MEET YOUR COACHES
The Blue Goat team has worked together to support numerous individuals and businesses since 2012. Our range of experience includes delivering training and leadership programs, supporting middle management through outplacement to new roles, providing careers advice for people wanting to shift their career mid-stream, coaching individuals to improve and master their professional skills and assisting the next generation with making healthy happy career choices to suit their needs and interests.
The Blue Goat founders, Amanda and Kate, are passionate about people getting the most out of their working life - all 40-50 years of it! We believe that in order to make good career choices, we each need to invest enough time and attention to create a vision for our future, know what we want to achieve through work, and take thoughtful steps that will help us get there - one step at a time. As part of our coaching programmes, Blue Goat is underpinned by Choice Theory, a process that can guide and inspire people to make more insightful career and life decisions.
AMANDA SMITH
CAREERS COACH | BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGIST
Amanda is an organisational psychologist, which is a big way of saying that she loves working with people - at work - whatever they happen to do.
Amanda has always been passionate about working with people to maximise their careers. For nearly 20 years, Amanda has coached, trained, assessed and developed people from all walks of life, in all types of businesses and across several different countries.
Amanda has more recently focused on working specifically with people over their career choices and performance improvement, with the aim of helping everyone get the very best start to mastering their working world as early as possible and with a solid foundation to build a long, lasting and satisfying career without the fear of wondering “what next”.
KATE THORNE
CAREER COACH & DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONER
Kate Thorne has been working in the career space for the best part of a decade from private clients to large government organisations.
She has a diverse background that began in corporate finance until she found her true calling; helping other people find theirs. She truly believes each person is a unique constellation of interests, values, personality traits and skills and looks to assist others to create plans that reflect that unique design.
Kate has a keen interest in keeping up to date with the latest research in career counselling, has a passion for helping young adults discover who they are and what they do best.
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THE BLUE GOAT
RESILENT.
FOCUSED.
FUNNY.
HAPPY.
CONFIDENT.
When goats are kids, they are the funniest, most energetic, free-wheeling crazy dudes that love every second of living - how could they not love it! When kids goats become adults, they are resilient, hard working and climb tough mountains… but they also get to see the beautiful view from the top.
We think this is the best analogy for how humans can live their best lives - with confidence, fun, focus and stress-free.
We make about 35,000 choices every day and each choice creates a new path that we travel along. To create the best possible situations and future for ourselves, we first have to know exactly what we need.