Executive Career Coach Krissy Jackson
Our founder Krissy Jackson CPC, ACC is a career coach, specializing in working with women in IT. This was not originally a conscious decision. She started her coaching practice working with people who wanted to develop their businesses and careers - but three years ago, she found that her clients were achieving much more success and she was enjoying her work more than ever before. She looked closely at her client base and realized that her niche had found her. ALL of her clients were women working in IT, and there was symmetry between these smart, driven women and her intuitive, practical approach that sparked something she could have only dreamed possible. Having clarified this niche, Krissy has been able to bring together, often previously isolated women, from all over the world in her interactive webinars, teleconferences and live workshops, sharing ideas, growth, and friendship in a way that has not been possible in the past.
Fascinated by what makes some people successful and others not, Krissy has studied the mind, body connection and the connection between personal and professional success for the past 15 years. She has studied everything from aromatherapy massage, acupuncture, different forms of exercise and nutrition, Feldenkrais (a cross between yoga and Physiotherapy) and finally coaching.
It was Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais who said that his goal was to “make the impossible possible, the possible easy, and the easy elegant." that really struck a chord with Krissy, and when in 2003 she discovered coaching, she felt that this was the element that had been missing in her research. “A person can be introduced to many things, but in the end you can only help them by enabling them to help themselves. Positive development can only come from the heart of the individual who is changing and not from some outside force” she says.
Having earned her Certified Professional Coach (CPC) designation from the International Coach Academy and her Associate Certified Coach (ACC) from the International Coach Federation, Krissy an accomplished facilitator, went on to work as a team leader/coach for several well-known signature-coaching programs. Since 2006 she has specialized in working with women in IT and has been successfully coaching both private clients and groups in this niche.
Krissy is dedicated to raising standards within the coaching profession and to building awareness of the value of coaching. She is actively involved with the International Coach Federation, working as a call facilitator for the Virtual Education Program, and on the Research and Education Committee for two years, She is currently serving on the International Coach Federation Global Board of Directors and is also the board liaison to the Conference Education Steering Committee for the ICF Global Conference to be held in Fort Worth this year.
Krissy is a natural networker and has moderated on 4 groups on Xing, one of the largest online business networking platforms on the web. Apart from this group Krissy enjoys partnering with other organizations and can be found on the Women in Technology UK website where she offers training via webinar to their membership. She also enjoys traveling to cities all over Europe to host networking events and workshops for her cliental.
Background: After being born and having grown up in New Zealand, Krissy did the typically Kiwi (New Zealand) thing of traveling for some months in her early 20's visiting countries in Asia, Africa and Europe before settled in London. There she lived and studied until 1996 when she moved with her, then husband, to a small village nestled among the lakes and mountains in Switzerland. It is in this idyllic setting, that, even after her divorce in 2002, she has chosen to make her home.