Executive Coaching

Meet Marianne

Most people will have experienced “coaching” in some form or another but every coach is different. How can you know whether OptiMums Executive Coaching is for you? The short video below introduces you to Marianne. Assess for yourself whether her qualifications, skills and experience resonate with you and what you are looking for.

What should you be looking for?

Successful coaching conversations take place when you find someone with whom you can achieve a high level of rapport. Progress comes when you have confidence that your coach will create and maintain an environment of open, safe, confidential conversational flow during your session. Executive Coaching is usually goal focused and often leads to gaining a different perspective on immediate blockages. This in turn creates a new paradigm (way of thinking) offering possibilities for authentic changes in behaviour, alternative actions and breakthrough for clients. You should be looking for a coach who provides this environment. Key to success is helping you to uncover your true goal and reach toward it through purposeful change.


Marianne Fernandez

BA Hons 2.1 Business Studies

Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Distinction)

Author of Part-Time, Please!

Author of Mums Chat addressing 15 common early years challenges

Writer and Presenter of Mums Chat video collection supporting parents in partnership with RightNow Media, USA

Founder OptiMums

Coach Supervised, Fully Insured, EMCC Associate


Marianne describes her Executive Coaching style in the video above - tap the photo to view

“As a coach Marianne is fantastic as she listens well, puts you at ease to talk freely and asks just the right questions for you to find the answers that are already in your head. She also has so much experience herself, both working at and with senior levels and also being the mum with a successful career”

K Cockram

OptiMums

Executive Coaching

Testimonials

  • Dr L. Lafave, CTO

    “What I appreciated most about working with Marianne as a coach was the way she skillfully identified and applied highly effective frameworks to structure and engage based upon my goals. These frameworks helped me focus on action and rapidly changed my perspective. Best of all the frameworks are highly memorable so I find myself referring back to them on a day to day basis. In this way Marianne’s coaching has continued to deliver value to me long after our sessions.”

  • L. Derbyshire, Operations & Supply Chain Director

    “As an Executive Coach Marianne has challenged me in a thoughtful but provocative way with a style that is super calm. Marianne has an approach that is honest and genuine and she’s highly skilled in asking probing questions that ensure you come away with lots to reflect on. She is genuinely a consummate professional, has a high level of integrity and has been invaluable to both myself and my team’s development. There has been a positive impact to business performance through the coaching she has given and I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Marianne to anyone.”

  • J Caul, Managing Director

    “I always look forward to spending time with Marianne. She consistently has a very tangible, positive energy that seems to resonate with me. I leave our meetings feeling re energised, often with increased clarity on a matter at hand and certainly having enjoyed the time I set aside. It’s time away from the treadmill that is well invested”.

  • C. McMenaman, Regulatory Affairs & Compliance

    “Working with Marianne has been extremely rewarding and I believe she is a true master of her profession. Personally I have found Marianne’s previous industry experience to be important as she truly understood my challenges and I realised my experience was not unique to me alone, which was greatly reassuring.

    Meetings always felt like a conversation with a good friend over coffee. Marianne would listen carefully, reflect back on key points/observations, ask some very thought provoking questions and offer guidance on effective techniques where appropriate. I felt I was on a discovery realising things I actually understood in my heart of hearts.

    I now have a 5 year plan I am working towards achieving and I can confidently see myself progressing into a senior leadership role.

  • S. Lavigne, Freelance Travel / Music Writer

    “I started working with Marianne and it took less than 6 sessions for my life to take me on a completely new path, the path of authentic me, the path of following my dreams and achieving them. Marianne helped me unlock the power I had inside me to focus on the things that make me truly happy.

  • K Cockram, Principal Engineer

    “I approached Marianne whilst I was on maternity leave as I wasn’t happy returning to exactly the same role. I felt like there was something else I wanted but I wasn’t sure what. I found Marianne immediately very easy to open up to and we explored what was important to me and why to understand more about how my head works, what I find challenging in others and what gives me real energy and joy in life.

    I have now returned to work - straight into a role working for a Director as a Senior Manager. But the real result is that I now have more confidence in the many routes I could take from here.”

  • Wayne Bond, Strategic Director

    “Thank you so much for all your support. It made an unbelievable difference”.

Explore Executive Coaching

It all begins with a free, no obligation, 30 minute taster session. A phone call to discuss your needs, timings and coaching options. Marianne will assess whether coaching with her is the most appropriate route to meet your needs and you can assess whether Marianne is the right coach for you.

Let the journey being…