At the beginning of June I was referred to coaching sessions by a friend and was very lucky to be pointed in Adelaide’s direction. During six sessions over several months, Adelaide’s guidance has been crucial in getting me to where I am now – which is a far way from the point I was at when we met! Adelaide’s coaching skills have helped me find clarity, set goals with a clear plan to achieve them and crucially built confidence in myself.

This is the first time I’ve ever undergone any form of coaching and I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was an unknown for me, and a big step outside of my comfort zone. Adelaide’s warm personality quickly established a safe space, where I felt comfortable expressing myself and built an essential level of trust. Before we started our sessions, I felt directionless and trapped in my current job, which I knew I wanted to move on from but didn’t know how to move forward.

Straight away, Adelaide explained what coaching is and how our sessions could help. I really responded to the onus of the sessions being driven by me. More than anything else this meant that in every one of our calls, I had a strong feeling of taking agency over my work situation, and that I had support and a sounding board along the way. It’s a very empowering style of coaching and now that our sessions have ended I feel confident in how to proceed to the next step, and feel the motivation to keep pushing forward.

In our first sessions, Adelaide’s coaching style almost acted as a mirror and helped me to reflect on what it was I wanted to achieve, and why. The result of this is that I have clarity on exactly what direction I want to take my career in. I found that clarity much quicker than I thought I would, and I think this is completely down to Adelaide’s ability to create a non-judgemental, supportive environment where I could be myself, without worrying about what anyone else was thinking. We broke down each session into setting achievable, tangible goals so that each time we met I had made progress. This was incredibly motivating and reinforced the sense of moving forward every time we spoke.

When setting new goals and how and why they would be useful, Adelaide did a wonderful job in helping me to keep pushing further every time and consider creative questions and possible solutions. This was brilliant because it was making me think about things from outside the box, which I wouldn’t have done without her guidance.

Adelaide also did a huge amount of confidence-building exercises with me, because it became clear quite early on that while I am confident in my abilities, fear of failing has been holding me back. We did a number of exercises that helped me move beyond this type of thinking. One of my favourites is that where I kept repeating ‘I’m trying to do x’, Adelaide pointed out that I wasn’t ‘trying’, I was already ‘doing’. Mantras and affirmations have been really helpful to me in building confidence and not giving the energy and space to negative thoughts. Visualisation techniques were also very helpful as it meant I gave myself permission to imagine succeeding and how that would feel, rather than worrying about all the things that could go wrong.

Now that we’ve finished our sessions, I’m incredibly grateful to Adelaide and her clear, unwavering support. Having not really known what to expect during our first goals, I feel like Adelaide helped me make the absolute most of our time together, so that on writing this now, I feel like I have come a long way. I know what steps I need to take next to achieve my goals, and she’s given me the tools to keep going. Thank you Adelaide.

Claire H

At the beginning of June I was referred to coaching sessions by a friend and was very lucky to be pointed in Adelaide’s direction. During six sessions over several months, Adelaide’s guidance has been crucial in getting me to where I am now – which is a far way from the point I was at when we met! Adelaide’s coaching skills have helped me find clarity, set goals with a clear plan to achieve them and crucially built confidence in myself.

This is the first time I’ve ever undergone any form of coaching and I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was an unknown for me, and a big step outside of my comfort zone. Adelaide’s warm personality quickly established a safe space, where I felt comfortable expressing myself and built an essential level of trust. Before we started our sessions, I felt directionless and trapped in my current job, which I knew I wanted to move on from but didn’t know how to move forward.

Straight away, Adelaide explained what coaching is and how our sessions could help. I really responded to the onus of the sessions being driven by me. More than anything else this meant that in every one of our calls, I had a strong feeling of taking agency over my work situation, and that I had support and a sounding board along the way. It’s a very empowering style of coaching and now that our sessions have ended I feel confident in how to proceed to the next step, and feel the motivation to keep pushing forward.

In our first sessions, Adelaide’s coaching style almost acted as a mirror and helped me to reflect on what it was I wanted to achieve, and why. The result of this is that I have clarity on exactly what direction I want to take my career in. I found that clarity much quicker than I thought I would, and I think this is completely down to Adelaide’s ability to create a non-judgemental, supportive environment where I could be myself, without worrying about what anyone else was thinking. We broke down each session into setting achievable, tangible goals so that each time we met I had made progress. This was incredibly motivating and reinforced the sense of moving forward every time we spoke.

When setting new goals and how and why they would be useful, Adelaide did a wonderful job in helping me to keep pushing further every time and consider creative questions and possible solutions. This was brilliant because it was making me think about things from outside the box, which I wouldn’t have done without her guidance.

Adelaide also did a huge amount of confidence-building exercises with me, because it became clear quite early on that while I am confident in my abilities, fear of failing has been holding me back. We did a number of exercises that helped me move beyond this type of thinking. One of my favourites is that where I kept repeating ‘I’m trying to do x’, Adelaide pointed out that I wasn’t ‘trying’, I was already ‘doing’. Mantras and affirmations have been really helpful to me in building confidence and not giving the energy and space to negative thoughts. Visualisation techniques were also very helpful as it meant I gave myself permission to imagine succeeding and how that would feel, rather than worrying about all the things that could go wrong.

Now that we’ve finished our sessions, I’m incredibly grateful to Adelaide and her clear, unwavering support. Having not really known what to expect during our first goals, I feel like Adelaide helped me make the absolute most of our time together, so that on writing this now, I feel like I have come a long way. I know what steps I need to take next to achieve my goals, and she’s given me the tools to keep going. Thank you Adelaide.

Claire H

We recognised a need to decrease staff turnover within our chain of hotels, so approached HR Source for guidance. Working with the consultant we identified challenges to improve retention, and realised a particular issue with new employees.

HR Source refurbished the company Induction Programme, designed to be led by managers on a frequent basis, to pass on the core knowledge about our Company, allowing employees an easier settling-in period.

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Julian Kollard
Director, Choice Hotels

We recognised a need to decrease staff turnover within our chain of hotels, so approached HR Source for guidance. Working with the consultant we identified challenges to improve retention, and realised a particular issue with new employees.

HR Source refurbished the company Induction Programme, designed to be led by managers on a frequent basis, to pass on the core knowledge about our Company, allowing employees an easier settling-in period.

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Julian Kollard
Director, Choice Hotels

The support offered to Galloway Hughes by HR Source has been invaluable.

Being able to drop an email or pick up the phone to question what action to take in various areas of people management; from maternity and absence queries through to improving performance; we were always pleased with the advice given.

The quick resolve has always saved us a headache, our time and been a worthwhile resource.


Johdi Hutchins
Partner, Galloway Hughes

Working with a coach was a step into the unknown – I wanted to know what it ‘feels’ like to work with a professional coach, I wanted to check out the benefits and understand what sort of difference could be made due to working together rather than going solo.

The professionalism, respect and safe space which Adelaide provided offered a solid foundation from where we started our 7 sessions between May and June 2020. There’s no doubt I was a little nervous and apprehensive about opening up – Adelaide never judged or saw this as an issue – her warmth, years of experience and love of working with people shone through – Adelaide the made me more relaxed and enabled me to open up, to say things out loud which I had only ever internalised.

Our early sessions truly empowered me. Adelaide really listened to me and helped me to listen to myself. With the careful introduction of ‘homework’ to aid my reflection between sessions, Adelaide helped me look deeply at what is important to me and what was holding me back. PUR sessions always resulted in an action plan and always ended with me really motivated with clear steps to take, knowing how and when I was going to progress.

It was great to work together, I am SO grateful to have had these sessions with Adelaide – her sense of humour, her support, her professionalism, her skilled listening and questioning were all central to the growth in clarity and confidence which I achieved.

I recommend working with Adelaide and would be happy to have a chat with anyone who is considering doing so if they would like to ask any questions.

Lorna C
Coaching Client

I have worked with Adelaide on a number of projects including the creation of the Live Event Rigger apprenticeship which she led on. Adelaide also sits on the National Rigging Advisory Group of which she is a valuable member.
Given Adelaide's advanced knowledge of HR subject matter together with apprenticeships I would not hesitate to recommend her to other employers.
Paul Rowlands
NEC Group Rigging Development Manager

Adelaide works alongside me as my HR business partner providing support for a team of field engineers distributed across the UK. She has been key in the delivery of a number of successful transformation initiatives, introducing a structured framework that has provided improved benefits for the employee whilst also enabling operational efficiencies and controls. Adelaide always provides clear guidance and opinion balancing employer law, employee well-being and business operations. She has a supportive and balanced approach matched with a determination to drive change.

Dave Gardner, CEO Alvotec

Even coaches need coaches! I approached Adelaide at a time where I felt like I was lacking motivation and clarity on my direction, we spent a number of sessions helping me to define my personal values, this instantly helped unblock some of the things getting in my way, and create clarity and get that feeling of passion and motivation back. Adelaide is a great coach, very easy to talk to, challenged me at the right points and really helped me see things from a different point of view.

Becky Irving

Thank you for the splendid contribution you have made across a wide range of complex and difficult HR issues over the past 18 months.

Mike Morrison,

CEO, ISG Technology