Hi, I’m Stephen.

I am a professional coach, trainer and coaching mentor with over 30 years’ experience working in large, high pressure corporate environments.

I started coaching in 2005, with traditional business coaching using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). I ran workshops, coached individuals and executives, and delivered NLP training courses alongside my consulting career.

My work today is still about success, but I am not interested in success without wellness. I see the connection wellness has with success.

I am based in the UK and work internationally through Zoom video conferencing.

My story

Twenty years ago I was one of the stressed successful. Successful, yes, but paying the price in stress, anxiety and working too many hours.

I was happy, but not deep down happy, and I didn’t sleep like I wanted to, and I couldn’t relax in the evenings and weekends like I wanted to.

I worked too many hours, and realized something needed to change.

Through work I did with my coaches, I discovered that when we live and work from a deeper and more peaceful foundations, we don’t just become happier and healthier. It increases our impact and influence in the world. It raises our game!

I now work with professionals who are now where I was then, to get free or stress and combine personal brilliance with inner peace and emotional freedom.

Selected influences

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Sydney Banks’ work, The Three Principles.

Nancy Kline’s work, Time To Think.

Robert Holden’s Coaching with the Enneagram.

Bill Cumming’s work, What Every Person Can Do.

Katie Abbott’s work, Pause Place.

My main skills and qualifications

Traditional business and personal coaching.

Advanced Master Practitioner and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Advanced Presence Intelligence Coach.

Advanced Pause Place Practitioner and Pause Place Mentor.

Thought Field Therapy (TFT).

Coaching with the Enneagram.

Coaching from the Inside-Out (Three Principles) understanding.

Trained convener of the “What Every Person Can Do” programme.

Some career highlights

Coached individuals and executives since 2005.

Created Stephen Woolston Training and Consultancy in 2006.

Delivered public NLP training courses since 2007.

Delivered communication skills and productivity workshops in companies since 2009.

Coached executives in a global Fortune 50 company in support of executive development programs.

Taught Coaching Essentials in the same global Fortune 50 company.

Pause Place program mentor in 2017 and 2018.

Let me celebrate some of my teachers

Gabriel Guerrero’s testimonial

“Stephen is one of those few who continuously searches for new ideas. He asks intelligent questions and can figure out his own answers as well. Plus he is a great guy. Give yourself a chance and meet him.”

“You are real, but the person you think you are is an illusion.”

(Chris Morris)