LEANNE MCCAFFERTY
International NLP Trainer
& Transformational Coach
You know what you want. Yet you keep finding yourself in the same place. I help you see the pattern beneath it – and find your way through.
Here to support you
With all my programmes, 10% of the fees are donated to the Uganda Empowerment Fund, supporting children and teachers in Kampala.
Born To Shine Workshop
Rewrite your limits, live your light
A two hour online workshop where you begin to see yourself as others already do – your strengths, your voice, what you’re actually capable of.
Most people come away naming skills they’d been carrying for years without ever realising. Some book the solo flight they’d been putting off for decades. Others walk into the meeting they’d been dreading and finally say what they actually think.
“This is, for me, absolutely unforgettable. It’s the first time I’ve looked at myself and my job as it really is – and consciously seen my own value. Now, I know my worth.”
The BEACON Pathway
A journey of growth, truth and coming alive
Eight weeks of group workshops and one-to-one coaching that leaves you with a strong sense of direction and a genuine belief in what’s possible for you.
Imagine reaching the end of eight weeks knowing exactly what you want and feeling ready to move toward it. Asking new questions of yourself and your life. Stepping into what you’ve been circling.
“What would happen if you could? What would happen if you did? There is so much I’m taking away that I can use going forward.”
One to One Coaching
Dedicated and bespoke support
There are conversations that change things. Not because someone tells you what to do – but because, in the right space, you start to hear yourself differently.
Focused entirely on what you want, at your pace, with space to go as deep as you choose.
“After an hour I had a clear action plan and a commitment to do something completely different from where I had started. What a unique coach she is.”
The Give Back Guarantee
Ten percent of every coaching and training fee goes into the Uganda Empowerment Fund.
Uganda Empowerment Fund
Transforming Lives, Together
A portion of every coaching session, workshop, or programme you join helps fund education for children in Uganda, creating opportunities that change lives. Your personal growth becomes part of a wider ripple of empowerment, supporting young people to learn, dream, and build brighter futures. Together, we rise.
My story
I remember sitting in my yellow reading chair one evening with a sinking feeling in my stomach and one quiet thought – there has to be more to life than this.
There was. But it took a diagnosis, a career change, a marriage ending, and twelve months travelling across nine countries to find it.
I’m an NLP Trainer, trained through the school of Sue Knight, and a professional member of ANLP – and I bring over 25 years of professional experience working with people through change.
My lived experience and professional training aren’t separate things – they’re all of me, working together.
My Blog
Reflections from my own life – moments of noticing, shifts in perspective, and the kind of thinking that shapes how I work with people.
If you want to get a feel for how I see things, this is a good place to start.
From Teacher to Founder
A Letter I Carry With Me
A Place of My Own
“She helped me reshape the stories I had been telling myself and step into a completely new way of seeing myself and my life. She helped me change my life and is simply exceptional at her work.”
FAQs
What makes this approach to coaching different?
A lot of coaching follows a set structure or method. In contrast, my work incorporates your immediate experiences and our sessions adapt spontaneously to your unique requirements.Change happens by developing your awareness . You begin to see your thoughts, emotions, and responses differently – and from that place, new possibilities open up. It’s about discovering that what you need has been within you all along.
What happens during a coaching session?
We begin with whatever feels most present or relevant for you that day. There’s no fixed agenda – the session is shaped by you.
From there, we explore your current experience together, paying attention to your thoughts, feelings, and body responses as they come up. When a pattern becomes visible – the way you interpret a situation, or the way you typically react – we work with it directly, in the moment.
This is where real change tends to happen. Because what was always within you starts to come to light and from there, moving forward feels natural.
What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming – NLP – is an approach to understanding how we think, communicate, and make sense of our experiences. It explores the relationship between our neurology (how our brain processes information), our language (how we describe and interpret what happens to us), and the patterns of behaviour that emerge from both.
In practical terms, NLP offers a way of becoming aware of the patterns that are quietly running your life – how you respond to situations, what you tell yourself in difficult moments, and how those responses have become habitual over time.
What makes NLP particularly powerful in a coaching context is that it works in real time – with what is actually happening in your experience as it unfolds, rather than analysing the past in the abstract. Change becomes possible not by understanding everything intellectually, but by noticing something differently in the moment.
The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming (www.anlp.org), of which I am a member, provides industry standards to ensure quality and consistency for professionals incorporating NLP in their work.
What is the difference between NLP coaching and life coaching?
Life coaching typically focuses on helping you set and achieve goals – moving from where you are to where you want to be. NLP coaching does this too, but goes deeper into the how. It works with the patterns of thought, language, and behaviour that are shaping your experience – often without you realising – and creates change by working with those patterns directly, in real time.
In practice, the distinction matters less than the approach. What makes this work distinctive isn’t the label – it’s that every session responds to what is actually present for you, rather than following a predetermined structure.
Is online coaching as effective as in person?
In my experience, yes – and for many people, more so. Working from your own space, in your own environment, can actually make it easier to access what’s real for you. There’s no commute, no unfamiliar room to settle into, and sessions can fit around your life wherever you are in the world.
Everything I do is currently delivered online – and the people I work with would tell you the same.
Let's Talk
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