At Big Life Solutions, we help your team thrive by unlocking their true potential. Using our innovative ‘E3’ approach to coaching, training and consulting, we will enable you to build a powerful, motivated team that consistently exceeds expectations in every area.
At Big Life Solutions, we help your team thrive by unlocking their true potential. Using our innovative ‘E3’ approach to coaching, training and consulting, we will enable you to build a powerful, motivated team that consistently exceeds expectations in every area.
Understand where you are and where you want to go.
Gain the tools to transform your vision into action.
Build confidence to thrive and achieve extraordinary results.
E3 will empower you with a level of self-awareness and confidence that equips you with the capabilities you need to navigate uncertainty and flourish in adversity, no matter the size of your business.
That’s hardly an earth-shattering revelation. And it’s not rocket science. But so many of us aren’t reaching our full potential.
When you each understand who you are and what you bring to the table (good and bad), you will be able to navigate the twists and turns that lie ahead with confidence, not only do you flourish in your role, but the whole business soars.
No more revolving door. Just a well-oiled, high-performing team who are happy, resilient business delivering way, way beyond even your wildest expectations.
Throughout my career, I’ve worn many hats. Consultant, trainer, coach, mentor. I’ve been called a visionary, advocate, pioneer, disruptor, and change catalyst.
I am many things. I have done many things. But it all comes down to one title for me.
I am a Change Architect. I am dedicated to helping businesses and individuals break free from the limitations holding them back, to encourage them to chase their dreams with confidence and conviction, and unlock every aspect of their true potential.
Genuine Expertise:I have an extensive background in personal growth and development, corporate vision and strategy, and positive psychology, underpinned by recognised qualifications and accreditations.
Expertise Meets Experience:Tap into more than thirty years of experience helping businesses and individuals thrive through consulting, coaching, and training across a wide range of sectors and industries.
Tailored Transformation:There is no one-size-fits-all solution. So, whether it’s coaching, training, or consulting, we start with a basic blueprint and shape it to fit your specific requirements, ensuring you get the outcomes that you want.
Incredible Change:My vision of ‘a generation living the life it was made for’ is about real transformation. It’s a vision that drives me, keeps me awake at night. And that will ensure you get the transformation you want.
Practical Methodology:My entire career has required me to walk the walk. I know the theory, but I also know the practice, which means I get it, and I know how to roll my sleeves up, get the job done, and help you do the same.
Personalised Attention:When you work with me, you work with me closely. We may bring other people from across my network to the table from time to time, but from beginning to end my focus is on you.
Flexible Framework:You’re busy. Your team is busy. You’ve got deadlines to meet and more competing demands on your time and resources than you can shake a stick at. Which is why I fit in with you, not the other way around.
Continued Compassion:When we work together, I’m all-in. For the duration of your project, you get access to me. Got questions? Fire away. Had a thought? Share it with me. And that access to me remains even after the project is over so we can continue supporting one another.
We know your resources—time, money, and energy—are valuable. That’s why we tailor every solution to meet your unique goals. Here’s how we work together to deliver results that place you in the drivers seat:
Discover:
Scope:
Design:
Implement:Together, we roll out the plan with minimal disruption and maximum impact for you, your team, and your business.
The ability to identify my strengths and weaknesses in relation to both my business partners and my clients in such a clear way has been transformative. The combination of insightful analysis and personal coaching is a winning combination.
The ability to identify my strengths and weaknesses in relation to both my business partners and my clients in such a clear way has been transformative. The combination of insightful analysis and personal coaching is a winning combination.
Coaching with Andy was a gamechanger. It gave me a new perspective from which to consider my strengths.
In particular, I benefitted so much from memorising a few simple ‘mantras’ and applying a few straightforward strategies to encourage me to approach decisions from a different angle and perspective. It has been incredibly useful in helping me to lead in a more rounded and balanced way.
Having Andy guide me through the process provided a great opportunity to firstly recognise what my strengths and my weaknesses are, and how I lean on different response mechanisms in different environments and situations.
Having a deeper understanding of key drivers within, provided me the knowledge to reflect and activity consider my presence and approach and how the different elements of behaviour and attributes impact outcomes.
Dissecting the preferences I have for behaviour and mindset, and really taking the time to understand how this plays out on a day-to-day basis is so beneficial to every avenue of life. I was able to gain a deep understanding of why I behave, react and function in the way I do, which in turn enables me to move mindfully through spaces, whether this be work or personal life.
Andy was amazing at delivering this insight, allowing time and space to reflect on all the important elements of mindset and behaviour. I was able to better understand how my presence, beliefs and attributes impact a space. Being able to move forward with more awareness has helped me to better navigate how I communicate, deliver and perform.
Ultimately becoming more attuned with oneself has allowed me to get more out of myself and my team.
The content of the programs is outstanding. What you learn is relevant, practical, and easy to understand and implement, which makes the impact all the more real and long lasting.
One particular area that stands out for me is the quality of the content. It’s well researched, pragmatic and effective. That alone is a rarity in an industry awash with inferior content.
As a coach myself its this level of impact and quality I expect to deliver to my clients to enable them to achieve sustained change in their lives.
I was quite sceptical initially, as I’ve used lots of psychometrics and coaching tools in the past with very limited benefit. I have to say however I found the process Andy used, and the sessions we had, incredibly helpful.
The sessions gave me deeper insight into the narrative I tell myself on how I interact with the people and world around me, and revealed areas where things may not be as clearcut as I tell myself.
I had a number of “aha” moments during the sessions and the whole process has really helped me to take a fresh look at areas in my life where I’d like to remove some of the cognitive dissonance and bring greater harmony and self-acceptance to who I am and how I show up in the world.
It was so interesting to see the inner tensions going on inside of me & learn how to help my heart and mind align so that I can move forward in life.
Through this process I was able to see outside of myself and look at challenges in my life more objectively. It was an empowering experience which gave me motivation to move forward with authenticity.
Personal growth and development sits at the heart of human flourishing. Using a combination of positive psychology, neuroscience, psychometrics, guided learning, together with traditional coaching and training methods, my training and coaching programmes deliver the insights, knowledge, and skills you and your team need to consistently and continuously play to perform at your best across every domain of your life and work.
Unpack and apply the skills and tools you need to build unshakable resilience and thrive in every area of your life and work.
Learn the skills you need to develop levels of Emotional Intelligence that will propel you to success in every area of your life.
Get to grips with the six building blocks of wellbeing and learn the skills you need to live at your best every single day.
Focused one-to-one coaching sessions tailored to unlock the momentum and progress you crave. Use them alongside training courses, or as a stand-alone development tool across your business.
Develop the insights and tools you need to adapt to changing business and personal landscapes, play to your strengths, live and lead with authenticity, and thrive in in every area of your life.
Build a tailored package to meet your exact needs. Whether it's training, coaching, or a combination of both, I'll work with you to construct a programme that delivers the outcomes you want.
Employees who are stressed take 2x more sick days than those who are not. Stressed employees are 2.6x more likely to leave their job. In the region of 17.9 million working days are lost to work-related stress, depression or anxiety every year. Poor mental health costs UK employers an estimated £56 billion annually.
But how much do you know about the causes of stress? Or how it affects the mind and body? Or what you can do to help yourself and your team manage the stress you experience, so those stats don’t become your personal and business reality?
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Great question. While there are some similarities, the differences are important to recognise.
Training is about learning specific knowledge, skills, or processes. It typically follows a structured curriculum where an expert (the trainer) shares information with a group (the students), teaching them ‘how to’ do something.
Training is ideal when you want to build foundational knowledge or learn established procedures.
Coaching, on the other hand, is a more personalised, exploratory process. Rather than providing answers, a coach asks powerful questions that help you discover your own solutions.
Typically, a coach will work one-on-one or with small groups to help individuals unlock their potential and overcome specific challenges.
The fundamental difference between someone wearing a coaching hat and someone wearing a training hat is that a coach believes that you already have the answers within you – their role is to help you uncover them, while a trainer recognises that they have the answers you are looking for and their job is to share them with you and ensure you understand them.
Using a driving analogy, while training teaches you how to drive, coaching helps you decide where you want to go and the best route for you to take.
Both approaches have their place in professional development. Training is excellent for building core skills and knowledge, while coaching helps you apply that knowledge to your unique situation and challenges.
Training provides the tools; coaching helps you master using them in your specific context.
The fact that training and coaching can work so effectively together is why I offer the chance to combine both approaches – using training to establish foundational knowledge and coaching to support implementation and overcome individual (and organisational) barriers to success.
Absolutely. There is a group option for coaching and all the training programmes are delivered in a group format.
Each coaching programme is delivered on a one-to-one basis, but I also offer interactive Team Days, which are based on the output from the psychometrics used as part of the programme you chose. These build on the individual learning and insights and are aimed at helping teams apply their individual gains at a team and organisation level.
When it comes to the training programmes, these are always in a group setting, which can either be exclusively for you and the group you put together (for example your senior leaders, your whole organisation, your networking group etc.).
Or, you can join an open group where you attend with people from all over the world and all different sectors, which offers a great networking opportunity and a chance to engage with the perspectives and knowledge those other people bring that you may not otherwise encounter
In the main, coaching sessions are delivered online, although it is possible to have sessions delivered offline if that is preferable. Most people and organisations seem to prefer to have their sessions online, however, stating that it makes them less likely to have a detrimental impact on workloads and capacity as you and your team can schedule sessions at times to suit you.
If you take the team day option with your coaching programme, though, these are always delivered offline and face-to-face.
Training sessions are delivered online, too, which allows attendees to log in from wherever they may be. However, sessions happen at set times, so there is slightly less flexibility in terms of scheduling.
That said, if you are booking a programme for exclusive delivery (e.g. just to participants from your organisation) I will always work with you to ensure sessions are schedules at a frequency and at times that work for you.
All training programmes are delivered ‘live’ online. Each session is held via a Zoom Session, which allows active participation, enabling attendees to interact with me and each other.
Sessions are recorded and you have lifetime access to the recordings of your (and only your) group, enabling you to revisit topics as you need to. This also means that if you miss a session, you can still access the learning.
Each coaching programme uses a range of psychometric personality profiling tools, each of which has a coached debrief. Those sessions tend to be around 2-hours long. Once we move into actual coaching, however, the sessions are 60 minutes each.
Training programme sessions are scheduled at 2-hours each, but I always stay online for at least 30 minutes after the session officially ends so that you get chance to ask questions and, if you want to, network and share thoughts and insights from the session with other people in your group.
Absolutely. I always make myself available via email, so if you have questions or want to bounce ideas off me, all you need to do is drop me a line.
You also have lifetime access to all of the tools and resources linked to whichever programmes you have completed, so you will always be able to tap into those as and when you need to. And, periodically, I add new tools to the library, so you will also benefit from having access to those.
The short answer is “No.” However, while I have never been asked to provide a refund, I would treat every case on its own merits should that scenario ever arise.
The reason I have that policy is that I always engage with you before anyone signs on the dotted line and before any money changes hands. That enables us to get super-clear on what you want to achieve and how we will work together to deliver those outcomes.
This means that, unlike where you just take a punt at an online course that sounds OK only to discover it wasn’t what you thought, neither of us is going into the relationship blind = you have plenty of opportunity to explore what I am offering and whether it is a good fit for you (and, indeed, whether I am a good fit for you and your organisation).
That said, as an ICF (International Coaching Federation) accredited coach, I have signed up to the Global Code of Ethics for Coaching, so if ever a situation should arise where you were unhappy and wanted to explore a refund, we would have that conversation and be guided by what is set out in that code (you can see a copy of it here: https://coachingfederation.org/ethics/code-of-ethics).
FAQ’s are great, but chances are you’ve got more questions than I’ve covered here, so feel free to use the form here to drop me a line and ask away.
