Become the person you were always meant to be.
Empowerment coaching for Black professionals. Reclaim your power and live the life you truly want. I offer a professional, safe, transformative space to create your reality.
Book your free Clarity CallOnline worldwide · Zoom · Mornings, evenings & weekends
Although my practice centres Black professional women and men, I offer my services to everyone, from every gender, ethnicity and background, who recognises the journey.
You're the one everyone counts on.
At work, at home, in the family group chat. The career they're proud of, the money that stretches across an ocean, the strength nobody thinks to question. And underneath it all is a version of you still waiting for your turn. Coaching is where your turn begins.
Three steps, and the first one is free
A free Clarity Call
A full hour of coaching, free. There is nothing to prepare and no obligation of any kind afterwards. You talk, I listen properly, and by the end we both know whether this is for you.
The Empowerment Journey
Six one-to-one sessions, an hour each, online, at a rhythm that works around your life, with a written record of your own thinking after each movement.
Transform
Find the story that's been running quietly in the background, decide whether you still want it, then test the new one in the real world.
A journey home to the self you already are
Six movements, each producing its own clarity. Every one ends with something real in your hands: a written artefact, in your own words, yours to keep.
The Ground
Where you actually are. Honestly, not the version you'd give at work. We map every area of your life on the Wheel of Life, name the values you actually hold, and put into one sentence what you want from this journey.
The Root
What's underneath the pattern, and where you learned it. We find the belief that has been running the show: what switches it on, what it makes you accept, and what it has been costing you.
The Rewrite
The old story and the new one, side by side, authored by you, in your own words.
The Reclaiming
The evidence that you already are that person. We identify the specific times and places you've already done it, and the evidence starts to speak for itself.
The Walk
Where the journey stops being a conversation: real experiments, in your real life, with your own prediction written down before each one. Whatever happens is information, never a verdict.
The Horizon
Integration and your future self. In our final session you write down the clarity you've gained, the promises you've made, and the actions you'll take.
We don't move through these in a straight line. We go at your pace, come back to earlier ground when something new appears, and no two journeys look alike.
"Ijè" means journey, or walk, in Igbo, one of the languages of Nigeria. My surname is Ijeh. This practice is quite literally in my name.
Every coaching journey here is a walk home to the power, the ambition and the self you hold within but are yet to express. My role is to be the catalyst, the spark that helps you find and exercise the power you already carry.
Hi, I'm Claire.
I've spent my career in the corporate world, often as the only Black woman in the room.
I know the maths we do before we speak. The softened email. The over-preparation. The quiet question: "is it me?"
It took my own empowerment journey to learn that my voice was never too small. I had learned to make it smaller.
Now I coach Black professional women and men, and everyone who recognises this story, through that same transformation. My training is with the Animas Centre for Coaching on the Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching, an ICF accredited programme, and I work across your past, your present and the self you're becoming.
My promise is a space that is professional, confidential and culturally fluent. You will not need to translate your experience here. You'll put the weight down, hear yourself think, and pick up only what serves the life you actually want.
One flagship journey. Everything included.
The Empowerment Journey
- Six 60-minute one-to-one sessions
- Values & Wheel of Life mapping
- Between-session experiments
- A written artefact from every movement, in your own words, yours to keep
Single Empowerment Session
- One 60-minute deep dive
- Clarity on one stuck thing
- Online, worldwide
Clarity Call
- Experience real coaching
- A full session, start to finish
- Explore what you want to change
Not sure yet? Start with the free Clarity Call. Most people do · Paying now? Your confirmation hands you the Coaching Agreement & Consent form to sign, and your booking link follows as soon as it's in · Prices in GBP; cards in any currency convert automatically · Many employers fund coaching through learning & development budgets; ask me for the wording.
FAQ
What happens on the free Clarity Call?
The Clarity Call is a full hour of coaching on Zoom. It's a real session, and you should expect to leave with something you didn't walk in with, as well as a clear sense of whether you want to carry on.
You bring whatever is on your mind and we work on it. I'll ask at the start whether you're happy for me to record it, because my recordings go towards my accreditation. Everything practical is already on this site: how I work, confidentiality, fees, cancellation. I'd rather spend your hour coaching you than reading terms at you.
One per person, and only while I'm still qualifying.
What is the values & Wheel of Life mapping?
The first thing we build together. The Wheel of Life scores your satisfaction across the areas of your life (career, money, health, relationships, growth and joy among them) and makes visible where the life you have and the life you want part ways. Alongside it, we name your three to five core values. Together they're your baseline, and we return to them at the end of the journey to see, in your own numbers and your own words, exactly what moved.
Is coaching therapy?
No. Coaching is future-focused and works with a psychologically well "you". If another kind of support would serve you better, I'll say so and help you find it.
Is this only for Black professionals?
Although my practice centres Black professional women and men, my services are for everyone, from every gender, ethnicity and background, who recognises the journey.
What training do you have?
I trained with the Animas Centre for Coaching on the Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching, an ICF accredited programme, with all six training modules complete, and I am now completing the supervised practice hours toward full accreditation. My client work is supported by expert mentoring and supervision throughout, and my practice is aligned to the ICF Code of Ethics. Before coaching, I spent my career in the corporate world. The rooms my clients navigate are rooms I know from the inside.
Will my sessions be recorded?
Only with your separate written consent, for my accreditation and, if you'd like them, your written movement artefacts. Recordings are confidential, stored securely, deleted once that purpose is served, or earlier at your request. The full detail lives in my Privacy Notice.
What happens after I pay?
Your payment confirmation hands you two short documents, the Coaching Agreement and the Recording & Consent form, to read and sign online. As soon as they're in, I send your personal booking link and you choose your session times. Nothing starts until the paperwork is done; that protects us both.
Can my employer pay?
Often yes, via learning & development budgets. I provide invoices and a programme outline for approval.
What if I need to cancel?
24 hours' notice moves your session free of charge, as many times as life requires.
Choose a time that suits you
Calls are on Zoom, wherever you are in the world. There is nothing to prepare and nothing you can get wrong.
Book your free Clarity CallAs soon as you book, a confirmation lands in your inbox with your Zoom link.
Prefer email? hello@ijecoaching.com