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coaching

empowered, engaged, courageous, authentic

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1-2-1 Coaching for Partners & Directors
in Accountancy Firms

I provide tailored coaching for Partners and Directors in accountancy firms, helping them navigate career progression, leadership challenges, and business development with confidence and clarity.

 

With 20 years of experience in executive search, I have placed Partners and Directors in the Big 4, leading mid-tier firms, regional practices, and boutique firms. I’ve worked closely with National Leadership Teams, supporting top talent transitions at the highest levels.

 

However, my true passion lies in the coaching side of recruitment—helping professionals thrive in their roles and achieve their full potential.

 

My Coaching Focus

 

I work with Partners and senior professionals to:

• Attract and retain key talent within their firms.

• Navigate the Partnership process, offering expert coaching for senior candidates moving toward leadership.

• Develop compelling personal and business cases for Partnership Counsel and Leadership Team panel meetings.

• Enhance emotional intelligence and mental fitness, helping analytical thinkers break free from limiting patterns and build sustainable, high-performance behaviours.

 

The Results

 

My clients experience transformational changes in how they lead, work, and grow within their firms. They:

- Leverage their teams more effectively, leading to higher retention and better utilization.

- Strengthen client relationships, unlocking new business opportunities.

- Achieve a healthier work-life balance, avoiding burnout.

- Gain clarity and confidence, often exceeding their own career expectations.

 

A Success Story

 

A Salaried Partner at a mid-tier firm approached me after a difficult appraisal, believing they needed to move on. Given my deep market knowledge, I knew they were in the right place—but just needed a new approach.

 

Through coaching, we uncovered the root challenges: people-pleasing tendencies and a lack of career strategy. Together, we developed a clear plan to align their strengths with their ambitions. By their next appraisal, they were back on track for Equity Partner consideration—re-energized, focused, and making a bigger impact on their team and business.

my coaching style

I empower people to feel alive, engaged and passionate about their work and life, courageously and consciously creating a life they love. I enable people to think larger, become great leaders and make a difference through authentic choice.

 

My coaching style focuses on an awareness of the present, ambitious goal setting and action to get you there.

 

My clients describe me as calm, curious, peaceful and intuitive. I create a safe and compassionate space, allowing you to bring every part of you to the table without judgement or criticism.

 

I will actively listen and hear you, connect the dots and highlight the patterns and beliefs that no longer serve you. I’m your number one fan, here to champion, challenge and empower you to be the best version of your most authentic self. Committing the time and energy to do this work, we create a flow in our lives. This flow will create a momentum and trajectory that feels empowered and authentic.

 

I use the model based on the Co-Active Coach training I received with CTI. Coactive or CTI is a global professional training and certification programme used by over a third of The Fortune 100.

Impact Now

 

Address a pressing need to transform single or multiple aspects of your life.

  • Get clear on how you feel about all areas of your life (work, family, relationships, romance, finances, health, hobbies, fun, personal growth).

  • Create goals and aspirations to create a life you love.

  • Address and move through areas where you are stuck.

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You will create a life you love most efficiently, effectively and authentically. This transformation will be deep and meaningful.

 

Weekly sessions of 1 hour. Three-month commitment (12 sessions minimum).

 

Deep meaningful transformation

 

Helping you become clear on how you’re feeling in all areas of your life, creating goals and clearing blockages.

 

  • Achieve meaningful change and a greater sense of fulfilment, authenticity and empowerment.

 

Fortnightly sessions of 1 hour. Six-month commitment (12 sessions minimum).

 

A light touch to achieve balance and consistency

 

When you are comfortable with your life’s direction but feel you could benefit from additional independent support to help you reach and maintain your most authentic self and to hold you accountable on your journey of wholeness.

 

  • We will work on unblocking areas that are causing you to feel stuck.

 

One 90-minute session per month. Six-month commitment (6 sessions minimum).

the benefits of coaching

Coaching enables the clarity of what you want and identifies the barriers, creating a roadmap to align with where you want to go. My role is to push you outside your comfort zone and assist you in tapping into the powerful wisdom that will launch you into living your best life.

 

The benefits of life coaching

  • New opportunities: Life coaching walks you through new transitions and changes in life, helping you feel more confident in your decisions.

  • Pushes you in your goals: If your goals aren’t going to plan, life coaching helps you re-evaluate your attitude and show what changes you need to make to get things moving.

  • Stops that stuck feeling: If you’re feeling blocked from accomplishing your goals, life coaching helps you clear those painful beliefs you keep telling yourself - and enables you to find clarity on what you want.

  • Increases self-confidence, work performance and communication: 80% of people who receive coaching say their self-confidence increased. 70% improve their work performance, relationships, and communication.

  • Improves life skills: 73% of people who receive coaching say it has improved their interpersonal skills, relationships, work/life balance and wellness.

  • Companies have higher revenues: 51% of companies with a positive coaching culture achieve higher revenue than their competitors. 86% of companies report recouping their investment in coaching. It’s also known the median company ROI is 700% of its initial coaching investment, meaning the average company can expect a return of seven times their investment in coaching.

 

*Statistics from ICF, International Coaching Federation, The Human Capital Institute and Forbes.

Gemma May Ltd

The Business Terrace

Maidstone House,

King Street,

Maidstone, Kent

ME15 6JQ 

Trading as:

Gemma May Executive Search

Gemma May Executive Coaching

 

07734208224

gemma@gemmamay.com

Registered in England and Wales No. 6421451

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