Consultative strengths support for your career
I partner with high-achievers who feel something isn't quite right in their role, offering deep insight into their unique working patterns and the shifts needed for fulfilment.
Career Road
Vocation and Purpose
We identify what isn't working and why, using your natural strengths to find the clarity and alignment you need to move forward with confidence.
Strategic Step
Detailed Roadmap
Leave with more than insight. We build a practical, personalised plan for your next career move or professional step, with a focus on long-term growth.
Capability
Commanding Presence
Improve how you communicate, lead, and show up in the moments that matter, so you make a real impression in your current role and beyond.
Pro Plan
Expert Choices
Make better calls at work by understanding your core strengths, values, and what you are genuinely optimising for in your professional life.
Individual focus
Ascent — A Strengths-Led Career Programme for Leaders
A four-month 1-to-1 career consultancy for leaders ready to grow, transition, or move forward with purpose. Built around your unique strengths, with expert guidance from diagnostic to execution. You leave with a clear direction, a sharp positioning, and a concrete plan to pursue it.
Two ways to work together.
Whether you are an individual seeking clarity in your career or an organisation looking to develop and support your people, here is how we can work together.
For Organisations
Leadership, Performance and Outplacement ServicesServices
Paula works with organisations to develop their people, strengthen leadership, and support staff through periods of change. Whether you are investing in your team's growth or navigating a redundancy process, the approach is practical, strengths-led, and built around your people.
About Paula
Drawing on fifteen years of experience across employability programmes, public sector organisations, further education colleges, and charities, Paula established Donnan Coaching Services in 2023 to help professionals find clarity and build confidence in their careers.
Now operating as Paula Donnan Advisory, she works with both individual professionals and organisations to deliver strengths-led consulting and development.
Paula also works as a freelance associate coach for Executive Connexions and as a partner for Neurodiversity Spark. A certified Strengthscope practitioner and Level 5-qualified Coach and Mentor, Paula is an active member of the Association for Coaching. Her approach is practical, evidence-based, and built around the individual, ensuring every client achieves meaningful and lasting professional growth.
Certified industry expertise
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