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Nick-HR Director, UK, 50s

I know what my future could look like. I have a clear direction and I have new tools and techniques that will help me make each day more enjoyable.

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Sarah - HR, Berkshire, 50s

My career was well and truly stuck. I’d been marking time until I retired before finding Lucia. I wanted to look back with no regrets and since I hated what I did - I needed to do something different.

Working through Lucia’s methods and exercises gave me explanations for all sorts of things over the course of my career. Some came naturally and were enjoyable, and some were very challenging.

My future looks completely different now. I've got a very different outlook. I have a new focus and clarity about the way forward. I can almost see a colour change ahead in my life. I feel energised. I feel almost like I've been plugged into a socket and switched on. I'm putting together my skillset with a new idea.

It's given me a new lease of life. And others have noticed that there's been a positive change in me.

Lucia’s courses are both for those of us who feel stuck but also those who want to fine-tune themselves and their working lives. And the impact of working through her programmes will have benefits for everyone I ever work with in future.

I feel like I’ve had a midlife MOT. And my engine is working much better!

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Catherine - Communications, London, 50s

I was stuck at a crossroads. As I grew older, I began to realise that there are less people like me, around my age, in the business. I was feeling almost paralysed by the decisions ahead of me. I didn’t want to do what I’ve always done so I needed some help.

After working with Lucia, it feels like the future is something that I’m very much in charge of - rather it’s being done to me! The big question for me and people in my age group is “what do you want to do with the last third of your life?” I now have a plan.

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Nick - HR, Surrey, 50s

Since working with Lucia, I have a long-term dream and ambition on what I want the next decade to look like that I’m moving towards. Also, practically, in the short-term, I now have a range of tools and techniques to help me make each day better, to do more of what I enjoy and to make sure I’m doing less of the work that I don’t enjoy.

The future feels positive, I know what it could look like and I have a plan on how to get there.

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Jeff - MD Thoughtcraft, US, 40s

I've been looking for and thinking about doing some type of career coaching for a long time - too long probably. My work had felt kind of empty. And it was starting to scare me because, I'm pushing 50 and it didn't seem like a good place to be in for the rest of my career.

I've done things like this before and they've never quite stuck. But I've never done it one-on-one with someone. Having that outside perspective really helped me get an objective view of what my Superpowers are and how they really can help others and, and what value they bring to the table.

And now when I think about my my work future, I feel a lot more confidence in not only what I'm going to do, but that I can do it, that I can bring that to the table. There's so many more options that have opened up to me, now that I can see the objective value, and fun that I can have with the things that I do well.

I think if you're coming up until a point in your life and you're thinking, "I don't want the next 10 years to be like the last 10 years" or "I want the next ten years to be even better" or "I'm not totally satisfied", I would really recommend you talk to Lucia.

It's been real eye-opener for me. And so valuable to have someone who is not only an objective outsider, but someone who has studied this whole phenomenon and made this her life's mission.

She comes at it with not only with compassion and empathy, but also she knows what she's talking about.

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Kerstin - Education, US, 50s

I'm a midlife professional who suddenly needed to re-evaluate my lifelong career. Where to even start?

Less than 2 months later, I can clearly articulate my Superpowers (Lucia's specialty!), the world problems I am keen to work on, and, most importantly, I feel a refreshed confidence to take on new challenges.

We laughed, and she gave me tough homework. We laughed, and she asked me probing questions. Lucia spent hours reviewing the materials from me, sifting it through her own experienced lens of decades of helping others with their careers. She's smart, experienced, and intuitive - exactly the combination I required.

I've found new clarity, energy, and professional direction from working with Lucia. As I told my husband, we've spent the same amount of money on a new water heater, or on landscaping work, or even on pots and pans. Why wouldn't we spend it on something even more essential - activating my most joyful and engaged professional life?

You'll be so very glad you did!

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Adrian - Technology, Gloucestershire, 50s

What felt like a crisis [my redundancy] last summer now feels like a golden opportunity to do what I now know I want to do.

We are often driven by fear…fear of change, of taking too many risks or of looking stupid. The big takeaway for me is that what I fear most is not doing what I really want to do. And I don’t fear that much else. The biggest failure is not to try.

On the horizon I can see the chance of real fulfillment and I’m having fun.

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Pete - Business Owner, Ireland, 50s

My main takeaway from working with Lucia is the release of the blame or harshness I’ve attributed to myself around wrong career moves, situations or organisations I’ve found myself in. That de-coupling of emotion from the situation has been really helpful in allowing me to look at the kind of work that will allow me to operate at my best.

The field of opportunity has really opened up for me to use my talents in lots of different ways that could be much more fulfilling.

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Lisa - HR Director - Gloucestershire, 50s

Sometimes in life we are lucky to experience serendipitous moments. For me such a moment was reading Lucia’s excellent book X-Change, that led me to get in touch, and from this it was very clear that Lucia was the perfect partner to work with on my second half reinvention. Lucia is a natural and talented coach, who has helped me cut through the noise, get clear, and work out options to move forward. I am someone who puts a lot of store in results, so Lucia’s approach is perfect for me. More than this, what I think really makes the difference is that Lucia is authentic, pragmatic, engaging and warm. I look forward to our sessions because they are positive and enjoyable.

My experience of working with Lucia has without doubt helped me strengthen my confidence. Her approach is refreshing because her guiding principles are about clarifying and appreciating strengths and it is through her that I have finally uncovered my superpowers and the confidence to get out there and make my second half even better than my first’.

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Stephen - Programme Director, Surrey, 50s

The institutional ageism that exists in the recruiting of staff by large organisations is a very real phenomenon. Lucia was wonderful in helping me to shape my proposition, achieve the right mind set and secure new work in pastures new. I cannot recommend her enough!

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Warren - CEO, London, 50s

“Thank you so much for your time over the past few months. You really helped me focus on my strengths which helped me clarify my thoughts.

I was initially worried that career coach wouldn’t provide value for money or return on investment – both thoughts were unfounded as far as your style of coaching is concerned.

I found that my plans were not as wide of the mark as I’d feared and that attributes that I always believed were strengths are, in fact, super strengths!  I particularly benefited from the face-to-face sessions that really got me to examine what I wanted to do and what I could do.

I found the whole experience confidence building - the creation of possibilities certainly lifts the spirit.

 Many people seek career coaching because of self-doubt. Your style of coaching helped to lift my fog of self-doubt leaving the way ahead much clearer.”

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Danny - Finance, Surrey, 50s

I was going to wait until my 60s to do what I loved but after working with Lucia I decided to just crack on with it.

After my time with Lucia, I decided to stop doing what society had been telling me I should be doing and start doing what I really wanted to do.  Her “superpowers” session had a huge impact on me.  Somehow, she could not only accurately see my strengths but helped me value them from a completely different angle.

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Helen - IT, Surrey, 50s

I really enjoyed [the career happiness workshop] - it was helpful in motivating me to get unstuck and to get focused.

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Maria - Finance, Surrey, 50s

Through discussion with Lucia, I came to be aware of what my "superpowers" were and how I felt when I was using them (which was fantastic, of course) which lead onto the prospect of leveraging them more in the future. I felt increasing excitement as we got deeper and deeper through the layers of thought and the discoveries at each stage.

It was an exhilarating journey of discovery which has resulted in Increased self-awareness, increased focus on what matters, increased hope and excitement about what's ahead in my journey.

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