Why do creatives need career coaching?

We live in an increasingly unpredictable and complex world. For creatives the boundary between life and work is often fluid. Problems in one area can have ripple effects in many others. Often working independently and navigating multiple roles we can lack an objective, encouraging space to reflect on our experience and create the insights that allow for pivotal shifts in how we develop more meaningful, fulfilling and sustainable careers.

All of which can leave us asking;

“Where am I exactly? Where do I want to be and how do I want to get there?”

Career Coaching can help you:

• Find clarity on your career direction.

• Balance the competing demands of a creative life.

• Uncover the blindspots in your professional development.

• Make career decisions with confidence.

• Become more self-aware and resilient.

• Navigate through career shifts and transitions.

• Work through creative and professional blocks.

• Challenge limiting thought patterns that leave you stagnating.

• Redefine what you do to become more of who you are.

• Explore new ways of moving your career to the next level.

• Get to the core of what’s stopping you moving ahead.

Why I coach?

“I want you to feel confident and capable of creating a career which is more meaningful and fulfilling.”

I believe that the world needs art and artists (even if it can be slow to admit it). I also believe that pursuing art professionally shouldn’t mean a career spent struggling; feeling powerless or unsatisfied. Society has many cracks for creatives to fall through and it can often feel like our professional success lies ultimately in the hands of others. Coaching allows you the time to reclaim your natural confidence and re-engage with your creative potential. By having the space to reflect on what truly matters to you, what’s really getting in your way and what’s needed next, you can create new ways forward which are more effective and empowering. In a world that often puts the needs of artists last, I love nothing more than facilitating a powerful process which allows you to put your career and your fulfilment first.

‘It has been honestly transformational. This is not hyperbole, through Andrew's coaching I have been able to thoroughly reassess previous assumptions and create new ones that got me back to an energised, focused and ultimately happier space.’

/ KARL - (ACTOR/WRITER/DIRECTOR) ireland /

‘I have a greater sense of my own agency, and a newfound belief that real change is possible, and that I am in control of that change. I feel a much greater sense of my own value, as well as my strengths and skills, and I know how to reflect those to others.’

/ CELINE - (DIRECTOR/WRITER/SCRIPT READER TV&FILM) LONDON /

Why work with a qualified and accredited career coach?

Andrew is an ICF credentialed coach (ICF ACC) with an accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching. The qualification is accredited by three of the world’s leading coaching bodies: the ICF, AC and EMCC. He is undertaking post graduate study in his specialsim of adult career management, coaching and counselling psychology at Birkbeck University, London where his focus is on career development in the creative sector. He has additional continual professional development certificates accredited by the ICF in Group Coaching, Positive Psychology in Coaching and Narrative Practices in Coaching. He has worked as a coach mentor for coaches in training at the Animas Centre for Coaching. He facilitates Freelance Problem Solving a monthly reflective group for freelance creatives in the UK and works as a career coach for Minding Creative Minds in Ireland and Wellbeing in the Arts in the UK. He is the founder of Boundless Careers the first career training and education provider in Ireland and the UK to specialise in evidence-based & researched-informed career training for freelance creatives. He was the keynote speaker at Ireland’s inaugural creative career summit in 2023 and has appeared on national television as a career coach on the Virgrin Media show Second Chances.

By choosing to work with a coach who is qualified & independently accredited by the ICF you ensure they are professionally trained and tested in the ethical principals and standards of the ICF. The ICF credential is the only professional coaching accreditation to be recognised worldwide. As a member of the CDI you can