Working with James

I work primarily online, but am also looking to include work across the UK in 2025.In the future, I will be offering group coaching, training, and a community of like-minded individuals.Your privacy and sense of security are imperative when we work together, and especially to ensure psychology safety within our coaching sessions.This means that:- I do not use any AI services, such as AI transcribers, during our coaching sessions.
- Zoom is configured with end-to-end encryption, with no AI features or recording options enabled.
- Video and audio are never recorded, unless explicit prior consent has been formally agreed.
- I always use headphones, so the audio can not be overheard.
- Any session notes I take are anonymised.
- Email communications will use end-to-end encryption, where possible.
- Any digitised session notes are anonymised, end-to-end encrypted, and securely deleted in-line with the Privacy Policy.
- Any paper based session notes are securely destroyed to a minimum of DIN Security Level P-4 (Micro Cut).
- Chat communications outside of our coaching sessions use the secure Signal platform, with automated message deletion enabled.

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Define & Design Your Momentum
(Six Weeks) (£749)

There's something that's holding you back right now. You have the urge to do more. You have more to give.It's almost as if it could burst out of you.Every now and then, you may catch yourself saying things to yourself or to a friend that excite you for a moment, but then it fades away.But what are the conditions that exist in your life that isn't allowing you to take that next leap?And do you know what it is yet?This is a coaching package designed to help you deep-dive, explore, and discover what's keeping you where you are today.But that's only where it begins.There will be something that, if you achieved in the next six weeks, will bring you closer to the realisation that you can do these things.So, let's help you do that.We'll then work together to help you take massive action over the next six weeks. And I'll be here to give you the energy, support, and guidance you need along the way.This is for you if you:Feel drained by your current job or lifestyleYou want to explore freelancing, contracting, or starting your own thingYou're looking for simplicity, space, and energyYou're ready to take action, even if it's one step at a time.You think differently and want to work with someone who thinks differently too.You may just uncover that you need to focus on something else first, which you weren't expecting, and kickstarts a new phase and direction for you.By the end of the six weeks you will have achieved:A clearer perspective of what is happening in your life today that is contributing to your current situation.Creatively explore how you want your situation to change now, and what ideas you have to reach itIntroduce at least one new habit that you actually want to achieve, and that you'll stick to. Because I'll help give you the accountability and support you need to get it in place.Created the ideal conditions you need to go beyond the six weeksBe prepared to take the leap into the unknown, and do so with a new level of appreciationYou may just find that what you thought you needed wasn't what you needed to unlock that level phase in your life.I refer to it finding your 'Keystone Change'.The question is, do you know what this is yet?Because it might not be what you think it is.What's included:- A 90-minute deep-dive
- 6 hours of 1:1 online coaching
- Personalised learning material
- Week-by-week goal tracking and accountability to keep you on track
- Unlimited contact via secure messaging
- Accountability check-insThis isn't about copying someone else' approach to how things should be done.This is about helping rediscover what works for you.

Investment: £749

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About James

I'm a UK-based personal development, executive, and business coach, working with ambitious professionals who know there's more but feel stuck trying to navigate this on their own.I'm also the founder of a technology company that helps SMEs accelerate their technology programs, whilst gaining clarity, opportunity, and peace of mind as they grow their business.I've been in the technology and information security industry for 20 years, working in senior roles, and with companies of all sizes; from startups through to the FTSE 100.I've also spent years uncovering blind spots and opportunities within businesses, including in due diligence roles, where I've lead information security due diligence projects for multi-billion dollar acquisitions.I also know what it's like spending years in high-pressure roles, stressed, and losing sense of control.I decided something had to change. So I focused on one thing I could control, and made one minor change.It led to losing 5 stone (70lbs / 31kg) within 12 monthsIt was only then did I realise that I could make massive changes on my terms.Within 8 years, I went from lost and overweight to being in the best shape of my life, winning local fitness competitions, taking career leaps into freelancing, billing over £250k in 2 years, and continuing to explore and follow a continued path of growth.But it didn't happen overnight. I've spent thousands of hours studying the highs and lows of personal development.I didn't do this because I followed someone else' formula.I did this because I trusted my own path and I did the work to make it happen. I've experimented along the way, and explored the highs and lows of getting it right and wrong.This is what I help with clients today. To find what it is that's keeping you stuck, and helping you take massive action along the way. It's something I wish I had when I first started my journey.Over the years, I've also completed formal training, including:Transformational Coaching (ICF accredited) with AnimasCounselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body (CPCAB) Level 2.Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 3.

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Privacy Policy

Policy Version: 25th March 20251. INTRODUCTIONThis Privacy Policy is provided by James F. Dodds.We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data).It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or the relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint. Our collection, storage, use and sharing of your personal data is regulated by law, including under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).We are the controller of personal data obtained via the Services, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.2. WHAT THIS POLICY APPLIES TOThis privacy policy relates to your use of the Services only.The Services may link to or rely on other apps, websites, APIs or services owned and operated by us or by certain trusted third parties to enable us to provide you with Services. These other apps, websites, APIs or services may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies.For privacy information relating to these other apps, websites or services, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate. For more information see the section ‘Who we share your personal data with’ below.3. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOUThe personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through the Services. We will collect and use the following personal data about you:Identity information when you engage us for Services:Your name
Email address
Phone numberData collected when you use specific functions in the Services:Data you store online with us using the Services including your usage history or preferences (while such data may not always be personal data as defined at law in all cases we will assume it is and treat it in accordance with this policy as if it were)Other data the Services collects automatically when you use it:Your activities on, and use of, the Services which reveal your preferences, interests or manner of use of the Services and the times of use.Data collected when you make an enquiry with us:Your name, email address, and phone number.If you do not provide personal data we ask for where it is required, including the geo-localisation services, it may prevent us from providing services and/or the Services to you.We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.4. SENSITIVE DATASensitive personal data (also known as special category data) means information related to personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; genetic data; biometric data (where used for identification purposes); data concerning health; data concerning a person’s sex life; and data concerning a person’s sexual orientation.Please note that we do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal data or information about criminal convictions from individuals and that you should not submit sensitive data to us.If, however you do submit sensitive data to us, such as if you make this sensitive data available to other users of the Services (such as by publishing it through any forum feature we may make available from time to time) we will assume that you have purposefully made any such sensitive data manifestly public.5. HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTEDWe collect personal data from you directly when you sign up to the Services, contact us directly or reach out to us via social media, make submissions via the Services when a forum element is available, or indirectly, such as your activity while using the Services.We may collect personal information about you using cookies or similar technologies. Detailed information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies is available in our cookies policy.6. HOW AND WHY WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATAUnder data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, e.g.:(i) where you have given consent(ii) to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations(iii) for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, or(iv) for our legitimate interests or those of a third partyA legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own. You can obtain details of this assessment by contacting us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).The below explains what we use your personal data for and why.Providing services and/or the functionalities of the Services to you:To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings:Depending on the circumstances:to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationsin other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to protect our business, interests and rights or those of othersCommunications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the Services or service or other important notices:Depending on the circumstances:to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationsin other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to provide the best service to youProtect the security of systems and data:To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations we may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or usOperational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control or to provide support to you:For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to youStatistical analysis to help us manage our business, e.g., in relation to our performance, customer base, app and functionalities and offerings or other efficiency measures:For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you and improve and develop our Services.Updating and enhancing user records:Depending on the circumstances:to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions of Use which apply to the Services)to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationswhere neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our servicesTo comply with our legal and regulatory obligations:Depending on the circumstances:to perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (in this case, the contract means the Terms and Conditions of Use which apply to the Services)to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationswhere neither of the above apply, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g. making sure that we can keep in touch with our customers about their accounts and new products or functionalities related to the Services and our servicesTo share your personal data with members of our group and third parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency. In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary:Depending on the circumstances:to comply with our legal and regulatory obligationsin other cases, for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assetsSee ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.7. MARKETINGWe intend to send you email marketing to inform you of our services such as promotions.We will always ask you for your consent before doing sending you marketing communications, except where you have explicitly opted-in to receiving email marketing from us in the past or except where you were given the option to opt-out of email marketing when you initially signed up for your account with us and you did not do so.You will have the right to opt out of receiving marketing communications at any time by:contacting us at marketing[@]jamesfdodds.comusing the ‘unsubscribe’ link included in all marketing emails you may received from usWe will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell or share it with other organisations for marketing purposes.For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.8. WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITHWe routinely share personal data with service providers we use to help us run our business or provide the services or functionalities in the Services, including developers and cloud storage providers. We also use the following processors:Proton AG
Xero
Apple
Carrd
Life Coach Directory
Stripe
Calendly
Zoom
SignalWe only allow service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.We or the third parties mentioned above may occasionally also need to share your personal data with:external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our accounts and our company —the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligationsprofessional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors)—the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligationslaw enforcement agencies, courts or tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with legal and regulatory obligationsother parties in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible, however, the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligationsIf you would like more information about who we share our data with and why, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ below).We will not share your personal data with any other third party.9. HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL BE KEPTWe will keep your personal data for as long as you have an active account with us and for a period of up to 6 years thereafter to comply with any accounting or legal obligations including in the event of the pursuit or defence of legal claims. Once you have closed your account with us, we will move your personal data to a separate database so that only key stakeholders in our business on a ‘need to know basis’ have access to such data.Following the end of the of the aforementioned retention period, we will delete or anonymise your personal data.10. TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE UKSome of our processors are based outside of the UK and to the extent that they process your personal data, we may transfer your personal data outside of the UK to the following countries:Switzerland;New Zealand;United States of America.We comply with applicable UK laws designed to ensure the continued protection and privacy of your personal data. Any updated destinations to which we send your personal data, would be indicated in the present section and notified to you in accordance with the section on ‘Change to this privacy policy’ below.Furthermore, under UK data protection laws, we can only transfer your personal data to a country outside the UK where: the UK government has decided the particular country ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data (known as an ‘adequacy regulation’) further to Article 45 of the UK GDPR; there are appropriate safeguards in place, together with enforceable rights and effective legal remedies for you; or a specific exception applies under relevant data protection law. Accordingly, if we were to start transferring your personal data from the UK to:The EEA: we would rely on the adequacy finding granted by the UK to the EU under the Withdrawal Agreement to do; for any transfers from the EU to the UK, we would rely on the adequacy regulation granted to the UK under the Adequacy Decision.Any country located outside the UK/EEA: we would rely an appropriate safeguards under the UK GDPR, such as by including the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses in our data processing agreementsIn the event we could not or choose not to continue to rely on either of those mechanisms at any time we would not transfer your personal data outside the UK unless we could do so on the basis of an alternative mechanism or exception provided by UK data protection law.11. KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECUREWe have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it.We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.12. YOUR RIGHTSYou generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge. For more information regarding these rights, please visit the ICO website hereAccess to a copy of your personal dataCorrection (also known as rectification)Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)Restriction of useData portabilityTo object to useNot to be subject to decisions without human involvementIf you would like to exercise any of those rights, please see below: ‘How to contact us’.13. HOW TO COMPLAINPlease contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your information (see below ‘How to contact us’). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.The Information Commissioner can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or telephone: 0303 123 1113.14. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICYWe may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we make significant changes we will take steps to inform you, for example via the Services or by other means, such as email.15. HOW TO CONTACT USYou can contact us by email if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.Our contact details are shown below:privacy[@]jamesfdodds.com

Cookie Policy

Policy Version: 26th March 2025Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our Services. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which set out who we are, how to contact us, what data is collected, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.1. COOKIESA cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. your smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Services. When we use cookies on our Services, you will always be informed by a pop-up within the Services.Cookies help us to recognise you and your device and allow us to store some information about your preferences or past actions, including your location data (for more information, please see our Privacy Policy).For example, we may monitor how many times you use our Services, which parts of the Services you go to, location data. This information helps us to understand use of the Services by our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.2. CONSENT TO USE COOKIES AND CHANGING SETTINGSWe will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to allow you to remain logged-in to the Services as you navigate within the Services and use the Services functionalities).You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using the tool made available to you within the Services itself. You can then adjust sliders or untick boxes as appropriate to reflect your choice. It may be necessary to refresh or restart the Services for the updated settings to take effect.3. OUR USE OF COOKIESAs of 26th March 2025, we do not use cookies on this website.However, if this changes, the specific cookies used will be included in this policy, and a cookie banner will be presented to you.4. HOW TO TURN OFF ALL COOKIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DOING SOIf you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your device settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Services and of other Services you use on your device. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.5. CHANGES TO THIS POLICYThis policy was published on 25th March 2025 and last updated on 25th March 2025. We may change this cookies policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via the Services or by sending an email to the email address you provided when you signed up to the Services.

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