About Me
I wanted to share with you an insight into my journey and motivations to becoming a certified Life and Wellbeing Coach
Renata Gianquitto
Hello! I’m Renata Gianquitto, the founder of Wren Coaching & Wellbeing. I am a Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT) practitioner, a mental health first aid trainer, and a mindfulness instructor. My journey into coaching started with a lifelong passion for helping and connecting with people. Whether you know me as Ren, your friend, sister, daughter, or as Renata in my professional role, my mission has always been to support and guide others.
My Story
At 15, I embarked on a journey from Naples, Italy, to Cambridge, and eventually to Colne, Lancashire. This early adventure ignited my passion for communication, leading me to study languages at the University of Manchester and eventually to various customer-facing and leadership roles.
Balancing my career with being a busy mum, wife, friend, sister, and daughter, I often found myself overwhelmed. While in my leadership role, in 2019, I received some coaching sessions which truly transformed my life. Coaching unleashed a strength, determination, and clarity I didn’t know I had, profoundly improving my relationships and overall enjoyment of life.
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After discovering the power that coaching had on me, I realised that this is what I wanted to do in life—I wanted to help people for a living. I therefore decided to retrain and became a certified coach and mentor through the British School of Coaching. I also specialised in wellbeing and group coaching.
In August 2020, I launched Wren Coaching & Wellbeing. I chose the word Wren because it was a play on words. My friends call me Ren, but a wren is also a small bird with a powerful voice. If you look at my logo, you will see that the wren breaks free from the circle, symbolising what I believe I do when I help individuals who feel stuck in life to break free and find their voice.
Setting up my own business has been one of my biggest challenges but equally one of the most rewarding. Helping others for a living is a calling for me, and I feel privileged to have the opportunity to do so. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and I would say it also takes a village to raise a business. I have received enormous support from friends, family, colleagues, and my networking groups. With a big dollop of self-belief, I have kept going, and only a few weeks ago, I won my first wellbeing award at the Freshies as well as making it as a finalist at the Pendle Business Awards. This was a huge milestone for me, a culmination of a lot of hard work, and a dream come true to have the recognition from my peers that I am making a difference.
In the past two years, I invested even further into self-development by becoming an NLP and IEMT practitioner and a mental health first aid trainer. I have been privileged to work with several local charities to help their staff and their service users increase their wellbeing. My ambition is to improve mental health in Pendle and surrounding areas, and generally for whoever shares their self-development journey with me. I believe that the relationship with ourselves is one of the hardest to master, and we certainly spend an awful lot of our time in our head, so why not invest in making it a better place?
