Michele Koster

Lived Experience:

• Michele recently trained and became certified as a Life Coach and has now created an offering based on this qualification, combined with her professional, business leadership background and technical expertise in executive strategic sourcing and headhunting.
  
  
• As a Career/ Life Purpose Coach, Michele offers practical advice and guidance with regard to creating / elevating application documentation and networks; navigating recruitment processes and how to position yourself well.  She also offers an opportunity to explore finding purpose in life and work.

Success factors:

• Lifelong commitment to learning and personal development
• Absolute passion and belief in my own purpose - to help others connect with their purpose
• I have been trained as a coach by one of the best coaches globally - Martha Beck!

Core values:

• Being in integrity as a Coach - remaining Transparent, Authentic and Open (TAO) in body, heart, mind and spirit 
• I ‘Live it to give it’ - by undertaking ongoing personal development for growth to be a better human and coach
• Not having an agenda - ‘living in perpetual creative response to whatever is present’

Knowledge:

• Strong, broad knowledge of various/ most sectors and professions
• Coaching experience - candidate / client and business / organisational / performance advisory for both
• CV and Resume preparation and positioning
  

Career highlights:

• Promotion to Director at Omera Search Partners
• Starting The Candidate Company in 2014
• Achieving Life Coach certification in 2024

Best advice received:

"Your past is your future, without your intervention."

Favourite business model:

Compassionate Inquiry - The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves – to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them.

Book recommendation:

The Way of Integrity - Martha Beck

Bestselling author, life coach and sociologist Martha Beck explains why 'integrity' - being in harmony with ourselves - is the key to a meaningful and joyful life.

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