Coaching

Coaching with Soar Development gives you the focus, clarity, and confidence to overcome challenges, unlock your strengths, and move towards your personal or professional goals.

  • A free 30-minute initial consultation to explore your goals
  • 1-to-1 tailored coaching sessions
  • Practical tools and strategies
  • Space to prioritise competing demands
  • Ongoing support and accountability

Executive/Leadership Coaching

Being a senior leader or business owner can often feel like a lonely place. Executive Coaching with Soar Development provides a confidential space where you can reflect, be challenged, and explore new perspectives. Whether you want to sharpen your decision-making, focus on business development, or simply have someone to bounce ideas off, coaching offers the clarity and support you need to stay focused and effective at the top.

Parental Returners Coaching

Returning to work after parental leave can be a daunting transition. Coaching with Soar Development gives parents the time, space, and confidence to re-establish their career alongside family life. Together, we’ll focus on balancing your personal and professional identity so you can return to work feeling confident, motivated, and ready for the next stage of your journey.

Coaching for Female Small Business Owners

Running a business can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling family, work, and endless demands. As a business coach, Claire works with female small business owners to provide focus, clarity, and accountability. Coaching helps you challenge self-doubt, create a clear plan, and move your business forward with confidence.

Personal Coaching

If you feel stuck, unmotivated, or unsure of what’s next, Personal Coaching can help you regain clarity and direction. Whether you have a specific goal in mind or simply feel ready for change, coaching provides the focus and confidence to take the next step towards a more fulfilling future. Sessions are available online or face-to-face (within 15 miles of Oundle).

Coaching Supervision

As a qualified Coach Supervisor with extensive experience, including tutoring on the University of Cambridge’s Coaching Certificate, Claire provides supportive and reflective supervision for coaches at all stages of their career. Coaching Supervision is a space to explore your practice, develop your skills, and ensure you’re working at your best for your clients.

Why Choose Us?

Award Winning

Outstanding reputation

Proven Results

Our Reviews

Dipali P

Great working with other women, loved the focus of the course as women have different barriers to progression, so this environment made it much easier to share and be honest, so outcomes were more realistic and actually helpful.

Kay T

Refreshing in every sense: A chance to reflect on the whats, whys, and hows of your career; done in an environment where you are supported and challenged. This course is like nothing else I have ever done - inspirational.

Andrew Willis

Claire is a knowledgeable and insightful Learning and Development professional who quickly cultivates positive relationships with peers and senior manager colleagues. She has an innate ability to quickly identify the exact learning need and then develop creative solutions to address. I have found that she is trusted by those she works with, works to a very high standard and possesses great integrity. A pleasure to work with.

Activate Learning

CEO

"The whole day was an inspiration, hearing other people's aspirations and goal setting. Positivity was 'soaring'.

CEO

Coaching Client

Thank you for all your support and listening ear which I have felt has contributed to getting me to where I am now. I would have no hesitation in recommending you to colleagues.

Career Development

Project Leader for Women in Diplomacy

I have worked with Claire on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's flagship Women in Diplomacy project: a career development programme for female diplomats from the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland. I have been impressed by Claire's ability to quickly grasp the learning needs of a diverse international cohort and to understand how her training fits in with the project's wider objectives in a complex political environment. Claire has been responsive, flexible, open to challenge, enthusiastic and dedicated. It's been a pleasure!

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Head of Manufacturing

Claire has enabled me, coached me and given me confidence throughout my journey as a senior leader, resulting in a promotion sooner than expected. Claire's style is supportive, questioning and she has the ability to summarise in such a way that it makes me teel listened too and understood. I have been able to apply this to my own team with some excellent results building a strong team around me. / highly recommend Claire to anyone, especially as a female in a male dominated environment.

Stannah

Joanne Lord

Claire is an excellent trainer and motivator, she enables people to realise their potential through aspirational thinking and workshops designed to harness individual strengths for positives outcomes for onward progression.

Senior Head of Department

Nicola Fraser

I had the pleasure of working alongside Claire on a project for DMU delivering Constructive Conversation Workshops and evaluating a forward thinking strategy for the Organisational Development team. I found Claire to be professional, creative and committed to producing high quality work through active listening and teamwork. I look forward to working with her again in the future.

Dragonfly HR Ltd

Aly King-Smith

Claire is a joy to collaborate with. Straight and true, Claire is full of integrity and authenticity. She's committed, highly qualified, experienced - and importantly, very committed to the benefits of positive psychology. l've enjoyed watching her be brave in her business and you will find a highly competent trainer and coach.

Director at Clearworks

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