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Success stories from my wonderful clients!
She has a wealth of knowledge
"We have been working with Gai now for 12 months across 3 different businesses. During this time, she has provided coaching, training and facilitation services covering a wide variety of topics. Gai has proved to be a fantastic resource to call upon, when we have had to motivate, train and inspire our team, or to help steer the direction of our various businesses.
"She has a wealth of knowledge in many aspects of both business and personal development and personally, I have found this invaluable. It is our intention, that Gai remains an integral part of our company development structure and as such, I would recommend her services to any business, no matter how large or small."
- Andrew Pullen, Marketing Manager, Monarch Group
Gai had many tools and resources that I found very useful
"Gai was my Life Coach over 2005. I found her to be extremely flexible around my changing circumstances, supportive and encouraging. The initial 12 weeks ended up being spread over several months as a result of career changes and other areas of change. I found the process to be enlightening and enriching.
"I discovered many things about my personal beliefs and values through her facilitation. Gai challenged and pushed me when appropriate and I not only achieved the initial goals I identified but also achieved a couple of others. The work I did with Gai has proved to be a very useful foundation for a number of areas in my life which I have continued to build on. I would highly recommend Gai to anyone who is committed to self development and awareness.
"Her previous work experience in corporate management was very useful to me as I felt I was talking to someone who could understand the situations I was facing in relation to the day to day challenges of corporate life. Gai had many tools and resources that I found very useful and still use and she referred me to other books and websites that have proved useful references. Coaching has had a very positive impact on my life.
"I have developed far greater self-awareness, clarity on direction as well as implemented some positive new habits – both personal and work related."
- Tracey O’Callaghan, January 2006
I am now regularly doing things I never thought possible
"Thanks a million for the time you spent with me during our six months of coaching. When we started I was unsure as to what to expect but pretty soon I found some new and exciting ideas to work on. These quickly put me in touch with better ways of thinking for both me personally and my business.
"Soon we were working together to produce some real changes. Now a few months out from the time we spent working together I can feel the real benefits of your coaching still extending me in a whole new field of physical activity. I am now regularly doing things I never thought possible. These include me, formerly a non-cyclist, participating in the Tour of Waikanae cycle event, doing the Taupo Cycle Challenge, and every day running up the stairs instead of ambling.
"My physical self has been (re)-born. Our insurance underwriting business has also benefited from my enhanced and more open attitude, not to mention better organisation. We are now achieving the growth we need with the last three months showing a 30% rise in gross income compared to the same period last year.
"Before we started working together I thought, at 55, my achievements were things of the past, now I see the important and vital ones as being the fruit of projects and plans I am working on for the future. Already I am achieving goals, and setting new ones I never dreamt possible. My investment of time and money in our work together has already been paid back over and over again.
"I consider it a privilege to recommend your coaching and training skills to anyone seeking to enhance their business operation and, particularly, to anyone wanting to reassess and review their view of their own capabilities and reality."
- Murray Rosser, Managing Director, Rosser Insurance Services
My life has really turned around
"I have been working with Gai as my coach for the last year and it has been an amazing year! My life has really turned around and the coaching I have received has been a big part of that.
"Early in the piece Gai helped me set a goal for my business of “working where the juice is”. I already had a business but was less than inspired about some of the work I was taking on. Gai helped me take an objective look at the work I was doing and worked with me to develop greater clarity about the kind of work that would be really ‘juicy’ for me.
"I have now started a new business which brings together my passion for Adventure with Coaching – and it is called ‘Adventure Coaching'!
"The reasons that Gai’s coaching really made a difference for me were:
- She kept me very focussed on clear and achievable actions
- She provided strong accountability so that my old procrastination and ‘slippery fish’ did not get away with doing nothing
- The tools that she provided in terms of decision making and thinking I now use all the time
- She is always friendly and fun
"I recommend Gai as a coach if you really want to take a leap forward in your life."
- Sarah Wilson, Director, Adventure Coaching Limited
Look no further than Gai Foskett
"If clarity, focus and regular check ups are what you’re looking for in your coach then look no further than Gai Foskett. Gai has helped me to create and clarify goals and to achieve them using a very thought provoking process.
"I’m now onto the next set of goals and can’t wait to achieve them and move onto even better things!"
- Barry Kloogh, Managing Director, Financial Planning Limited
My success and growth in business has been incredible!!
'I my time working with Gai as my business coach I received many understandings about myself. The greatest gift was the understanding of the immense power I had as an individual to effect my actions and behaviour through the way in which I chose to think! With the help of Gai I was able to whoosh away my cant's, and shouldn't and replace them with amazingly powerful 'I can's' and 'I will's'. As a result my success and growth in business has been incredible!!
"The knowledge of the practice of NLP is embodied in Gai Foskett. Thank you Gai."
- Sarah O’Connell, Transformational Entrepreneur, Speaker
I am delighted with the outcomes of my personal goal
"I was coached by Gai in 14 sessions over a six month period in 2005. I was very keen and interested to experience coaching although I knew very little about what this really entailed in practice.
"Gai was very clear and structured from the outset. She was firm about the need to set clearly defined goals – both work and personal ones - and about the need to bring a certain amount of discipline and rigour to the process. While daunting, this was essential and ensured that I committed to the process and the work it required.
"I had not thought through what I hoped to achieve from the process and it was very valuable to be required to think about this at the. Having the scene, I found Gai to be incredibly patient and supportive. Knowing that she was committed to me and my goals, spurred me on to commit to do the work and follow up on our discussions wholeheartedly.
"I realised that I was not doing the agreed actions for fear of “being told off” (a driver I’ve often recognised in myself) or “because work are paying” but because of ’enthusiasm and commitment to the goal. Although she was very keen to maintain the structure of our sessions, she was incredibly flexible when issues arose that I urgently needed to address.
"Two particular situations needed specific attention and both provided opportunities to experience how the theory behind the coaching process could be put into practice. I was able to learn how to manage a difficult conversation and a daunting meeting powerfully and with confidence.
"The coaching process guided me through these challenges and has enabled me to develop new, more supportive habits in my everyday .In, I would thoroughly recommend Gai as a coach and I recommend the methods she bases her coaching on. I have grown enormously as a professional over the last six months.
"I have far more courage to speak out and make my views known; I am clearer in my communications and have become more decisive in terms of prioritising my time. At home, I am delighted with the outcomes of my personal goal; a mosaic mirror and a mosaic drinks table. Both took some time to complete, but I am very proud of my ability to “do them properly” rather than cut corners and can thoroughly enjoy them as works of art."
- J.I, PhD, Policy Manager, Public Service, NZ
I found the course interesting, challenging...
"I would like to thank you for your help and patience during my coaching course with you. I found the course interesting, challenging and I rediscovered many of the skills and disciplines which I had not used for some time.
"The course also brought new skills and prospective into my way of thinking and approach to everyday work issues, and I learnt how important timeout is for my personal well being. Finally, I think I am better equipped for meeting the challenges that are in front of me, both mentally and physically as a result of completing the course. Thank you for your help once again."
- Bob Savage, Owner, Planet Kids, Melbourne
I have taken up opportunities and challenges I otherwise wouldn’t have
"Having recently started up my own Graphic Design business I have found the continual support, encouragement and feedback provided by Gai to be invaluable.
"Not only did my sessions with Gai help me to further develop my business but also encouraged me to look at, and not loose site of all aspects of my life.
"Through Gai’s encouragement I have taken up opportunities and challenges I otherwise wouldn’t have, leaving me with a newfound confidence and a real sense of achievement.
"I would definitely recommend working with Gai as the knowledge and understanding you will gain about yourself during the coaching process is something you will carry with you for a lifetime."
- B.C, Graphic Designer
Life has become really interesting and exciting
"I recently finished a three month life coaching course with Gai Foskett and I'm happy to report that I found it to be an extremely rewarding and life changing experience. I had reached a stage in my life where I was needing to look at where I was, where I really wanted to be and where I was getting stuck.
"With Gai's skills, inspiration and warm encouragement we looked at all these areas in great depth and created the wonderful goals that were really going to move me forward in my life. Achieving the realisation of my goals, step by step, has given me the confidence and focus to aim for even more. It seems to have opened up a whole new spectrum of possibilities. Life has become really interesting and exciting.
"I wholeheartedly recommend Gai as Life Coach. She provides absolute support and encouragement, wise and intelligent guidance, a full range of experience, humour and that warm, caring, friendly manner that guarantees success.
I am grateful. I just couldn't have done it on my own.
"What I am finding amazing, for me, is that the process continues being powerful even after the course has finished. It's like I've broken through to a new level of operating.
"It's great. Go for it!"
- Ruth Blair, Artist and Graphic Designer
Gai will coach you towards your highest level of potential, and then some!
“To make my life and business reach new heights, I chose a coach who takes coaching to new heights. I chose Gai Foskett. There are no buts about it, Gai will coach you towards your highest level of potential, and then some!”
- David Savage, Elevate Coaching, New Zealand
I would never have believed what I could achieve
As a Life and Business Coach Gai’s strengths of compassion, humanity and business savvy, combined with her skill as a communicator were a powerful blend in helping me to get some control in my life.
Prior to engaging Gai I often felt overwhelmed by work commitments and a frustration that at a personal level I was not living the way I wanted.
With Gai’s guidance I clarified personal and business goals and structured my life accordingly. She taught me skills to get control of the hours in my day.
I would never have believed what I could achieve; I went way beyond what I thought I could do.
From a business perspective I am enjoying the path I have chosen, and the rewards; the new Toshiba Laptop I am writing this on for starters. From a personal perspective, the insight I have gained with respect to the way I operate in the world and my abilities has given me a sense of being settled, and that for me is tremendous.
Gai was recommended to me as one of the best in Life and Business Coaching, and I believe she is. If you get the opportunity to work with Gai, go for it.
To quote Mark Twain - “Going out on the limb is where all the fruit is”
- Doone B
It really does make a significant difference
"I really benefited from my coaching experience with Gai. When I started the process I was desperate to make a major life decision. Through weeks of professional and caring coaching, Gai gave me the space and courage to look deep inside myself for the answers to my dilemma.
"At times it was a rocky ride, requiring large amounts of courage and perseverance. Throughout the programme Gai’s support and guidance was consistent and of the highest coaching standard. I would recommend her services to anyone at a major crossroads in their lives or indeed anyone with a significant issue in their lives needing support and guidance.
"It really does make a significant difference."
- Elaine A
Gai exceeded my expectations
"Each coaching session with Gai was a powerful experience….from outrageous requests to…holding me accountable for what I said I would do.
"Gai is the Coaches coach - I have become a better coach for having Gai as my role model - experiencing the process as she digs deeper to find out what’s really happening for me whilst having a sincere desire to help me overcome challenges and limitations I have developed as a coach from her gentle challenges to take actions w – a – y out of my comfort zone whilst affirming and acknowledging me as I reaped tangible and intangible benefits and - lasting results.
"Gai demonstrates integrity and professionalism, and was outstanding in her support of me. Gai exceeded my expectations, and inspired me to be all I can be ...and then some.
"Now, I do what I love, and I love what I do – Confidently!!"
- Maureen C Clark, Academic Coach
The coaching relationship helped to develop and reinforce new habits
"Gai was supportive and forced me to think beyond what I would have otherwise done. Her forthright manner and ability to ask the right questions made sure there were well thought out actions and accountability on me to achieve. To get different results habits need to change.
"The coaching relationship helped to develop and reinforce new habits leading to greater personal satisfaction."
- Jim Wicks, Senior Manager, Financial Services, NZ
She brought a fresh perspective, a sound process and a caring approach
"The work I did with Gai helped me focus on my chosen goals in a much more useful way than I had previously been able to. It wasn't always easy but Gai was encouraging and constructive. She brought a fresh perspective, a sound process and a caring approach. I was able to make changes that have proved positive and lasting."
- Jocelyn Grainger, General Manager, Human Resources, ESR
Generous, patient, determined, committed, open and professional
"Gai is a coach who is generous, patient, determined, committed, open and professional. Gai has exceptional listening skills, which, combined with powerful questioning, assist you in uncovering what is beneath the surface and what may be holding you back.
"Gai is a talented and experienced coach who was able to draw on her knowledge of NLP, mentoring, sales & marketing, and small business ownership and was willing to share her thoughts or insights she may have read about or gained from working with others.
"The 12 weeks I spent working with Gai on my 3 goals was life changing. It opened my eyes, challenged my senses and changed the way I view aspects of life. I hope to be able to maintain the momentum and apply it to other areas of my life.
"Thank you Gai for your tenacity, positive outlook and ability to walk with me each step of the way even when you were at the other end of the telephone."
- Tracy Kieth-Wade
I was amazed at the insights I made over the twelve week series
"I am a successful educator in a late stage of my career who undertook life coaching because of general feelings of dissatisfaction with my lot. Gai helped me to identify 3 areas to really work on and we set measurable goals for me to achieve within a fixed time. Gai used and imparted skills and methods to reach these goals.
"I was amazed at the insights I made over the twelve week series. I now have a much better “life balance” and have the confidence to take important decisions concerning my personal and work-based future. I am much happier and much more positive about my life.
"I have realised just how lucky I am. I believe that I am more effective at work and I approach the future with a feeling of anticipation. Gai’s own long business experience enables her to quickly understand the issues of particular workplaces. Gai taught me techniques for staying on track and helped me to overcome some very old and deeply ingrained habits. These techniques will stay with me for the rest of my life.
"Her knowledge of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) provided me with extra tools to continuously modify my behaviour and to become aware of my “self-talk”.
"If I was to state the most important thing I learned from Gai, it would be that a happy and successful life is all about making informed choices. For that insight alone and the techniques to make the choices, Gai’s coaching series was superb value.
"I highly recommend Gai as a life or business coach whose practice is characterised by integrity, professional rigour and results for the client."
- John Jones-Parry, MA(Hons) Dip Tchg
Working with Gai is a powerful growing experience
"Working with Gai is a powerful growing experience. Many of my unsupportive life patterns that held me back from success and creativity, gently unravelled themselves. They now are replaced with new habits congruent with my life purpose and true nature. Reaching my goals is an evitable consequence of this process."
- Dr Liesbeth Ash, medical doctor and international speaker on health and wellness
She has skill, deftness, clarity of thought, determination and intuition second to none
"As my coach Gai could not have been better. She has skill, deftness, clarity of thought, determination and intuition second to none. There are no holes to crawl through, or any stone left unturned with Gai as your coach!
"Because of her attributes, I was guided to achieve all my goals 100%. The challenges I faced and met have given me a new template for living my life, where nothing is impossible. I do so wish I had discovered Life Coaching long ago. Thank you Gai."
- Lyn Jarvis, Langkawi
Rewarding, challenging and inspiring
"Working alongside Gai to create a better work-life balance for me has been one of the most rewarding, challenging and inspiring experiences I have had. I would encourage anyone contemplating a career change while simultaneously wishing to 'spice' up one's overall quality of life, to make contact with Gai as soon as possible.
"Gai is a great listener, very intuitive and always positive and at the end of our three months together I am convinced I made better decisions both in terms of my career and family life, than I would ever have done alone. The rewards are worth every dollar spent. Thank you Gai!"
-M.T, General Manager, Health Trust
Gai provided mature and insightful coaching
"From the very first session, Gai provided mature and insightful coaching which enabled me to change old habits and make many other important changes to my professional and family life.
"As a sceptical lawyer, Gai’s demonstrated skills made me realise what is achievable with the guidance of a coach of her ability."
- Barrister N.Z
She has the drive and ability to motivate people
"I am pleased to advise that I have engaged Gai for a number of training workshops in the last few years. I have also referred Gai to a number of other companies that were seeking establishment of staff development training and/or workplace coaching programmes.
"I found Gai to be excellent in quickly coming to grips with the training outcomes we required and was pleased that the training she delivered exceeded my expectations. Attendees also gave positive feedback on what had been delivered, with some putting learning's from the training into place to increase their productivity and overall work process.
"I would have no reservation in recommending Gai to anyone considering personal and leadership development and/or work place training. She has the drive and ability to motivate people and provide them with the tools to make them accountable to themselves, as well as set and achieve goals, while learning new skills along the way that can be applied to both their work and personal life. I am also happy for anyone looking at working with Gai to contact me for further information."
- General Manager, Financial Services
Am I glad I went through life coaching? - Absolutely, yes!
"Four months ago we sat down to begin my first session of life coaching. As we embarked on our journey, I was looking to you as my coach for answers and hoping that our time together would lead to some improvements in some areas of my life, mainly my job performance.
"Four months later I'm writing to you as my coach and friend to thank you for helping me. I'm genuinely surprised by the extent of my in attitude and optimism for the future and extremely encouraged by my improvements in work performance. I can see with hindsight where these changes have come from as we've worked together on my beliefs, activities and work habits but I never expected to experience such a significant change from coaching.
"Yes, it's been hard work and I've certainly been challenged through this period. Would I have been so keen to start the process had known the challenges that lay ahead? Probably. Am I glad I went through life coaching? - Absolutely, yes!"
You have helped me discover strengths I didn't realise I had
"I want to thank you for the time, patience and energy you have put into me over the last six months. I find it difficult to remember the person I was before we started working together - so much has changed since then!
"You gave me all I'd hoped for from a coach; pushing me and challenging me, while still cheering me on. What's more, I felt you took a personal interest in me, while creating a relationship that is much more than a simple business transaction.
"You have helped me discover strengths I didn't realise I had, and earning how I think and process information has been invaluable. The strategies we worked on together mean that all the changes I have made are sustainable into the future, and that's important to me.
"I feel as if life has opened up before me; a heady, exciting feeling!"
- Stephanie McPherson
I would highly recommend Gai to anyone who wishes to change something in their life
"I have recently completed a coaching programme with Gai. From the first session where I set my goals to the final session where we reviewed changes I had made to my life, Gai provided great support and encouragement for me. She provided me with a range of tools that enabled me to grow and understand the direction I wanted to take with my life.
"The biggest lesson I learned was that it was not the goals at the outset that were important but that it was the lessons learned on the journey toward my goals. This journey, and the tools Gai taught me, showed me that my initial goals I set were actually symptoms of what I really wanted out of life. Before completing Gai's programme I had not been able to stand back and see the bigger picture of it all.
"I would highly recommend Gai to anyone who wishes to change something in their life, even if they don't know exactly what it is; see Gai to find out how much more you can get out of life."
- Mike Davis, D.M. Lander, Chartered Accountant
I now get increased results with less input
"Eight months ago I embarked on a totally new experience for myself; external coaching. Gai came highly recommended and I can now understand why.
"I did wonder what I had gotten myself in for when, before our official coaching session had started, Gai had me doing a lot of preparatory work and really wanted to understand what made me tick. From there it was a great journey of discovery for me.
"Gai asked me how hard I wanted her to push me. I replied that I wanted to get the maximum benefit from my investment, so don't hold back. A very good move in hindsight (though at some times during the process I was starting to second guess the decision!) as, not only did I achieve my objective set at the beginning of the process; I have changed for the better as a person.
"Gai took a holistic approach to her coaching with me and this has assisted me with my personal life objectives; not a benefit I had originally thought I would get from a 'work' initiative. Over the last 20 years of my working life I have been involved with a whole raft of courses, training and development initiatives and can confidently say that the last six months with Gai has easily been the most productive development tool I have been involved in.
"My key business focus was around my leadership style and interaction with those around me. Gai's coaching has allowed me to become more strategically focused and achieve more through others while developing them at the same time. By using more focused and empowering actions I now get increased results with less input. A bit more time to spend with my family at home rather than stuck in the office which is all good!
"If you are considering embarking on a coaching programme with Gai, I would suggest you stop considering and just get on and start it!"
- David Mortimer, Operations Manager, Dulux New Zealand
You were able to guide me through the chaos and achieve some very substantial results
"Thank you very much for the work you have done with me. Engaging somebody like you to help me with my business was a new and novel experience for me. One reservation before I got to know you, that I had initially, was that it may turn out to be quite a wishy-washy ineffective waste of time. However, I found the way that you worked with me was as follows:
- Professional
- Positive
- Structured and organised
- Disciplined, yet flexible
- Inspiring and encouraging
"Despite the major changes that were happening in my life at the time of our working together, you were able to guide me through the chaos and achieve some very substantial results. I commend you on the way you handled me and the situations. It seems to me that your personality and manner quite suited the role of the business coach.
"I have therefore, no hesitation in recommending you to my colleagues and friends."
- Paul Burns, The Burns Group Ltd.
I can not speak more highly of the services that I have, and continue to receive from Gai
"I have been working with Gai Foskett for the last 12 months. I was introduced to Gai through a very satisfied third party referral, following a business seminar we had both attended.
"I met with Gai, on average, once every fortnight and she acts as my coach and, to a very large degree, my mentor in the ongoing development of my Wellington and South Island Businesses.
"Gai is a very unique Lady. Strong, sincere, honest and forthright are a few adjectives that would best describe my experiences of her over this period. Gai has an ability to draw from me the ideas that I have for my own business. But most importantly, she draws on my own experience to make those ideas become a reality.
"As a direct result of the work I have done with Gai in this short time, I have renewed focus on some key objectives within my business. I have finally realised that I have a family that is important to me and that they also require my time and I now have planning processes in place that helped lead me to a trading result which outstripped forecasts by a significant degree in 2006/07. And even better - I had a two week, uninterrupted holiday that I would never have had, had it not been for Gai.
"I can not speak more highly of the services that I have, and continue to receive from Gai. I had a great deal of value in the sessions we have and would sincerely and unreservedly recommend Gai to any party seeking a coach and mentor with the commitment, integrity and skill that she possesses."
- Graeme D Smith, General Manager, Cafe Express
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