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Martin Johnson is an experienced coach and NLP Master Practitioner.

Services: life coaching; executive coaching; business coaching; NLP coaching

With his coaching and business experience Martin helps both individuals and businesses gain increased clarity, set compelling goals, define the actions they need to take to achieve them and realise the confidence and motivation that will keep them on track.

Why coaching?
“Coaching supports the individual and the organisation to stretch safely and confidently beyond comfort zones to achieve greater success.”

Who will benefit?
Individuals who want to take more control of their lives and enjoy greater success:

• getting back to work after a career break
• changing career or career development
• managing stress / living a more healthy life
• adapting and moving forward after a major change in your life
• developing greater self-confidence
• taking a new challenge
• achieving greater success

Businesses that want to increase performance, profits and grow:

• Achieve more, without investing in longer hours or additional resources
• Increase profits / grow the business
• Gain improved clarity and focus
• Increase the effectiveness of training and change programmes
• Reduce stress
• Increase individual performance while maintaining a healthy work/life balance
• Advance your capabilities and your career

Martin’s background:
Martin's business background spans over 25 years. He set up his first business at 23 providing specialist design and consultancy services and built this into a successful communications agency working for a range of international clients.

Martin originally graduated from LCP in Media and Production Design. Since then he has continued to pursue an active programme of professional development. He holds a coaching qualification from Newcastle College and is a certified Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner. He is a member of the Association for Coaching, The Professional Guild of NLP and the Association of Speakers' Clubs.

About NLP:
NLP offers a wide range of tools and techniques for achieving advanced performance. But it is much more than that. NLP is an attitude. At its core it is about modelling successful behaviour. And the reason we do things well, or less well, is about so much more than just what we know.

Beneath the surface the way we behave at any particular time is affected by a variety of things:

• the specific situation or environment we are in and the other things which are going on around us (the system) within this situation.
• what we do within this situation, both in terms of our minds (cognitively) and our bodies (physiology).
• what skills and knowledge we are using at the specific time.
• what belief and value systems we are using to filter what is coming in and out of our minds.
• what we are identifying with.
• and how we are fitting all this in with our own goals or larger vision/mission.

NLP helps us identify those patterns. The ones we are good at we can learn to apply in other areas of our lives and enhance. The ones that are not helpful, NLP can help us change or replace with better solutions. And it also helps us identify how we can easily learn and model the useful patterns and behaviours of others – borrowing their advanced performance and applying it successfully within our own lives and work.

What our clients say:

“I’ve learned to believe in myself and my capabilities & skills. Thanks Martin, for making an “I don’t think I could” person into an “I know I can” believer."

“I have had two coaching sessions with Martin because I had a very difficult and life changing decision to make with regard to my business. I found his coaching helped me to move on and feel positive about what I was going to do. It also helped me to feel good about myself and to look forward with anticipation to the changes ahead. I would be happy to recommend Martin and his coaching skills.”

"It is all well and good to say you know where you want to be in 5 or 10 years, however, does anyone really know how we go about achieving those goals. Talking to someone about it all, writing it down, discussing and comparing ideas helped me to get a better idea of where to head next, and how soon I can achieve my own personal goals.”

“Martin’s clear thinking helped us focus on the main issues that were holding back our business. With his experience we were able to focus energy in the most effective way allowing us to achieve the best results. I have no hesitation in recommending Martin”

"In just three sessions Martin was able to show us the bigger picture for our company and, working with us, able to put together a strategy for moving forward to attain it. We would definitely use him again in the future"

For more information about Martin Johnson and 80/20 Challenge Ltd, visit: www.8020challenge.com.