Evelyn Cotter, Founder, SEVENEvelyn Cotter, Founder
For many individuals in today’s highly globalised world, finding the right career path is not as straightforward as it used to be a decade ago. Broad and diverse markets allow professionals to re-evaluate their goals and work toward a career change. However, since career coaching is still an unregulated market, individuals are in a conundrum when choosing a trusted partner to hone their skillset. Moreover, both SMEs and large-scale enterprises have begun to subscribe to many international leadership and personal development programs to retain top talent while enhancing leadership skills and improving job performances.

In an era where leaders need to quickly adapt to a remote-work economy, how would one go about making the right career choices and finding themselves in an environment that they feel engages them thoroughly?

SEVEN, a professional training and coaching firm based out of London, holds the answer.

SEVEN provides holistic leadership development and career coaching services to help ambitious individuals lead happier, more successful lives in their field of choice. “Following the mantra ‘thriving through change’ allows us to position ourselves as a highly flexible and adaptable enterprise,” expresses Evelyn Cotter, Founder of SEVEN. The company has successfully coached clients from Zurich, New York, Amsterdam, and Berlin, to mention a few, offering them the many benefits of working with a career coach. Each of these clients received comprehensive assistance from SEVEN’s professional coaches who focus on developing leadership skills and actualising career pivot ideas, even at a senior level.

The company also spends a considerable amount of effort in helping individuals find meaningful career paths that allow them to grow professionally while fulfilling them on a personal level. “We often see that our clients can find it confusing or difficult to follow the path that fits them both personally and in a formal capacity,” expresses Evelyn. To help them break out of this spell, SEVEN grants them access to impartial, expert guidance using a systematic approach and a vast network of highly qualified and specialised coaches.

We take a highly consultative approach to ensure that our clients are matched with the most suitable coaches

This allows the company to meet a client’s coaching needs, be it leadership coaching, career pivoting, securing promotions, or dealing with imposter syndromes or unwanted redundancies. “Whether a client is looking for a career change, has been furloughed, or is self-employed and needs a sounding board for their ideas; our coaches are able to give them the clarity they require to find their career paths,” promises Evelyn. The framework SEVEN has established helps provide a safety net for clients, eliminating long waiting times with its extensive network of coaches. The reassurance of working with someone qualified and experienced further aids an individual’s growth and empowers them to maintain a healthy social, mental, and professional life.

Concerning its leadership coaching, SEVEN’s expert staff comprehensively assesses a client’s existing skillset according to their role, career goals, organisational structure, and culture. Based on their findings, a relevant coach is matched with the client who helps them develop the most useful skills to bolster performance and drive their teams’ value.

As well as helping individual professionals to achieve success, SEVEN also works with organisations to attract, retain and grow. Partnering with forward-thinking companies who share their values to inspire, engage and empower their workforce. Using their innovative approach, SEVEN creates programmes that deliver tangible results facilitating individual and team performance, cultural transformation, increasing a greater sense of inclusion, and employee wellbeing whilst providing powerful internal and external tools, techniques and mindset. Following feedback, organisations who have worked with SEVEN conclude that 66% of their employees improved confidence at work, and 60% saw increased engagement.

With such salient services empowering people worldwide, SEVEN intends to move strategically towards professionals located outside of the UK. The company has started a soft launch in the US, focusing on New York. Its presence in Europe is solid, as it has several active clients from Switzerland and Germany. SEVEN is also planning to launch new products and services in the coming weeks to accommodate the growing demand of its business partnerships fully. “Our company culture and the kind of people we work with further help in making a positive impact in a person’s life. We are open to collaborations with all like-minded enterprises and welcome new partnerships to provide career coaching to their employees,” concludes Evelyn.