Marianne Craig MCC

My passion is to work with individuals to dramatically improve their personal and professional effectiveness and to achieve their full potential and impact.

I work with people who are ready for the challenge of change - who are at a crossroads in their life or career and who want to discover their path. I also enjoy working with people who are growing or starting a business and people who want to make a difference in the world.

I have lived and worked in New York, Sydney, Geneva and Edinburgh. I have eighteen years as a business owner, consultant and writer. Previously I have worked in public, private and voluntary sectors and have extensive management experience. I now live with my partner and our daughter in the seaside town of Brighton in the UK. Nowadays my phone clients say they enjoy hearing the sound of seagulls when I work in the garden or by an open window. The sounds remind them of a life beyond work........

Personal and Professional Coach and Director of Firework Coaching Company

Clients have included executives and managers from Barclays, Glaxo Smith Kline, Lehmans, 02, Goldman Sachs, BBC, NHS, Swiss Re

High School and University; Graduate Coach U Training Programme 2001; Continuing Professional Development

BA Honours Sociology First Class, International Coach Federation Master Certified Caoch (MCC)

Edinburgh Univesity, University of East London, Coach U, Academy of Coaching Supervision

One to one telephone, Skype and face to face with email support . Step by step structured career and life transition coaching programme (Firework Career Coaching Programme)

London and Brighton, UK

English and French

$200 - $1000

I offer a complimentary consultation amd I will call you any where in the world. Just email me your number.

"Why was I looking for coaching? Originally it was for my career. Whilst having the appearance of success and a relaxed lifestyle I was feeling at odds with everything around me and was concerned about having reached a plateau in my career. I was giving in to self-doubt and was avoiding more and more of the challenges in life. This was the first time in my life I had felt like this and it was very uncomfortable. My coaching calls with Marianne produced step changes in my confidence, happiness and ability to excel at my career. I learned how to take the pressure off myself, discover my real skills and how to apply them freely in my work and family life. I believe that it was Marianne’s relaxed manner, experience and deep understanding of people that produced such immediate and positive results. I saw the career success I had hoped for but I had not counted the added bonus of re-discovering old friendships, sleep and my artistic and creative sides." SP Director of Sales and Marketing, Newmetrics Ltd.

"My own background is in training and facilitation and, with fifteen years in the field, I was keen to select a coach for myself very carefully. Marianne's experience and credentials were impressive but my criteria for selecting a coach was also based on the need for someone who would be prepared to work with and without formulas! Many coaches can be driven by prescription and recipes for development/success without having developed the wisdom and confidence to find a different path each time that will truly enable others to find their own answers. I believe Marianne achieves this." MG Trainer and Facilitator

"Coaching helped me determine what I wanted from a career and my working life. Since coaching I have started my own company, an idea explored during coaching sessions. Within the first month of the company being set up I have procured contracts for the next fifteen months – including work with Oxford University - I would never have imagined possible prior to coaching. Coaching helped me to look in the mirror - what my life and habits were about, and evaluate if that was what I really wanted. I valued the fact that I could talk openly about the issues in my life without feeling silly or self-conscious, and that you listened. Laughter figured too. I also valued the ideas, options you gave which was both creative and grounded. Creative in that you helped me consider ideas I would not have identified myself. Grounded in that coaching was not airy-fairy or twee - but intelligent and underpinned by human psychology expertise and techniques and broad experience of life and business. I also valued the fact that often the solutions to my issues were in my own head, that coaching teased the answers from within - which I find more powerful for meaningful change than being told to do something by someone else." LE Marketing Consultant