Future, Referenced 💡

Career Coaching • Workplace Skills Training • Professional Development

Welcome to your Future, Referenced. I focus on supporting you in developing your future plans, whether that is practical support with applications to jobs, exploring and uncovering your path with one-to-one career coaching, or providing research and group skills training workshops for organisations. And I think all of this should be imaginative, effective and engaging.

Who am I? ✏️

I'm Barnaby, a careers coach and professional skills trainer experienced in supporting and engaging diverse groups of clients ranging from students (undergraduate to executive level) to accomplished professionals worldwide. Through Future, Referenced, I use an imaginative, effective and engaging approach to work with individuals and groups looking to plan their career journeys and professional futures. You can read my full bio for more.

• One-to-one career coaching sessions focusing on your aims and future direction
• Set personalised topics for a career planning discussion, which might be exploring choices to change career or retrain , creating your job search strategy, interpreting your career story - or something different altogether
• Practical advice and support preparing for job applications (CVs, cover letters, and LinkedIn), navigating ethical and critical AI use in the process, and practising interview technique

• Creation of tailored and bespoke workshops to meet aims and objectives of participants and your team's professional development
• Insights, research and report drafting on career and workplace challenges for your organisation, drawing on 10+ years of career guidance, workplace trends and higher education
• Coaching team members to work on developing their career aims and future opportunities for using and expanding their skillset in your organisation