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Rachel is a great believer on focusing on what you are good at and like and delegating the rest. She has a virtual PA www.urbanpa.com, and a local PA in Charlbury, as well as I.T. support to tackle all that techie stuff that she doesn’t really like! We also collaborate with trusted associates for bigger corporate projects, e.g. in change management and organisational development.

Rachel has been my coach on and off for a number of years. Every time I need some help I find her professional and quick minded approach to things a real help. I employ coaches and coach people myself so if you like Rachel is the 'coaches coach'. You can't say better than that. Highly recommended. David Wilkinson

Memorable moments

The memorable moments of Rachel’s career include; repositioning a fridge brand from having a personality of ‘empty party’ to ‘sexy’; her client Duncan Goose winning the 2007 ITV People of Briton Awards alongside winners such as Helen Mirren and David Beckham; finding her dream home in Charlbury; writing a cheeky letter about the lack of innovation in the confectionery market to Marketing Week magazine and being contacted by 3 of the top confectionery brands about work; the most senior managing partner of the biggest law firm in the world choosing her as his career coach (yikes!) and all the inspiring wonderful aha moments and successes of her clients – seeing their talent liberated!

I embraced coaching 100% from the beginning, and the benefits I’ve gained have been life changing. Mervyn Yaffie

Professional qualifications and memberships

Rachel is a certified NLP (Neuro linguistic programming) Coach, a training course run by ITS and accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is also a Master Practitioner of NLP and has a BSc Hons degree in Food Marketing Sciences, where her love of food flourished!

Rachel is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and an affiliate member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD)

Where we work

Energise are based in a small gorgeous place called Charlbury in Oxfordshire, right in the middle of England near Oxford and 70 mins out of London Paddington on a fast train.  We also work in London at The Commonwealth Club, near Trafalgar Square and internationally too.

Personal learning and development journey

Rachel loves learning and is always reading articles, books or doing a new course to add to her toolbox.  She has mastered the art of ‘verbal padding’, being a naturally direct person and has worked on herself over many years and continues to do so. Courses that she has attended include; systems thinking; time management; facilitation; practical philosophy; focusing (inner listening); meditation, NLP, stress management etc

Career heritage

Rachel has over 20 years’ business experience, 5 years in marketing with Safeway, Northern Foods and United Biscuits; 5 years working in design, advertising and innovation agencies with J Walter Thompson and Grey Matter, and 10+ years so far with her own business Energise. She has worked full time; done interim and contract work; done freelance; set up and run a successful business; dealt with redundancy and changed career direction, so she is well experienced to liberate your talent as a career strategist!

Rachel had great attention to detail and desire to learn how and why people do the things they do. Rachel has always been ready to help with contacts and straight talking advice. Her intense focus means she is really effective at helping people keep on track, but in a gentle way! She is never afraid to tell you how she sees it, and you know she always has your best interests at heart..because she really cares. Martin Silcock

Pro bono work

Rachel feels passionately about addressing low self esteem in society and has worked with disaffected young people and women prisoners and provided marketing mentoring to senior management of selected charities.

Media coverage

We love writing and it enables us to reach more people with tips and insights.

Rachel has a monthly column in Oxfordshire Life www.oxfordshire-life.co.uk and Cotswold Life www.cotswoldlife.co.uk magazines. Energise/Energise clients have also been featured in Hello; Career Times; The Lawyer and many newspapers and magazines.

Rachel has a blog with Brand Republic www.brandrepublic.com for the marketing and creative community, and as an alias 'Phoenix Ashes'  provides career tips for the financial community via www.hereisthecity.com.  Energise also do a free career tips and tools ezine each month.

Interests

Rachel loves Gastronomy, people, ideas and innovation, sunsets, writing, travel and personal development.

“The coaching experience was fantastic. I entered the first session as a cynic, but through Energise’s support, I feel more empowered to achieve in every facet of my life than I have for a long time, if ever. “ Stephen Fitzmaurice, Clifford Chance

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