About Amanda

Director of Amanda Alexander Associates LLP, Amanda is a professional coach, speaker and facilitator who specialises in helping pressure-cooked people to achieve personal and career success whilst also integrating work and life. 

Amanda is one of relatively few  professionally trained coaches in the World to hold PCC (Professional Certified Coach) accreditation from the ICF (International Coach Federation) and has over 1,000 hours demonstrable client coaching hours experience working  with people globally and from many different backgrounds and organisations.

Amanda's prime areas of executive coaching expertise are career progression, leadership, work life balance, home-based entrepreneurialism, maternity/return to work and time management. She regularly delivers workshops and seminars both in person and virtually.  She has a high media presence as an expert on work life balance and working parents' issues. 

Amanda has appeared in many broadsheets and glossies including The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Prima, Eve, BBC Parenting to name but a few and is frequently interviewed on BBC Radio.

Educated to Masters Degree level in Computation, with a double honours degree in Modern Languages, Amanda was previously an APM-accredited Project Manager with extensive experience in project planning and control, subcontractor management and risk management. Working for multi-national blue chip IT companies, she has worked and lived in the UK, Europe and Africa setting up and successfully delivering IT systems integration and change management projects and delivering training to Project Management professionals. 

Amanda has worked with individuals and groups from a diverse range of organisations, including:

• BT
• Royal Mail
• ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales)
• Business Link
• Lancashire Constabulary
• Cheshire Constabulary
• Bank of America (formerly MBNA)
• Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
• BBC
• Urenco (formerly British Nuclear Fuels Limited)
• Royal Town Planning Institute
• Warner Bros
• Marks and Spencer’s Financial Services
• Amex
• Linked In

A personal note from Amanda...

" I know how difficult it is for us to achieve balance with the many and often conflicting demands on our time and attention. As a coach running my own business as well as a mother,  I have been mainly "walking my talk" for 7 years!  Whilst I am successful for much of the time, I frequently experience the pressures of trying to keep all the balls in the air, and sometimes dropping them!  I would never claim to have all the answers, and the beauty of being a coach is that I don't have to have them.  But what I do have is the ability to unlock the answers from my clients.  Essentially, as a professional coach, I help people to get unstuck and to move forward much faster than they would on their own.  

I hope that you can discern from my bio above that I value learning, integrity and professionalism.  But I also value fun. adventure and lightness and I like to partner with people who are driven, engaged in life rather than just passengers and above all who have a sense of humour and of fun!  Whether I'm working with individuals or organisations, it is essential to me that the "chemistry" is right for me to help you get the results you want. 

If you'd like an initial "chemistry chat" with me to discuss how I might help your organisation or you as an individual , you can contact me via the Contact Form or by calling me on +44 (0)7739 692989.  Please note that the majority of my time is spent with clients, so chances are that you will get my voice mail.  However, if you leave me a message,  I'll be sure to get back to you within 24 hours"