A high standard of ethics, professionalism and integrity underpins everything we do. We value honesty, authenticity and taking responsibility for our actions.
Delivering a high standard of career support is important to us. We are always looking at ways to improve and aim to deliver 'best practice' career support services.
We are dedicated to supporting career development. We believe everyone possesses valuable strengths and talents with the capacity to reach their full potential.
CareerWorx empowers individuals and organisations to achieve meaningful and fulfilling careers in today’s ever-changing world. Led by Lisa LaRue, an EMCC-accredited Master Practitioner Coach and highly experienced career development professional, our team delivers comprehensive career support that goes beyond traditional coaching.
Experienced Team: CareerWorx brings together qualified, dedicated career coaches and consultants with international experience across corporate, public, and third sectors.
Leadership: Lisa LaRue, our Principal Career Coach, is an internationally recognised career development specialist who employs a strengths-based and solution-focused approach, alongside a deep passion for helping people thrive professionally.
Global Reach: Although established in the UK, CareerWorx serves clients not only in London and across Europe but also supports clients worldwide.
At CareerWorx, we provide a wide range of career services for individuals at every career stage, as well as tailored programs for organisations. Our services include:
Career coaching and counselling: One-to-one coaching and development sessions to help clients clarify career direction, overcome challenges, and achieve professional goals.
Executive and leadership coaching: Bespoke coaching for executives, managers, and future leaders, focused on positive leadership, performance, and resilience.
Outplacement: Support for individuals experiencing redundancy or career change, with a proven record of successful job placements—delivered both face-to-face and online.
Workplace wellbeing: Programs to enhance wellbeing, job satisfaction, and performance at work through positive psychology and strengths-based coaching.
Career development consultancy: Professional advice and guidance for individuals and teams on career development, including career planning and management, personal branding (including LinkedIn), vocational, psychometric, and strengths assessments.
Business and entrepreneur coaching: Support for professionals seeking to launch or grow businesses, including career planning and mentoring.
Coach supervision and mentoring: Mentoring and supervision for fellow coaches and career development practitioners.
Personalised support: Each client receives expert, individualised attention. We understand that every career journey is unique, and we tailor our approach accordingly.
Professional standards: All CareerWorx coaches hold advanced qualifications, are registered with leading professional bodies, and abide by high ethical standards.
Client success: The majority of our business comes from personal recommendations—a testament to our results-focused, caring approach.
Whether you’re seeking career development, navigating a career transition, exploring leadership coaching, or looking for expert guidance from a dedicated professional like Lisa LaRue, CareerWorx is ready to support your growth and success at every step.
My big idea: Work should energise people, not drain them. That they can be both successful and fulfilled. That their career should be an expression of what matters to them.
I’m passionate about human flourishing and use coaching, training and mentoring to help people achieve fulfilling careers they love. My approach is integrative, strengths-based, and solution-focused. I bring empathy, humour, compassion, creativity and curiosity, partnering with you to co-create your ideal life and career.
I am an EMCC-Accredited Master Practitioner Coach and CDI-Registered Career Development Professional (RCDP) with over 20 years of experience. I have worked in a variety of settings including consulting for organisations (corporate and NGOs), career services, and education & training. I’m driven by a genuine passion for helping people perform at their best and achieve fulfilling careers that enable them to flourish.
With extensive training in the field of career and executive coaching, I have supported thousands of individuals through one-to-one and group programs to have amazing careers. I’ve coached people from a wide range of sectors including IT, engineering, banking and finance, arts and culture, education, retail, hospitality, tourism, and healthcare. I also have experience in the third sector where I have coached and provided outplacement support to people at all levels.
Clients describe me as being engaging, supportive and professional with the ability to expertly partner with them to navigate their way to career success. But don’t just take my word for it, check out a selection of client testimonials many of which are publicly available as Recommendations on LinkedIn and Google reviews.
I am also a trained and experienced entrepreneur coach with many years’ international experience in helping people launch and grow their businesses.
As an active member of the CDI, the Association for Coaching (AC), and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), I am also an EMCC accredited Master Practitioner Coach (EIA) & Coach Supervisor (ESIA).
As a registered Career Development Professional (RCDP) with the Career Development Institute (CDI), I am recognised as a professional career coach and am bound by a high level of ethical standards. I am an advocate for lifelong learning and committed to my ongoing career development to ensure my practice remains relevant and up to date.
I lead the EMCC UK’s Career Coaching and Mentoring special interest group supporting the continuing development of professional career coaches and mentors.
Special interests and training: Positive psychology, solution-focused coaching, cognitive behavioural coaching and strengths-based coaching. I have also completed post-graduate studies in the areas of leadership, management, business and performance coaching.
I fully subscribe to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and regularly attend continuing professional events to maintain a high level of understanding of the underpinning principles of many organisations’ ESG goals.
I have a strong interest in career happiness, well-being and performance which has led me to conduct doctoral research into psychological flow and its impact on well-being and performance part-time at Tampere University. My PhD research on flow and well-being at work also shapes how I help clients build sustainable, energising, and fulfilling careers, drawing on the latest science to help them flourish.
In the early 2000s, I was working as a career coach and consultant, helping clients navigate job changes and career setbacks. But I kept noticing the same pattern: people would leave our sessions with a new CV or a plan for their next role, only to find themselves back at square one a year later, facing the same frustrations in a different job. It became clear that quick fixes weren’t enough. People didn’t just need a new job—they needed careers aligned with their values, and the clarity, skills and resilience to keep thriving through whatever came next.
So in 2004, I founded CareerWorx to do things differently: to help individuals and organisations build career strategies that last, not just solve today’s problem. Working independently finally let me draw on my full range of career counselling and coaching expertise, replacing the band-aid approach I’d been limited to before with evidence-based strategies and the tailored, in-depth support my clients had been missing all along.
Since then, I’ve accumulated over 5,000 coaching hours, working with hundreds of clients across the UK, Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia/NZ to help them build successful, fulfilling careers they love. Having lived and worked in Australia, the UK, Finland, France and Sweden, I also bring firsthand insight into the challenges of building a career across borders and cultures—insight I draw on when supporting expats, immigrants and repatriates navigating similar transitions.
Over the years, I’ve also led career development programmes, training and outplacement support for organisations, drawing on a trusted network of expert coaches when larger projects call for it.
Whether you’re an individual seeking clarity in your next chapter, or an organisation looking to support your people through change, I bring the experience, insight and genuine care to help you and your team thrive.
Career counselling | Career coaching | Career development consultancy | Well-being at work coaching | Outplacement | Career transition coaching | Career change coaching | Career management | Career resilience | Positive psychology coaching | Positive Leadership Coaching | Entrepreneur & Business coaching and mentoring | Coach supervision | Qualitative Research | Training & Development
While Lisa LaRue is the principal career coach at CareerWorx, increased capacity is often required to successfully deliver larger projects.
The team is made up of carefully selected coaches and career development professionals with specialisms in occupational and organisational psychology, learning and development and career transition.
For larger projects, we have access to a UK based and international team of highly qualified, seasoned executive and leadership coaches ready to support leaders and emerging leaders across all sectors including corporate, NGO and third sectors.
Our team are highly qualified and experienced professional coaches and consultants with accreditations from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), International Coaching Federation (ICF), Association for Coaching (AC), British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
"Career resilience happens when we become comfortable with complexity and uncertainty, nurture our talents and play to our strengths."
