Hi, I'm Karen Felton
I’m a career change success coach, enabling people to understand their strengths so they can be happy in their career.
When you understand your strengths everything becomes clear and you'll know how to find a role that aligns with what matters to you.
I help people like you find the confidence to successfully make a big change in your career.
Throughout my corporate career in financial services and HR I loved coaching people. Spotting their strengths, enabling them to develop their capability and their careers. I especially loved it when I enabled them to realise they wanted to do something completely different, although I didn't tell my own bosses this!
I love empowering people to be their best selves and to find what matters to them. And I love inspiring people to find or create a career they love.
After working with me, my clients say they feel motivated and confident.
They trust in their skills, feel they can accomplish whatever they want and are ready to face new challenges.
They find new careers, new ways of working and new ways of being - in line with their strengths and what matters to them.
I believe everyone deserves the opportunity to be their best and whole selves at work
I want everyone to be able to access strengths and career change coaching because I know what a transformational effect it can have on our work and on our lives.
So I keep my prices affordable so that more people can access my services.
And if you're not yet ready to invest financially in your career, please help yourself to my free resources, all designed to enable you to get started.
Why do I specialise in strengths-focused career change coaching?
I spent my corporate career in HR in the Insurance sector. I loved leading my L&D team to perform at their best by using their strengths. And I loved coaching people to understand their strengths so they could align their career with what enables them to shine.
Through my work I came to understand and appreciate the impact working to our strengths has on our motivation, wellbeing and performance.
I also saw how, when people are in the right role and workplace for them, where they can use their strengths and their work is aligned with their values, their career and capability flourished.
When people are able to be their best selves, it creates a ripple effect for them, their teams and organisation. This effect also ripples out to their personal lives, their relationships and interactions with family and friends.
When I left my corporate career after redundancy in 2017 I went travelling overseas and took some time to reflect on what I wanted to do next. Exploring my own strengths, values and what matters to me, I realised that enabling people to be their best selves in their career would enable me to use my strengths and contribute to that ripple effect.
So now I’m a strengths and career change coach, specialising in enabling people to understand their own strengths, values and what matters to them so they can thrive in their career and create their own ripple effect.
My mission is simple:
To help you understand your strengths and be happy in your work.
What am I like as a coach? I'll let my clients tell you
"Very easy and enlightening"
"Very much felt like a collaboration"
"Warm and friendly"
"Built rapport and trust which immediately put me at ease"
" Karen's advice is very clear, honest, direct, caring and supportive"
" A kind and calm manner"
"Your warmth and sincerity shone through"
"You have awesome listening skills!"
"You exceeded my expectations"
"Supportive and encouraging"
"I'd highlight Karen's positive energy, empathy and kindness"
If you haven’t already noticed, I’m a huge advocate for people using their strengths at work.
Here’s how I’ll use my strengths to perform at my best for you:
Enabler & Catalyst:
I naturally see your strengths, talents, and achievements. I want you to succeed and I’ll enable you to achieve the change you're looking for.
Unconditionality & Curiosity:
I accept you as you are. No judgements. I aim to understand you and what's right for you, with empathy and kindness. Then we collaborate to enable you to create an inspiring career that's right for you and that lights you up and enables you to be your best self.
Personalisation & Relationship deepener:
This is all about you and what's right for you. You're unique, with your own skills, strengths, achievements and dreams. My strengths enable me to understand and connect with you so we can create an action plan to make the changes you dream of.
Helping people understand and connect with their values plays a huge part in what I do. Because when you live and work in line with your values life is easier and better.
Here's how my values will show up for you:
Integrity:
I'll only deliver what you need or want; and will never promise to deliver something I can't or that's not right for you.
Learning & growth:
I love to learn new things and pass that learning onto others to help them be their best selves. You'll get coaching that builds on proven methods and you'll be able to sustain the benefits for future growth.
Collaboration:
I won't tell you what to do. Our work together is very much a collaboration because I genuinely believe this is how you'll get the best results for you.
So, who am I when I'm not being a strengths and career change coach?
I live in the Highlands and when I'm not working you'll often find me walking in the hills or in my garden. I love to be outside!
I also teach fitness classes because it's fun and I love enabling people to improve their fitness and reduce pain.
And last but not least, I LOVE to travel! I've taken three career breaks, totalling several years, to travel overseas. My last trip was to Asia and S America from September 2017 to May 2020 (check out some of my photos below). I love exploring new places and meeting people. I've heard so many fascinating life stories over the years. And even with language differences I can always make connections.
