RIDE Authentic Confidence

Many of our clients choose to work with us because we offer something different to mainstream coaching and leadership development. They don’t come to us because they lack strategy or vision.

They have come to us for help in:

• Breaking down silos that duplicate and slow delivery – to becoming leaders who build their networks, form relationships and use learning spaces to share experiences and collaborate on answers to wicked, systemic problems

• Turning the tide on rising levels of grievances and complaints submitted about leaders and managers – to cultivating a coaching culture where performance is championed

• Shifting mainstream mindsets that are blocking performance – to mindsets where leaders embrace their own, and their team’s differences, which drives innovation, smart risk taking and bold actions

• Unlocking stuck leadership – opening up and accelerating decision making at critical moments.

Get in touch to discover how Zest can ignite Authentic Confidence in your organisation.

Reveal

We help you understand where confidence is accelerating performance, and where it’s holding it back.

• Leadership Authentic Confidence Profiling
• Team Authentic Confidence Profiling
• System Authentic Confidence Mapping for large directorates and whole organisations

Inspire

We inspire leaders to lead with confidence under pressure. We equip them with the mindset and tools using

• Leadership coaching
• Team coaching and workshops
• Authentic Confidence Hub – an online learning platform for day-to-day leadership challenges. See below for more.

Chat about inspiring Authentic Confidence in your leaders.

Deepen

Experiential, embodied and systemtic practices that open up awareness and shift behaviour

• Deep Dive taking coaching to new levels
• Leadership Labs
• Action Learning Sets

Explore how Zest can provide deeper and more meaningful leadership development for your leaders.

Embed

Embed confident ways of working into the organization. Starting with the most senior leaders and cascading intentionally using data, feedback loops and real business moments to anchor the work.

Feedback comes from
• 360 feedback, including the leaders themselves
• Zest Pulse surveys
• Authentic Confidence Audits

Talk to us about how you want to cascade Authentic Confidence across your organisation.

Authentic Confidence Hub®

The Authentic Confidence Hub® is a personal development platform built on the Embodied Dynamic and Inclusive (EDI) model. A great partnership for your organisation’s L&D. Suitable for all, with flexible learning options – including videos, audio, and transcripts – learners choose the format that suits them best. Find out more in these videos and contact us directly.

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More on the Hub

Cost effective large scale learning. Integrate Authentic Confidence into the DNA of your organisation.

Learners start their journey with short tutorials to understand what Authentic Confidence is. Then build their confidence profile using our unique reflective tool – The Authentic Confidence Profile Builder. They identify confidence strengths and development areas and gain insights that allow them to hone their Authentic Confidence.

Based on identified development areas, learners choose from a range of learning modules designed specifically for improving confidence in the workplace. With unlimited profile updates, they can track their personal progress. By mastering confidence, countless advantages are unlocked, from driving innovative and effective decision making!

Modules Include:

Foundations of Authentic Confidence
Active Authentic Confidence
Mindful Mindset
Compassionate Downward Spiral
Embodied Upward Spiral
Self-Coaching for Authentic Confidence
Coaching Others for Authentic Confidence

Don’t delay, get in touch today to find out more about Authentic Confidence for your leaders, teams and organisation.

Happy clients

“I have found our sessions inspiring and supportive, and I am now far more certain about how I am approaching both my career and complex work challenges.”

“I’ve really valued our sessions and the connection we formed. I really feel you helped me ‘shift’ a lot and that the world is truly my oyster more than ever before!”

“I went into coaching hoping to build my confidence and be more proactive and strategic about my development needs, and my coaching with Anna has definitely achieved this. Anna has helped me shift my mindset about my strengths and the value I add to my team / organisation, about how I reflect on my strengths and development areas, and she's given me some practical tools to help me continuing to build on this. From the feedback I've had in my day-to-day role, I've seen a positive difference in my performance.”

“I have worked with Dr Anna Kane for the past year and a half. What started as a small coaching relationship with a group of leaders soon quickly turned into a large culture change project in the Civil Service affecting some 10,000 people. This culture change project had fundamentally changed relationships between leaders and colleagues, leading to more confident leadership decision being taken and empathetic outcomes. It is a massive thanks to Anna that we have got to this point. ”

“Thank you very much for delivering your session on reflective practice. It was beautifully and supportively delivered with the right balance of theory, discussion, and individual reflection. We set you a tall order of what to cover but you rose to the challenge. It was a lovely way to end our year of learning. Thank you from me and all the Government Occupational Psychology Profession. We were lucky to benefit from your expertise.”

“A big THANK YOU for your presentation at last week’s masterclass. We are really grateful for your support and for the time your took to share your insights. Feedback from the team was this this was one of the best masterclasses we have hosted that that the content of the speaker sessions was rich, accessible, and really valuable for our Consortium members and for our team.”

“Thank you for your time, patience, understanding and fresh perspective.”

“A massive THANK YOU for all of your help, encouragement and guidance. You are without a doubt one of the most impressive and inspiring professionals I have ever met. What you’re doing is fantastic and I’m very grateful.”

“I have had coaching from Anna for over two years now to help me make the most of the biggest job in my career. Her insight and patient guidance helped bring out the very best in me”

“Brilliant. She challenged me but was also supportive and compassionate and mindful herself which created a great atmosphere. Huge thanks - Anna made a real and positive difference to my performance and development.”

“I was wonderfully surprised by how well it did work online. Having attended mindfulness courses in the past (physically present groups!) I had wondered whether being through zoom it might feel rather sterile. Actually, for me, it was far from that. And, in some ways, being together yet removed from each other somehow allowed everybody to participate equally.”

“Coaching helped me to think about aspects I had not previously taken the time to think about properly.”

“Initially, I was uncertain about how the coaching sessions would go and if they would be beneficial. I'm so glad I was able to undertake them, I've really gained a lot from them.”

“Anna has a wonderfully insightful, supportive and challenging style - this helped me to make the most of our time.”

“We created a safe space to talk. Anna listened effectively, but also offered reassurance and appropriate challenge to my thinking. ”

“Anna skilfully combines an intuition for the underlying issues with an evidence-based framework for working through them. She is compassionate and unjudgmental. I very much enjoyed working with her, and learned new tactics and a great deal about myself in the process.”

“So many people experience stress and anxiety as a norm, especially at the moment. Mindfulness is a brilliant tool for breaking the pattern and connecting with a deeper calm and stability.”

“Really personable, easy style. Tailored the sessions to me. Didn't use lots of coaching style lingo and great that she was a really active participant. Unlike other coaching sessions where you can feel like you are talking to yourself. Her confidence model is excellent.”

“This course came at a very good time for me and felt enriching and restorative.”

“I like to think I usually listen to others, but practising mindfulness seems to increase the listening capacity and help increase focus. These will both be important aspects of my work in the coming months.”

“I really liked Anna as a coach. She was challenging when I needed her to be. I was initially uncertain as I wasn't sure how the sessions would build on each other, but I felt that by the end of the sessions I had built a really good rapport with Anna and I felt less self conscious and free to be able to say what I needed to and ask for help where I didn't understand certain things.”

“Anna was really patient and encouraging and I liked her calm and methodical approach. She's also clearly very knowledgeable and I was able to learn a lot from the sessions with her.”

“One of the best courses I have ever experienced, it has improved my mental health and taught me how to meditate, finally it all makes sense! Inspirational and life changing!”

“A much more positive experience than with my previous coach. The conversation felt normal and easy. Anna made sure that I was fully involved in identifying how I might do things differently rather than simply bringing external answers.”

“The best course I have ever participated in! Very grateful for the opportunity”

“Anna made the session easily accessible to me via zoom In light of Covid, at short notice before my interview which was really beneficial for me. Thank you for sharing your model with me. It was really helpful and I will be using those skills for future interviews. Ps, I got the job!”

“Thanks, Anna - I really enjoyed them and found them really beneficial. I only wish I could have more!”

“Initially, I was apprehensive about taking 2 hours out of my week to do it but soon found that it became a very important part of my week that I looked forward to. I thought Anna who ran the course was excellent and managed to create a very warm, open and safe space.”

“Just thank you!”

“Anna was an excellent facilitator. She gently made clear the boundaries; included everybody; and ensured that everybody felt safe and did not push themselves beyond what felt comfortable. She was a calm presence on the screen! And it also helped greatly that she was willing to share - but never overshare - her own emotional responses to some situations. A big thank you!”

“I wish I'd used a reputable coach before now”

“I shall miss our group and Tuesday morning meetings. It was a very special group during an exceptional time in history and it will stay with me for a very, very long time. Thank you, Anna.”

“ A very positive experience. I think we made good use of the time and the coaching is already having a beneficial effect.”

“Very positive feedback on Anna as a coach. I felt that she listened, empathised, but was also able to gently direct and lead my thinking. I always finished the sessions feeling more positive about my work and career.”

“Anna is an inspirational coach who has developed a tool for managers to help themselves build their confidence, naturally. I recommend it any leader out there who is interested in better managing their own performance.”

“She was good at helping me to find my blind spots, to see new angles to tackling issues, and overcoming some 'demons' from the past that have held me back at work.”

“Really easy to talk to. She's very responsive and is keen to not take a cookie cutter approach - instead being responsive to emerging needs. Also her experience of working with more senior levels offered a new lens (and use of language) through which I viewed my own development”

“I worked through self-belief/confidence issues, and feel much "lighter"... a much healthier perspective and the confidence to lead by example with my teams. I now feel more proportionately responsible for things (as opposed to responsible for everything!)… more resilience and energy… more productive and empowered… and a much better-balanced home, work and social life.”

“It’s really felt like an awakening, and the start of a healthy journey to self-acceptance and compassion which is already improving my confidence at work – and so my effectiveness – as well as improving the understanding and quality of my personal relationships. So, THANK YOU!”

Interested in getting in touch?

07960 488205 connect@zestpsychology.com