Meet the Team
Karyn Maguire
Karen Davidson
Karen Davidson
Walking the walk
Karyn’s career in coaching and counselling follows 25+ years of working in the public healthcare and private pharma sectors. Her success in these fields reflects her ability to combine a caring and supportive manner with a professional, results-focused approach to the serious issues she must address with her clients.
An internationally accredited coach with a degree in Health Studies, she now uses her coaching, mentoring and counselling skills to facilitate the process of change with private individuals, company directors and young people. With her guidance, clients are able to bring about positive changes at all levels in their careers and personal lives.
Karyn is a woman of character and can draw on a deep well of personal anguish and recovery. As a wife, mother and breast cancer survivor, she has faced adversity head on. So she understands fear. She has grown through trauma. And she believes absolutely in the life-changing power of one human being reaching out to another and asking for help.
Karen Davidson
Karen Davidson
Karen Davidson
Chemistry is everything
Warmth, enthusiasm and empathy are wonderful human qualities. Karen has them in droves. They served her well during her three-decade career in the education sector, where she developed a passion for helping others to develop and flourish. Now she applies these qualities as a coach and counsellor with NextStep.
Equally at home in client-facing or Boardroom environments, she plays an important role in our Leadership and Executive Coaching programmes, using her coaching skills to facilitate the process of change with business leaders, SMEs and private individuals.
Behind Karen’s warm personality is a woman of intelligence and integrity. She has faced a life-threatening illness with courage and resilience and has handled profound personal challenges with grace and dignity. She has emerged with a quiet inner strength and genuine contentment. In short, Karen is the very person you would want by your side when times are tough and you need a gentle, guiding hand.