"Max is a very effective and impactful coach. She was highly recommended to me by a colleague and it soon became clear why. We were able to build rapport quickly due to her empathetic style. She's a good listener and this, allied to her ability to offer perceptive insights, meant that she constantly enabled me to bring clarity to the situations we were discussing. When I started working with Max I also wanted someone who would hold me accountable in a couple of areas and she proved very adept at that too. She's a great coach and introduced me to a handful of techniques that I still call upon. I enjoyed working with her"
"Max has a unique approach to coaching that is intuitive and addresses the immediate topics as well as focusing on longer term goals. The holistic conversations help to overcome obstacles that you weren't even aware of! I would highly recommend Max as an executive coach with a difference."
"I find Max an incredibly positive influence as a coach. She supports yet challenges to gain a different perspective and to find solutions. She is adaptable to your needs as a client. I would recommend her without hesitation."
"Max is a great coach who listens well, challenges to get to the nub of the issues, is creative, maintains focus on output and then helps the client formulate a personal action plan that is credible and doable."
Notice the little things...
"I have worked with Max for a number of years now. I have found her a very warm and empathetic coach, very responsive to me as the client. She is able to provide safety in the coaching relationship whilst helping me confront some key issues and hold me in this space. Through the work I have done with her, I have been able to raise my own awareness and surface some of my key limiting beliefs and behaviours. I have valued the variety of approaches she has used from somatics, visualisation, role plays as well as having coaching in different environments, in particular, art galleries and along the Southbank. It has been a real privilege to work with her and I would recommend others who are seeking to work at some real depth on improving themselves."
"I have been having sessions with Max for over a year now and what a different place I find myself in now. Max’s skills have been invaluable in helping me to look at myself and my life and make changes for the better. I don’t have masses of experience of life coaching so when I began my sessions with Max had no ideas of the range of benefits that I could achieve through it. Although the regulatory of our sessions has decreased I still find a catch up every so often is of the utmost benefit to me to a) remind me of the ways I can control situations and b) keeping me focused on things and not allowing myself to spiral out of control."
"I have benefited from one-to-one coaching from Max Burrell whom I have found to be very supportive and motivating. Max is especially good at listening and communicating back what she has heard in such a way that I am able to crystallise the things that I wish to take action on. In helping to formulate actions, she takes into account the culture of the organisation and other variables. Max is always well prepared to pick up from the previous discussions and is able to react to new and changing situations with creative suggestions. Her sense of optimism and good humour make her an easy and relaxed person to relate to. I am happy to recommend Max for coaching positions."
"Maxine created a safe, non-judgmental space where I felt heard and understood. Her approach enabled me to fully explore how my life experience has shaped my coaching to date and to become clear about the coach I wanted to become in the future. I feel that I now have a coaching model that is aligned to my beliefs and values and that continues to evolve and grow. Working through this process, I now feel like I am more authentic not only as a coach, but as a person. Maxine allows you to explore without limits and has the skill of being able to ask you questions that really get to the root of what you are thinking or feeling, often subconsciously. It was a enjoyable and enlightening experience, thank you!"
See possibility in everything...
"Maxine helped me to focus on the goals that I wanted to achieve, both in terms of the learning that I was gathering as part of my studies and professionally as there were a number of changes taking place at work which I wanted to navigate successfully.
From my perspective, I experienced Maxine’s style to be one of warm professionalism, putting me at ease from the start which enabled me to discuss what was going on for me; as well as structured in a way that enabled me as a coachee to feel confident in the direction of our sessions. Maxine came across with an empathetic approach, which worked well for my situation, and was also very good at reflecting back to me during our sessions, some of the things that I’d been saying which enabled me to take a step back, and look at issues with a fresh pair of eyes, and then move forward.
In particular, there were two main things which I believe Maxine did really well. The first was to coach me through a decision between two job opportunities. She did this by supporting me to fully articulate the pros and cons of both offers and by working through a visualisation exercise which helped me to reach the right outcome. As a result, I decided to take on a role which involved a significant amount of international travel and I used the visualisation exercise to help sustain me through that time.
The second piece that I really benefitted from was the learning review at the end of the coaching sessions. This was a really effective way for me to take stock of what I’d learnt from my coaching with Maxine, consolidate it and consider how I could continue on my learning journey beyond the sessions. Maxine shared with me some key questions which really provoked my thinking about what I’d been coached on and how I’d shown up during the sessions and how I’d personally taken responsibility for applying my learning.
I believe that the matching process between coach and coachee is an important part of setting up a coaching relationship and I am really pleased to have had the opportunity to be coached by Maxine last year. I learnt a lot about myself and about the coaching process through our conversations."
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