Coaching for marketing and communications professionals
Gain the clarity, confidence and skills to progress in your career with coaching designed specifically for people working in marketing, communications and PR.
I offer practical, tailored coaching to help you move forward successfully in your career while protecting your work-life balance and mental wellbeing. Whether you are aiming for promotion, want your voice to be heard more clearly in your current role, need support to manage demanding workloads and high-pressure challenges, or want to achieve another work-related goal, coaching with me can help you take positive and purposeful action.
Take your first step towards greater confidence and more career satisfaction.
Hello, I'm Andrew Lamberti
I have more than 30 years of experience working in marketing and communications, including 24 years of leading and line-managing teams delivering campaigns and projects in the public and private sectors.
Over the years, I have overseen product launches, managed challenging PR and social media situations, organised stakeholder events, relaunched websites, handled sensitive internal communication issues, run digital advertising campaigns, presented strategic advice to senior leadership teams, and much more.
Of all my career achievements, what has given me the greatest satisfaction has been seeing the people I managed grow and develop professionally. This is why I retrained as a professional life coach as I wanted to use my experience to help more people make the most of their skills, knowledge and strengths in marketing, communications and PR roles. I am passionate about helping people build successful and rewarding careers in a way that also supports a healthy work-life balance.
My coaching combines real-world leadership experience of the rewards and challenges of working in this profession with a supportive, structured approach that helps people think clearly, focus on what is really important to them, and take positive action.
I work with individuals and organisations wanting to develop their marketing and communications teams. Please get in touch if you are interested in coaching for youself, one or more of your direct reports, or for the whole team!
How career coaching can help
- Build confidence in your strengths and abilities.
- Use your core marketing and communications skills more effectively to achieve better outcomes.
- Prepare for important tasks, events, projects or campaigns.
- Develop your communication style, presence and influence at work.
- Enhance the self-awareness and practical leadership skills needed for management roles.
- Work through challenges such as a lack of visibility, high workload, and the need for difficult conversations.
- Improve resilience and mental wellbeing at work.
- Give yourself space to reassess what you want from your career and how it affects your wider life.
- Make sure you are ready for the next promotion before the opportunity arises.
- Get support to create realistic goals and take focused action
Bespoke professional development for people working in marketing, communications and PR
I offer tailored one-to-one coaching and professional development built around your specific career and work-related goals.
We usually begin by identifying what really matters to you, and what matters less. From there, we consider the wider career or work-life related goals you want to work towards.
We then break this down into a series of shorter-term priorities and practical next steps. What we cover in each session is up to you, but common challenges in this profession include:
- Setting realistic marketing and communications objectives which are actually within your control to achieve.
- Explaining marketing and communications concepts to non-specialists in a way that leads to informed and sensible decisions.
- Managing the pressure of being expected to deliver results constantly.
- Managing complexity and ambiguity while still producing clear, concise and consistent organisational communications.
- Handling high-profile media enquiries and PR crises with confidence, including working with senior leaders on key messages and responses.
- Knowing when to take a strategic approach and when a tactical response is needed.
- Having difficult conversations about sensitive communications issues with colleagues outside the marketing or communications teams including with CEOs and other senior leaders.
- Responding to shifting priorities and communicating effectively during organisational change.
- Being able to step up seamlessly from marketing or communications officer roles to management.
- Managing direct reports in a supportive way while maintaining focus on performance and delivery.
- Responding to AI and other technologies while continuing to show the value that skilled human professionals bring to communications activity.
- Evaluating the impact of your work and demonstrating it clearly to managers and stakeholders.
Investing in coaching with me gives you the time and space to talk through challenges such as these with someone who genuinely understands them, in a safe and confidential setting. I know first-hand what this profession can demand and how, at times, it can affect your work-life balance and mental health.
Unlike traditional training, coaching is a form of professional development tailored entirely to your needs. We focus on what matters most to you.
Coaching can be genuinely transformative. It is an opportunity for self-discovery, development and growth. This is especially true when the coaching is tailored to the work you actually do.
My coaching approach and fees
My coaching is practical, supportive and tailored to the realities of working in marketing, communications and PR. Whether you are looking for coaching for yourself or exploring support for people in your team or organisation, we will begin with a conversation about what you want the coaching to achieve and what kind of support would be most useful.
For individuals, coaching can help you build confidence, prepare for promotion or management, handle work-related challenges, and think more clearly about your next steps. For organisations, coaching can support marketing and communications professionals to strengthen their judgement, articulate their recommendations more clearly, influence stakeholders, and deliver more effective marketing campaigns and communications activity.
You can read more about how I work on the about my coaching page, including dedicated information for individuals and for organisations.
My fees for one-to-one coaching are simple and transparent: £80 per session, or £420 for the Coaching for Comms 90-Day Focus Programme which consists of six sessions at £70 per session. I can also provide a bespoke quote for organisation-funded team away days, facilitated group coaching sessions or wider team events.
Ready to take the next step?
If you are ready to invest in your development, I would be delighted to support you. Whether you want to grow and develop in your current role, prepare for management, or think more clearly about your future, coaching can give you the space, challenge and encouragement to move forward. I look forward to hearing from you.
