We have included here a selection of our client testimonials:

"Liz provided so much more that just the traditional business mentoring and I can't thank her enough for having such a positive impact on my business. In less than one year we completely changed the structure of my business, redesigned my service portfolio and expanded the client base significantly. I never expected to achieve so much in such a short space of time. Liz has real business insight and her own commercial experience enables her to really get involved and give practical help. As a result, I have had a very profitable year!"
Business Owner

"Liz is a great listener and can distil the many and often complex issues facing an individual - these might be things that are not immediately obvious. Rather than solve the problems for the individual Liz has a unique skill to help coach the person concerned to their own solution."
Business Owner

"I have worked with Liz over a period of two years during which time I have been faced with many business challenges, including rapid growth, a move to new premises, restructuring and how to build value into the business for a potential sale in the future.
Liz's mentoring support during this period and her extensive business knowledge and experience has helped me to meet these challenges and to develop a successful business, as well as achieving a better work/life balance."
Business Owner

"Liz has been my mentor for three years and I always look forward to meeting with her.
Her probing style of coaching forces me to think through issues I might otherwise gloss over or miss completely. Moreover, she gives me highly intelligent and knowledgeable feedback on a wide range of subjects, from staff management to funding via operations and marketing.
Liz has helped me both at strategic and practical levels and her input has supported the growth of my business.
Many thanks Liz!"
Business Owner

"Liz worked with me over a two and a half year period when I moved from a senior position in a large corporate organisation to working in my own business as a Recruitment Consultant. She supported me in addressing all the main business and personal issues that arose at the time of the most significant change in my working life.
Liz has a clear understanding of all aspects of setting up and running a small business and consistently helped me to focus up on the most important issues at the time as well as maintaining a drive to achieve the main personal and business goals. I looked forward to the regular reviews as it was an opportunity to bounce ideas around and put the various issues and pressures affecting the business in to context and perspective
The support and input from Liz proved to be a significant factor in the successful establishment of my operation."
Business Owner

"Liz has been a great sounding board for business ideas over the last year, her input has really helped the business to grow."
Director

"Liz was my business mentor during a very challenging year. The business was growing very rapidly and I was struggling to cope with the many different issues that arose (including staffing, communication, operations, productivity, sales and marketing, office space, planning, leadership and stress management).
Liz provided excellent support throughout this period, acting as a sounding board for me. I was able to discuss and explore the business challenges with her and find good solutions to the issues. Her help enabled me to move my business forward and put the foundations in place for further business growth. Her business knowledge and experience is extensive and she is a very good listener."
Business Owner

"I first used coaching during a highly stressful time when there was a huge amount going on alongside trying to run the day to day business. I found the coaching enormously useful in coping with the business and emotional stresses of the situation I was in.
Liz helped me rationalise the position in a calm and professional manner and also to give me confidence when times were hard. The key to the coaching was around building and sustaining my self-confidence and in not giving up when things seemed bad.
I would urge anyone faced with a demanding or stressful time where it can at times be difficult to see ‛the wood for the trees‛ to seriously consider coaching as a way to better perform both personally and for the business."
Managing Director

"Liz has helped me with my business for the last 12 months and we have dealt with many issues including a fire, shop closures, a move to a big new store and the stresses and strains of running your own business. I have tried to make the most out of every meeting and I think during the time we have covered almost every topic including staff appraisals, motivation, cost control and PR, to name a few.
Without doubt Liz has been a huge support to me, her business knowledge has helped me make better decisions and her advice on how to handle stress was especially helpful, for what has been a very stressful period of my life. It is good to know that I am able to use her services in the future if I find the need. Thanks Liz."
Business Owner

"Liz Makin has had a significant impact on the way I look at myself, my business and the world in general. Her newsletters are invaluable and have become a treasure house of information and intelligence for me - most importantly they merit regular re-reading and reassessment.
The personal contact I have had with Liz has been of equal value. The problems I had were solved with logic, rationality and understanding.
I would not hesitate to use her services in the future."
Business Owner

"As a result of the coaching I received from Liz I have become more focused and organised, enabling me to achieve more in less time. I am more positive and confident, gaining greater personal satisfaction from working towards more stretching goals."
Business Owner

"Liz Makin has been my business mentor over the last year under the Mentoring for All programme. During this time I was faced with some major business decisions, including an office move, closing down a branch office, staffing issues, purchasing a new practice and marketing my business in a new geographic area.
Through Liz's direction, planning and just down to earth listening I was able to tackle each problem as it came up. Liz is also a Chartered Accountant and has invaluable experience and knowledge in business issues which I was lucky enough to have the benefit of. This was to become one of the busiest years of my career, and frankly without her help, advice and guidance I think I would have found it a struggle on my own.
I am continuing to use Liz's mentoring services for the foreseeable future."
Business Owner

"Thank you so much for giving up your time to advise and guide me over the last year. My meetings and phone sessions with you have been very helpful in both helping and encouraging me, as well as challenging my thoughts and opinions where they needed to be! You've been brilliant and I hope your work as a mentor continues to go from strength to strength."
Business Owner

"Liz Makin was assigned as my business mentor through the Mentoring for All scheme via Business Link. I currently own two long established companies. I had just successfully completing a four year business plan that involved expanding these businesses via purchasing and converting two freehold properties. Once this was completed, I found myself at a loose end with no further major projects to undertake. I did not expect that my day to day workload from that point on would feel so menial and unfulfilling, hence leading to frustration and confusion regarding coming to what I considered to be a dead end.
My 10 sessions with Liz enabled me to discuss at length and in depth the specific areas of concern each time and agree actions that could be taken to move forward. I found Liz very easy to be honest and open with, which enabled me to talk things through and consequently come to well thought out conclusions. I would recommend Liz to anyone needing professional business guidance and support from a knowledgeable and informed outsider."
Business Owner

"Liz is both practical and wise. Her personal success in balancing a challenging career with a young family was massively helpful experience to draw on. She's been extremely helpful in helping me shape my goals and priorities."
Senior Manager

"When I first came to Liz for help my one-man business was in a mess. I was under-achieving personally and financially, was unfocused and was wasting money by putting time and effort into projects that were not viable. I was depressed and my stress was effecting my professional and family life and I could not see how to sort out the mess.
Liz has helped me to understand what is important, to plan better, to focus on client need, and to balance work and family life. I have now turned things around personally and financially and am balancing work and family life well and am much happier as a result.
I am pleased to recommend Liz's professional and highly personable mentoring services."
Business Owner

"I have been on the mentoring programme for about a year, at first I was sceptical as to whether it would be of any benefit, however after a few months I found the process useful, as it gave me the opportunity to focus my thoughts for a few hours every month and plan for the following month. This I found laid the foundation for the following month."
Business Owner

"Liz helped me to think through several issues in starting up my business, and always helped me look for new ideas and positive solutions."
Business Owner

"Liz is both a volunteer business mentor working with our start-up businesses and a business mentor for Mentoring for All East Midlands which is for established businesses across the East Midlands.
The business owners that she has mentored found real benefit from their time with Liz, she helped them focus and became a real sounding board for them."
Mentoring Manager, Nottinghamshire Business Venture

"I was made redundant in December 2008, my confidence was low and I'd reached a point where I could no longer clearly see what skills I had. I was unsure about what I wanted to do next, but had often wondered about working for myself. I was able to see Liz using a voucher scheme from Business Link. In one two hour session she was able to help me identify a clear list of things that I do and don't want out of my life and my work. Liz also helped me to identify where my strengths and skills lie so that I can make better, more informed choices. Her advice was invaluable and whatever career choice I make next, I know it will be a better one as a result of our very focused session."
Personal Client considering starting a business

"With practical support and encouragement, Liz has helped me change my way of looking at life. Over the past few months, I have become far more confident, independent and self-assured. In our meetings, I look forward to setting goals for my future- and achieving them."
Personal Client