Mark Ellerker

Why Choose Mark

About Your Coach - Mark Ellerker

You may be wondering why I would be the right person as your coach. I have worked professionally as a personal coach since 2005 and I am fully qualified as a Master Practitioner of NLP and Master Hypnotherapist, both certificates through the American Board. My life coaching certification was gained in the UK. The coaching method I find most successful and rewarding is called Strategic Intervention and I was trained by the Robbins-Madanes Institute. Of course, certificates don’t guarantee that someone is a great coach so please take a look at the personal testimonials on this site to know that I deliver great results. Previous clients have sought help to change eating habits, deal with anxieties over things like public speaking, interviews and new jobs.   My experience prior to private coaching and therapy has been 15 years in the financial and service sector leading teams to high performance, managing operational change and implementing process improvements for efficiency. If you are developing a small business I can also empathise with your challenges as I have grown a small coffee shop business through a challenging recession and have instigated and chaired a business forum in my home town of Ossett, West Yorkshire, bringing businesses and community groups together with the aim of restoring pride in the town.   Helping people to overcome their personal obstacles and achieve their potential is my passion, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

How a good coach works

A good coach will help you to achieve more and feel better about it,  gaining clarity on what you want and being specific.  For example, many people will say “I want more money”. That’s fine.  But how much, by when, how would you like to achieve that and what actions are you going to take?

A good coach will also work with you to make sure your goals are ecological and contextual, that means, are they right for you and your situation right now? Do they work well for the situation around you? Does the end result really meet your needs? Are they really your goals or something that someone else wants you to achieve?

You can expect a good coach to be there to support, to help you with ideas, improve your creativity and hold you accountable to the things you want to achieve. A coach can help with contacts.  And a good coach will certainly support you with motivation and keeping your motivation tip top through the rough times.  As your coach I am committed to delivering on all these qualities. 

What People Are Saying

" I would highly recommend Mark! I suffered with anxiety before and during interviews. Mark really helped me to overcome this, I recently had an interview and felt much more calm and confident during the interview. And the techniques helped me to manage my nervous before hand. The techniques I have gained during the sessions with Mark are invaluable not just for interviews but also towards public speaking and presentations. Thank you for helping me bring out my inner confidence!"
Emily Pinchbeck
Ossett
Mark has been providing me with coaching for business skills for some time now and I have found his insights an advice extremely helpful. Mark has enabled me to have a greater awareness sof all forms of communication, how to communicate better myself and how to read and interpret others. This has certainly boosted my confidence and made me much more effective in meetings and other business settings. He has also provided a very useful sounding board for business problems and ideas and I have always found his input to be highly relevant.
Mark Allison
Managing partner, Terra Firma Risk Management
I visited Mark after an assault at work meant I could no longer go into the office without suffering a negative *emotional reaction. After a two hour session of NLP and hypnosis I left with a better understanding of what had happened to me emotionally & confident that I could successfully go back to work. I am grateful to Mark that i can now enjoy my work once again.
Elizabeth Rushmer
Harrogate