Bristol Business Coach Jo Richings

Bristol based Social Entrepreneur,  Author, Inspirational & Motivational speaker and Business Coach  Jo Richings is passionate about helping people achieve their full potential. For the last 11 years Jo has been working with 1000's of  individuals and business owners to define and then achieve their business, professional and personal goals. ​

After a life-changing year in 2012 - breast cancer, losing her mum out of the blue and finding out her husband was having an affair, Jo decided to only focus on the things that made her heart sing – empowering individuals and businesses to be the best they can be.

Jo is known for her positivity and enthusiasm and her clients often describe their sessions with Jo as their weekly “fix”. Jo’s unique; “say it as it” style of personal empowerment coaching inspires her clients not only to want to be the best they can be, but more importantly she gives them the tools, action plan and accountability needed to actually “be” the best they can be. Jo loves putting fun and happiness back into a client’s life.  Jo specialises in helping clients to understand themselves and others through DISC profiling - one of best communication tools around. She has also studied positive psychology and is passionate about helping to dissolve the negative beliefs that may be sabotaging her clients  success. She offers business coaching, management & executive coaching, training and workshops to businesses and organisations in Bristol, the South West and Berkshire. ​

​Jo trained as a business coach with ActionCoach, the largest Business & Executive coaching franchise in the world. She held her licence as an ActionCoach for 8 years. During this time Jo helped hundreds of business owners and their teams. In May 2016, when her licence ran out, she decided not renew her ActionCoach franchise but continues to coach under her own name.  
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She runs The Bristol Small Business Network, a lively FB group of over 1700 members, aimed at supporting small and micro business owners with her blog of daily business tips and resources and Masterclasses. She has also recently launched Networking Ninjas, an innovative way to network online using Zoom. 

Each month, Jo gives up her time for free to run Speed Networking & Goals sessions - positive, supportive, fun, low-cost, collaborative coaching in small groups. The online and offline clubs support small businesses, sole traders & start-ups in growing their businesses and also help raise funds for the HappiMe project. 

In 2017 , Jo published my book- Whoops, There It Goes Again, How To Stay Positive When The Bottom Drops Out Of Your World, plus wrote two books to help children that worry. 

In 2015, Jo co-created HappiMe, a non-profit Community Interest Company on a mission to improve confidence, self-esteem and mental health in young people, with her amazing daughter Abby Pickles.

She now shares her time between her passions -writing, speaking and coaching. 

Jo has spent over 29 years studying business, personal & professional development and is a certified, award winning Business Coach.  She is a EFT practitioner and holds Diplomas in CBT, NLP, Mindfulness and Coaching.

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My Vision: Making a Difference

My passion is creating exciting and innovative tools and programmes that will make a difference. Whether that is to help inspire young people to adopt a more helpful and positive way of thinking or motivating adults to strive for success in all areas of their lives, not just their businesses or careers, - I just love it all! 

My Values

​GRATITUDE

​The secret to having it all, is knowing you already do. I practice gratitude daily.

 INNOVATION

I strive to innovate. Find ways to be better. To be the best I can be.

ACCOUNTABILITY

If its meant to be, then it's up to me!
I do what I say I will, when I said I would do it.

POSITIVITY

I can choose our attitude every minute of every hour of every day. I choose a positive one.

PASSION

If a job is worth doing, then it's worth doing brilliantly.
I am committed in our hearts & minds.

FUN & LAUGHTER

Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But that gets boring. So I go back to being myself! 

Click here to arrange a time for an informal chat with Jo

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"In 2012 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, lost my lovely mum halfway through my treatment and then found out my husband was having an affair. All within a year! To say that that lot gave me a slightly different perspective on life would be the understatement of the century!" Jo Richings