Journal | Kerry Sutcliffe

Journal

Notes on leading, and being human while you do it

Shorter, more personal pieces. The thoughts that come up again and again in the coaching room.

What Feeling Stuck Is Actually Telling You

Feeling stuck is not failure, it is information. How to read bored, scared and overwhelmed stuckness, and the small honest first step that moves it.

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How to Build a Coaching Culture Without a Big Budget

Build a coaching culture without putting everyone through formal coaching. Low-cost moves for founders and people-leaders to lift retention and performance.

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What if we're all addicted?

Phones, teenagers, and the rules we set for everyone but ourselves. Maybe the work is not about limits, but about what we choose to do instead.

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Creating space for what matters in 2026

Before you are back at work and into the routine again, a slower look at what you need most, and what you actually want from the year ahead.

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What I've learned about friendship

What are friends actually for, and how many do we really need? What keeps coming up in coaching conversations about friendship.

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Why have coaching in my business?

Something is not quite right at work and you cannot put your finger on it. Why businesses bring coaching in, and what tends to change when they do.

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Top 5 tips for holding an effective one to one meeting

Nobody looks forward to their one to one, line managers included. Five practical things that turn it from a squeezed-in obligation into a meeting people protect.

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Top ten tips for better sleep, from a life coach

Why sleep matters more than we tend to treat it, and ten practical things to try when you are lying awake at two in the morning.

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Blue Zones: secrets to living to 100, and the connection with coaching

What the places where people live longest have in common, and what that has to do with coaching, purpose and how you spend your days.

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What I've learned about coincidence

Those moments where things align a little too neatly. What I notice about coincidence in the lives of the people I coach, and why it is rarely just luck.

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Coaching vs therapy: what's the difference?

I am not a therapist, though this may feel therapeutic. The honest difference between coaching and therapy, and how to tell which one you need.

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The power of DiSC profiling: how it brings organisational success

What DiSC profiling actually tells you about how you and your colleagues are wired, and why it changes the conversations a team can have.

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How coaching can help you with productivity

For anyone who never feels focused enough. How coaching gets underneath procrastination, and what changes when you stop trying to force it.

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What I've learned about coaching confidence

The patterns I see in people who describe themselves as lacking confidence, and the small steps that quietly build it back.

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How I became a coach

From advertising and tech to coaching full time. The long route I took, and the question that kept coming back at every pause point.

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