• Get clear on what you want from your career and how to achieve it
• Overcome the things that hold you back – for good
• Find what you love and start doing it
• Become the best you can possibly be at what you do
• Be a leader who inspires others
• Market yourself with ease and purpose
• Get the dream job or promotion you’re looking for
• Be confident and strong in yourself and your plans
• Take control and get the balance back in your life
• Achieve all of your professional and personal goals

Coaching will help you to unlock your potential, to create solutions in areas where you’re stuck and to innovate your thinking. It’ll give you the tools, clarity and confidence to achieve all of your goals and to get the very best out of yourself long into the future.

• Keep you on track and focused on your priorities
• Help you to create the action plans to achieve your goals
• Support, encourage and motivate you
• Keep you accountable
• Create the space for you to generate ideas
• Provide a non-judgmental sounding board
• Challenge your thinking
• Provide open, honest feedback and a fresh perspective
• Do what it takes to ensure that you get a great result

For your peace of mind, all coaching is completely confidential and conducted within the ethical framework stipulated by the International Coach Federation.

If you think that coaching might be just what you need, please contact Sam Patterson on 0430 337 114 or by .

If you have a moment, make sure you check out the testimonials below. They represent a range of career challenges that you’ll more than likely identify with.

Testimonials:

"I’ve got a great new job and it’s got the key things that I was looking for. My work is interesting, there are opportunities for me to grow within my role and beyond, I’ve got a really good supportive team around me and a mentor to help me develop. The business has really taken an interest in my professional development and there are some great training opportunities coming up for me. It’s also great to be paid what I feel that I’m worth!!!" SS, Business Consultant (full testimonial below)

"I’m so grateful I worked with Sam when I did. I was very close to giving it all up. Now I have a growing business, I love what I do every day and I can see the path of growth ahead of me." Michele T, Business Owner – Natural Therapy (full testimonial below)

"Sam gives me guidance, support, encouragement and challenges me to challenge myself. In fact he always challenges me to go beyond what I feel I have to give and yet somehow every time I am able to find more. Sam has helped me to see that I wasn’t always putting in the amount of dedication required to make my dream happen so we have plans and a strategy in place to make sure that no stone is left unturned." GS, Recording Artist (full testimonial below)

"I accepted the role and I now have a fantastic job on the coast within a great business, with an enthusiastic team around me who inspire me to be my best and to keep on developing my skills and knowledge every week. I’m opening up a whole new chapter in my life." MD, Physiotherapist (full testimonial below)

"Six months later, I am living overseas, living the dream that was on top of my list of goals. I doubt that I would be here now if it were not for Sam's continual support and positive reinforcement, which helped me believe in myself and take the next step and chase that dream." BW, Chief Financial Officer (full testimonial below)

"Sam gets me to look at things from a different perspective, to question why I do them, to look at ways of doing them better. He’s got me focusing on my successes and celebrating my achievements and has made sure that my eye is on opportunities that fit in with my life vision. We’ve also focused on my assertiveness and this is improving every week. I’m still a work in progress for Sam but we’re only a couple of months in and I am so much happier. Sam has been a life-changer!" Lynne P, Education Professional (full testimonial below)

"Within six months I was in a new position and it ticks the boxes on my wish-list: meaningful and satisfying employment; scope to develop within the role; varied and interesting projects; a great team around me that I click with; a mentor to help me develop myself; a balance of creative and technical aspects; opportunities to develop my leadership qualities; great work/life balance and remuneration and; a chance to really use my brain." Jess D - Business Analyst (full testimonial below)

"As a result of working with Sam, this year has been enjoyable and exciting, and I am back to being a far more positive individual. The techniques, tips and guidance that Sam provided me with are tools that I use every day. They have made me fitter physically and mentally, and I have an optimistic outlook on life. I am eternally indebted to Sam for the positive impact his influence is having on my life." MG, Teacher (full testimonial below)

Full Testimonials:

"I started working with Sam because I was down on confidence, I wasn’t satisfied in my job and I wasn’t sure how to move on from what I would describe as a pretty ‘stuck’ position in my professional and personal life. The positive was that I was ready to make some changes, the down side was that I had no idea where to start. I guess I’m the same as most people in that I wanted to find a career that I love and I went to Sam looking for guidance and, above all, some practical steps to get things moving.

I felt that Sam was on my side right from the start and that was great to know. I hadn’t had that kind of support around me and it was refreshing to feel that it was as important to him that I achieved my goals as it was to me!

We put things in place to really get me feeling good about myself and enjoying my life again and he was always on at me about making sure that I took the time to celebrate my achievements. Sam has been really supportive of me and it has made a huge difference. Changes in career are a lot easier when you’re coming from a strong and confident place within yourself.

Our work together was focused on short and long-term goals and I can confidently say that I’ve now got the tools and skills that I need to achieve the bigger goals that I’ve set for myself. Sam said from the start that he aimed to make himself redundant and he was true to his word.

I feel like a completely rejuvenated person to how I was ten months ago. I’ve got fresh new professional goals and some cool things that I’m working towards in my life as well. I’ve got a great new job and it’s got the key things that I was looking for. My work is interesting, there are opportunities for me to grow within my role and beyond, I’ve got a really good supportive team around me and a mentor to help me develop. The business has really taken an interest in my professional development and there are some great training opportunities coming up for me. It’s also great to be paid what I feel that I’m worth!!!" SS, Business Consultant 

"I sought Sam out for coaching because I was in a situation where I felt totally stuck. I couldn’t see a pathway out of the rut that I was in or a strategy to achieve the goals that were important to me. At that time I was lacking in self confidence, there was anxiety around my career direction and I wasn’t as motivated as I had been before in my life. I was finding it really difficult to identify my strengths and I was coming from a place of fear and self-doubt.

I wanted to overcome the challenges that were in my way and somehow find the self-belief that I could financially support myself by doing what I love.

Sam first set about getting me to focus on the gifts and strengths that I have and to look at creating a vision for my life that incorporated all of the values that are important to me. He immediately focused on helping me to shift my thoughts to see things from a more positive perspective.

The most important thing that Sam did for me was getting me to reconnect with my self-belief and to start having the confidence and belief in myself that I could make my professional goals happen. He was a great sounding board for my ideas and allowed me the space, the guidance and the encouragement to come up with my own solutions.

Sam facilitated a big picture approach to achieving my goals and together we put in place a strategy to break them down and achieve them in a manageable way. He made sure that momentum continued during the times I was feeling flat and always reinforced to me that I needed to follow my instincts and intuition.

I’m now doing what I love and most importantly I’m doing what I feel that I’m meant to be doing in my life. I’ve got my confidence back and that enables me to follow through on my ideas and give them life. I can now see the world from an abundant state rather than a fearful one and I’m able to put my passion and vitality for life into my work, which is incredibly rewarding.

I’m so grateful I worked with Sam when I did. I was very close to giving it all up. Now I have a growing business, I love what I do every day and I can see the path of growth ahead of me." Michele T, Business Owner – Natural Therapy 

"I saw Sam speak at a conference 12 months ago. I was sitting in the audience being inspired to think more about my vision, my dreams and achieving my goals and it made me realise that it was time to do something about making them happen. At that stage I didn’t have a plan and I didn’t really have any idea about how I could go about achieving the really big things that I wanted to do.

Prior to meeting Sam I lacked satisfaction in my work, I felt that I was missing purpose in my life and I was held back by self-doubt, fear of failure, time constraints and lack of supportive role models in my life. I was also lacking self-confidence.

I’m incredibly passionate about my music. It is my life and means everything to me. I’m happiest when I’m on stage singing and performing and achieving something. My big goal in life is to go to New York and become a respected musician but I’d never even been overseas before. The problem was that I was spending so much time in my day job, and was so tired when I got home, that I couldn’t give the time I wanted to my music career. I was also keen to kick-start my teaching career, something else that was really important to me.

From the outset Sam has encouraged me to believe in myself and to surround myself with a positive support network, consisting only of those people who are supportive of my goals and me.

Sam didn’t bat an eyelid when I told him my big goal in life and everything that we have done since has been focused on making this happen. Sam gives me guidance, support, encouragement and challenges me to challenge myself. In fact he always challenges me to go beyond what I feel I have to give and yet somehow every time I am able to find more. Sam has helped me to see that I wasn’t always putting in the amount of dedication required to make my dream happen so we have plans and a strategy in place to make sure that no stone is left unturned.

Sam always has fresh ideas, gets me to think more strategically and helps me to see things from different perspectives. I leave every coaching session inspired to do more and to keep chasing my dream.

I now have a success mindset, clear goals and an action plan of practical steps to achieve my goals. I’ve also got much higher self-esteem and confidence in myself to make the things that are important to me happen.

In just twelve months of working with Sam I have: been to New York twice; been accepted on scholarship into a NY music school; played with a jazz trio in the West Village; met with and been privately mentored by my music idol; had the honour of being invited to join a vocal group in NY run by another one of my idols and; as a bonus, had my first paid teaching gig. I’ve also met so many new wonderful friends and people supportive of my goal. I can’t believe it. I haven’t achieved my big goal yet but I’ve been ticking the smaller ones off as I go. This really is proof that hard work, determination, focus and unwavering passion can help you to achieve your dreams.

Sam has been such an inspiration to me and has believed in me the whole time. That belief has been incredibly important to me. Most importantly, I now truly believe in myself. Every day I strive to be the absolute best that I can be and I encourage others to do the same." GS, Recording Artist 

"My life was at a stage where I could see an array of exciting ideas and possibilities for my future but I had a frustratingly disorganised concept of the path to achieving them. I needed strategies to help me to stop, take a breath, reassess, gain perspective and then think/move in a purposeful direction.

When I made contact with Sam I was in a job that lacked some critical elements that I wanted and needed. These included mentoring and development opportunities, a more dynamic and fun work environment with a younger team, more exposure to the elite sports that I was interested in being involved with and an enthusiastic environment from which to draw inspiration. I also wanted to be working closer to the coast.

I saw Sam as my avenue to establishing some clear professional goals and the pathway to achieving them.

Sam provided me with the tools to set a clear vision for the future and then to step back and see where my professional life sat as a part of that. What I found was that a lot of the growth opportunities that I identified for my future, and for my life in general, were closely tied to my professional life.

Sam enabled me to translate my vision into tangibles, to focus on establishing a success mindset and together we created the goals and the strategy to take me from the ‘now’ to where I wanted to be. In a few short weeks I felt significantly closer to achieving some big life goals – goals that I had had for a while that now felt very achievable. Sam’s coaching has equipped me with the skills necessary to develop a clear pathway to attain goals that were previously perceived by me as unachievable.

Within four weeks of first meeting Sam a wonderful job opportunity came up that ticked nearly all of the boxes on my wish-list. I was offered this new role and it was on the coast not far from where I had ideally wanted to move. There were a couple of minor things that I wasn’t certain of, however, so the decision was sitting a bit awkwardly with me. Sam’s advice was to trust my instincts and to find out more about the organisation and the team so that I could make a more informed decision. It was great advice. I was able to find out more about the company, its staff and clientele and also to ensure that the vision for my career and my development was in line with their vision.

I accepted the role and I now have a fantastic job on the coast within a great business, with an enthusiastic team around me who inspire me to be my best and to keep on developing my skills and knowledge every week. I’m opening up a whole new chapter in my life.

Sam is a great guy and has a fantastic outlook on life. He makes you want to smile and definitely lights that fire in your belly that makes you want to jump out of bed and get things going." MD, Physiotherapist

"I contacted Sam because I felt that I wasn't achieving everything that I wanted to in my career. Sam is a fantastic listener and I felt at ease talking with him immediately after that first handshake.

Our coaching sessions enabled me to clearly identify my professional goals and how to achieve them. Make no mistake, Sam’s job is not to sit there and feed you the magic answers; instead he is there to help YOU find the answers by unleashing your inner passion and goals.

Six months later, I am living overseas, living the dream that was on top of my list of goals. I doubt that I would be here now if it were not for Sam's continual support and positive reinforcement, which helped me believe in myself and take the next step and chase that dream." BW, Chief Financial Officer 

"I made contact with Sam because I wanted to develop my self confidence and assertiveness and because I have been in a career for many years – a career that is highly stressful and with huge hours – and I felt that I needed a change. I also wanted to find a way to manage my time differently so that I could better balance my work with my family life and enable myself to find a way to take time out on a regular basis to recharge my batteries.

In terms of my career at that stage, I was bored with - and not enjoying - the key functions of my role. I felt that I was stuck in a career that I wasn’t passionate about and wasn’t really doing what I wanted to be doing. What made it hard to steer out of was that I wasn’t really sure of what I was aiming for or what would make me feel successful.

I wanted to challenge myself to be better and I wanted to put my passions into my career but had no idea how to break from a seven-day-a-week stress pattern to make it happen.

Sam has helped me to identify what it is that I’m aiming for in my career and in my life. We’ve explored what I’m passionate about, my natural strengths and talents, what drives me and the things that I really enjoy doing. I now have a vision for who I want to be, what I want to do and where I’m going. We have developed a range of goals and have broken those down into chunks so that I have the strategy in place to achieve them.

Sam has helped me to define what success is to me, what it means and what its components are. He has helped me to develop more of a success mindset and I have gone from feeling ‘silly’ about certain things to feeling more confident in myself and proud of my achievements. He has also helped me to change my mindset to ensure that I am more focused on myself and on achieving the things that are important to me. This hasn’t meant that I’m giving any less to the people that I care about, just that I am now more clear and focused on my path.

When Sam first asked me what we could do to change the way that I manage time - in order to free up more time for me - I was very stuck and couldn’t see any other way. But by breaking down my routine, looking at how we could do things better and by putting a few techniques into place I now have some great new habits that allow me to spend more time doing the things I love with the people that I love and I am far more productive when I work at home. A huge achievement is that I’m also able to fit in the activities that relax me and clear my mind – Sam has been very clear on how important this is and always follows up to make sure that it is happening.

Sam gets me to look at things from a different perspective, to question why I do them, to look at ways of doing them better. He’s got me focusing on my successes and celebrating my achievements and has made sure that my eye is on opportunities that fit in with my life vision. We’ve also focused on my assertiveness and this is improving every week.

I’m still a work in progress for Sam but we’re only a couple of months in and I am so much happier. Sam has been a life-changer!" Lynne P, Education Professional 

"I made contact with Sam because I felt that I was lacking job satisfaction. Not only that, I lacked confidence, I felt that I lacked time to do the things that were important to me and I was dwelling in the past. 

At that point in my life I didn’t have career direction, had no clear career ambitions and certainly didn’t have an action plan or any clarity around my direction. I wanted to create change but couldn’t see a way to do it. 

There were three main aims that I had in working with Sam and they were all connected. The first was to find a job that I was proud of, as being proud of my work is something that I really value. The second was to get clarity in my direction and to establish a pathway to job satisfaction. The third was to get straight-forward and practical advice and guidance.

Right from the start Sam picked up that my happiness was something that needed focus before I could really connect with my professional ambitions. He was very supportive and encouraging of me and really helped me to put in place the foundations to get my happiness, self-confidence and self-belief in good order so that I could set about finding a new career.

Sam helped me to define my own measure of success and we then created long-term and short term career goals, focused on me ‘selling’ myself better to prospective employers and ensuring that I was growing my network and talking to the right people along the way.

Within six months I was in a new position and it ticks the boxes on my wish-list: meaningful and satisfying employment; scope to develop within the role; varied and interesting projects; a great team around me that I click with; a mentor to help me develop myself; a balance of creative and technical aspects; opportunities to develop my leadership qualities; great work/life balance and remuneration and; a chance to really use my brain." Jess D - Business Analyst 

"It is difficult to restrain my exuberance regarding how much Sam Patterson has assisted me this year. I am in a situation where I have many goals I want to achieve, along with restoring balance to my life so that I am not constantly tied to, and restricted by, the constrains of work. I was at a point where I was completely frustrated by my situation, and was unable to see any viable solution to these barriers.

Firstly Sam gave me a belief that I could set these elements in order, and then we began to work on how to go about achieving the balance and obtaining the goals that I was seeking. It is a collaborative process, and Sam is an exceptionally gifted facilitator.

We began to identify barriers, ways to address them, and investigated all the goals that I wanted to achieve in every aspect of my life. Sam provides a structural pathway that opens the channels of achievement and success.

As a result of working with Sam, this year has been enjoyable and exciting, and I am back to being a far more positive individual. The techniques, tips and guidance that Sam provided me with are tools that I use every day. They have made me fitter physically and mentally, and I have an optimistic outlook on life. I am eternally indebted to Sam for the positive impact his influence is having on my life." MG, Teacher