Helping Ambitious Business Owners And Professionals Create A Powerful Platform for Growth, Alignment and Success

Claire Buck – Award Winning Business Coach and Mentor

Hi, I’m Claire…

For the last ten years I have worked with hundreds of Business Owners, CEO’s and Executives to build high performing emotionally intelligent environments, whilst keeping a person-centred individual approach. Working with clients to empower them to overcome incredibly challenging issues, leveraging my innovative approach for both their business and personal lives.

Having successfully grown a chain of over 60 shoe retail outlets, with a large ecommerce and wholesale division, employing over 500 people and a turnover in excess of £25 million, whilst juggling a large family, I now specialise in working with SMEs and Business Executives on personal and business growth either on a 1-2-1 basis or small intimate groups.

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Using my holistic approach; focusing on both the emotional and strategic aspects of growth, I ensure that business leaders are empowered and capable of driving their companies forward while also taking care of their personal well-being. This dual focus on business and personal development makes my role as a mentor and growth specialist unique and valuable.

As your mentor I can help identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, providing insights that you may not have considered, offering personalised support, and acting as a trusted advisor. With my extensive experience in the retail industry, I help you to navigate challenges, make strategic decisions, and grow your businesses.

CPD Accredited Personal Performance Coach
Focal Point Accredited Business Coach
Robbins-Madanes 100 hour Life Coach
NLP Accredited Practitioner
Genos Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner
CPD Accredited Holistic Coach
CPD Accredited Coach of Excellence
Licensed to Facilitate Navigational Conversations – A Leaders Guide to Coaching

Claire Buck Mentoring

What I Do and Why 

Have you grown your business from grass roots up? If you’re serious about growing and scaling your business, feeling like time is passing by without you making any real progress, or maybe you’re tired of doing everything yourself?

Then I have good news as that is exactly where I come in, I’ve been there and done that and it’s a hellish lonely place to be.  That’s exactly why I started Claire Buck Mentoring and Coaching, to help business owners like you overcome that horrible feeling of being stuck and not knowing where to turn.

If you’re ready to grow your business, vague haphazard ideas won’t get you very close to your goals.  You need to strategise for growth in a systematic way.  Getting to the heart of your ‘why’ for the business and what the aims are for your growth strategy, you’ll know exactly where your business is headed, bring your team into alignment and know how to get there.

My number one goal is to ensure my clients get the results they want.

So, How Do I Do It? 

Claire Buck Coaching

Bespoke 1-2-1 Person Centred Mentoring Programme

Taking a fresh look at where you are now within the realms of both your business and personal life. Getting to the heart of your ‘vision for success’ by unlocking your true potential, tapping into your mindset and bringing together all of my top resources to mentor you into achieving a happy, fulfilled life and enjoying the business success that you deserve.

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Business Mastery Roadmap

Business Mastery – Your Roadmap to Growth, Alignment & Success

Given the top challenges facing SME’s, businesses need their leaders, managers and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance. I take a look at your business top down and bottom up and together we decide where the gaps are, and then get to work with my transformational ‘business mastery’ programme.

Core Values

I live my life through a strong set of core values that are at the heart of everything I do and my business is an extension of my life.

I help you tap the unique creative power within yourself and your team to innovate, progress and preserve the core identity of your business.

A unique person-centred innovative approach, tailor made solutions for companies that want to progress. Providing you with a safe pair of hands.

Truth

Honesty

Integrity

Loyalty

Innovation

Service Excellence

 

 RESILIENCE

 What Clients Say About Working With Me 

I’ve been working with Claire for 6-months who has helped me through some big changes and life decisions that have transformed my life for the better.
Leaving a long-term relationship which was suboptimal, pushing outside of my comfort zone to connect with the outside world and doing lots of self-reflection, I have been able to unlearn unhelpful behaviour and thought patterns, discover who I really am and become the person I always knew I could and wanted to be with Claire’s support.
I am feeling happier and more excited about the future than I ever have on the back of what was an extremely tough and vulnerable time.

Liam

I primarily work with senior leaders and business owners, helping them enhance strategy execution, leadership performance, and commercial focus.

Before working together, I was spread thin across several priorities and businesses. While things were moving, there wasn’t enough space for reflection, strategic recalibration, or intentional growth. I was constantly “on,” but not always aligned.

The biggest cost was opportunity — not fully leveraging my strengths, not making time for personal clarity, and operating reactively. This created pressure on decision-making and limited headspace for growth and leadership development.

Since we started, there’s been a clear shift in rhythm and mindset. I’ve created stronger boundaries, refined my decision making process, and become more intentional in how I lead. Confidence has improved, clarity is stronger, and I now feel in control of my agenda — both professionally and personally.

I came in with a lot of internal noise — juggling many hats, seeking a structured space to reset, realign, and prioritize with clarity.

The clarity and space created through the coaching have been instrumental in unlocking energy and direction.

My goals have become more focused and purpose led. I’m building towards growth that’s more sustainable and aligned with my long-term values. The future now feels more intentional, not just ambitious.

Coaching has helped me pause, reorient, and move forward with much more clarity.

Don’t underestimate the value of structured thinking and external perspective. If you’re overloaded or unclear, working with Claire can help realign your path. You’re not investing in coaching; you’re investing in your capacity to lead better and live better.

Karim

Peter Marsh

My business had been trading for many years, but its growth had plateaued. I did not feel I had the right mindset and even the ability to do what was required to develop the business.

I was frustrated with myself and I frequently felt as if it were impossible to see the business grow in the direction that I had wanted it to. These pains impacted my business because I didn’t feel I could be the leader the business needed. This affected my personal life because I often brought my frustrations home. It was costing me my happiness and a sense of achievement and purpose to my life.

We’ve also worked more practically on the business; Claire has both challenged and supported my thinking to help me move my business in the direction it needs to go in order to grow. What’s changed is that I feel more confident in my abilities to lead. I feel more authentic in what I’m doing, and this has had a significant effect, both in my business, and in my personal live.

Peter Marsh
Synergistic Concepts Lmited

Most of our work has been focused on walking towards and embracing being uncomfortable – challenging myself to step out of the perceived comfort zone. And recognising the personal and business rewards that come from doing so. My confidence has increased, as has my ability to influence and take colleagues on the same journey.

The process was suggested to me rather than being something I was looking to do and therefore I was sceptical about the benefits it may derive.

I found the process rewarding. The process provided a safe environment in which to reflect and be honest. I better recognise some of my characteristics that hold me back and found it very helpful to discuss techniques to address that.

Following our sessions, I am clearer on my ambitions and the direction I would like my career to take in the future. I am more deliberate in the actions I take today with an eye on where they will lead. Without the sessions I would be less clear on my personal goals and less aware of the impact I can have on my colleagues, both positively and negatively.

I would encourage other people to give this a go. For me the results were not immediate and I was initially reluctant, but through the consistent messaging I began to better recognise myself, and the traps I would routinely fall into.

David Bowling

Jonathan Winston

I have really enjoyed working with Claire at a business and personal level.

Claire really can provide both, which is exactly what an owner managed business requires. She has helped my management teamwork more productively together, by providing a better insight into why we work in the way we do.

Enabling us to improve communication, so creating more informed collective solutions. At a personal level, she has also helped me to understand my strengths and weaknesses, to better enable me to drive the business forward.

I wholeheartedly recommend Claire, who brings with her, business nous, personal sensitivity and a vast knowledge of industry leading techniques to improve your personal and business performance.

Jonathan Winston
Owner & Managing Partner, Winston Solicitors LLP

Claire Buck Coaching

GRG Recruitment selected Claire and Claire Buck Coaching because she’s proven.
Unlike many coaches, Claire has actually grown and ran a successful £multi-million retailer. This credibility is what sets her apart. Her approach is knowledgeable, supportive, thought-provoking and real-life. Her honesty and insight are of a different level in helping identify and action our true potential, both personally and commercially.
We were thoroughly impressed by the sessions undertaken, would instantly recommend her to others, and will continue to use Claire and Claire Buck Coaching in the future.

GARETH GREY
Director, GRG Recruitment Ltd –“Specialists in FMCG & Retailing”

Claire Buck Coaching

I have been working with Claire now for almost two years and quite simply she is brilliant!

The skills and support she has given me have aided me to be a better leader in business and has also reflected positively into my personal life.

Claire can find the logic to any situation and offers advice and solutions to all problems.

As a creative, getting things out of my head can sometimes be difficult but she is one of the few people who can! She has excellent listening skills and is a natural at putting you at ease within the sessions.

She has enabled me personally to reach goals I thought were unachievable and has been key to aiding me to become the confident business woman I am today.

I can not recommend Claire enough. The benefits on the company are endless and the results from using her services are proven, with the rapid growth of the business which has flourished within the short space of time we have been working with Claire.

Natalie Dawson
Creative Director , Talent Artistic Group (TAG)

What was going on before we started working together?

 I had a relatively successful business, but I was enjoying it. I was also faced with various Operational Challenges thatwere causing a lot of stress and were making me feel unhappy.

What were your pains and the impact of those pains to yourself and the business and at what costs?

At the time of meeting Claire, I was suffering with stress and sleepless nights.

What steps you have gone through since working with me – high level steps?

I have basically gone through a complete re-structuring of my Ops department, not a single member of the team thatwere letting me down, remains. We have achieved this with as little disruption as possible. Claire also introduced to me to a first class Head-hunter, who found me a first class Ops Director, we now have a slick Ops department that I can be proud of. I have also learnt better coping mechanisms for when things aren’t going well, to focus on the things I can impact and ignore the things that I can’t.

How are you feeling now e., stuck vs unstuck? I am still not where I want to be, but I don’t think I ever will (that’s just my nature) but I’m enjoying work again and I’m very excited about the future of my company. Defiantly Unstuck!

What’s changed or is changing as a result? I feel happier, on top of things, optimistic about the future, less stressed and sleep well. The company and I would defiantly not be in as strong a position as we are now, without Claire’s help and support.

Max Fenner

 Useful Resources 

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Business Mastery Roadmap

Business Mastery Roadmap

Claire Buck Business Plan

Your Business Year Ahead

PERSONAL RESILIENCE QUIZ

This quiz will help you identify which resilience strategies you are currently using more and less of. 

Claire is a tireless emmisary for all aspects of personal and professional development. Her empathetic, insightful, and holistic approach to coaching is one I found extremely engaging and thought provoking.

Claire has a unique ability to provide context and clarity to what was a confusing and equivocal situation, which allowed me to view myself and the world around me from a new perspective. A level of self-awareness that I believed I already had, but ultimately I was barely scratching the surface!  

I had no idea what to expect from my sessions with Claire. Having found her by chance on the internet, I was immediately sold after reviewing her excellent credentials and business background. This was particularly important to me as I was seeking guidance at a time in my life that was in fact, the peak of my personal and career successes to date. The goals I outlined at the start of the 6 sessions, have ultimately been achieved, but via a very different route than I had envisaged prior to starting. This is a credit to Claire and her ability to look beyond face value, to uncover the emotional drivers behind a persons goals and pursuits.

I greatly look forward to the next opporutnity in which I can call upon Claire once more, to help me reach new heights in all areas of my life.

Scott Galloway

The sessions with Claire have been profound at times, making discoveries about myself and what’s important to me. Claire has helped me to unravel a lot of unhelpful habits and thoughts of self-doubt. She has also helped me make to decisions and act on them so I can concentrate on what’s really important.

Overall I feel so much more self-aware and if I’m aware of something that needs attention, I now have techniques to tackle it.

I would recommend Claire Buck Coaching to anyone who really wants to make changes to achieve the life they really want.

Keeley Edge

Claire can find the logic to any situation and offers advice and solutions to all problems.
As a creative, getting things out of my head can sometimes be difficult but she is one of the few people who can! She has excellent listening skills and is a natural at putting you at ease within the sessions.

She has enabled me personally to reach goals I thought were unachievable and has been key to aiding me to become the confident business woman I am today.

I can not recommend Claire enough. The benefits on the company are endless and the results from using her services are proven, with the rapid growth of the business.

Natalie Dawson

Claire Buck
Award Winning Business & Executive Coach and Mentor

Helping Ambitious Business Owners Create a Powerful Platform for Growth, Alignment and Success

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“THERE IS NO WAY TO BE
A PERFECT MOTHER…

BUT A MILLION WAYS
TO BE A GOOD ONE.” (Anon)

 

In loving memory of my mum Trish who sadly passed away in 1992 sadly missed but never forgotten.