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Unlocking the brilliance within people and teams in the creative and retail industries.

Coaching, training and personal development with the human touch.

At the People Person, people are our thing. It’s that simple.

We’re small, we’re personal, we’re dead easy to work with and we’re passionate about unlocking human talent and potential. Whether working with businesses or individuals, our wide expertise and experience in Coaching, Training, and Leadership Development helps those who put people at the heart of their growth to flourish and make a positive mark in the world.

Skilfully fusing latest psychology, wellbeing best practice, leader development, deep inner-work and a genuine passion for releasing the best in people, it's our mission and purpose to enable you to fulfil yours.

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Lara sprinkles her magic and the world is a better place! I engaged Lara to support the business in several ways: delivering internal training around Resilience and Mental Health at a time when we all needed it most, presenting at client-facing events and as an executive coach for one of the senior leadership team.

She’s passionate and insightful – that rare combination of being customer and commercially focussed with bucket-loads of empathy and positive energy. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Lara.

Gill Bell – Executive Director, Handle Recruitment

Lara is an inspirational Coach and Mentor. She has conducted group training for our company and individual coaching over several years.

Group training took the form of Insights Discovery, team building and some HR training. Individual coaching was more tailored, so we were able to tackle a range of topics.

From the very first Coaching session Lara demonstrated an incredible ability to understand a wide range of challenges and was able to offer guidance and sound advice at every twist and turn. Her strategies have been invaluable in helping develop a clear vision for my team and my role, providing me with practical tools and frameworks that I continue to use. Beyond her professionalism as a coach, Lara is a great support and empathetic mentor, always able to offer sensible advice and guidance. Her genuine interest in success through people relationships is a constant source of motivation and encouragement.

Lara has been a great asset and I’m sure she will continue to help countless others achieve their goals through a clear vision that is able to flex and adapt with empathy and drive.

Lucy Haslam - Sales Director, Design

Lara and team have been a delight to work with and provided invaluable expertise in helping Music Support. They worked with us to develop our recruitment, assessment and selection processes which has helped us to improve selection and matching volunteers to the right roles within our organisation.

The People Person also played a key role in introducing our charity to Mental Health First Aid, providing all the early Mental Health First Aid training to our staff and front-line volunteers which received excellent feedback and which has been transformative for the charity and the vital work we do supporting people in the music industry with mental health and addiction issues.

Eric Mtwungazi – Managing Director, Music Support

I needed to make decisions about my future but was entirely overwhelmed by fear; fear of making the wrong choices and fear of stepping out of my comfort zone. I wanted practical, tangible results but was concerned that our work would focus on general strategies that would not be personalised to my life. This was certainly not the reality! I found the process thought-provoking, invigorating and challenging. It worked!

This process has had a remarkable impact on my life. As a direct result of my work with Lara, I have achieved something I never thought possible. It yielded palpable results that have certainly enhanced my life and that of my family.

Lara is honest, pragmatic, empathetic, patient and funny! She is wonderfully observant. She picked up on subtleties and ingrained beliefs that were limiting and made me aware of them. Then together we worked on questioning and challenging those beliefs. This resulted in a fresh perspective, a new way of looking at my life.

If you’re considering investing in coaching with Lara I would say - DO IT! You will not regret it. Be open to ambling onto the unexpected path that may appear!

Ailish - Manager, Tech

Being a part of the People Person’s Programme helped me gain my confidence back. It gave me a different perspective on most things. I really valued having time to focus on me and having really valuable head space to ask myself important questions that I’d never done before. I’d recommend the People Person’s Programme to anyone who feels overwhelmed, confused or lost with what’s next and, who’s asking themselves; ‘what do I really want?’

Emma Kuenyefu, HR Business Partner, Luxury Retail

When I embarked on a major career change switching form a senior management role in fashion to founding my own creative wedding floristry business nothing prepared me for the realisation that setting up a new business alone would be so lonely. While it's exciting to finally be following your dream it also throws up a mirror to how you work without a team to provide support or other people to throw ideas. around with.

I knew what I needed to do and I had the motivation to do it but without the pressing deadlines or accountability I needed something or someone to focus me. Working with Lara did exactly that and so much more. I pretty much knew what to expect on paper from the Prospering Solo Programme but what I hadn't anticipated was just how much of a cheerleader Lara would be. The encouragement, support, loyalty and friendship she extends goes above and beyond expectation and her genuine kindness and desire for your success means Lara has a canny knack for helping you maximise your strengths while encouraging you to focus on finding ways to overcome the barriers.

Our coaching sessions gave me the structure I needed in those early days, the head space to focus on my goals and the clarity to move forward with confidence and self belief. The investment has absolutely paid off and I'm delighted that the goals I set for Dove & Myrtle during the programme were well and truly exceeded!

Jane – Floral Designer and Founder of Dove & Myrtle

Lara is the coach that every HR leader could benefit from working with. Her own HR experience coupled with a coaching style that is warm, insightful and the right amount of 'push' was exactly what I needed as together we worked out what was going to be next for me. Our conversations, her observations and advice and the homework and exercises I completed all came together seamlessly and I could not be happier with where I am at. I have confidence in myself and my abilities and enthusiasm for my future that I did not have prior to the programme.

Briony - HR Director, EasyJet

Lara ran a really thorough and informative training programme for our management team. The content was really engaging and tailored to the audience perfectly. The feedback from the group was overwhelmingly positive and left them with a lot of food for thought. Lara is very easy to work with and evidently genuinely loves what she does and cares about what she delivers. This is clear from the time she took to get to know me and work out what the group needed as well as what I wanted to see in the training. Thank you, Lara.

Holly Misra – Head of HR, Digital Media

I knew from the taster session that I was going to get along with Lara. She has the most caring way of taking you out of your comfort zone but get in there with you to make sure you're ok. She questioned me just enough to make me do a complete U turn of what I thought I needed and showed me how to find what I wanted. I'm the most independent, stubborn woman I know and she still managed to work her magic, praising me without patronising and digging without being intrusive. In short - she rocked

Debbie - Executive Director

Investing in a personal coach can often be seen as a daunting task, but I knew from my first meeting with Lara that I had made a great choice! Lara’s approach to coaching is second-to-none; helping people bring out the best in themselves and others. An empathetic listener and clear communicator, Lara engages in a way that gives you the confidence to discover and believe that you have the potential to do anything you wish.

Jo – Marketing, PR & Events Management

Lara is always calm, involving and covers the full spectrum of people related issues. In my career I have come across very few people who are as adept at this. Lara is equally as skilled at coaching, developing and motivating people as she is with offering guidance on other HR related issues.

She is a true support when dealing with difficult situations both as a line manager and for the employee involved and at all times doing so in a truly professional manner.

Sheila Wye - Group CEO, Vaughan Design

I had never had any coaching when I first met Lara. She was immediately warm and encouraging, but at the same time asked all the right questions, no matter how tough. Within a few sessions she had enabled me to completely flip my perspective on life. Where I had felt trapped and lacking in confidence, now I truly feel that the future is wide open for me. I have much more confidence both professionally and personally and I'm excited to embark on my next chapter. I would recommend her highly to anyone, whatever the challenge.

Joanna - Cookery Writer & Business Owner

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