Voices

Asked at the end, not at the high point.

Every quote here was given after the final session and after the invoice was paid, by someone who agreed to be named.
What people say afterwards

Four clients, all named with their permission. We ask at the end of the programme rather than in month two, when everybody is enthusiastic and nobody yet knows whether it held.

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Claire Ashworth
Operations Director, food manufacturing · Wetherby

Ruth spent most of the first session refusing to let me use the word “just”. Six months later I was running the department I had spent two years apologising for wanting.

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Tom Brierley
Co-founder, engineering consultancy · Leeds
Google

I booked coaching about a career decision and left having finally had the conversation with my business partner I had been avoiding since 2022. That one conversation was worth the whole fee.

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Nadia Rahman
Clinical Service Manager · Bradford

Daniel made me write down what I would actually miss about the NHS before I resigned. Two of the four things turned out to be fixable, so I stayed another eighteen months — on my own terms.

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Iain McAllister
Managing Director · LS15
Verified buyer

Priya took our leadership team through six half-days. The measurable part: our exec meeting went from three hours to ninety minutes, and nobody dreads it any more.

More, in their own words

Reviews left with us and on Google since 2023.

Marcus Deane · Head of Engineering, Leeds

★★★★★

“I have had three coaches through three employers. Ruth is the only one who ever told me I was wrong, and the only one worth the money.”

Helen Fairbrother · GP Partner, Otley

★★★★★

“Twelve sessions over six months, and the practice partnership meeting I dreaded most is now the one I chair. Same people, same problems, different me in the chair.”

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How we ask, and what we do with the answer

Feedback gets collected twice. The first time is the halfway review, where the questions are deliberately uncomfortable: is the gap closing, is your coach avoiding anything, and would you recommend this if a friend asked you today. The second is four weeks after the final session, once the glow has worn off and you can see whether anything actually changed. Both go to the coach unedited, and both go to Ruth. Since 2014 we have coached 212 people. One hundred and ninety-nine finished the programme they started, thirteen used the halfway guarantee to stop early and were refunded, and eleven have come back for a second programme more than a year later — which is the number we watch hardest, because a coach who is genuinely useful should make themselves unnecessary for a while. We do not publish an aggregate star rating. Four people saying something specific is worth more than two hundred saying "great service", and a practice this size that claimed a four-point-nine average would be telling you something about its marketing rather than its work. What we will publish is the awkward number. The median programme here runs six months, and the median client tells us at the four-week follow-up that two of their three original goals moved and one did not. That third goal is usually the one that needed something other than coaching, which is exactly the conversation we would rather have in month one than in month six.
“The written summary the morning after every session is the thing nobody tells you about. Twelve of them is a record of exactly how a decision got made.”
Sam Ogilvie · Founder, Harrogate
“I expected to be asked how things made me feel. Instead, in the first ten minutes, I was asked what I would have to believe for the restructure to be the right call. I did not have an answer, and that was the whole point.”
Anonymous by request · Director, professional services, Leeds · six-month programme
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