Our mission...
We're committed to empowering WUN members by providing exceptional coaching support during pivotal moments in their careers, helping them excel and rise within the utility industry. We've identified common themes that often hinder women's progress and intensify self-imposed pressure. Our personalised coaching tackles these issues head-on, offering a supportive, challenging, and confidential environment to help women navigate unique situations and contexts.
Why work with us?
Our coaches are WUN members with corporate and/or utility backgrounds, offering lived experience, coaching expertise, and a supportive approach to addressing key themes. They are professionally accredited, experienced and regularly undertake continuous professional development and supervision.
Here’s some of the themes our coaching has already supported women with:
Female
Leaders
Preparing for promotions or next-level roles
Gearing up for senior positions
Taking on first-time people management roles
Amplifying leadership impact
Tackling workplace challenges
Woman's
Career Path
Returning to work after maternity leave
Juggling the motherload – balancing career and family life
Navigating perimenopause and menopause
Maximising Talent, Wellbeing & Impact
Building self-awareness
Boosting confidence
Enhancing influencing skills
Strengthening resilience
Work-life balance
Stress management and recognising signs of burnout
Some statistics by MMB Magazine
In this survey participated more than 1,000 women – 72% of whom worked at management level or above.
Coaching Programmes:
WE HELP WOMEN THRIVE
The Balanced Leader
If you’re feeling stuck, new to leadership, like you’re not progressing or you’ve got some challenges you want to deal with, this coaching will give you the support you need.
6 month programme with monthly coaching sessions
Support
You will learn how to:
Amplify your leadership impact
Deal with workplace challenges
Create the right balance
Progress your career and development
Return Strong
Heading into maternity or parental leave brings big change, but getting the right support can really make a difference.
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4 flexible sessions over 12 months
Support
We will support you with:
Working through emotions
Setting up new routines
Create the right balance
Returning to work confidently
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Career Reboot
Not feeling it career-wise anymore and want to get super focussed on what you really want from your career and go get it? This coaching programme will help you do just that.
3 months focussed coaching programme
Support
We will help you to:
Get your career back on track
Go for that promotion
Create the right balance
Be crystal clear about developing a career that fits who you are
WUN Exclusive
We offer WUN Partner organisations a discounted corporate rate on these coaching programmes starting at £600 for Career Reboot, £800 for Return Strong and £1,200 for Balanced Leader.
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Price per person including coaching and support in-between.
*If you are considering one of our programmes privately, you can take advantage of our self-funded discounted rate too – you’ve already worked hard and paid tax so contact us to have a chat.
Meet the Team
Our team is brought together by the transformative power of coaching and by our shared goal to help women thrive and not just survive in their careers. We love coaching as it works and we also blend this with our experience, support and additional resources too.
Juliet shines in bringing talent and leadership insights while guiding people to the core of their concerns. Kate is great at supporting new managers and boldly challenging anything that doesn't make sense. Karen's enthusiasm for mental fitness pairs perfectly with her empathetic and inspirational approach..
Juliet Summers
Juliet brings her corporate career in the retail and utility industries and insight in HR, talent management and leadership to enable individuals and organisations to succeed through professional coaching and leadership development facilitation. She has led talent departments, strategy and teams alongside coaching, mentoring and supporting the development, progression and career transition of many individuals.
She is highly skilled in coaching across the talent pipeline, especially supporting women through their career transitions. An ICF ACC credentialled coach who specialises in transformational coaching across career, leadership, confidence and life. Clients have described Juliet as, ‘Insightful, supportive, inspirational, empathetic and positive.’
When she’s not coaching, she's mum to two boys and you’ll find her running which is one of her other passions!
Karen Boyd
Karen is an accredited career and mental fitness coach on a mission to make work happiness the norm, not the exception. She has an extensive corporate background and is experienced in coaching leaders from a range of companies and sectors including many of the UK FTSE 250.
Karen is passionate about helping clients boost confidence and overcome their challenges so they can thrive at work, whether this means making a tweak or a significant change. Through coaching, she empowers leaders and teams to unlock their potential and create careers with more impact, meaning and joy.
Clients describe her coaching style as perceptive, supportive, challenging, and resourceful. Results-focus coupled with a caring, intuitive nature is a winning combination.
She holds Executive Coach accreditation by the Association for Coaching (AC), an Advanced Coaching Diploma and is certified in Positive Psychology.
Aside from coaching, Karen’s favourite ways to spend time are great food with friends, travelling the world with her husband and kids, and cold-water sea swims.
Kate Hughes
Kate is a coach, mentor and facilitator who thrives in helping people make the transition from individual contributor to inspirational leader. Following her own skills gap challenge during her move to her first leadership position and finding huge success with her own coach and mentor, Kate continued as a leader of high-performing communication teams for a further 15 years before joining a leading management consultancy specialising in people performance and development.
Kate qualified as a coach with Animas Centre for Coaching and holds practitioner status with the EMCC. Her style is described by clients as engaging, compassionate, safe and provocative.
When not working Kate can be found facing the (sometimes) fun challenges of raising her 11-year-old daughter, while attempting to train two unruly Labradors.
