Jo Bishop – Personal & Career Coach

I found the sessions with Jo to be exhilarating, informative and thought provoking. The atmosphere inside the coaching cabin was calm and unthreatening.
Nevertheless it was no easy ride as I was challenged to reflect on my skills, work and life experiences in order to  realise my potential and possibilities.

RuthTeacher

Jo has been a great coach and reliable support for me and I am so delighted to be able to give a testimonial for her as she’s been such a positive influence in my life. Jo has helped me to navigate and develop positive working relationships with a diverse and ever surprising mix of colleagues. I am a freelance makeup artist in the film industry, a career I love for its creativity and variety, but I often find myself flustered, trying to quickly adapt to new group dynamics. Jo has helped me feel confident and secure to have constructive conversations with colleagues, this has been particularly useful when interacting with senior team members and designers. Conversations which at first thought seemed impossible to voice but by learning to approach them in the right way, have really helped me to have a better understanding of my colleagues needs and expectations and thus create a better and happier work environment. It amazes me how by carefully selecting your words, you can change the entire meaning and guide the outcome. Jo is wonderful at helping me see things from a wider perspective, coaching me through situations I felt were uncomfortable at work and teaching me how to communicate more effectively. She has and continues to help me to have the courage to make decisions with certainty.
Jo is so generous with her time, balanced with her knowledge and open with her heart. I cannot recommend her enough and am so grateful for the impact and ongoing courage she’s given me, and the kindness and thought put into her delivery. 

JadeMake Up Artist

Jo is an inspiration! A coach who gives a clear direction to my personal and professional development. Her constructive and structured approach based on my own goals enables me to have a new and fresh perspective.  Time spent with Jo is always worthwhile when I need to assess my thoughts and decisions to move forward and progress. She is my career and life guru! 

TinaMagazine owner/editor freelance PR & Marketing Consultant

Jo Bishop is a highly skilled and empathic coach who has an ability to read between the lines, provoke deep thinking and help drive towards outcomes. Working with her has helped me gain insights at a much deeper level than I could have achieved by myself; the time spent with her is always valuable. I can’t recommend her highly enough as a coach and mentor as her ability to draw out the real underlying issues and their solutions is fantastic. 

JessFacilitator and Author

Last year some of my peers identified some issues in my communication that were having some impact in my day-to-day work. I thought Jo could coach me and help me improve my communication skills.
Jo was always welcoming and made me feel at ease from early on. Feeling a gap in one’s communication skills can be overwhelming and emotional, but she reassured me that we would be working together. Before the session she prepared me with some things to think about in advance, which ended up filling my thoughts most of the time until the session.
I was really happy to go to the Coaching Cabin: it is a beautiful and relaxing place, and I was able to disconnect from the world and concentrate only on our work together as Jo helped me identify my strengths and weaknesses in communication and some of the factors that contribute to my better or worst performance in different contexts. At times it was a bit emotional, but I felt Jo was always supportive, helping me to identify strategies for different situations or more emotional reasons that lead to some lack of confidence in communicating.
Since the session, I’ve received a lot of positive feedback on my efforts to improve my communication skills. I had asked some people to give me feedback before the session, and the same people have been very positive afterwards. It’s been amazing and it really helped me realise where I could improve at different levels – from putting in place procedures to make sure I communicate in time, to preparing for meetings, to having more confidence in myself.

GabrielHR Fintech