hello,
Thanks for taking the time to find me. My name is Belinda Smith and I’m a coach working and living in the beautiful city of Winchester.
For over 20 years, I have helped my clients pan out from their busy and often highly immersive work lives, giving them the space and opportunity to gain perspective and clarity.
why grace?
I started Grace Coaching after hearing a sermon in my local church. It was about the grace of giving as a result of receiving. It was all about excelling, uniquely – not in a comparative way – in everything; not settling for the pass mark, making every effort with the skills and talents I have been given, and helping others to do the same. That sounded inspirational and demanded a response from me. It was one of those precious moments when everything seemed to fall into place. It is now something I think about every day. ‘Grace’ reminds me all the time about what I love doing and how I work with others so that they too can excel.
my background
I started my career in a wide range of HR roles with BAA in London and Total in Aberdeen. In 2003 after 6 years as a freelance HR consultant, I became a Director of Waverley Learning, a Leadership Development consultancy where I led the coaching practice until 2014. Since then I have been working as an independent coach, although I often team up with other coaches, particularly to work on team coaching assignments. I’m often asked why I became a coach, or even what was my route to it. Early on I realised that people found it easy to talk to me, and whilst I was working in HR actually what people enjoyed was telling me their story. And that’s what I still find to be so valuable; as I work beside people they find out what’s most important to them and together we find a way of helping them to live that out.
qualifications
⟶ MSc in Career Management and Counselling, and a BA in History both from London University.
⟶ Fellow of the CIPD.
⟶ Diploma in Coaching Supervision.
⟶ Qualified user of psychometric assessments, inc the MBTI.
⟶ Member of the ICF, EMCC and BPS.
⟶ Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching from AoEC.
⟶ Grad Diploma in Theology from Westminster Theological Centre.