Janine Woodcock, Professional Coach, Speaker and Writer

Hi, I’m Janine and I’m here to help you achieve your potential.

I bring you practical tools, techniques and frameworks that will help you nourish and sustain your personal and professional success. My work combines my twenty-five years’ experience in leading businesses, my studies and qualifications as an executive coach and my experience in managing my own drive to succeed.

When I’m not helping people like you achieve their true potential, I’m doing that for myself. I balance the important things in my life, like family, friends and creative endeavours. I prioritise exercise, getting back to nature and relaxation, and I’m constantly learning new things about how nutrition contributes to our success. But I’m human too, so there’s also time for chocolate, red wine and Netflix.

Hi, I’m Janine and I’m here to help you achieve your potential.

Coaching, facilitation and training

Through Zingg Ltd I help businesses all over the world thrive and grow by unlocking the potential of people at all levels. My approach is grounded in delivering business success by helping teams work together, and helping individuals within those teams shape and retain their own authentic style.

Coaching – one to one, team and group
Workshop facilitation – from board strategy days to dealing with team dynamics that are holding back progress
Training – topics include: understanding and managing yourself through change, managing stress and optimising resilience, negotiation skills, inter and intra team communication, how to have difficult conversations

Book a no-obligation chat with Janine

Coaching, facilitation and training

Through Zingg Ltd I help businesses thrive and grow by unlocking the potential of people at all levels. My approach is grounded in delivering business success by helping teams work together, and helping individuals in those teams shape and retain their own authentic style.

Coaching: one to one, team and group
Workshop facilitation: from board strategy days to dealing with team dynamics that are holding back progress
Training: topics include: understanding and managing yourself through change, managing stress and optimising resilience, negotiation skills, inter and intra team communication, how to have difficult conversations

Book a no-obligation chat with Janine

Speaking

I’m passionate about sharing my experiences and ideas but I always tailor my content to the themes of your event or conference. You’ll get a feel for the topics I speak on from this website, my blog or by getting in touch. Here are some example themes…

Driven to succeed. Does your body know more than your mind?
The things people say. How to deal with unhelpful challenges from colleagues.
The angels advocate. How to shift your mindset towards your success.
Making the right choices. How to sustain your success.

I offer keynote speaking as well as delivering break-out sessions.

As a member of the Professional Speaking Association, you can be confident that you’re booking a speaker with experience and discipline who can both engage and inspire.

Contact Janine

“Janine’s session was the highlight of the Connecting Women in Technology event. She provided great tips and actions for the audience to take away and helped them find the right inner voice for leadership. We came out of the session buzzing and full of energy.”
Sarah Robinson
Director, Connecting Women in Technology

Writing

Blog

Read my blog to find out more about the topics that interest me. It’s an eclectic collection of insights on how to work with some of the most common challenges we face in our careers.

Book

My book, The Power of Choices, is for you if you feel ‘always on and never finished’; if you find it difficult to switch off. You may be driven and love your work, but having it front of mind all the time can have unintended consequences for your health, happiness and relationships. My 7-step CHOICES programme will help you feel more energised in every part of your life; still allowing that “driven you” to flourish and succeed, but without it coming at the expense of other important things in your life. Find out more at the dedicated website for the book.

Articles and opinion pieces

I’m available as a guest writer too, for example I write for ThriveGlobal.com. Please get in touch if you would like me to contribute to your publication.

Contact Janine

Writing

Blog

Read my blog to find out more about the topics that interest me. It’s an eclectic collection of insights on how to work with some of the most common challenges we face in our careers.

Book

I am currently writing a book about how you can make choices to nourish your success in a way that is sustainable for your whole life, not just your professional life. It’s full of practical exercises and insights and also tells my own story of overcoming an unhealthy drive to succeed. The book will be available to pre-order from August 2019, before being published in October 2019.

Articles and opinion pieces

I’m available as a guest writer too, so please get in touch if you would like me to contribute to your publication.

Contact Janine

Blog

Your success. Your happiness. Your choice.

Health and happiness are closely related. While we may know that intellectually, for those of us who are driven, we sometimes pay more attention to goals, results and success in the pursuit of happiness

Brain-stretch time? Top tips on how to focus...

I strongly believe in the quest for a lifetime of learning. To me ‘learning’ in a work context means taking in other people’s views on things, in the form of books, podcasts or audio-books...

How to find some balance in a crazy world

I’ve touched on the topic of mindfulness on my blog before. Today I want to share my

You can find all of my blogs here

What it’s like to work with Janine

Janine gave me some fantastic coaching where I went away committed to an action that I had previously felt very uncomfortable about. Thanks to the confidence I had gained, I went one step further in what I’d planned and achieved a great outcome. Janine was the opening in which this whole shift happened so I can highly recommend her if anyone is stuck.

Chief Operating Officer

Change Consultancy, UK

The relationship with a coach is very personal, it relies on honesty, trust and empathy from both sides. Janine enables this whole process to happen seamlessly, she guides the conversation, helping you to address and work through your issues and in doing so, helped me reach conclusions that I would not have reached on my own. I have developed good habits and processes that have not only helped my business but also helped me to manage myself and the way I work. I understand myself better and know not only what my weak points are but also how to avoid, correct or overcome them.

Managing Director

Business Consultancy, UK

The coaching sessions left me feeling exceptionally positive and had cleared any specific obstacles so I could move forwards with enthusiasm and excitement. Janine helped me step back from the issues, allow me to evaluate what I had already achieved and give me the time to re-appraise my goals and set out clear ways to achieve them. I felt guided by Janine but not led, all the ideas and impetus came from myself. Janine’s skill is her ability to help me alter my perspective and solve the problems myself. This leads to a longer lasting solution where I have actively developed skills to help me achieve my goals.

Account Director

Marketing Agency, UK

The sessions were like talking to a helpful friend who kept you focussed, on topic and provided insightful suggestions. Janine was able to help me dissect the key phrases we say each day, or obstacles we see and can’t find a way around, and look at them in a new light. Neither blunt nor pushy but a real facilitated experience helping me push myself to identify my blockages and how I wanted to work around them, or even reclassify them as mere bumps to gloss over rather than huge obstacles to divert my attention.

Self-employed Health Practitioner

Despite culture/langauge difference and communicating through video call instead of in person, she impressed me with her inspiring coaching skills and boundary pushing questions. I definitely benefit a lot to make breakthrough both in work and more importantly on my personal development journey.

Global Category Manager

Pharmaceuticals, Korea

When you’re coached by Janine, you find that every session leads to an ‘aha’ moment! You realise something new about yourself – whether that’s a strength, something you need to work on or just an understanding of who you are. I found it incredibly empowering and allowed me to develop in new ways. It’s a fantastic process and I would recommend anyone looking to develop themselves to look to Janine.

Account Director

Marketing Agency, UK

Janine helped me to achieve true breakthroughs in dealing with complex workplace issues. Janine had a way of challenging and probing deeply to allow me to think outside my traditional comfort zones. I highly recommend Janine’s Executive Coaching skills to anyone searching for a breakthrough at any level of management – she can help to get you there!

Account Director

Marketing Agency, UK

Head of Procurement

Pharmaceuticals, USA

Janine has a unique way of challenging you and building up your confidence to have the courage take on big ideas, take accountability for relationships and drive towards results that you would otherwise feel were previously out of reach. I would highly recommend Janine as she delivers proven results!

Global Category Manager

Pharmaceuticals, USA

Janine has been my business coach for almost a year. In that time we have cemented a fantastic and constructive relationship. Janine has been a great sounding board and advisor and with her varied international experience brings a cultural relevance to her advice which is especially helpful. She challenges my thinking and always builds on my competences and capabilities with a forward looking approach to support my professional career and personal development. It has been a pleasure to work with Janine and I hope to continue to do so.

Head of Procurement

Pharmaceuticals, Australia

Janine is a rare mix of being a caring listener, but with a healthy dose of tough love. Having been in senior roles herself, she truly understood how I was feeling. Janine helped me separate my emotional response from the business situation and channel my energies into moving forward. What I especially valued was the follow-up notes, prompts and tools she shared. Not only could I feel progress, I could see it too.

Senior Vice President

Marketing Agency, USA

As my coach, Janine has done a tremendous job by being a resourceful sounding board and an action-taking catalyst. Janine helped me to gain clarity, think through critical issues and develop strategies to move forward. She asks challenging questions and encourages me to take risks whilst being extremely supportive. I have developed techniques that help me more effectively set expectations and to deliver feedback; and I have increased my ability to recognise opportunities to practice new techniques learnt. Janine’s approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. where results are easily measurable. I strongly recommend coaching from Janine, especially for senior leaders/managers who want to evolve to a higher level of personal and professional satisfaction.

Chief Operating Officer

Tech Start up: UK

Janine inspires trust and respect quickly and from a wide variety of different personalities. Janine has worked with our management team for the past 8 months, at a time when we have bought together two businesses and so wanted to align these two groups under common strategic objectives. She initiated two streams of work with our newly-combined management team: 1) Understand our own and each other’s behaviours and motivations, then provide us a framework in which to interact so that we can build strong relationships with each other 2) Define common (key) objectives which underpin our business plan or the coming budget year I’m very thankful we met Janine – we could not have achieved what we have without her. Her professional ability (proven throughout her career) is key, but her ability to engender trust from a group of strong and varied personalities is a rare and brilliant quality.

Managing Director

Marketing Agency, UK