Penny Sophocleous
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Penny Sophocleous provides executive and business coaching to C-suite executives and senior managers in a wide range of businesses. She is the Managing Director of Corporate Alchemy which she founded. She can also offer other coaches to suit different styles and chemistries.
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11 customer reviews
Debbie
Business & Career Coaching
Penny helped me to take action gain focus in both my professional and personal life. I was stuck and down when I met Penny and now I feel like I am back on track and enthusiastic about my work and life again.
She helped me to gain insight into the kind of person I am and how to use this knowledge to make decisions and take action.
I would highly recommend Penny if you feel your business needs a pick me up.
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Steve Plummer
Penny is an outstanding coach, her knowledge and delivery of leadership mentoring and coaching has helped me tremendously.
The growth and confidence I have gained working with Penny has been transformational in my career and personal life.
You will not be disappointed choosing Penny as your coach.
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Reply from Penny Sophocleous
Thank you Steve! I very much enjoying working with you.
Avigyan
Business & Career Coaching
Made some immediate positive impacts. She is hard taskmaster which is what I needed
Reply from Penny Sophocleous
Thank you Avi - it's great to work with you.
John Hellinikakis
Recently completed Penny's Reset and Grow Mentoring Programme, which was excellent. Helped me to focus on my core competencies and interests. Thereafter to concentrate on new opportunities to grow my business in the light of a changing business environment as a result of Covid-19. Thoroughly recommended! More...
Samantha Churms
Penny Sophocleous has taken me on an amazing journey of self-discovery and I have had no end of ‘light bulb’ moments during my coaching sessions. She is so honest, wise and insightful and has a way of saying it how it is - challenging at times but always what I needed to hear to change my thinking, and unlock the next stage of my development as a leader, communicator and manager. She has a way of explaining some quite difficult concepts in a way that is easy to understand and has a wealth of practical tips for ‘embedding’ the learning. She is completely holistic in her approach too. Penny has set me tasks in my personal life that have helped me recognise how my energy is being ‘spent’ by things I can simply and easily fix at home (much appreciated when we’re all working at home during the pandemic). I would highly recommend Penny to anyone for one to one Executive Coaching or team coaching, having experienced both and seen superb results. I would also recommend ‘Enlightened Leaders’ which itself is enlightening. Talent Dynamics is the tool for spotting your talent and Penny has the key to unlock it and take you on the journey to reach your full potential. More...
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Sam was so open and keen to learn, that we worked together for more than a year. She continued to learn and grow and took advantage of everything we did together.
Colin Lock
I have just completed Penny's 5 week “Reset and Relaunch” programme.
It was a very practical programme with opportunities for both learning and discussion.
Setting homework tasks after each session was a very good idea.
What did I get from the programme; insights, guidance and clarity in how to re- calibrate and market my HR business.
I can highly recommend the programme.
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Sharon Sacofsky
Having just completed Penny's Reset and Relaunch programme I can highly recommend it. Penny guides you through a step-by-step process that took me out of my comfort zone, challenged me and got me thinking about my business in very different ways. Sharing thoughts and ideas in a safe environment with other participants was of huge value. I came away with a variety of tools and resources which I will continue to use. Thank you Penny for providing this opportunity! More...
Robert Harris
I was on a short mentoring program Penny organised to help business owners reset or restart or recalibrate their businesses and themselves for life in a world, hopefully post-Covid or one in which we live with Covid for some time.
I found it to be very helpful. Penny can be quite provocative (no bad thing in the circumstances). She and her program gave me a renewed sense of purpose and direction when I guess I was in danger of falling into some sort of funk even though my business has not suffered the way many others have. I felt she blended a mix of sound marketing principles about client engagement I had forgotten with some futurology on living in a digital world and how to re-organise or re-frame our businesses and services to suit the "New Normal". I did feel challenged and was pushed to do things outside my comfort zone. I re-discovered the fun in solving problems after being somewhat spiritually ground down by running a business with staff stuck at home.
On balance, was it worthwhile? Absolutely, highly recommended. I'd do it again.
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Robert took so much value from the first programme, he did do it again!
Sharon Sacofsky
In just one hour Penny suggested some creative ideas to help me move my business forward. She challenged me and helped me to think outside the box. I'm very much looking forward to putting these ideas into practice. More...
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Thank Sharon. Delighted to have helped.
Colin Lock
An incredibly valuable initial 45 minutes in which Penny helped me to focus on my business in a way that I never had before.
I'm now working with Penny to help me define and express the services I provide to clients. And it's working.
With Penny you get things done.
If you are looking for help in focusing, you should speak to her.
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Helen Oldfield
I have worked with Penny at different times over the years when I've needed professional coaching and wise words to help navigate different, sometimes tricky, points in my career. Her senior executive experience, insightful advice and deep understanding of work opportunities and challenges have been hugely helpful. Her calm and clear manner also ensure you can have an authentic conversation. I'd recommend Penny as a coach wherever you are at in your career More...
Reply from Penny Sophocleous
It's always a pleasure to work with you Helen. And delighted to see you rise in your career.
What do you love most about your job?
My personal mission is to make the most amount of constructive difference in the world that I and my talents can make. Coaching my clients helps me make this happen. I really enjoy the process of working with people and seeing how their lives and work improves with our interactions. Coaching requires me to be extremely intuitive, well read and sensitive to the needs of people. I appreciate the opportunity that I get by working with people to use all my talents, knowledge, skills and abilities.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I worked in financial services in the City of London for 14 years. Working for others was fun and travelling around the world was even better. But I felt the need to work for myself, hence starting my own business. I enjoy the freedom that working for myself provides - I get to choose my clients and I love working with intelligent, motivated and ambitious people who enjoy learning and growing.
Why should our clients choose you?
If you'd like to be challenged to grow, and supported to become the best you can be, then choose me. I'm supportive and compassionate but I have a strong mind, a clear thinker and self-confident as I've had 15 years coaching experience and know what works and what doesn't. I've been a spiritual seeker since my early 20s, so can bring a wide range of solutions, both personal, spiritual and business to my clients. During that time, I've worked with thousands of people and truly I have to say I've liked every one of my clients. I like to see inside of people and find what's great about them - then convince them that their great in ways they've never seen before. I'm very positive and will always take a constructive view of challenges and difficulties. I believe we're here to grow and develop and life offers us challenges to help us keep on growing.
Executive coaching
You will receive a bespoke service where we agree the objectives of your programme and focus on achieving the outcomes you set. This can be raising your profile in order to make a greater impact, achieve a promotion, or to get a better role in a different organisation. Sometimes its about increasing your leadership or managerial skills in order to motivate, lead or manage your team better, handle difficult employees, or have difficult conversations and making relationships at peer level work to your advantage. Sometimes it's can be about creating a better vision, making a greater impact or influencing the organisation to change.
Business coaching
At this level, my clients are often concerned to improve their communication skills in order to have greater impact with senior leaders, peers or clients. To achieve this I help them understand different communication styles and how to flex their own style to others. Clients who are in mid-career (especially professionals in law or accounting) are also concerned to achieve promotion, and sometimes this involves developing a business case for this, or increasing their new business by acquiring new clients, which necessitates overcoming personal blocks and self-limiting beliefs. I have strong strategic thinking and financial skills that can aid my clients do this exceptionally well. Many of my clients are lawyers or accountants, wanting promotion to Director or Partners or business owners and we have a very high level of achievement for this (100% to date!)
Consulting and Facilitation
Small business owners growing to bigger businesses often require the help that an external facilitator or consultant can give to do the following:
* Act as a sounding board for the CEO to talk through challenges, ideas for innovation or change
* Re-organise their team to enable the business owner to do less operational work, and free them to focus on strategy
*Recruit the right team members for the next evolution of their business
* To streamline and re-organise the company structure to operate more effectively
