Why I Chose to Become a Founding Coach with Dream Coach Match
And Why This Summit Matters
There are moments in your career when an opportunity appears that feels aligned not just with what you do, but with who you are and how you choose to work.
Becoming a founding coach with Dream Coach Match, and being part of the Summit was one of those moments for me.
Not because I needed another platform, a bigger audience, or more visibility, but because the intent behind what is being built resonated deeply with my values, my experience, and the way I believe coaching should be practised, particularly in a world that feels increasingly noisy, fast and performative.
What Dream Coach Match Is — and Why That Matters
Dream Coach Match is a global platform designed to connect people with credible, qualified and experienced coaches, making high-quality coaching more accessible without diluting professional standards.
That distinction matters.
We’re living in a time where coaching is more visible than ever, yet paradoxically harder to navigate. Confidence, polish and certainty are easy to project, but depth, craft and credibility are harder to discern. Dream Coach Match exists to bridge that gap, creating a space where people can find coaches who are properly trained, ethically grounded and experienced in working with real complexity.
For me, that commitment to integrity, professionalism and human impact is what made this different.
This isn’t about shortcuts or surface-level motivation.
It’s about meaningful, responsible coaching that supports real change.
Why I Chose to Be Involved as a Founding Coach
I’m intentional about where I show up and who I align with.
Being a founding coach isn’t just a label, it’s a responsibility. It means helping shape the culture, standards and credibility of what the platform becomes over time, and that mattered to me.
It also meant joining a collective of some of the most globally recognised names in the world of coaching, practitioners whose work I respect deeply and whose credibility has been built through years of practice, not overnight visibility.
This is not a loose gathering of voices. It’s a carefully curated faculty of experienced coaches who understand the responsibility that comes with holding space for others, especially at scale.
What also resonated deeply with me was the way Yuri Minski, the founder of Dream Coach Match, speaks about coaching. His belief that coaching should be accessible, and that it must be the right fit, not just an available one, mirrors my own thinking entirely.
We are not one-size-fits-all as humans, and the same is true of coaching. Depending on what you’re working through, whether that’s leadership, transition, confidence, direction or growth, you deserve a coach who fits you, someone you connect with, trust, and feel understood by. Dream Coach Match recognises that coaching works best when there is choice, alignment and genuine rapport, and that philosophy mattered to me.
A Short Word About Me
If this is the first time you’ve come across my work, a little context may help.
I’m a multi award-winning Executive and Leadership Coach, author, and experienced transformation coach. Before stepping fully into coaching, I spent almost three decades leading people and organisations, including serving in the Royal Air Force, and later holding senior leadership roles in the civilian sector where I built and led multi-million-pound portfolios and large, complex teams through significant periods of growth and change.
That lived experience matters to me.
It shapes how I coach, how I hold space, and how I work with leaders who carry responsibility, pressure and expectation. My work today, through One Feather Coaching and The Human-Centric Workplace, is rooted in clarity, integrity and the belief that meaningful transformation happens when people are given space to think, not just permission to do more.
The Global Personal Development Summit
In January, Dream Coach Match is hosting a four-day Global Personal Development Summit, bringing together coaches, facilitators and thinkers from around the world to offer talks, workshops and live experiential coaching sessions.
The summit is supported by both the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Eurpean Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), two of the world’s most respected professional coaching bodies.
That endorsement matters.
It signals a commitment to ethics, professional standards and quality, and reinforces that this summit isn’t about trend-led motivation, but about credible coaching delivered with care and integrity.
What I particularly value about this summit is that it isn’t asking people to consume everything. Participants can choose the sessions that resonate most with where they are right now, which feels both respectful and human.
Why I’m Hosting The Power of the Pause
As part of the summit, I’ll be hosting a live experiential workshop:
The Power of the Pause: Designing Your Future Blueprint
Friday, January 23, 2026
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM (GMT)
Day 2 – Experiential Workshops (Live Coaching)
This session exists because I see the same pattern again and again in leaders and professionals.
They are capable, committed and conscientious.
They are doing all the right things, and yet something feels quietly misaligned.
Not dramatically wrong, just off enough to be unsettling.
Too much noise.
Too many expectations.
Not enough space to think.
What This Session Is Really About
This is not a productivity workshop.
It’s not about adding more goals, more pressure or more plans.
It’s about creating a deliberate pause, a moment to strip away external noise and reconnect with what actually matters, not to everyone else, but to you.
Through reflective coaching questions and facilitated discussion, participants will be supported to:
Reconnect with values and priorities
Identify what feels out of alignment in work or life
Explore small, meaningful shifts that can create momentum
Begin designing a future blueprint that feels grounded, not forced
This is subtle work, but it’s powerful, and its impact tends to last.
Why the Pause Matters More Than Ever
We live in a culture that rewards speed, certainty and output, yet many of the leaders I work with are not lacking effort or ambition, they are lacking space.
Space to reflect clearly.
Space to make intentional choices.
Space to reconnect with themselves beneath the roles they carry.
The pause is not passive.
It’s one of the most powerful leadership tools we have, and when used well, it becomes the foundation for better decisions, stronger alignment and more sustainable leadership.
Why This Summit Is Worth Your Time
If you’re feeling stretched, uncertain, or simply ready to reflect on what’s next, this summit offers something different.
You don’t need to attend everything.
You don’t need to fix everything.
You simply need to show up where it feels useful.
That’s what good coaching creates: clarity, perspective and choice.
Being part of a summit alongside experienced coaches from across the world, all bringing their own insight and humanity, feels like exactly the kind of collective space many people need right now.
A Final Reflection
Joining Dream Coach Match as a founding coach wasn’t about being part of a movement for movement’s sake.
It was about contributing to something that values depth over noise, professionalism over performance, and coaching as a discipline rather than a shortcut.
From service life, to senior leadership, to coaching, one thing has remained consistent for me: growth rarely comes from doing more, it comes from pausing long enough to choose well.
Join the Summit
If this resonates, I’d encourage you to explore the Global Personal Development Summit and see what feels right for you.
Link Dream Coach Summit
Whether you attend my session or another, I hope you find something that gives you space to pause, reflect and move forward with intention.
And if you do join me for The Power of the Pause, I look forward to holding that space with you.
