Liv Cropper

After 25 years in corporate life, Liv Cropper had built a successful career in senior leadership. On paper, she was thriving, but she knew she was ready for something different: a career that gave her more meaning, freedom and balance, while allowing her to use everything she had learned about leadership and people in a different way.

Leaving a career she had spent more than two decades building was a significant decision, but Liv wanted to do work that genuinely made a difference. Coaching gave her the opportunity to help people not simply perform better, but understand themselves more deeply and feel better too.

Having known Angela for several years, Liv trusted her expertise, but she was looking for training that went beyond coaching theory. She wanted structure, support and a genuinely human approach, so she chose to train with PasedaCoach, beginning with the Advanced Practitioner programme as part of the Career Switcher Package, alongside Coach Club and the Business Accelerator.

That was only the beginning of her development. Liv continued her training with PasedaCoach, progressing through to the Master Practitioner Advanced Diploma and developing greater depth and confidence in her work as a coach.

Throughout her training, Liv learned to work with the Paseda360 human-centric coaching methodology, an approach designed to help coaches get beneath what is happening on the surface and work with the patterns, beliefs and experiences that can keep people stuck. It is now an important part of the way she works with her own clients, and Liv describes the depth of transformation she sees through the Paseda360 methods as one of the most powerful parts of her work.

There was another part of the experience she hadn't anticipated: the community. Liv formed strong friendships with the people she trained alongside, finding inspiration, encouragement and plenty of laughter as they developed together.

Since making the leap from corporate life, Liv has built Yellow Bench Coaching and developed a strong client base of sustainability leaders, bringing together her years of leadership experience, her understanding of the sustainability world and the depth of her coaching practice. She is increasingly becoming a recognised voice in coaching sustainability leaders, contributing to industry conversations through panel discussions and speaking engagements alongside her one-to-one coaching work.

She has also created and hosts the successful Rooted podcast, giving her another platform through which to explore the conversations, experiences and ideas at the heart of her work.

Yet Liv's story isn't only about what she has built professionally. One of the biggest changes has been in Liv herself. She talks about rediscovering her creativity, confidence and voice through the process and describes the past few years as a transformation both inside and out.

In her own words:

"I've shed my corporate mask and feel more me than ever."

And when asked to sum up her experience in three words?

Fun. Powerful. Energising.