Always a Better Way

About Me

I’m Tony, an established, professional life and wellness coach and mentor who is also a Yoga and Meditation practitioner. My goal is to help you through everyday life by providing, Personal Professional Performance Life Coaching, accredited by the Coaching Academy, covering a wide range of areas, including, but not limited to, reinvention, resilience, mindfulness and image coaching. I have worked with a diverse range of clients, for a variety of different reasons, helping them to achieve their goals, improving their outlook and other areas of their lives.

My Services

My services cover a wide spectrum of coaching options, and are tailored entirely to you.

With a diploma from the Coaching Academy in Personal Performance Coaching and also Continuous Process Development accredited with the Coaching Academy https://www.the-coaching-academy.com/

Take a look at the coaching and mentoring I’ve provided in the past to get more of an idea of what I do.

My Skills

I am pleased to have become a Trustee for Headway East London , since December 2018, having previously assisted many members of this organisation, as part of my voluntary work at this Charity for 10 years in total. Here is more information about this organisation: www.headwayeastlondon.org

I have provided Life coaching to members of the organisation Attend ABI https://abi.attend.org.uk/, working with them, to set and achieve their goals, usually on recovering from a life changing illness/injury, like a stroke.

Over the course of three months, I coached and mentored a client, facing many hurdles as a result of a neurological illness, to achieve her goal, to paint and draw. This empowered her with a skill that would be effective in her ongoing recovery.

I have assisted a senior employee of a Financial Company, who recovered from a stroke, to identify a new vocation, using my personal skills, knowledge and professional contacts, in this area. This was performed at the request of a vocational consultant, who identified my skills to provide guidance and support in this area, to work with the client identifying a new Vocation to assist in the client’s recovery.

I have trained a number of Health Care Professionals and Speech and Language therapy students in how to communicate more effectively with people with Aphasia (a communication disability as a result of a Stroke or a Brain Injury), using a variety of techniques. This was facilitated for a leading Charitable organisation, Aphasia Re-Connect , which focus on these skills and in which I was highly involved with as one of my Charitable initiatives.

 The Coaching Academy Diploma in Personal Performance Life Coaching – www.the-coaching-academy.com/

 Continuous Process Development Award for Life Coaching from the Coaching Academy for the following accredited activities:

Financial Coaching
Money; like it or loathe it, it is in your life. The issue of finances affects all aspects of people’s lives; including their relationships, their careers and their health. Attend this non-finance-based coach training day to learn loads of fantastic exercises to do with your clients to help them master their beliefs and their attitudes to money.

Finances, or the lack of them, will have a major impact upon the goals that your clients set for themselves and may often be an unspoken barrier to them creating the life they really want to live.

Most people say that they want to achieve financial independence, but lack the know-how and confidence to work out how much that would be and how they might achieve it. Learn non-threatening ways to help your clients get a realistic financial plan in place to facilitate their other goals in their lives.

This Continuous Process Development day, which I attended was run by Sarah Urquhart, who has developed her interest in money matters over many years. She ís not an accountant or financial advisor, but instead looks at the emotional side of money and enables her clients to look into their financial mirrors, uncover the beliefs driving behaviours that are creating financial shortage for them and discover new ways that they can create
- Developing FQ – You’ve heard of IQ and EQ, now help your clients develop their FQ (Financial Intelligence)
- Establishing financial priorities
- Uncovering financial obstacles
- Getting to know your financial personality
- The emotional side of money
- Getting to the bottom of unhelpful financial beliefs and creating beliefs that will empower your clients’ financial futures
- Using the power of positive thoughts and language to create financial goals
- Bringing your clients’ financial hearts, minds and souls together
- Creating easy financial plans
Image Coaching
This Continuous Process Development day, which I attended, was relevant to anyone working with individuals who want to create a powerful image and to have a positive impact on a variety of audiences. I developed a number of tools, techniques and top tips, which I am able to use with my potential clients.
- An understanding of your own personal brand and how to maximise that brand in a positive way
- Defining and updating your compelling brand
- Knowing why first impressions are lasting impressions
- Enhancing your effective executive image & communication to create a positive 1st impression
- 3 elements of powerful communication that make an impact
- 5 common executive image mistakes and how to avoid them
- Styling for success - how to dress for a promotion or important meeting rather than appearing invisible
- Recognising the power in your posture and gestures
- The power and meaning of colour in your wardrobe.
Mindfulness and Coaching
This Mindfulness tool, covers the following:
- What mindfulness is and isn't.
- The neuroscience behind mindfulness.
- How mindfulness can help people deal with stress and improve health and well-being
- How mindfulness can enhance your activities.
- Opportunities to share mindfulness.
- Ways to further develop a client's mindful practice
- Practical experience of 3 mindfulness techniques
Neuroscience and Coaching

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, in more recent times it has evolved into a far more interdisciplinary science – particularly within social, cognitive and effective (emotion) psychology disciplines.

This day, which I attended, covered an introduction to Neuroscience, providing an overview of what it is and how a raised awareness of the field of neuroscience can add value to the quality of coaching taking place. The relevant elements of neuroscience, when combined with a coaching approach, have a positive impact on motivation, goal setting and action planning.
Reinvention Coaching
Personal 'reinvention' is a life changing experience that will benefit most people at some time in their lives. The term reinvention is really all about re-evaluating oneself and ones life when a major change in personal circumstances is approaching. This could be retirement, redundancy, career transition or simply a need to alter ones direction in life.

Whether you are considering helping clients who want to reinvent their work situation in part or completely, the concepts and strategies covered in this course will be wholly relevant.

Although this thought-provoking and interactive workshop has a bias towards people who are retiring from their usual place of work but aren't ready to stop work, the principles can apply to anyone who recognises the need to effect a meaningful and fulfilling transition.

Simon Drury, the facilitator of the seminar which I attended, specialises in working with clients who are approaching a major change in their work situation such as retirement, redundancy and career transition. The key support is to help them design and create a meaningful, fulfilling and exciting 'next chapter'. Using his extensive corporate experience, Simon has a wealth of insight into the psychology of 'reinvention' and what it means to the individual.

'Reinvention' Coaching: Transitioning through major change comprises theory, activities and interactive exercises that will enable you to begin to explore and understand the different meanings of 'reinvention', the psychology of motivation, the importance of self-perception and life purpose.

You will leave the workshop with...
- A broad knowledge of 3 motivational theories
- An understanding of how motivation is a key component of 'reinvention' planning
- An understanding of how self-image plays a major role in how the individual thinks and behaves
- A deeper knowledge of the fears and concerns individuals may have about their transition
- A recognition that there may well be implications for other parties of an individual's decision to 'reinvent' themselves
- A set of questions that you have created that will enable you to confidently enter the field of 'reinvention' coaching
Resilience Coaching
Many people seek coaching for help with managing stress, particularly in relation to 'high-stakes' events such as sitting exams, making board-level presentations or competing at the highest levels in sport.

This workshop, which I attended, provided me with the skills to assist my clients in gaining control of their stress, and, hence, of their lives.

This included the following.
- 3 Dimensional Approach to Stress Coaching: The "Stressors" Approach, The Signs of Strain" Approach, The "Transactional" Approach
- The Relationship between Pressure, Stress and Effective Performance
- Locus of Control
- Type A & Type B Personalities
- Coaching for Relaxation
- The A-P-E-T Model of Stress Coaching
- Survival Mode versus Competency Mode
- Stress and Psychosomatic Health
- Transactional Analysis
- Exploring Values - Clients' and Coaches'
- Action-Planning

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