Develop and achieve your potential

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance

Building confidence, resilience and self-belief
Creating a development plan and moving forward in your career
Clarifying what you want (and how to get it)
Developing as a leader
Preparing to face challenging situations
Getting the best from your team
Dealing with difficult people or relationships at work
Conquering feeling stuck or overwhelmed

What to expect

Our approach

We partner with clients to create a safe and confidential space for them to think about their professional and personal challenges, helping them to articulate their goals, achieve their potential and continue to learn and develop. Drawing on our experience and using a range of coaching techniques, we aim to bring the right mix of support and challenge to help clients move towards their goals.

Every client is unique, as is the context in which they work and the outcomes they are seeking. Sometimes goals change as coaching progresses.

What's involved

Every coaching relationship starts with a free, no obligation, online session, at which we discuss what the client wants to get from coaching and consider whether and how we might work together. This includes agreeing the number and frequency of sessions, usually no more than six. If clients are sponsored, typically, we then have a three-way meeting to agree how both the organisation and the individual will benefit from the coaching experience, covering things like goals for coaching, confidentiality, progress updates etc.

We can also offer Hogan personality assessment and feedback, which can create the context for self-awareness and growth.

Lynn Simpson

Lynn understands the need to find real world solutions in complex and challenging situations. She set up Thirteen Coaching because, having been coached herself, she knew how much more you can achieve with someone on your side. Lynn is a qualified executive coach and Chartered FCIPD with over 30 years' experience as a trusted senior HR leader across sectors including manufacturing, finance, IT, engineering and public sector outsourcing. Hogan Assessment certified, she has led transformation and organisation development interventions, including establishing talent programmes in the UK and internationally. She is a member of EMCC and subscribes to EMCC’s Code of Ethics. She works with people at different stages in their careers, from junior professional to chief executive, in public, private and listed companies as well as not-for-profit organisations.

If you'd like to find out how coaching can help you, with a free, no obligation, online session, please get in touch.

Get in touch

Client feedback

“I worked with Lynn to assess what I wanted from the next stage of my career. Lynn opened up valuable new perspectives, enabling me to look at my circumstances from different angles. Lynn listens carefully, asks the right questions and uses insightful techniques to make you think differently and reflect. I am now excited about the opportunity I have ahead.”

A, Group Legal Counsel

Lynn’s coaching helped me decide which areas I needed to work on and how to make changes that would equip me to deal with challenges at work. We quickly got to the root of the issue, and I made a lot of progress in a short time.”

Jacqui, Director, Marketing Operations

“I wanted to reflect on where I was in my career and to start to take more control over my forward path. Lynn listened intently and was challenging without making me feel uncomfortable. I left each meeting feeling that had been time well spent and with food for thought. Lynn gave me confidence to challenge some of the behaviours that had set in and break certain cycles. “

Lucy, Executive Director HR

“Lynn put me at ease straight away, and really created a kind and supportive space during the sessions, so I felt I could be open and honest. Lynn was so good at helping me to look inwards and examine my beliefs and reactions to different situations, and gently challenged my own perceptions. She helped me find some practical ways to take more control of a situation and manage my feelings around it. I remember finishing each session feeling very energised and ready to take on some of the challenges I was facing at the time.“

Caroline, Internal Communications Business Partner

“I needed support to overcome a challenging period in my career if I was to move forwards. Lynn had the ability to draw things out of me that I didn’t know were there and to make me reflect on where I was, where I have been in my life and work, and what I needed to move forwards to gain true enjoyment out of work and life. In addition to becoming resilient in my role and coping with the stresses of work better, I got so much more. I got the belief in my own abilities and strength to move forwards and step out of my comfort zone and move from my role to a different role. I was ready and prepared for the change thanks to the support Lynn gave me. I can’t say the transition wasn’t hard, but I never would have been brave enough to make such a big change or strong enough to manage the change before coaching.”

Sam, CEO