About Us

The Company

Simply Zest! was founded in 2005 by Vanessa Shaw. The business started as a personal coaching consultancy for private clients but quickly expanded to corporate coaching services. Within two years, the company had a substantial client base across Western and Eastern Europe and started further expansion to the Americas and Asia-Pacific. In 2009, Simply Zest! established its main office in Switzerland to cater to an increasingly international clientele.

We are a high quality boutique provider of Corporate and Personal coaching services. Our programmes are designed to unlock your full potential and create sustainable high performance for you and your organization. Our hand-picked international team of highly experienced and qualified coaches will help you bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. They will partner with you to design a winning strategy and provide both challenge and support to help you achieve extraordinary results. We will empower you to define a clear vision of success, enhance the quality of your relationships, manage time and resources effectively and become more fulfilled both professionally and personally.

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© 2006-2010 Simply Zest!

Our Vision

To be the best Europe-based provider of Corporate and Personal Coaching Services.

Our Mission

We are committed to helping people unlock and embody their full potential by seeking excellence and living balanced, successful lives. We do this by enabling them to establish a strong personal foundation, encompassing mind, body, emotion and spirit. This serves as a strong platform for resilience and high performance. By transforming people, we are able to transform the environments in which they work, to produce high-performing teams and organizations.

Our Values

• Excellence: At Simply Zest! we aim to achieve excellence in our own lives and bring these same levels of excellence to our client relationships. As a client, you can always expect to be treated in a responsive and confidential manner, with dignity and respect, and to experience high quality relationships and services with us.
• Passion: We are passionate about helping people to realize their potential. We ensure that we work in areas where we can make a real difference and in which we are expert. Our top-level international team are not only dedicated to the highest level of client service, but are also committed to their personal lifelong journey of learning.
• Balance: We believe that balance is key to high performance and success.  By this we mean a combination of relevant strengths in a particular context, which work in synergy with each other and enable optimum output and a healthy life balance.  Our team prides itself on being role models for balanced and rounded leaders.
• Growth: Nothing is ever so good that it cannot be improved. This includes our own skills and effectiveness as coaches. We are committed to our personal ongoing learning and development in the belief that we are always capable of more. Our aim is to inspire the same belief in our clients. Personal growth is the foundation for strengthening leadership, which in turn is the source of organizational growth.
• Integrity: At the heart of our business are relationships. Simply put, without these relationships we have no business. Successful relationships are built on a foundation of trust, reliability and honesty. We strive to demonstrate the highest levels of integrity in our personal and professional relationships so that our clients can also do the same for the benefit of their teams, organization and the world around them.

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© 2006-2010 Simply Zest!

Who We Work With

Our approach combines business coaching for results and psychological mindedness to help our clients set clear objectives aligned with personal and organizational values. We know that transformational change is not a quick fix solution and we therefore aim to empower our clients with the knowledge, tools and pragmatic solutions that will enable them to achieve outstanding results and sustain them.

Our clients are typically:

• corporations who are committed to staff development and leadership development;
• professionals and individuals who are committed to pursuing excellence and success in their career and personal life;
• people who wish to play a bigger game in life and take their professional and personal life to the next level;
• those who wish to increase in self-awareness, leverage their strengths and define areas for development;
• those who wish to increase personal effectiveness at work and home life;
• those who are going through a challenging transition whether career change, promotion, international move, divorce or simply wanting to transition to “something more”.

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© 2006-2010 Simply Zest!

Testimonials

At Simply Zest! we pride ourselves on delivering transformational results for each and every one of our clients. We are always thrilled to hear in their own words how we've helped them step up and play a bigger game in life. Enjoy their stories below and consider how we might help you. 

-- Vanessa Shaw, Managing Director, Simply Zest!

Vanessa is an amazing business coach and entrepreneur who I would highly recommend to anyone serious about success. Her clarity of insight and intuition enable her to cut through the most complex issues. As a result of partnering with Vanessa she has had and continues to have a direct impact on our business resulting in tens of thousands in additional income, more free time and excitement about what we are creating for the future. As a business Coach myself I can honestly say she is a tremendous asset to anybody who is serious about growing their business.

-- Rich Campe, CEO, www.proadvisorcoach.com

In less than 3 months of working with Vanessa Shaw, I am amazed at just how much has been achieved for our company. We now have greater clarity on several areas of the business and an ideal client programme has been implemented. Also we have improved communication within the team, far more effective use of time on income-producing activities and dramatically increased levels of referrals. This has been the most profitable period that we've had in our business year to date and one that has happened during a shocking economy. The growth to our bottom line business has been 30%.

Vanessa is a highly engaging coach with great business expertise and knowledge - I would recommend this programme to anyone who wants to accelerate growth, profitability and overall performance in their business.

-- David Cooper, Director, Fund Advisers Europe, www.fundadvisers.eu

All I did was register for the tele-seminar "3 clients in 30 days" and things began to happen. The day after registration, without even looking, I found a new office space for my business in the very same building I currently work in. The following day was day 1 of the seminar. Totally energized and ready to go afterwards, I quickly began my inner work that was suggested on the call. The next week I was able to announce to my clients that I would be raising my prices in the New Year – yeah! Not one person turned me down, they all booked for January! By the third week I had 3 new clients. All I had been doing was the inner work suggested each time on the call. By the 4th week I had a total of 9 new clients – all who confirmed new appointments for the New Year at my raised prices! Vanessa is a leader in her field with a charisma and expertise you will not find elsewhere. Would I recommend her – you bet I would and have already! If you are ready to move into the next dimension with your business – I suggest you hook yourself up with Simply Zest today.

-- Kamy Lavanchy, Transforming Lives Independent Business Owner www.transforminglives.ch

As a result of my business coaching programme with Vanessa, I've learned to establish clear boundaries within the business objectives which have actually put me in a position to expand my current business model. I am knowledgeable about my product, certain of it's effectiveness and sales have already reached the first ambitious milestone target that we set. My support team is also rapidly growing and I'm now thoroughly enjoying the challenge of effective networking and building my business. It's hard to believe that a year ago I would never have considered taking on another franchise and yet here I am already doing that and more importantly, feeling confident and in control while seeing tangible financial results.

-- Bernard Salzmann, Director, AngloInfo Geneva/Zurich

There is nowhere to hide with Vanessa, she has the rare gift as a coach, of a powerful blend of understanding the personal challenges you face, and a realism of the world we live in; which enables you to dust yourself off, find a way through and ensure you always show up at your best...

-- Victoria Lance, Leading provider of Horse Assisted Learning in the UK

Simply Zest! coaching has made a significant difference in my business and personal life. As a business owner, I wanted to move my start-up to the next level but I wasn't sure how. Simply Zest! was a tremendous help with a very simple but efficient process. We approached together each piece of the puzzle until everything fell into place. Now, I have a clear vision and road-map and I am working at re-launching my new services. I would recommend Simply Zest! to anyone who wants to make the best of their life or business. It is a real catalyst for growth.

-- Ioana Hardy, Fast-Forward Marketing

Vanessa's exceptional coaching helped to deliver step-change results in my business, giving the the confidence to develop further geographically and linguistically. There are few coaches who understand entrepreneurs, and Vanessa is one of these, combining pragmatism with developmental insights that help you lift your sights to goals hitherto unimagined - and get there.

- Hester Macdonald, HM Garden Design

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© 2006-2012 Simply Zest!