To date Jules Boardman has worked with a wide variety of clients in the arts, entertainment, HR, legal and medical professions. Here is a selection of client testimonials:- Working with Jules challenges you to move beyond instinctive reactions to explore the deeper drivers that inform your career and life decisions. While this journey is not easy, nor necessarily comfortable, Jules remains a dependable guide. Supportive, but keenly alert to half truths or side steps that may lead one along a less valuable path, Jules puts you at the helm to define your own course. Working with Jules is challenging, stimulating and affirming – I would highly recommend the experience. Louise Savell, Social Finance December 2011 Jules is a first rate incisive business and personal mentor and coach employing a well structured approach and a thorough understanding of business and personal pressures across many industry sectors to bring genuine personal benefit, confidence and clarity in thinking. I would unreservedly recommend Jules, he has enormous experience and advice to give to receptive clients. To guard against committing you to a potentially unattainable or unsuitable outcome, he will assess you and your chemistry carefully and ensure that objectives are jointly agreed. Alastair Ingram, Freespirit Events November 2011 On the cusp of starting a new business, I was fortunate enough to be offered the chance of having some coaching. Jules Boardman came highly recommended. My time with Jules has proved to be immensely valuable. I feel that in the fledgling months of starting the business Jules was both a wise hand, encouraging supporter and also, equally importantly, a fearless inquisitor. Whether it was in giving advice, support, encouragement and counselling caution, Jules’s wise, sensitive and humorous approach was hugely appreciated. I thoroughly enjoyed talking through problems, sharing and reporting progress and debating the many issues that came up during our sessions. I was always left with something to think over, new information learned or a different way of seeing things. Stimulating, invigorating and inspirational : I’d definitely recommend him to you. Mark Prescott - Clore Fellow 2010 February 2011 "I worked with Jules during late 2010 and early 2011.  He had been recommended to me by word of mouth by bright, young arts professionals, which is great as I am not as attracted by standard coaching or training. After a few years in my business I have come to expect more. I don't have an arts background, but have worked out that creative coaches are the best at unlocking the inner voice in us all.  Jules has a smart and professional approach, manages to build trust very quickly and lets the coaching take an individual direction.  He is both warm and sharp and uses these qualities to positively interrogate you to where you need to head in life. Most of our sessions were done through video conferencing as I was in Beijing and Jules in London, but the quality of the coaching relationship through VC is a testimony to Jules' skills and dedication. I thoroughly enjoyed the coaching and when we completed the process found an optimism and direction that was at risk of being lost. All in all, the coaching has been priceless and came at the right time when I needed to think hard about making the right choices for a fulfilling career for me." Dr Halima Begum - First Secretary (Development), DFID China, British Embassy, and Beijing January 2011 Once or twice in a life time you meet a person who stops you in your tracks. He will ask you questions you didn’t know you needed answers to, remind you where you’ve just been and then send you on your way with a GPS in your pocket to get you exactly where you’re going. Jules Boardman is one of these people. He has changed forever the quality of my passage through my own life and given me the confidence to get off the roundabout and take, the road less travelled. Jules is a generous, sensitive, firm, insightful and gifted coach. I value his help more than I can express in words and I recommend him wholeheartedly to anyone lucky enough to have found his website or come in contact with him. Caitriona McLaughlin - Theatre Director / Clore Fellow. October 2010 When I began meeting with Jules, I felt that I was at a crossroads in my career. I had had a successful arts marketing career in the US, but since moving to and working in UK, I felt that I had lost confidence. I had never considered career coaching, and was somewhat sceptical of how it might help. But my sessions with Jules gave me an opportunity to re-meet myself, through the eyes of someone completely impartial, but incredibly insightful. Through these sessions and the homework which I was assigned, Jules helped me to assess my skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Moreover, Jules helped me to identify and name my fears, and to find ways to confront them head on. In doing so, my confidence was rebuilding; so much so that I found myself applying for a post that I would previously have never had thought I could get, and never attempted. Well, I got the job. Thanks for your help Jules. Heather Clark Charrington, Director of Strategic Initiatives, National Theatre May 2010 Jules is the godfather that your parents should have given you. He’s the familiar compass you always want to carry in an inside pocket, the light in the darker of the nights.  He’s the challenge you always need and the question you would never ask. When you achieve your greatest dreams, and with one last glance behind, complete your hardest journey, Jules will be the man you meet when you arrive who will say .... “you see.” Tom Harvey - Clore Fellow April 2010 I wholeheartedly recommend Jules Boardman and his skills as an executive coach - and indeed have gone on to do so to many people, friends and colleagues since my five sessions with him. One of the most valuable aspects of my Clore Fellowship was being offered the opportunity to be coached by Jules. He combines incisiveness, warmth and integrity, identifying pressure points and anxieties with the deadly precision of a surgeon, and then tackling them with you with practical warmth and watchful wisdom. Trust yourself to the process and to him - and then all sorts of magic will unfold. That is certainly what happened in my case, when a combination of exercises with psychological insight, caused a major fundamental and profound shift in my outlook on the possibilities in life ahead of me. I now feel as if I am flying whilst walking on solid ground, with a new kind of confidence,  in new areas and with new horizons before me: effortless flow. Ariane Koek - Clore Fellow April 2010 I was coached by Jules over 5 sessions over six months as part of a Clore Leadership Fellowship. I chose Jules because I wanted coaching mixed with some business-minded mentoring from someone with a good understanding of the cultural industries. Jules' coaching style is rigorous and insightful, with structured sessions and challenging 'homework', which means that the coaching is a deep, ongoing process. Whilst stimulating, I found the sessions tough-going at first. Fortunately Jules is experienced enough to know when things aren't working as well as they could, and honest enough to say so. This gave me the opportunity to suggest a slightly different way of working together and of structuring our sessions. Because of the changes we discussed and made then, the rest of the process was enormously productive and often very exciting. By the end of the coaching series, I had a set of new insights and ideas to take with me, and tools to help change unhelpful thinking patterns. Jules is a highly professional, disciplined, hard-working and generous coach. He is also extremely smart and has a cracking sense of humour (not essential qualities for a coach, but they help). I can see myself going back to him in the future for further coaching. Nicola Triscott February 2010 I have just completed a coaching course with Jules Boardman. I learnt a lot through his systems of questions and discussions. Fears which had plagued me now seemed with comparative ease to have fallen into perspective. It is a very good feeling to contemplate the idea that now much more of my life, whether it be work or personal, is freshly understood. In short, I feel Jules has armed me with the kind of often abstract tools I need to move ahead. Jules is always to the point, funny and strong. The two hour sessions moved along at a good pace leaving me with a fresh sense of progression. Mark Baldwin -Artistic Director , Rambert Dance Company June 2009