Setting up a Coaching Business

Setting up a coaching business seemed like the perfect work life balance option for me to juggle a young family, work part-time and maintain my professional network. I have spent a number of years working as a sales mentor so getting a proper ticket to practice as a coach seemed the right thing to do.

So last year I trained as a Buisness Coach with PB Coaching in Leeds. As a sales professional I was astonished at the number of coaches I met who, whilst fantastic coaches, did not know the first thing about running a business. From set-up, wether to be Ltd or sole trader to be VAT registered or not. To generic sales marketing, social media and PR.

Many failed at the first hurdle to get their coaching businesses off the ground and with huge amounts of competition it seems you need to be a great business person first and a coach second. So I decided with two business colleagues who had come to coaching after business like myself to set up CoachCloud. We are running courses for people who are thinking about becoming a coach and for coaches who want to be better business people. For further information on these please go to our Course Booking Page.

Information on CoachCloud

The founders of CoachCloud are Zulfi Hussain of Global Synergy, Zandra Moore of Salescake and Jennifer Holloway of Spark– three experienced coaches who still get a buzz from helping someone to think further than they ever have before. But just as important as the fact we are coaches is the fact we are business-people. And that’s exactly what led us to set up CoachCloud: the realisation that just because someone is a great at coaching, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they’re great at running a business.

So we decided to take the experience we have gained from running their own companies and share it with others who are just setting out by providing ongoing support and professional development. The result is a network of coaches, from all fields, who are working together, getting coaches coaching.