"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
Helen Keller

Meet the Founders
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Carolyn Parry - Founder Director and Lead Coach​
A languages graduate in French and Italian, the first 17 years of Carolyn's career were spent in property, publishing and software as a sales and marketing specialist. She has worked in both SMEs and in a FTSE 250 European software house where she was responsible for group corporate communications.

Her own career crisis led to her becoming a University Careers Adviser and more recently a Director of Employability where she put her passion to work helping others identify their own potential and make effective choices resulting in happy working lives.

She is an award winning Careers Adviser, a national career coaching trainer for AGCAS, certified life coach and trained in a range of techniques and tools including emotional intelligence profiling, neuro-linguistic programming and Belbin team role theory. She is responsible for the marketing and programme development of Career Alchemy. For more please see www.linkedin.com.
Rhys Parry - Founder Director
An electronic engineer by training, Rhys has more than 30 years' software development and  project management experience in the software industry for companies such as Helwett Packard and Easams. In this context he recruited and managed teams in excess of 100 people.
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A change of career led him to spending over a decade as a teaching fellow in a UK top 15 computer science department in a British University.

He now divides his time between the IT, Finance and QA elements of Career Alchemy and supporting Welsh rugby. For more please see Rhys's profile on www.linkedin.com

Consultants and Associates​

Olymbia Petrou - Diversity and HR Specialist
With a background in business, diversity and HR, Olymbia has worked for public sector organisations, SMEs, charities, as well as owned and run her own businesses.

A fully-qualified business and executive coach, Olymbia particularly enjoys working with diverse groups on the unique challenges they face. Her humanistic coaching approach can help with any challenges or self-limiting beliefs that may be getting in the way, and by eliciting and nurturing individual skills and strengths, can help unlock and focus individuals on achieving their full potential and goals which make sense for them.

Olymbia also delivers diversity, business and HR consultancy to support organisations, individuals and businesses with practical and supportive solutions through her company Electra Business Services Ltd.

Interested in working with us as an associate?

 If you are passionate about career coaching and are looking for a new opportunity to do what you love, then  why not contact us  today to find out more.

Interested in working with us as a client?

We run a range of different programmes and services, all designed to help you put the sunshine in your career.