“Diana coached me on how to use my natural personality and my core skills in a way that worked to my advantage in a highly competitive interview setting. She also helped me to project my confidence in a workplace setting. Highly recommended.”

“The Highlands Battery literally defined my abilities for me. I learned what my talents were and why I used them in certain ways. It was this information that enabled me to grow my business without the fear that I didn't have the know-how. It also helped me to develop my enjoyment of fine art.”

“Gave me some ideas for future areas to explore (personal and professional) for more satisfaction.”

“For me to tell you all I learned from this program would take a lifetime. I learned how I learn best, how to deal with stressful situations, what my natural abilities are, and what career choices my abilities are geared towards. At the same time, they emphasise that career planning, career decisions, and career changes should not be based entirely on these results.”

“I can’t thank you enough. I was really stressed when we first started working together. I felt I couldn’t cope with all the changes brought on by Covid and felt frightened to go to work. To be honest I would have left my job had it not been for our sessions. You helped to ground me and see things in perspective. I still do get anxious about the whole Covid thing but the techniques and tools you gave me help me cope on a day-to-day basis.”

“I am really grateful that you helped me to have the courage to speak to my boss, which has brought about huge improvements to our relationship. I think we understand each other better; I have made changes, and seen things are improving. It has been so worthwhile, and I have really looked forward to the sessions. I feel differently about work now that the stress of a difficult relationship is no longer there.”

“Excellent tool for determining next steps in your career.

Over the years I’ve experienced many tools to help me choose my optimum career. Until now, none of them has given me clear enough information that would carry me well into the career. I would start out enjoying my work but then reach a point of total dissatisfaction. When I took the Highlands Ability Battery it was as though someone who really knew me had looked inside to see what was driving me. They were able to translate what I was experiencing into words that made the picture clear. What they were seeing was the fire inside me and what fed the fire and what suffocated it.”

“Diana Dawson is a consummate professional. I have worked with her both in a professional capacity as a consultant and also had the benefit of her coaching experience on a personal level. She is very thorough, insightful and inspires confidence. Her pragmatic approach is based on sound, well researched material.”

“Diana is very experienced and creates a supportive and encouraging environment in which to learn. Diana helped me to identify where the blockages in my progress were, and enabled me to make progress. I will use Diana’s services again.”

“I just wanted to say a massive thank-you for the coaching sessions we have had. I have really looked forward to them and have seen massive changes in the areas we worked on. It has given me brain space to think how I can approach things differently. Some of the changes I have made have been small, but had a massive impact on my time management and therefore wellbeing. I do not feel so pressurised, and am better able to cope with everything that comes to me on a day-to-day basis.”

“Diana is a professional and motivational coach. I found the meetings of huge benefit and through talking through the issues I had at work I could work many things out myself. Diana also had some excellent suggestions.”

“Diana was absolutely excellent. I was made to feel comfortable straight away. The advice was well structured, easy to digest and easy to recall in the thick of an interview. My interview performance was greatly enhanced; I was calmer, more focused, and more confident. Overall the advice undoubtedly helped me differentiate myself, deliver a strong performance and lead to a successful outcome. Thank you.”

“Diana coached me on how to use my natural personality and my core skills in a way that worked to my advantage in a highly competitive interview setting. She also helped me to project my confidence in a workplace setting. Highly recommended.”

“Diana has helped me enormously on two separate occasions. The first was with career counselling and the second was with interview practice. With her help, I am now due to start a new job in a field which is of particular interest to me. I could not have done this without her help and guidance. I have, and will continue to, recommend her.”

“Diana has been a fantastic, highly supportive, knowledgeable coach. I have really appreciated the chance to work with her and develop as a result.”

“Diana’s career coaching covers far more than identifying a job you might want to do. She takes a holistic view of you as a person and helps you to understand your natural abilities, interests and motivations thus helping you to form a deep understanding of the environments in which you perform best. The more work you put into this journey of self-discovery, the more value you will obtain from the results. The end result for me was not actually a change of career but a much clearer idea of roles I would enjoy more. I also gained a huge amount of self-awareness and have taken up a number of new hobbies based on the results of my abilities test. Doing the career coaching was a very valuable exercise and I would recommend Diana to anyone for her objective, positive and engaging attitude to helping you understand yourself better.”

“Diana was excellent, she guided me quietly and almost subconsciously so that it was all my decisions. She didn’t let me rest but was so subtle in her interventions I could almost believe it was all my own work. However, I know for certain that before I went I was in quite a mess and after only two sessions I feel she has helped me to find a path that I am currently following.”

“Working with Diana was an incredibly valuable experience. Diana’s career coaching, allowed me to explore much more than my acquired skills set. Her holistic approach took into account my natural abilities (hardwired from the age of 14!), values, interests and goals, which lead me to re-discover what truly fulfils and inspires me. This insight has given me the confidence, to re-focus in both my work and personal life. Diana’s supportive and enthusiastic nature helped me to determine what was really important to me after losing sight of this over the years. In addition to this, after moving abroad she continues to provide her expertise and support. After helping to re-design my CV and giving lots of great advice, I was offered two jobs within the space of a week! Working with Diana always results in positive action. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”

“If you have any doubts about what you currently do, question if you are going down the right career path or just don’t know what you want to do, I’d recommend working with Diana at Working Career.

I would (and have!) recommend the programme to anyone considering a career change or who has that creeping feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction with their job.”

“Diana’s programme of coaching and assessment has proven to be invaluable. She guided me through a process of going ‘back to basics’ in terms of drawing out and identifying my motivations, values, ethics, natural abilities and aspirations. Through Diana’s coaching, I was able to identify a new career path that, with her encouragement, I was able to research. As a direct result of Diana’s help, I have now been accepted onto a 2 year MSc to retrain in a completely new field. My area of study is one that I would never have identified for myself without the programme I undertook with Diana – the impact on my personal confidence and hopes for my professional future has been profound.”