Robert Hutchinson

The real reason you're feeling stuck may be stuck because you don't fully understand how you operate as a human being. The result is that the same patterns keep repeating in your relationships, your career, and the way you make decisions when you're under pressure or stressed. Perhaps you've tried other therapies, or read a pile of self-help books, and still find the same patterns repeating because you've been working with the symptoms without ever properly addressing the personality dynamics that are driving them.

Hello, I'm Robert Hutchinson, a Professional Certified Coach and accredited Enneagram practitioner, who specialises in personality structure and dynamics. My work is to help you understand the underlying patterns that are keeping you stuck, and to offer practical pathways to recovery. Using a precise map of your personality's operating system, we identify your core motivations and drivers, your strengths, and the blind spots that are unconsciously impacting the world around you. The work involves bringing balance to your three centres of intelligence: the Head, the Heart and the Body, so that your thinking, your feeling and your actions are working in harmony together rather than in opposition.

You could think of this as the due diligence before personal or professional transformation. The work suits clients who are ready to take a deep dive into their personality dynamics in order to discover the best of their Authentic Self.

AUTHENTIC LIFE COACHING

I hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Business and Personal Coaching from the University of Chester, and I'm a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. The focus is on how your personality dynamics work for and against you so you can live with more clarity and confidence as a human being.

MINDFULNESS AND THE BRAIN

I also hold a Results Brain-based Coaching Certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute, and a Certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness from the British Mindfulness Institute. This gives me a broader range of approaches to draw on, helping clients understand why they think and act in the ways they do, and to create the conditions for lasting change.

PERSONALITY DYNAMICS AND TRAUMA

My training with the Enneagram map of personality dynamics is extensive: I'm an Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association and hold a Certificate in 5D Trauma-informed Enneagram Coaching from Takdïr Transformation, which enables me to work in the generative space between coaching and therapy.

THE ART OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF ART

Before coaching, I spent many years in broadcast television working at the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel, which gave me plenty of experience of working in the corporate world. I read Physics and Music at Cardiff University for my BSc (Hons), which still shapes how I think about pattern, structure and resonance in a client's behaviour.

The science helps us understand the patterns; the art lies in helping each client reveal the best of their Authentic Self.

My core specialism is helping clients understand the personality dynamics that are unconsciously influencing their thinking, feeling and actions. The first step is to diagnose exactly how your personality operates, before we do any of the change work itself. This means that the work we do is precise, targeted and practical

From there, we may work across three connected areas:

* Life coaching is for people who feel unclear about direction and want to reconnect with what is genuinely important to them.

* Career coaching, for professionals facing decisions about their next move, or wanting to work in a way that fits who they genuinely are rather than who they've been performing as.

I also specialise in working gay men and members of the LGBT+ community helping them navigate the complexities of identity and authenticity, so they can live with greater confidence and self-belief.

I'm a directive coach I'll share what I see, draw on over a decade of personality dynamics recognition to help you understand what makes you tick. Directness and warmth is what most clients tell me they didn't expect and value the most.

The work runs in three stages:

* Step One, discovery: You complete a detailed personality assessment and we explore your personalised 20-page report together. This is the due diligence many approaches skip, and it means everything afterwards is precise rather than guesswork.

* Step Two, decide: Based on your exact personality dynamics we clarify the challenges you really want to work on and what you need to change.

* Step Three, do: Practical session build real momentum, typically over three to six months, meeting every two weeks.

Sessions run in person at Work.Life in London Bridge, or remotely online. Throughout, the question we keep returning us to is a simple one: what if you were to be more true to your Authentic Self?