About Hans
Action-orientated career and life coaching that will help you function more effectively and create an inspiring and fulfilled life. I am an ICF accredited coach with a background in law and financial services going back 20 years.
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Experience
I work with professionals and entrepreneurs who are looking for new direction, mainly in the areas of career and life planning. Most of my clients are in established careers but at the point where they feel either dissatisfied, unfulfilled or burned out. Whilst I cover many themes, career coaching is at the core of what I do, as you can read in my self-coaching book: "Falling in love with your job - How to create more excitement and fulfilment in your career", which is available on Amazon.
If you feel “stuck” and have the desire to change your life, give me a call and let me take you on an exciting journey of transformation. I coach clients in any country and time zone, either face-to-face in London or via Skype video calls. I also fly out to your place for intensive immersion days, subject to additional fees.
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WHAT I OFFER
I offer a creative space and structured process for exploration and life planning that will empower you to create life outcomes and manage your life challenges more effectively. I will guide you through a process that will help you find out what you really want, what is missing in your life and how to create it.
I will support you by:
- listening without bias or judgment
- asking you powerful questions that will enable you to move forward in your life
- reflecting back to you what you cannot see yourself
- challenging you and hold you accountable for your actions
- assisting you in generating new ideas and options
- teaching you basic life skills
This journey is for people who are ready to accept accountability for their own lives and change their current reality. In the course of the process, your perception of yourself and the world around you may change dramatically and open you up to new options and resources.
Visit me on hansschumann.com to find out more.
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BENEFITS:
- Gaining a sense of identity and purpose
- Creating new freshness and joy in life through clarity and positive thinking
- Increased confidence through self-love and action
- Increased sense of peace through practising acceptance
- Finding new ways of experiencing work as “living” again
- Planning a new, inspiring life path
- Dealing with depression (please note: I am not a therapist)
- More resourceful and productive ways of thinking
- Improved relationship and conflict resolution skills
- Empowerment to create better life outcomes
- Improved goal setting and time management skills
- Clarity, courage and support for setting up a business
EXPERIENCE
I am accredited as a coach by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and as a NLP Practitioner by The Association for NLP (ANLP). My 20 years of working in law and financial services means that I am well familiar with business realities, including the challenges and opportunities of working in private practice and corporations.
I am also trained in small business coaching for those of you who are thinking of setting up your own business.
TESTIMONIALS:
"I decided to meet with Hans as I had been within the same industry for over 14 years and had lost my passion and drive. At the very first meeting, he opened up my eyes to where my true passion lay and over the course of the next few sessions, we then developed this further and explored various different avenues, career wise, that related to my passion for investing and personal finance. It is through Hans’s direction and support that I then had the confidence to embark on a new and exciting career within wealth management. I would have no hesitation in recommending Hans for those looking for careers’ advice and wishing to consider what could be a life changing decision."
- Gary Youssef, Director
"Over a 12 week coaching intervention, Hans has helped me uncover and articulate my personal purpose and values, and develop an action plan to bring those to life. While our discussions have led to clear results, we’ve also taken time to explore a range of topics, and the process has been very interesting and revealing. He has supported, motivated and challenged me, and it’s been a pleasure working with him."
– Nicholas Creswell, Vice President, Performance & Talent Management at Thomson Reuters
"From personal development right through to crisis management, working with Hans is true enlightenment. With Hans’s friendly, dynamic and always forward facing approach, I have been able to unlock potential and explore issues in ways I never though possible before. Thank YOU Hans for all your support and dedication. HIGHLY recommended!"
– Paul McNicoll, Dean, School of Design & Technology, London College of Fashion
"Working with Hans, I have achieved things I could not have done alone. He has helped me to re-assess my values, re-balance my priorities, and clarify my goals, with immediate practical positive results. Hans works with great insight, warmth and humour. I recommend him whole-heartedly."
– Elizabeth Mattson, Eduction & International Development Consultant
"Meeting with Hans was immediately mind opening for me. He enabled me to understand which things in my life I was genuinely unhappy with, which as I discovered was often different to what I had imagined. I have been able to make good choices as a result and I feel more aware and emboldened. Hans’s kind, patient and rather joyous support helped me to do what I couldn’t manage alone. Thanks Hans."
– Susan Pattenden, Restaurant Assistant Manager
"any professional seeking enhanced satisfaction and motivation….would do well to spend time with you"
– Dr Holger Garden, Bid Writer, Trainer, Coach
"Hans – I would like to thank you for working with me and my team at Santander at our annual conference. I have received amazing feedback on your session and everyone has said how thought provoking it was. We appreciated the time you spent before the conference talking through what we were aiming to achieve and adapting the pre-conference questionnaire following our feedback. Your session really appealed to people’s hearts and minds, your personal journey touched everyone. Once again, many thanks. I would whole heartedly recommend you to individuals or other companies. I wish you luck, however, based on your performance I don’t think you’re going to need it!"
– Carol Graham, Head of Business Quality, Santander UK plc
"…when you went up on stage and started talking about values, what’s important, and how vital it is you be fulfilled and happy in your life because it’s brief and challenge is important, everything clicked. It was like a light going on, and I doubled-down on my commitment to myself."
– Sean Campbell, Santander UK plc
"Hans has helped me focus on those parts of my career and workstreams that directly affect the future I would like to envisage. Instead of trying to balance work/ home life with multiple ideas that sit rather nebulously in the back of my mind, he has worked with me to review my values, streamlining my workload to those areas that will truly achieve my goals. I now have an idea of what I would like to achieve and Hans has given me a step by step blueprint to help achieve those goals. It starts with a book and I've started writing it!"
- Anand Patel - General Practitioner
"Working with Hans really helped me to gain some valuable perspective both in my personal life and in my work. Indeed he helped me to realize how strongly these two things were interlinked. Hans helped me to regain a more positive approach in all of my projects and activities and challenged me to tackle difficulties with different strategies. This support has been invaluable in helping me develop a new outlook that is healthier and happier than where I was before.”
- Ramon Casado, Co-Owner / Design Director at Bulthaup Johannesburg
"I came to coaching to better understand myself and find what it is that I look for in my work. Hans was a natural choice for me, he has an international mindset, an inspiring career, but most importantly an honest and caring desire to help. Following my 14 sessions with Hans I am confident with my skills, clear on my ambitions, and focused on staying fulfilled in my professional life. Hans helped me stay accountable for my life and my choices, I highly recommend him to anyone ready to make changes in their life."
- Ian Labat, Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
"Hans Schumann is an exceptional coach. In just 2 hours, he helped me find answers to guide me through a challenging period I was experiencing at the time. Having reached an unhappy plateau in my business, I am now ready to reboot my business venture. I have found the session invaluable – thank you.”
- Peter L. - Business Owner
MY EXPERIENCE
- Postgraduate and PhD in Law
- Master in Law
- 7 years' experience in private legal practice
- 9 years' experience as a people manager in financial services
- Diploma in Personal Transformation Coaching (ICF accredited)
- NLP Practitioner
- Certificate in Group Coaching ICF accredited)
- Certificate in Existential Coaching Coaching (ICF accredited)
- Certificate in Health & Wellness Coaching (ICF accredited)
- Certificate in Relationship & Couple Coaching (ICF accredited)
- Certified facilitator for the Value Determination Process of Dr John Demartini
- Trained Demartini Method Facilitator
- Attended Anthony Robbin's "Unleash the Power Within"
- Attended Dr John Demartini's "Breakthrough Experience"
- Attended The Landmark Forum
- Reiki Level 1 and 2 at the Reiki Academy London
- Attended Basic and Advanced Life Training with Art Reade
- One year coaching with Tony J Selimi
- Completed Christie Marie Sheldon's "Love or Above" programme
- Attended various Buddhist retreats, including Goenka's Vipassana
- Founder and host of MeetUp group "Spiritual Gay Men in London"
Coaching style
My work goes deeper than just simple performing coaching. My action-orientated coaching process combines tools, processes and models from world-renowned coaching experts with my own experience of overcoming years of struggle. I explore with my clients what really matters to them and help them lay the foundations for living an inspired and fulfilled life. I call this process “Masterful Living®“.
My integrated style combines traditional coaching processes with a wide range of tools from various other disciplines, including Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness.
I am also trained in small business coaching for those of you who are thinking of setting up your own business.
Sessions normally consist of a good mixture between exploration and action planning. I will guide you to go as deep as you wish to, without loosing site of your practical needs.
Whilst I will support you towards achieving your specific goals in life, the true magic lies in the transformation that can take place during the course of the coaching process. The work we do together will change the way you view yourself and the world around you. You will gain a new sense of clarity and direction, learn new life skills and adopt new behaviours. I call this “Masterful Living ®“.
The outcome is a new version of you that will be empowered to function more effectively in creating the life you want. Your goals may change, but this transformation will last.