Associate Coaches
Georgie is pleased to work with a number of expert career coaches that offer a similar coaching approach to herself, across a broad range of career stages and industries:
Lis McGuire
~ MA Career Guidance with the Qualification in Career Guidance/Development (QCG/D) and a Registered Career Development Professional with The Career Development Institute.
Lis is all about helping people feel more confident, optimistic, and excited about their career. Whether someone is starting out, returning to work, or changing direction, Lis helps them feel good about what they bring to the table. Through personal guidance, Lis supports her clients to see and evaluate ways they can spend their time and energy and to identify, plan, and take positive next steps. Working with Lis enables them to celebrate the career management skills they have and to develop those they need to keep moving forwards in this fast-changing world.
Lis has worked in the careers sector for 20+ years, initially as the founder of Giraffe CVs and since 2018 as the owner of Sunrise Career Guidance. She works with adults and young people in a variety of contexts – in her private practice, in schools, and in a mental health charity.
Lis has recently completed the CDI Academy Professional Certificate Supporting Clients with Additional Needs. As a Registered Career Development Professional, Lis abides by the CDI Code of Ethics and is committed to continuous development of her practice.
Carolyn Parry
FRSA FCDI FHEA FIEEP RCDP
A multi-award-winning career and life coach, TEDx speaker, non-exec director, podcaster and author of her newly published book, 'Change Your Story', Carolyn Parry is the immediate past President, Chair of the Board, and Fellow of the Career Development Institute.
Her background includes a pivotal mid-life shift from a successful, but soul eroding 17-year management career across property, software, and publishing into career development work. She spent almost 15 years at Aberystwyth University, where she progressed from trainee careers adviser to careers and employability director before founding Career Alchemy, her career and life coaching practice in 2015. She specialises in supporting early and mid-career professionals through career change, business start-up, and career development and growth.
A member of the Careers Writers Association, her expertise and interests include career change, values, purpose, confidence and motivation, entrepreneurship, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the impact of AI on careers, and career well-being.
Karen Young
~ Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance (Distinction) + QCG, BSC (Hons) Human Psychology, Level 3 Counselling Skills, FAETC 730/7 Teaching in Further and Adult Education, Mental Health First Aider, Level 4 Safeguarding Practitioner.
For the past 20 years, Karen has enjoyed focusing in on helping people to explore the best ways to improve their own futures. This might involve supporting job and apprenticeship applications and interview processes, exploring career and study options, crafting plans to return from full-time parenthood with few qualifications, or helping to rebuild seemingly previously shattered lives by supporting the planning and execution of university applications. Karen’s work is inspired by giving clients the tools they need in a supportive way and showing them how to grow the power to transform their own lives.
Past clients have included a world-class musician, a finance officer, a canal worker, a senior local government manager, a script writer, a RAF officer, a TV Floor Manager, several builders, an events coordinator and many others from all walks of life. Karen has also worked with many clients who are neurodivergent as well as clients who have disabilities and clients with a range of barriers to either study or employment, including ex-offenders and those undergoing substance misuse rehabilitation. Karen’s inclusive approach supports your career development through the most challenging times in life.
Karen works in-person (face-to-face) with clients in the Stroud / Gloucestershire area.