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Empower Your Team and Transform Your Organisation With Expert Coaching & Training
🎯 1:1 Coaching: Build confident leaders ready to tackle challenges
💼 Workshops: Tailored sessions on skills like managing time & assertiveness
🏅 CMI Online Coach Training: Equip managers with accredited coaching qualifications
🎢 Growth With A Twist: Fun, engaging programs that drive impactful change
Your People Are Your Greatest Asset –
Let’s Help Them Thrive
From leaders who motivate to teams that collaborate and grow together, we help you strengthen the people at the heart of your organisation. Through 1:1 coaching, team workshops, and accredited coach training, we offer practical, personalised support that drives real impact.
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🤩 What People Are Saying About Our Coaching And Training 🤩
“Last week I had my final session with Neil and I am a different person at the end of it. I thought I was self-aware when I started the process and also thought that I knew exactly what I needed to work on. However, I learned new things about myself and discovered what my real struggle was. I now also know what to do. It’s a journey of several years but I can at least say that, this time, I am going in the right direction.”
“Neil is exactly what I want in my coach; someone who will make sure I hold myself to the highest standards, focus on helping me find solutions and not let me get away with excuses. His coaching has made me be more determined, focussed, reflective and stronger as a result. I would not hesitate in recommending him to everyone in my network. Neil has helped me to unlock Peak Me and, for that, I am exceptionally grateful.”
After my first session with Ali I was blown away – she made me feel so comfortable and at ease and unlocked the root of the negative feelings I was constantly obsessing over. She helped me to unravel what was really going on behind some of the surface-level blocks I had around creating content and showing up for my audience, and not only that but when I came away from our session I instantly noticed where I was falling into the same negative thoughts in other areas of my life, only now I could recognise & correct them almost instantly. And that was after 1 session!
After just 3 sessions my mindset has now completely shifted. Where in the past I could procrastinate for days and even weeks over tasks, sometimes never completing them, I’m putting a lot less pressure on myself and finding that I’m easily making decisions without hours of overthinking. Any wobbles I’ve had that would have set me back days and weeks in the past, I’ve managed to work through using the tools Ali taught me, to recognise and quickly get past these obstacles in my mind.
Our sessions have also helped to hold me accountable to the tasks I wanted to achieve in my business and as a result, I’m flying through them and well ahead of where I even planned to be at this point in the year. I feel clearer about how I’m going to achieve my goals and have learned so much about myself and my business simply by slowing down, reflecting and not trying to skip 10 steps ahead, which was one of the things that was hugely impeding my progress.
I can’t wait to work with Ali again because the change in my approach to my business through our sessions has been invaluable and I know there’s so much more she can help me work through to help me become the best version of myself.
“Alison facilitated a workshop I organised for one of the projects I’m leading. She was amazing on helping the team to reach its objectives on finding what research topics we were really keen to work when applying for a second grant. Alison had us working on different tasks during the morning and all were very helpful.
Don’t hesitate to hire Alison to facilitate your workshop or meeting, I highly recommend her.”
“Neil has delivered several workshops for postgraduate researchers at Lancaster University, as part of the wellbeing and resilience strand of the Science and Technology Graduate School research training programme. Neil’s workshops have always been well received by those who have attended and this has been a popular addition to our programme.
Neil has been great to work with in developing these workshops and shows a good understanding of the needs of postgraduate researchers.”
“I’m hugely grateful to Alison for her skilful guidance of the Lancaster Medical School Senior Leadership team in our recent away-day.
I would highly recommend Alison’s gentle and empathetic coaching in bringing teams together to self-reflect openly and productively, realise joint goals, ‘own’ their work and find joint solutions to improve work environments.”
“Brilliant. Fun, engaging and supportive. Perfect duration. Lovely group size.”
Excellent workshop with good combination of activities, small group and whole group discussion – thank you. Take home point: The people pleasing beliefs and how these can be applied to my limiting beliefs.
“Fantastic session – I wasn’t sure what to expect but I found the questions and the space that was created really helpful and inspired me.”
Brilliant session, lots of good scenarios. Very helpful to understand beliefs and explore them.”
“Very engaging and informative. A great workshop and I am inspired to use the approaches in my life too.”
“To be honest this was the best training I have done in my experience in Lancaster and also other universities in UK and abroad. Thanks a lot for organizing it and I would be very happy to attend more trainings similar to this one or or related to improving confidence.”
“Our CMI-certified coach training is a brand-new offer, built on years of delivering high-quality, practical training to diverse audiences. From training hundreds of health and care professionals across Lancashire and South Cumbria in coaching skills to teaching thousands of undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students at Lancaster University, we have a proven track record of creating engaging and impactful learning experiences. This new program equips managers and leaders with the tools to inspire their teams, foster collaboration, and drive meaningful change in their organisations.”
How we can help you
Who Are We?
At The One Life School, we believe people are an organisation’s greatest asset—and that investing in them creates powerful, lasting change.
Founded by certified and experienced coaches Dr Neil Mclatchie and Alison May, our work is grounded in the belief that coaching isn’t just about leadership development—it’s about unlocking potential, building resilience, solving problems at the root, and creating workplaces where people thrive.
Neil specialises in energising mindset and accountability and is a fomer academic with a background in Psychology and higher education curiculum development. Alison specialises in facilitating effective thinking spaces and empowering behaviour change. Her background is in NHS Commissioning and she’s coached senior healthcare leaders and has delivered coach training across Lancashire and South Cumbria to health and care professionals.
Whether it’s 1:1 coaching, interactive workshops, or CMI-accredited training, our programmes are designed to strengthen leadership, reduce stress, and empower teams to grow with purpose.
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