How I became a Barefoot coach

Three top coaches share why they decided to train:

Karen Chambers

In 2002, I met Kim Morgan, the founder of Barefoot Coaching, at her seminar ‘How to Change Your Life Over Lunch’ – and it literally did! It was my first experience of coaching, which led me to achieving an unfulfilled dream of taking my young nephew and niece to Disney World in Orlando. I wanted to understand how coaching worked, took Kim’s postgraduate course and discovered that I loved coaching others as well as being coached. I’ve been coaching ever since.

Melanie Allen

For the past 20 years, I’ve run a learning and development business. I was asked to provide coaching for senior leaders, but didn’t feel I could do it without qualifications. So began my search for a coaching programme that was recognised by a coaching body, but also had a small and friendly family feel. Barefoot Coaching provided all that and more. Now, as a Barefoot associate and a Pcc-level ICF coach, I know that choosing Barefoot was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Angharad Boyson

I was working with leaders as a consultant and we were all feeling disillusioned because it was clear that necessary changes being identified weren’t going to happen. Those who could change, didn’t want it; those who wanted it, couldn’t change it. I wanted to work with people who could create change. Becoming a coach was the best way to do that and I now work with people to make sustainable, positive changes in their lives.