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Navigate career transitions and challenges with clarity and confidence

Navigate career transitions and challenges with clarity and confidence

I work with professionals navigating career transitions and challenges supporting you to feel more confident and in control of your next steps

Charlotte Connolly, executive and career coach, Edinburgh

Formerly a solicitor specialising in employment law, and seasoned HR professional, I am an Executive and Career Coach supporting working professionals to navigate career transitions and challenges.

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How I Can Help


You operate in a high pressure working environment.    

You are navigating the complexities and unknowns around work-related transitions or challenges.

Perhaps you are also juggling the pressures of balancing work and home life.

I understand what you are facing. I have been there too.

Across a 20+ year career in legal and HR roles within global law, accounting, and asset management firms, I have gained deep insight into the complexities, challenges, and indeed rewards, of working in a high-performing environment.

I have consistently supported others to succeed. This is what I am here to help you do.

I combine deep listening with purposeful questioning to help you gain clarity, grow and become unstuck, so that you can move forward with confidence.

Corporate and Private Clients


I work with clients who are navigating career transitions, parental transitions, work challenges, or simply needing a confidential and safe space to progress their thinking and priorities, away from others' opinions, agendas or judgement.

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Coaching Philosophy and Style


My approach is described by clients as calm, professional, genuine and grounded. I offer honesty, clarity and consistency, and put clients at ease to open up about what is going on for them and what they want instead.

I combine deep listening with purposeful questioning to help you gain clarity, grow and move forward with confidence, often through small, manageable steps that lead to significant, lasting change.

As a trained coach and member of the International Coaching Federation, I adhere to the highest international standards of coaching.

What Clients Say


I have got everything I hoped for from my coaching sessions with Charlotte. I have made a big decision about the next step for me in my career, which I was really struggling to make. I have also improved my well-being at work in the here and now. I couldn't really have hoped for more than that.

Charlotte is a lovely, warm and genuine person who is very easy to work with, and she has lots of good knowledge and insight to bring. Charlotte's interpersonal skills and genuineness were a huge part of the effectiveness of the coaching sessions as these allowed me to open up and really reflect on various aspects of my work and how I was feeling.

Joanna, Education

Charlotte was valuable in strengthening my leadership capability, increasing my confidence, and helping me clearly articulate the value I bring within my role. She provided practical, scenario based learning and insightful challenges, enabling me to better position myself for progression in future.

Erin, Communications, Legal Services

One of the most valuable elements of the coaching was the structured yet flexible nature of the sessions. Charlotte and I had open conversations about my feelings towards my role and the workplace in general. She allowed me to chat away but guided the conversation so it was beneficial to my overall goals and objectives.

We completed a scenario based activity where I showed the managing partner what my role involves and why it is valuable to the firm. It provided an opportunity for me to practise communicating my value. Being required to clearly articulate my role, responsibilities, and impact helped me refine how I position myself, particularly in relation to progression and promotion, and why my role is important to the business. It encouraged me to focus not just on what I do, but on the value and outcomes I deliver.

Charlotte was also very supportive and strategic in helping shape our conversations. She translated our chats into clear, actionable steps that can be applied in real work scenarios.

Erin, Communications, Legal Services

Charlotte partners with you to think, she doesn't give you advice or all the answers but helps you to get to these yourself. She also got me to see things from a different perspective which really helped and for the first time in ages, I feel really clear on what I'm going to do next and back in control again.

I'm relieved as I can now spend my time and energy on moving forward instead of feeling like I'm stuck going over the same stuff again and again and getting nowhere. I would highly recommend Charlotte to anyone considering coaching.

In-house lawyer, Financial Services, private client

I've been going round in circles for ages about what to do about my work situation. Coaching with Charlotte has really helped me get clarity on what I want and why and it's given me a way forward I feel really good about.

It's all been my own thinking but without Charlotte I would not have got there and instead stayed in the horrible state of paralysis I was in before. I can't recommend Charlotte highly enough.

HR professional, Financial Services, private client

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