Living Right Now is all about you. We want you to become the guru in your own life. Creating your own life work balance: whatever that means for you now.
Our first and best recommendation about ourselves is that we are passionate about inspiring you to live a balanced life and reduce lifestyle choices that cause stress. We want to work with you to enhance your successful professional and personal development.
To help you crash through glass ceilings, walls, and doors. Work with you on learning how to say no and how to say Yes, Yes, Yes!
We like to laugh - a lot. Mostly at ourselves and the ridiculousness of the rules of life and the knots we tie ourselves in. We both grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England and consequently we tend to say what we mean in a direct and kindly fashion. We love people and we don’t really do maps. We would rather ask a stranger for directions than use a map or sat nav because that could give a far more interesting twist to our day.
Here’s a little bit about the expertise we have gained over our combined experience of 50 years in the people business just in case you want that in deciding to work with us...
Marie Taylor
Marie’s expertise in developing people was formed as a result of nearly 20 years in organisations leading teams to get the best out of people at all levels. Marie operated mostly at Board level and throughout that part of her career achieved success through her unique blend of strong strategic business sense and huge intuitive empathy for the development needs of people.
She has been coaching for over 15 years with senior managers, directors and business owners and holds a postgraduate Diploma in career coaching and consulting from London University.
Marie has run her own successful business for 7 years since completing her MBA at Cambridge where she continues to support the University as an associate and mentor. She is a Master Practitioner in NLP, a trained hypnotherapist and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a BPS qualified psychometric assessor and a member of the IoD.
Marie is dedicated to her continuous professional development both personally and for the benefit of clients. Her most inspiring learning experience was achieving grade E on a school report for needlework.
Jeni Purdie
Jeni’s 16-year career with the Hays specialist recruitment group prior to establishing her own coaching practice 6 years ago spanned sales recruitment, operational directorship and training and development. She was appointed a Regional Director after only 6 years with the company and throughout her 16 years she secured 9 significant promotions.
She was a founder director of Hays Call Centres and headed up the delivery of over 10,000 NVQs into organisations such as BT, ICL, Powergen and AVIS. Jeni gained her Master’s in HRM at Leeds University Business School and became a qualified personal coach.
Jeni has trained to master practitioner level in NLP, is a certified GoalMapping Practitioner and TetraMapping facilitator. She is a chair/council member of the BNI.
Jeni is the author of two books published by Wiley – her first, Life Coaching For Dummies is a consistent top ten best seller and is about to go to a second edition. Her second book is on the subject of Work-Life balance, a subject that Jeni is passionate about.
Jeni is committed to ongoing development, reading avidly across the spectrum of personal development and using her extensive knowledge base to flexibly support clients. She can sew and do needlepoint embroidery and no doubt has an award somewhere for spinning golden thread.
Marie and Jeni
Their combined 40 plus years in business have focused on the sensitive and effective development of people, teams and organisations through supporting increased self-awareness and personal effectiveness. Jeni and Marie love their work and like to create safe, challenging yet fun learning experiences for individuals and organisations.
Both their careers have offered rich learning opportunities, which form an ideal foundation for supporting you in achieving results. Their coaching and training styles have been described as: hilarious, considered, insightful, business focused, challenging, individualised, and inspirational.
Their aim? To facilitate a successful blend of inner and outer goal achievement that works for you based on resourcing you NOW.
