet unsure what your next move should be?
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What if you could explore your options safely, without committing to anything or risking your income?
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​You might recognise yourself if you are:
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Feeling uneasy about job security, market change or AI, but unclear what a realistic alternative looks like
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Knowing you don’t want to stay where you are, yet feeling overwhelmed by the idea of freelancing, consulting or starting a business
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Carrying financial pressure and a sense that you should make the right decision quickly
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Quietly questioning whether your experience still holds value outside a traditional role
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Caught between fear of staying stuck and fear of taking a step that feels too risky​
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Beyond Employment - a 12-week structured programme designed to move people from thinking to testing to deciding.
The focus is on exploring options properly, testing ideas in the real world, and making a decision they can trust.
Outcomes
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A calmer, more grounded way of thinking
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A broader understanding of available options
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Reassurance that their experience still has value
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Less pressure to force a big decision
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A clearer sense of a next step
What You Get
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12-week programme
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Weekly live sessions (1 hour)
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Small peer group
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3 x 45-minute one-to-one sessions
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Practical tools and structured exercises
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Access to a portal with recordings and resources
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Real-world experimentation
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Programme Structure
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What you’re actually taking with you – understanding transferable skills and experience
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Your first concept – defining a clear, testable idea
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Take it outside – testing the idea through real conversations
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Does it stack up – understanding viability and feedback
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Make it solid – refining the concept based on evidence
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Clarity on what’s next – deciding on a clear next step
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Pricing
Standard pricing
£1200 upfront or £435 per month (for three months)
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Your Facilitators
Gary King
Business Psychologist, Co-founder of Create Flow
Gary is a business psychologist with a background in sports and adventure. He helps senior professionals navigate uncertainty, change and loss of control. His work focuses on how fear quietly shapes our decisions when our identity, security or status feels under threat. At Where do I start? Gary helps people understand what’s really holding them back and how to regain a sense of choice and agency when change feels unavoidable.
Fran Stobart
Founder - Good Company Consulting
Fran is a business coach and former business owner who built her company from her kitchen table to a £2m turnover before successfully exiting. She now helps experienced professionals and business owners step back from overwhelm, make clear decisions, and build a plan for what comes next. Her work combines real-world business experience with calm, practical coaching to help people create income, options and confidence for the future.
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Jill Chapman
Chartered Psychologist, Co-founder of Create Flow
Jill is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist with 25+ years’ experience supporting people through major transitions in work and life. She specialises in helping people develop a Future-Fit growth mindset, the ability to stay open, learn quickly and move forward with confidence when the path ahead is unclear. At Where do I start?, Jill helps people move from stuck and uncertain to clear, capable and ready to take their next step.
If you’d like to talk it through before committing, you can book a short call with Gary, Fran or Jill.
"Working with Jill over a six-month period was without doubt the most beneficial coaching I have ever received. Despite ten years as a professional manager, she helped me consider different approaches to work relationships, my own situational behaviour, and new routes for business networking. I was extremely pleased with the outcomes."