Helen Townshend
Personal and professional coach

A little about Helen

Hello. I’m a Personal and Professional Coach, based in North London, working with people face-to-face and online. Before becoming a coach, I spent many years in business as a marketing specialist working at board level in large organisations, as a consultant and as an entrepreneur running my own online fashion business. Alongside all of that, I’ve had the joy (and challenges) of bringing up a family and trying, like so many of us, to balance work, home and life.

The one constant throughout my life has been my fascination with people: listening to their stories, understanding what matters to them and seeing how they navigate the challenges and changes that life and work inevitably bring. It was this fascination that led me into coaching, and more recently to complete a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring at Oxford Brookes University.

My doctoral research explored what happens when the things that matter deeply to us, that is our personal values, come into tension with what we experience at work, and the role coaching can play in helping us make sense and respond to those experiences. It has deepened my belief that good coaching gives us the space to understand ourselves better, reconnect with what matters and make more intentional choices about how we want to live and work.

I feel very fortunate to do work that allows me to have those conversations every day, and I hope I’ll have the pleasure of getting to know you.