Be and Flourish

About Laura

Laura Acosta is an experienced coach and educator and has dedicated her career to supporting people to be and become the best version of themselves and to flourish in the way they live and lead others.

Laura bases her coaching practice on presence, empathy and deep listening.
Creating a space where connection, trust and safety are key to enable the client to lean into awareness and clarity around how they want to show up and build their own meaningful, authentic and empowered present and future.

Working with individuals from C-Suite level to Emerging Talent level and across a range of sectors, Laura combines her background in professional services, education and wellbeing expertise to coach the whole person and help them to re-ignite and re-connect with their self-awareness and accountability, and to be curious about how they can ‘be at their best’ rather than ‘do their best’.

Being over doing. The inner embodiment of the personal and leadership development journey supporting outer behaviours, actions, outcomes and impact.

Laura is a Gallup CliftonStrengths credentialled individual and team profiler. She is also certified in DISC individual and team profiling.

Laura believes passionately in the power of coaching to bring about sustainable, and deeply transformational change for individuals and organisational leaders.

Clarity, insights and awareness driving growth and unlocking the power to authentically be and flourish.

Be and Flourish Coaching

My Coaching is grounded in presence and deep listening. Collaborating with my clients to create a space of trust, safety and connection where outcomes and goals can be explored, challenged, set and reviewed.

The client holds centre stage and through exploring strengths, agency, authenticity and freedom from self-limiting beliefs the client can lean into the knowledge and awareness they have of themselves and of their infinite capacity to develop, grow and flourish in whatever aspects of their life they choose to going forward.

My clients are C-Suite, Senior Executives, Leaders and Managers across a range of industry sectors and are all seeking sustainable, transformational change in some area of their working or general life.

Change comes from awareness, accountability and growth. Through Coaching we explore all of these aspects and much more.

I also offer Team Coaching and Group Coaching.

As an ICF credentialled Coach I am bound by the ICF Code of Ethics and am committed to the ICF Core Competencies and Philosophy of Coaching.

Coaching Credentials and Areas of Specialism:

ICF ACC and pursuing PCC in early 2027.

Gallup CliftonStrengths Profiling Certified.
DISC Profiling Certified.
NLP Practitoner.
Executive Leadership.
Resilience, Stress and Burnout.
Bereavement and Loss.
Menopause.
Maternity.
Wellbeing.
Mindfulness.

Contact me for more information on Coaching Programmes and Charges and for a Coaching Discovery Call.

Be and Flourish French and Spanish Tutoring

I have taught French and Spanish at all levels, including Oxbridge preparation, in leading grammar, independent and comprehensive schools.

I spent seven years at Tonbridge Grammar School, Kent, where I was Head of Spanish and Deputy Head of Modern Foreign Languages. I taught both languages to sixth-form students and supported Oxbridge preparation. I was also a Senior Associate Leader on the School Leadership Team.

I then moved to Townley Grammar School, London, where I again taught French and Spanish to sixth-form students and supported Oxbridge preparation. I was Assistant Headteacher, responsible for careers provision, UCAS and all aspects of university preparation and applications. I was also the school’s Designated Mental Health Lead. I have over ten years’ classroom experience in leading schools and have taught privately on a one-to-one basis alongside my classroom career.

My approach to tutoring:
It is important to understand each student’s speaking and writing levels from the outset and identify any gaps in their knowledge. A fully rounded approach, supporting all aspects of the relevant examination syllabus, is essential for achieving the best possible results.

Building confidence and self-belief is also an integral part of my approach. I am a warm and encouraging tutor with high expectations. Lessons are enjoyable, but every session has clear goals and outcomes. Homework is often included in the tutoring programmes I provide.

At GCSE, A level and IB, I have had significant success supporting students in achieving the highest grades and fulfilling their potential. Sixth-form students I have supported have gained places at Cambridge, Edinburgh and Warwick, among other leading universities.

Degrees and qualifications

BA (Hons) French and Spanish – University of Oxford

QTS Secondary – Department for Education

NPQSL – Senior Leadership Qualification – Department for Education

Safeguarding and Prevent certified

Contact me for more information about tutoring programmes and fees, or to arrange a Tutoring Discovery Call.

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