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Whether you're a professional individual looking to elevate your own career path, or someone looking to improve the leadership support and career services within your workplace. We've got you covered!

Executive Coaching and Mentoring

It can be lonely at the top….

Very few people have a deep understanding of the complex responsibilities, nuanced politics and high-pressure demands of leading people, budgets and organisations to success.

- Friends and family rarely have an insight into the responsibilities and complexities of top leadership.

- The shape and scale of pressure can bring a level of stress that many people don’t fully understand.

- We sometimes develop associated lifestyle habits and behaviours that don’t serve us.

- We use so much of our energy up on the demands of the working environment that it can feel like there is little left for our home life and non-work relationships and responsibilities.

- Team members are looking to you for direction, answers, resilience and performance that you sometimes don’t feel you have.

- Things can feel personal, and now matter how much you rationalise it, being the decision maker that can’t please all of the people all of the time can create fears of not being liked, of being judged or just a general paranoia.

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Wouldn't it be ideal to have a flexible model of support that allows you to:

Use coaching to find your own solutions.

Have mentoring when you need some direct and expert guidance from a business strategy and leadership expert.

Be supported with deeper psychological and emotional support when you are really struggling, from someone that understands your world.

Imagine being supported and guided by someone that has walked in your shoes? Who has herself turned around failing businesses, launched multi million pound success stories and built multi-award winning high performance teams.

Meet Dr Victoria Stakelum

A multi-award winning transformational psychologist, leadership specialist and executive coach/mentor. Victoria combines deep understanding of the psychology of performance, success and leadership with first hand experience and expertise in leading multi million pound organisations and high performance leadership teams.

 

Dr Victoria Stakelum

The Success Smith Services:

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121 Executive Coaching, mentoring, strategic guidance and psychological/emotional support

Receive a tailored package of support to meet with your specific challenges and requirements – including stress management practices, leadership training, coaching, mentoring, emotional release, mental fitness and success psychology training.

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360 Degree Feedback

A premium self-awareness-building experience in which qualitative research into perceived strengths, weaknesses, development opportunities and potential is gathered from a range of stakeholders. Dr Victoria brings deep expertise in psychology and communications to provide a more robust and qualified analysis of this feedback and present it back with a focus on sensitivity, pragmatism and insight that creates positivity, action-orientation and genuine self development.
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DISC Profiling

For individuals or teams – Use this powerful personality profiling tool to build and deepen your understanding of your own or your team member’s behaviours, motivation, and communication styles. DISC helps deepen team members awareness of how people think, interact and react in different situations, which creates improvements to team and individual communication, conflict resolution, team building, leadership development, and overall improved personal and professional relationships.
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LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

Do you want to develop powerful skills such as leadership vision, influence, and breakthrough performance, whilst releasing emotional and energetic baggage that can keep you stuck?

Elevate: The Leadership Academy for Women

Here at the Success Smith, we believe that women have natural traits that make us incredible leaders, but that sometimes hold us back. 

'Elevate: The Leadership Academy for Women' has been created to harness the very traits and characteristics that make women such incredible leaders. 

This self study training programme or in-house experience not only creates career breakthroughs, but also 'life-changing' personal transformations.

Do you believe you're worth the investment?

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"I got a better understanding of the type of person I am... I received a framework which I return to frequently... I'm confident that with the support and coaching I've had that I'm better than I would've otherwise have been."

Roland Chavasse

"Victoria helped me understand how to confidently value myself and my worth to my employer... to assess the dynamics within my firm and my interactions with senior management, as well as by aiding in defining what was important to me in my career.... the opportunity to learn about and discuss best practice management techniques will prove priceless in the immediate future."

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Stephen - Chief Investment Officer, Edmond De Rothschild

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"It's the best thing I've done and I would recommend it to anybody, and particularly to any woman in a leadership position. It's things you don't get taught... Things you don't learn... It will make the world of difference."

Megan H

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"...I got a new job at the level that I wanted - leading a team ... and the financial situation just blew my mind away - I was able to increase my salary by a third, which is just astonishing..."

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EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES

Are you ready for the next level of leadership?

This quiz has been designed to show managers, aspiring leaders and ambitious professionals their leadership strengths and blind spots. In 3 minutes you'll receive actionable steps on how to develop your leadership energy.

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NEED SUPPORT

It's tough, right?

We are often faced with many pressures, insecurities and doubts that can get in the way of peak performance. Not to mention the fact that the majority of leaders have never received formal coaching, training or mentoring to support their leadership journey.

You're not alone!

If you're in need of coaching, mentoring, support or guidance on your leadership journey - whether you are just beginning, well on the way to top leadership, or already sitting at that top table, you are in the right place. Take a look at the client stories to see how I can support you.