Natalie is an excellent supervisor. As a practising coach it is important to continue to build up a range of effective strategies to support coachees to achieve their goals. There are many models to enable coaches to work with clients and these models can act like ‘lego’ bricks to create a structure through which coachees are able to achieve their goals or to modify their behaviour. However, tried and tested a coaching model is, it may not always provide a secure fit to help the coachee on their journey. To understand how to become a highly effective coach, that person must have a good understanding of themselves. Natalie’s strength as a supervisor has encouraged me to reflect on myself as a coach. She has enabled me to deepen my thinking and understanding of myself, my personal development and what makes me ‘tick’. Understanding myself is integral to my role as a coach and ultimately in helping others on their journey to achieve their goals and to find themselves.

Natalie uses her expertise as a supervisor to explore the impact of asking the right questions to open up corridors towards finding solutions. Natalie has been particularly good at holding a mirror up to me as a coach to enable me to see my personality and presence as a coach and the impact these have on my work. From this process I have been able to redefine ways in which I work with clients to enable them to gain the best experience possible from my coaching. Natalie’s supervision has meant that I feel more confident when I coach others. I am able to draw down on a number of personal strategies to deepen the impact of the coaching process with my clients.

Natalie has been my coach-supervisor for over six months and I believe that she has enhanced my work as a coach enormously during that time.

The Smart Supervision programme has been a worthwhile investment of my time and energy; always fun, insightful, and an enlightening learning experience.

I always appreciate your bubbliness and amusing Natalie-isms. Thanks for bringing your self to the sessions and for helping us redefine professionalism 👍😊 and thus inviting others to do the same. 

I love supervision but the group I was in was not challenging me so when I read that Smart Supervision promised to go deeper than traditional supervision, I signed up. I didn’t regret it. I joined a diverse group of people I hadn’t met before, from different backgrounds all willing to go into deeper reflection and even the uncomfortable zone at times. I learnt new techniques and gained insights into existentialism that I hadn’t expected to. Natalie is vibrant and authentic, which matches my energy so I felt very comfortable in the sessions.