coaching & mentoring
first, introductions!
Hi! I am Becky Lloyd-King, the founder of FERN Coaching.
FERN coaching starts with a friendly and compassionate dialogue, where together, we bring your ambitions to life - being a high performance, compassionate and deliberate leader; being able to accomplish sporting ambitions; or making a big decision for creating space and joy in your life.
I can assist you in creating the necessary Focus, the first point in making any change, then Exploring possibilities, space to Reflect and consider, and helping you Navigate new paths - helping you to frame and create the life you desire. My approach is suitable for individuals or teams.
I prioritise building an honest and open coaching relationship with you, free from judgment, and with accountability and challenge at a level you find comfortable. Using established coaching methods we explore together how you can move forward.
I know its not easy, but you can set yourself up to be resilient and successful through life's challenges with the right approach. I can help you with that.
Find out a bit more about my professional and personal life below, or click below to get straight to work.
About Me.
Professionally - I've had a varied career in the public sector, local government specifically. It's a tough place to work and as a result, I've learned a lot.
If you're interested in my qualifications, I've listed those, or if you're more about the experience, I've added some snippets of my work and personal life below.
I'm also the Chair of the Active Cornwall Board, on a voluntary basis, supporting the Sport England Mission to Unite the Movement - breaking down barriers to everyone being able to get active and improve their life chances through being active and the social connection it provides. This joins up my professional and personal interests, as fitness is a key pillar of my interests.
My values include integrity, personal growth for all, longevity with health, equity of opportunity and personal responsibility.
I am an active Non-Exec Director, open to board positions where my values and beliefs align and I can add value.
Key Qualifications:
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Public Sector MBA (MPA) Warwick Business School with significant leadership and management experience.
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Solicitor (currently non practicing) with experience in commercial, employment, governance and information law.
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European Mentoring and Coaching Council accredited - Level 5 Coaching Diploma
Professional Experience Case Studies
Large Team Coaching and management
Using creative coaching through leadership to reignite passion and professionalism into a great team, uniting behind common purpose in the organisation and challenging unhelpful behaviours.
Troubleshooting through relationship building
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Bringing together separate teams doing the same job but in different ways; creating a new team, helping them design a joined up delivery model, that felt cohesive, with a core offer and common practices. Key here was the team members were fully involved in the design and new service.
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Supporting collaboration: political and senior officer key liaison, exploring opportunities for collaboration for services and high quality delivery, and a point of contact for issue resolution. Relationship building was so important.
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A team under stress, feeling desperate. In order to overcome historical issues that were felt deeply. Building team confidence, ensuring good communication, helping them to feel connected, listened to and ensure their needs were met. Compassion and mentoring helped here.
Building a team from the ground up
Implement a new org strategy, with no team! step 1: recruit some fab individuals, 2. give them support and leadership that enabled them to flourish and succeed together. The team secured a national award for their work. Very proud of them! Empowering leadership may be cliche in some circles but I firmly believe in it and servant leadership.
If you are interested to know more about my work experience, I have a CV at this link for my Non-Exec Director work on my personal LinkedIn Profile. Click here for my profile
Personal
Experience and Opportunities for Growth
Fitness
Fitness and sport is an
important part of my life and has been for as long as I can remember. I decided to step things up in my 40s and embrace all things fitness racing (crossfit). I found a community and environment that supports, cheers and challenges you to be the best version of yourself and to be fit for life. I have found amazing coaches, and pushed myself to train to be more, not less. This has created opportunities for personal growth that I had not imagined. I am at the highest level of competition as a Masters Athlete and strive to improve - Me vs Me, Always. For a peek at my activity, (and my dog!) my personal instagram is open!
The study juggle
I was a late bloomer and
I understand what it is to
not know what you want
to do with your life! I
ended up studying law
through my 20s, whilst working full time and had to find ways to make that work and pay. As knowledge accrued, I wanted to find roles that enabled me to put it into practice and develop my career and earning potential - I did that and I can help you do that too.
I also decided after travelling (on that see next) that further development would enable me to broaden my opportunities outside of or in addition to my legal practice, so a part time MBA, (with an optional module of having a baby in year 2!) had me back on the study / work / family juggle. Being pragmatic about what you can achieve is helpful, but sometimes you've got to reach for the stars.
Sailing trip
Facing a big change in life? My husband and I sold all our worldly possessions, bought a boat and moved onto it for 2 years, sailing Mexico and the South Pacific. We learnt alot, about each other and ourselves, what we need, what we don't. We learnt new skills, mundane ones and fun ones (including diving and fishing) and discarded old habits (worrying about things we couldn't control, like the
weather!). This
definitely built resilience
and opened our eyes to
the big picture.
