Your Business Coach The relationship you will have with your Coach will be built on trust and confidentiality. It is important that you feel comfortable and in total rapport with her or him, as you will be discussing your innermost thoughts, feelings and issues without reservation. As a Personal Development and Business Coach Pam Stokes has a range of people skills, having worked for many years in management in the hectic and pressured newspaper industry, and in complementary therapies. To become a professional Coach Pam has trained as a practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), which concentrates on powerful methods of rapport-building and communications skills, and as a Life Coach and Corporate Coach. She has also played a key part in training and assessing the coaching skills of hundreds of people to become Coaches, in her role as Head of Mentoring and Support for an established Coaching School. Pam is married and lives in Gloucestershire. Her practice includes telephone coaching as well as being available for on-site Coaching with corporate clients and running online personal development programmes.