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Coaching for Charity Professionals

  

I’m a senior level qualified Executive Charity Coach with nearly 10 years of coaching and mentoring experience—and over 20 years working in and alongside and for the charity sector.


I know just how rewarding, and how tough, charity work can be. Many leaders face intense pressure, burnout, and emotional strain—especially now. Recent studies have shown:


85% of small charity leaders say their role has harmed their mental health, with 20% calling it “severe” (Third Sector)

Over 90% say their mental health has affected their work (Third Sector)

Charity leaders cite growing financial pressures, with many forced to make tough decisions, including staff cuts (Civil Society)


I believe coaching offers essential space for charity professionals to reflect, connect, and recharge. It helps reduce isolation and supports resilience in demanding roles.


My own journey began after recovering from burnout in my early twenties whilst working in hotel management. That experience led me to develop an interest and passion for recovery and mental health. I became CEO of a Local Mind Charity for eight years and later founded MMC Ltd, a charity consultancy. I now lead a small team delivering a wide range of coaching and fundraising support services to the sector.


Driven by my interest in personal development, I’ve continued to grow professionally—earning the ILM Level 7 Diploma for Executive & Senior Level Coaches and Mentors (2024), holding EMCC Practitioner Membership, and becoming a certified Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway trainer. I’m also trained in Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Prevention (ASIST).


Coaching for me is the culmination of my life’s work, it is more than a service—it’s a way I can stand alongside charity leaders and staff doing vital work, and help them grow and thrive in challenging times. 

Who do I work with?

If you work or volunteer for a charity, you will benefit from my coaching.


You could be a Chief Executive, or a member of your charity’s senior leadership team. Equally, you may not be at an Executive level but could hold a role in Fundraising, Operations or be part of the Administration or HR team. I have also worked with Trustees whose role as Chair is to support their Chief Executive’s.


In addition to working with individuals, I work with small teams of employees, providing workplace wellbeing workshops.

Top Client Challenges & Benefits

Leadership Skills

Helping charity CEO’s and senior managers develop key leadership skills so they can be the best they can be. Increased confidence in their ability to lead in a strategic way, make better decisions, increase productivity and becoming more emotionally intelligent leaders

Fundraising Challenges

Helping fundraisers of all levels, navigate a challenging funding environment. I do this by providing practical tools and space to help you organise your workload better, feel less overwhelmed and increase your productivity and confidence.

Career Development

I offer help for all charity staff who are navigating career changes helping them adjust to new roles or exploring future options.This will help you explore what is important to you in your career, help you create a personalised values based personalised biography.

Team Wellbeing

Helping leaders develop a culture of wellbeing for themselves and their teams ensuring they can achieve a better work-life balance and reducing overwork and burnout, resulting in less staff absenteeism and happier more cohesive teams.

Testimonials

Val Bishop - CEO Community Council for Somerset

 When I first begun coaching with Marsha, I expected that we would focus on my professional needs and development as I begun to tackle a new senior role. What I found was that trying to separate personal and professional is impossible and it has been intensely rewarding to look at my life holistically, using carefully designed tools and methodologies. Marsha’s calm, compassionate and careful questions have offered challenge in a positive way, and together we have created a safe space where I can explore both work dilemmas, and plan for personal growth. I am looking forward to future sessions – I feel that our relationship has grown, and that this will help me tackle difficult topics and challenges with a ‘critical friend’, where previously it has felt very lonely at times. I did not expect coaching to create that companionship but now see that it is a vital component to success.


Testimonials

Cheryl Magowen – Director of Heovhe

 My coaching with Marsha was profound!!!!! A safe space to unload the extras I had still been carrying 8 years on, from my last career, getting to hear myself say how feel, I was able to make sense of how it is limiting me today.  I have not spoken about what happened ever - in that concentrated and focused way. Because it was all so big and encompassing, i didn’t know where to begin to unpack it by myself. Thank you for giving me the arrows to a beginning process of unravelling what once was. A true turning point occurred in the session. I saw my situation as me flailing in water rapids, clinging to a dead branch, believing it (the branch) would save me. When in reality - I’m stood on dry land, and I have a gift that grows lush Forest’s.


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